Top 5 Southeast Asian Tennis Player In 2020

The tennis sport has been part of Southeast Asian games since 1959 and is among the sports contested among the participating SEA countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Brunei, Myanmar, Cambodia and Burma. Although Asia is considered the continent with the highest population, tennis is still an underdeveloped sport in most Asian countries which also houses many 3rd world countries, except for countries like China, India and Japan who already produced several world class tennis players. That is why a non-profit organization called the Asian Tennis Federation (ATF), to promote tennis among Asians and also to develop and raise the quality of tennis in Asia. Through the dedication and commitment by the ATF, many SEA countries had the chance to produce their own world class players. Below is the list of the player and their country of origin:

1. Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul – Thailand

Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (Thai: วิชยา ตรงเจริญชัยกุล สูตรบาคาร่า), born in 1995 in the heart of Thailand, Bangkok, is the number one professional tennis player in the country. The 25 years old Wishaya is currently ranked 629 in the world, he achieved his highest ranking of 395 in 2018. Wishaya has also won his very first ATP Challenger doubles title at the Bangkok Open บาคาร่า168 tournament back in 2016. He is the only Thai male player to enter one semi-final in the Futures at คาสิโน Hua Hin and 2 quarter-finals in Hua Hin สูตรรูเล็ต 100% and Taiwan Futures.

1. 2.            Christian Didier Chin – Malaysia

Christian Didier Chin, the best professional Malaysian tennis player was born in 2000 at Sabah, Malaysia. His current ranking is at 1507, dropped slightly from his personal best ranking at 1498 back in 2017 when he was 17 years old. In 2018, Christian has ranked 44 in his ITF junior combined ranking. He represented Malaysia in the Davis Cup with the result of 2-1 win-loss record. However, Christian has slipped to the ranking of 124 with his underperformance in European clay court season due to the lack of preparation on the surface, according to News Strait Times. After a 3 month long break due to the coronavirus lockdown, he will be returning to his tennis training in Kuala Lumpur.

1. Christopher Rungkat – Indonesia

Christopher Rungkat has become the top professional tennis player in Indonesia by the age of 17. The Indonesian tennis player was born in 1990 of Dutch and Indonesian descent, is currently ranked at 241 for singles and highest ranking of 68 in doubles. Rungkat is the youngest ever Indonesian to be the champion of the All Indonesian tournament in the history of Indonesia and he was awarded the title of Indonesian Best Promising Athlete in 2008. Rungkat is also the first Indonesian to enter US open boy’s finalist and won himself the doubles title of French Open.

1. Stefanie Li Yun Tan – Singapore

Stefanie Tan, born in 1992 at Singapore has won herself two singles and two doubles titles on the ITF in the lifetime of her career. The 28 years old professional Singaporean tennis player has achieved the ranking of 438 in Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) singles category and the ranking of 507 in the doubles.. Tan has won the first medal in women’s tennis for Singapore in 34 years of history and claimed the bronze medal in the women’s singles in the SEA Games back in 2017.

1. Lý Hoàng Nam – Vietnam

Lý Hoàng Nam was born in 1997 at Tây Ninh, Vietnam, is the first Vietnamese professional tennis player to win a Grand Slam trophy of 2015 Wimbledon Championships for the title of Boys’ Doubles. Nam has achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of 430 in 2018 and the highest ranking he ever achieved was back in 2017 with the ranking of 415 in the singles. The Vietnam’s number one tennis player has won two championships at the VTF Masters 500-1-Hai Dang Cup 2020 and got himself a total prize money around 21,000 dollars. The undefeatable champion, Nam has also set a national level record of winning streaks in five single matches. However, Nam is currently ranked at 684 in ATP as well as the only Vietnamese tennis player who got into tennis world rankings.

Tennis is indeed a global sport and incredibly popular among the developed countries. However, players from Southeast Asian countries still needed more time to catch up from the overall support from their own governments and associations, training facilities and overall budget which impacts the entire talent development system like โหลดบาคาร่าออนไลน์ . The environment and professionalism is important to create elite players in the long run to be internationally successful in tennis. According to NCBI, well-developed countries such as Europe and North America are the 1st and 2nd highest ranked world regions across all continents producing world class players. According to the report, more than half of all professional tournaments or tennis-related events took place in Europe which was an advantage to all European players to get into the top 300 of ATP, where most Asian players do not have the privileges to be trained equally.

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