Tong Ka-po

Tong Ka-po (Chinese: 湯嘉寶, born 17 March 1981) is a female tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Hong Kong.

Tong Ka-po
Country (sports) Hong Kong
Born (1981-03-17) 17 March 1981
Hong Kong
Prize money$44,746
Singles
Career record100–78
Career titles3 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 236 (20 August 2001)
Doubles
Career record59–51
Career titles6 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 154 (28 May 2001)
Team competitions
Fed Cup23–20
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Tong (湯).

Career

On 17 March 1981, Tong was born in Hong Kong.[1][2]

By age 12, she was ranked number one in Hong Kong and ranked fifth in the world.[3]

Tong featured in 32 ties for the Hong Kong Fed Cup team and represented her nation twice at the Asian Games.[4]

As a singles player on the professional tour, Tong reached a best ranking of 236 and won three singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

All of her main-draw appearances on the WTA Tour came in doubles, including quarterfinal appearances at the 2000 China Open and the 2001 Qatar Open. She had a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 154 and took part in the women's doubles qualifying draw at the 2001 Wimbledon Championships.[5]

Tong now is a tennis coach and director at Modern Tennis Academy in Hong Kong.[6]

ITF finals

Singles (3–0)
Legend
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. 29 November 1998 Manila, Philippines Hard Lara van Rooyen 6–3, 6–1
Winner 2. 3 September 2000 Kugayama, Japan Hard Chang Kyung-mi 7–6(3), 7–5
Winner 3. 2 June 2002 Tianjin, China Hard (i) Liu Weijuan 6–3, 6–4

Doubles (6–2)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 20 December 1999 Lucknow, India Grass Manisha Malhotra Maša Vesenjak
Urška Vesenjak		 6–3, 5–7, 6–1
Runner-up 2. 6 February 2000 Wellington, New Zealand Hard Jenny Belobrajdic Mirielle Dittmann
Kristen van Elden		 6–7(6), 4–6
Runner-up 3. 16 July 2000 Winnipeg, Canada Clay Kirstin Freye Renata Kolbovic
Vanessa Webb		 1–6, 4–6
Winner 4. 6 August 2000 Alghero, Italy Clay Ayami Takase Alice Canepa
Valentina Sassi		 3–6, 6–3, 6–1
Winner 5. 14 August 2000 İstanbul, Turkey Hard Magda Mihalache Maria Goloviznina
Evgenia Kulikovskaya		 6–1, 6–2
Winner 6. 3 September 2000 Kugayama, Japan Hard Chen Yu-an Chang Kyung-mi
Chae Kyung-yee		 6–3, 6–1
Winner 7. 29 July 2001 Guangzhou, China Hard Li Ting Chen Yan
Sun Tiantian		 7–5, 6–3
Winner 8. 2 June 2002 Tianjin, China Hard (i) Chan Chin-wei Choi Jin-young
Choi Young-ja		 6–3, 3–6, 6–1
gollark: The stupid Go multiple returns.
gollark: *The ADT would still be better*, obviously.
gollark: If they were first-class.
gollark: I mean, you could at least put these weird golangy result-tuples into a list.
gollark: Yes, because this is not how you should use tuples, really.

References
  1. "Ka-po Tong". itftennis.com. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
  2. "Ka-Po Tong". fedcup.com. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
  3. Ockenden, James (2016). "From Grassroots to world stage: Tong Ka Po". blueskieschina.com. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
  4. "Key Statistics". fedcup.com. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  5. "Tennis: Doubles pair scare seeds". The New Zealand Herald. 21 June 2001. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  6. "Professions of Tennis, Our Team: Ms. Tong Ka Po". mtahk.com. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
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