The 21st century

Latisha Chan

Chinese Taipei · born Taiwan, 1989 · Wimbledon mixed doubles champion 2019 with Ivan Dodig; played earlier as Chan Yung-jan

Latisha Chan
si.robi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Weeks at world No. 1 in doubles

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WTA doubles titles, from 59 finals

69 min

Length of the 2019 Wimbledon mixed final with Ivan Dodig, won 6-2, 6-3

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Eastbourne doubles titles: 2014 and 2019 with her sister, 2017 with Martina Hingis

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Asian Games medals, five of them gold

Playing career

Chan, who played as Chan Yung-jan before taking the name Latisha, began at six and turned professional in 2004, the year she won the Australian Open junior doubles. In singles she reached No. 50 at 17 and the Bangkok final in 2007. In doubles she reached the 2007 Australian Open final as a wild card on her major debut, with Chuang Chia-jung, and also lost the finals of the 2007 US Open and 2015 Australian Open.

Her best year was 2017. She won at least 11 titles, nine of them with Martina Hingis, including the US Open, and in October became world No. 1 in doubles, the second player from Chinese Taipei to do so after Hsieh Su-wei. She spent 34 weeks at No. 1 in all. With Ivan Dodig she won the French Open mixed doubles in 2018 and 2019 and Wimbledon in 2019. With her younger sister, Chan Hao-ching, she won ten tour titles, a record among sisters second only to Venus and Serena Williams.

She played four Olympics and won nine Asian Games medals over five editions. After two years out through injury and illness she announced her retirement in January 2026 and was honoured at the Australian Open, the first Taiwanese player given a retirement ceremony at a Grand Slam. She completed a PhD at National Taiwan Sport University in 2025.

On grass

Wimbledon 2019 mixed finalSeeded eighth with Dodig, beat Robert Lindstedt and Jelena Ostapenko 6-2, 6-3 in 69 minutes on No. 1 Court, her first Wimbledon final in any event, a month after their second French Open mixed title
EastbourneWon the doubles in 2014 and 2019 with Chan Hao-ching and in 2017 with Hingis. The 2019 final, against Kirsten Flipkens and Bethanie Mattek-Sands, went 2-6, 6-3, 10-6 at Devonshire Park, the sisters' first grass title together in five years
Eastbourne 2015Lost the final with Zheng Jie to Caroline Garcia and Katarina Srebotnik 7-6 (7-5), 6-2
Rosmalen 2007Won the doubles with Chuang Chia-jung, in her first full season on the tour

Every grass title: 7

Show every title, tournament by tournament
Wimbledon
2019 Mixed doubles with Ivan Dodig
Eastbourne
2014 Women's doubles with Chan Hao-ching
2017 Women's doubles with Martina Hingis
2019 Women's doubles with Chan Hao-ching
Birmingham
2007 Women's doubles with Chuang Chia-jung
's-Hertogenbosch (Rosmalen)
2007 Women's doubles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships with Chuang Chia-jung
Mallorca
2017 Women's doubles with Martina Hingis

Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. † single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions

Anecdotes

The person behind the player.

Melbourne, 2007

A final on debut

Given a wild card into the 2007 Australian Open doubles with Chuang Chia-jung, her first major doubles event, she reached the final.

Source: WTA, 2026

With Angel

The sisters

Chan and her younger sister, Chan Hao-ching, known as Angel, won ten tour-level titles together. Among sister teams only Venus and Serena Williams have won more.

Source: WTA, 2026

Wimbledon 2019

Two titles for Taiwan

On the final Sunday of 2019 Chan won the mixed doubles and Hsieh Su-wei, with Barbora Strýcová, the women's doubles: two titles for Taiwanese players on the same day.

Source: Taiwan News, 2019

Melbourne, 2026

Very lucky

Retiring at 36 after two years out, she said she had no regrets and called herself "very lucky" to have achieved what she did. The Australian Open chief executive, Craig Tiley, had suggested the retirement ceremony the year before. She had already taken a Level A coaching certificate.

Source: Taipei Times, 2026

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