Tong Ka-po

Tong Ka-po
Country (sports) Hong Kong
Born (1981-03-17) 17 March 1981 (age 43)
Hong Kong
Prize money$44,746
Singles
Career record131–90
Career titles3 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 236 (20 August 2001)
Doubles
Career record72–71
Career titles6 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 154 (28 May 2001)
Team competitions
Fed Cup23–20
In this Chinese name, the family name is Tong (湯).

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

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
Result No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Win 1. 29 November 1998 Manila, Philippines Hard South Africa Lara van Rooyen 6–3, 6–1
Win 2. 3 September 2000 Kugayama, Japan Hard South Korea Chang Kyung-mi 7–6(3), 7–5
Win 3. 2 June 2002 Tianjin, China Hard (i) China Liu Weijuan 6–3, 6–4

Doubles (6–2)

Result No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1. 20 December 1999 Lucknow, India Grass India Manisha Malhotra Slovenia Maša Vesenjak
Slovenia Urška Vesenjak 		6–3, 5–7, 6–1
Loss 2. 6 February 2000 Wellington, New Zealand Hard Australia Jenny Belobrajdic Australia Mireille Dittmann
Australia Kristen van Elden 		6–7(6), 4–6
Loss 3. 16 July 2000 Winnipeg, Canada Clay Germany Kirstin Freye Canada Renata Kolbovic
Canada Vanessa Webb 		1–6, 4–6
Win 4. 6 August 2000 Alghero, Italy Clay Japan Ayami Takase Italy Alice Canepa
Italy Valentina Sassi 		3–6, 6–3, 6–1
Win 5. 14 August 2000 Istanbul, Turkey Hard Romania Magda Mihalache Russia Maria Goloviznina
Russia Evgenia Kulikovskaya 		6–1, 6–2
Win 6. 3 September 2000 Kugayama, Japan Hard Chinese Taipei Chen Yu-an South Korea Chang Kyung-mi
South Korea Chae Kyung-yee 		6–3, 6–1
Win 7. 29 July 2001 Guangzhou, China Hard China Li Ting China Chen Yan
China Sun Tiantian 		7–5, 6–3
Win 8. 2 June 2002 Tianjin, China Hard (i) Chinese Taipei Chan Chin-wei South Korea Choi Jin-young
South Korea Choi Young-ja 		6–3, 3–6, 6–1

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.