Tsao Chia-yi
| Country (sports) | File:Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chinese Taipei |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 December 2003 New Taipei City, Taiwan |
| Plays | Right (two-handed both sides) |
| Prize money | $69,931 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 75–56 |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 464 (9 October 2023) |
| Current ranking | No. 716 (21 October 2024) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 97–33 |
| Career titles | 1 |
| Highest ranking | No. 115 (12 August 2024) |
| Current ranking | No. 180 (21 October 2024) |
| Grand Slam doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 1R (2025) |
| Other doubles tournaments | |
| Olympic Games | QF (2024) |
| Last updated on: 21 October 2024. | |
Tsao Chia-yi (Chinese: 曹家宜, born 2 December 2003), is a Taiwanese professional tennis player.
She has a career-high doubles ranking by the WTA of 115, achieved on 12 August 2024. Tsao has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour and one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She has also won 14 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In October 2023, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 464.
Tsao accepted a ban from professional tennis for 12 months, starting from March 2025, after she unintentionally took a cold medicine containing the banned stimulant Methylephedrine without having a valid therapeutic use exemption.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]Tsao made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2023 Hong Kong Open in doubles and won the title with Tang Qianhui.[2][3]
Partnering Hsieh Su-wei,[4] she reached the quarterfinals at the 2024 Paris Olympics, defeating Romanian duo Irina-Camelia Begu and Monica Niculescu[5] and Ukrainians Marta Kostyuk and Dayana Yastremska.[6] They lost to Czech pairing Karolína Muchová and Linda Nosková.[7]
WTA Tour finals
[edit | edit source]Doubles: 1 (title)
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| Grand Slam |
| WTA 1000 |
| WTA 500 |
| WTA 250 (1–0) |
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1–0 | Oct 2023 | Hong Kong Open, China SAR | WTA 250 | Hard | China Tang Qianhui | Georgia (country) Oksana Kalashnikova File:Flag placeholder.svg Aliaksandra Sasnovich |
7–5, 1–6, [11–9] |
WTA Challenger finals
[edit | edit source]Doubles: 1 (title)
[edit | edit source]| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1–0 | Jul 2024 | Båstad Open, Sweden | Clay | Thailand Peangtarn Plipuech | Argentina María Lourdes Carlé Argentina Julia Riera |
7–5, 6–3 |
ITF Circuit finals
[edit | edit source]Singles: 2 (runner-ups)
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| W15 tournaments (0–2) |
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Loss | 0–1 | Oct 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | United Kingdom Kristina Paskauskas | 2–6, 6–4, 6–7(8) |
| Loss | 0–2 | Nov 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Belgium Hanne Vandewinkel | 2–6, 5–7 |
Doubles: 18 (14 titles, 4 runner-ups)
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| W100 tournaments (0–1) |
| W40/50 tournaments (1–1) |
| W25/35 tournaments (2–2) |
| W15 tournaments (11–0) |
| Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1–0 | May 2022 | ITF Cancún, Mexico | W15 | Hard | Japan Saki Imamura | Guatemala Melissa Morales Guatemala Kirsten-Andrea Weedon |
6–3, 6–1 |
| Win | 2–0 | Sep 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Chinese Taipei Lee Ya-hsin | Poland Emilia Durska Italy Camilla Zanolini |
7–6(6), 6–4 |
| Win | 3–0 | Sep 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Chinese Taipei Lee Ya-hsin | United Kingdom Abigail Amos Error creating thumbnail: Jaeda Daniel |
6–0, 6–1 |
| Win | 4–0 | Oct 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Chinese Taipei Lee Ya-hsin | Indonesia Priska Madelyn Nugroho China Wei Sijia |
1–6, 6–1, [10–3] |
| Win | 5–0 | Oct 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Chinese Taipei Lee Ya-hsin | France Flavie Brugnone Netherlands Stéphanie Visscher |
6–4, 6–0 |
| Win | 6–0 | Oct 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Chinese Taipei Lee Ya-hsin | Belgium Hanne Vandewinkel Slovakia Radka Zelníčková |
6–2, 6–4 |
| Win | 7–0 | Nov 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Chinese Taipei Wu Fang-hsien | Latvia Kamilla Bartone Serbia Bojana Marinković |
6–0, 7–5 |
| Win | 8–0 | Nov 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Chinese Taipei Wu Fang-hsien | File:Flag placeholder.svg Anastasiia Gureva File:Flag placeholder.svg Vlada Mincheva |
6–3, 6–4 |
| Win | 9–0 | Dec 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Chinese Taipei Wu Fang-hsien | Romania Oana Gavrilă United Kingdom Emilie Lindh |
6–4, 6–3 |
| Loss | 9–1 | Jan 2023 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W25 | Hard | Japan Miho Kuramochi | Romania Oana Gavrilă Greece Sapfo Sakellaridi |
5–7, 6–4, [6–10] |
| Loss | 9–2 | Jan 2023 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Switzerland Nadine Keller | Chinese Taipei Lee Ya-hsin China Yang Yidi |
6–2, 3–6, [13–15] |
| Win | 10–2 | Mar 2023 | ITF Hinode, Japan | W15 | Hard | Japan Akari Inoue | Chinese Taipei Li Yu-yun Japan Rinon Okuwaki |
6–4, 6–7(5), [10–5] |
| Win | 11–2 | Jun 2023 | ITF Tainan, Taiwan | W25 | Clay | Chinese Taipei Yang Ya-yi | New Zealand Monique Barry Chinese Taipei Lee Ya-hsin |
6–2, 6–2 |
| Win | 12–2 | Sep 2023 | ITF Kyoto, Japan | W25 | Hard | Japan Aoi Ito | Japan Hiromi Abe Japan Anri Nagata |
6–2, 6–1 |
| Loss | 12–3 | Jan 2024 | ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand | W50 | Hard | Thailand Lanlana Tararudee | Kazakhstan Zhibek Kulambayeva Greece Sapfo Sakellaridi |
w/o |
| Win | 13–3 | Mar 2024 | ITF Solarino, Italy | W35 | Carpet | Poland Martyna Kubka | Serbia Katarina Kozarov File:Flag placeholder.svg Veronika Miroshnichenko |
6–4, 6–2 |
| Win | 14–3 | Apr 2024 | ITF Kashiwa, Japan | W50 | Hard | India Ankita Raina | United Kingdom Madeleine Brooks Hong Kong Eudice Chong |
6–4, 6–4 |
| Loss | 14–4 | Nov 2024 | Takasaki Open, Japan | W100 | Hard | Chinese Taipei Liang En-shuo | Japan Momoko Kobori Japan Ayano Shimizu |
6–4, 4–6, [3–10] |
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Tsao Chia-yi at the Women's Tennis AssociationLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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