Chan Hao-ching

Career

Chan Hao-ching kicked off 2013 by teaming up with her sister Chan Yung-jan to win the Shenzhen Open, where they defeated Irina Buryachok and Valeriya Solovyeva without dropping a set. She then made the Indian Wells Open quarterfinals alongside Janette Husárová, but lost to Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina. Her second title of the year came at the Portugal Open with Kristina Mladenovic, another straight-sets win over Darija Jurak and Katalin Marosi.

At the French Open, she reached the second round with Jurak. She exited Wimbledon and the US Open in the first round, but did reach finals at the Southern California Open with Husárová and the Pan Pacific Open with Liezel Huber. She ended 2013 ranked 26th in the world.

2014: Wimbledon mixed doubles final

At Wimbledon that year, she made her first Grand Slam final in mixed doubles with Max Mirnyi, but they lost in straight sets to Nenad Zimonjić and Samantha Stosur. Early in 2015, she and her sister won the Thailand Open, beating Shuko Aoyama and Tamarine Tanasugarn in three sets.

2015: First Premier-5 title and major quarterfinal

They later claimed their fourth doubles title together at the Cincinnati Open, which was their biggest win yet and their first at the Premier-5 level. That victory put them second only to Serena and Venus Williams for the most WTA Tour doubles titles by a pair of sisters. They followed up with another title at the Japan Women's Open in Tokyo.

The Chan sisters also reached two more finals that year: the Pan Pacific Open, where they lost to Garbiñe Muguruza and Carla Suárez Navarro, and the China Open, where they fell to the top-ranked duo of Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza. Hao-ching and Yung-jan became the third all-sister pair to qualify for the WTA Finals, after the Maleeva sisters in 1986 and the Williams sisters in 2009.

They made the semifinals there, again losing to Hingis and Mirza. It was Hao-ching’s first appearance at the event. She finished 2015 ranked 12th, her best year-end ranking to that point.