Tsao Chia-yi
| Country (sports) | Chinese Taipei |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 December 2003 New Taipei City, Taiwan |
| Plays | Right (two-handed both sides) |
| Prize money | $45,727 |
| 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
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
Doubles: 1 (title)
| Legend |
|---|
| 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 | Tang Qianhui | Oksana Kalashnikova Aliaksandra Sasnovich |
7–5, 1–6, [11–9] |
WTA Challenger finals
Doubles: 1 (title)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1–0 | Jul 2024 | Båstad Open, Sweden | Clay | Peangtarn Plipuech | María Lourdes Carlé Julia Riera |
7–5, 6–3 |
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 2 (runner-ups)
| Legend |
|---|
| W15 tournaments (0–2) |
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 0–1 | Oct 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Kristina Paskauskas | 2–6, 6–4, 6–7(8) |
| Loss | 0–2 | Nov 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Hanne Vandewinkel | 2–6, 5–7 |
Doubles: 18 (14 titles, 4 runner-ups)
| Legend |
|---|
| 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 | Saki Imamura | Melissa Morales Kirsten-Andrea Weedon |
6–3, 6–1 |
| Win | 2–0 | Sep 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Lee Ya-hsin | Emilia Durska Camilla Zanolini |
7–6(6), 6–4 |
| Win | 3–0 | Sep 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Lee Ya-hsin | Abigail Amos Jaeda Daniel |
6–0, 6–1 |
| Win | 4–0 | Oct 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Lee Ya-hsin | Priska Madelyn Nugroho Wei Sijia |
1–6, 6–1, [10–3] |
| Win | 5–0 | Oct 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Lee Ya-hsin | Flavie Brugnone Stéphanie Visscher |
6–4, 6–0 |
| Win | 6–0 | Oct 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Lee Ya-hsin | Hanne Vandewinkel Radka Zelníčková |
6–2, 6–4 |
| Win | 7–0 | Nov 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Wu Fang-hsien | Kamilla Bartone Bojana Marinković |
6–0, 7–5 |
| Win | 8–0 | Nov 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Wu Fang-hsien | Anastasiia Gureva Vlada Mincheva |
6–3, 6–4 |
| Win | 9–0 | Dec 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Wu Fang-hsien | Oana Gavrilă Emilie Lindh |
6–4, 6–3 |
| Loss | 9–1 | Jan 2023 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W25 | Hard | Miho Kuramochi | Oana Gavrilă Sapfo Sakellaridi |
5–7, 6–4, [6–10] |
| Loss | 9–2 | Jan 2023 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Nadine Keller | Lee Ya-hsin Yang Yidi |
6–2, 3–6, [13–15] |
| Win | 10–2 | Mar 2023 | ITF Hinode, Japan | W15 | Hard | Akari Inoue | Li Yu-yun Rinon Okuwaki |
6–4, 6–7(5), [10–5] |
| Win | 11–2 | Jun 2023 | ITF Tainan, Taiwan | W25 | Clay | Yang Ya-yi | Monique Barry Lee Ya-hsin |
6–2, 6–2 |
| Win | 12–2 | Sep 2023 | ITF Kyoto, Japan | W25 | Hard | Aoi Ito | Hiromi Abe Anri Nagata |
6–2, 6–1 |
| Loss | 12–3 | Jan 2024 | ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand | W50 | Hard | Lanlana Tararudee | Zhibek Kulambayeva Sapfo Sakellaridi |
w/o |
| Win | 13–3 | Mar 2024 | ITF Solarino, Italy | W35 | Carpet | Martyna Kubka | Katarina Kozarov Veronika Miroshnichenko |
6–4, 6–2 |
| Win | 14–3 | Apr 2024 | ITF Kashiwa, Japan | W50 | Hard | Ankita Raina | Madeleine Brooks Eudice Chong |
6–4, 6–4 |
| Loss | 14–4 | Nov 2024 | Takasaki Open, Japan | W100 | Hard | Liang En-shuo | Momoko Kobori Ayano Shimizu |
6–4, 4–6, [3–10] |
References
- ^ Chen, Jung-chen; Chao, Yen-hsiang; Wu, Kuan-hsien. "Taiwanese tennis player suspended over doping violation". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
- ^ "Hong Kong Tennis Open: Taiwanese-mainland Chinese duo Tsao and Tang lift doubles title in Victoria Park". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
- ^ "Fernandez beats Siniakova to win Hong Kong, first title of season". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
- ^ "Tennis star Hsieh Su-wei partners with Tsao Chia-yi for the Paris Olympics". Radio Taiwan International. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "OLYMPICS/July 28 recap: Taiwan's top shuttlers, tennis players secure first wins at Paris Olympics". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "Hsieh, Tsao advance to quarter-finals". Taipei Times. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ "OLYMPICS/Taiwan women eliminated from Olympics tennis doubles". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
External links
- Tsao Chia-yi at the Women's Tennis Association
- Tsao Chia-yi at the International Tennis Federation
- Tsao Chia-yi at Olympics.com
- Tsao Chia-yi on Instagram