Chang Yu

Chang Yu
Nation:	People's Republic of China
Birthday:	August 14, 1988
Size:	185 cm
Weight:	70 kg
Playing hand:	Left, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 59,321
singles
Career record:	0-0
Highest ranking:	335 (April 8, 2013)
Double
Career record:	0: 2
Highest ranking:	369 (March 4, 2013)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Chang Yu (born August 14, 1988 in Tianjin ) is a former Chinese tennis player .

Career

Chang played his first professional tournament in 2005 on the third-rate ITF Future Tour . Until 2009 he could only win a few matches there and this year was the first time in a future in the quarter-finals to end the year in the top 1000 of the world rankings for the first time. In 2010 he improved, reached some future semifinals and was in Beijing for the first time in the main draw of a Challenger tournament . That meant an increase of 300 places at the end of the year.

After a bad year in 2011, Chang won his first of two future titles in singles in March 2012 and also reached three finals in a row a little later. At the Challenger in Anning he reached his first Challenger quarter-finals, where he was able to defeat his first top 200 player with Yūichi Sugita . After another Future title in early 2013, he was 335th at his career high in the singles. In doubles he won four futures in the same period up to 2013 and was also in the Challenger semifinals in Pingguo . The only two appearances on the ATP World Tour date back to October 2012, when the Chinese with Li Zhe received a wildcard each in doubles in the tournaments in Shanghai and Beijing . Both opening matches were clearly lost. As in singles, he was highest in doubles with 369th place in early 2013. In the following years, Yu Chang took a break before playing tournaments again in 2016 and 2017, winning a future in doubles, but then ending his career.

Web links

• ATP profile of Chang Yu (English)
• ITF profile Chang Yu (English)