Lu Yen-Hsun
2011 Year end rank: 82
2012 Current rank: 59Doubles Rank: 144
Yen-Hsun (aka Rendy) found much success this year on the
ATP Challenger circuit. On the ATP main tour, he lost in the first round at three
of the four majors. At two of the ATP World Tour tournaments, he was able to
get major points thanks to drawing a wild card in Shanghai and a retirement in Beijing.
His ranking improved 23 places thanks to winning three challenger tournaments:
Seoul, Shanghai, and Singapore. He also won a doubles title at Bangkok with his
good friend Udomchoke. He had two top ten wins against David Ferrer (though
this was a retirement) and Janko Tipsarevic. He will kick off his 2013 season
next week at Chennai. Hopefully he'll find more success on the main tour and
won's have to go down to lower tournaments.
Jimmy Wang
2011 Year end rank: 156
2012 Current rank: 274Doubles Rank: 264
Jimmy (formerly Yeu-tzuoo on the ATP website) is making small steps to get back into the
top 100 ever since wrist problems sidelined him in 2010. He did solidly on the
challenger circuit reaching the semis three times, but the best tournament was
arguably at the US Open where he qualified for the main draw and beat Ivo
Karlovic, his only top 100 win of the year. This was his first main draw Grand
Slam win since 2007 Wimbledon. In all he earned $128,000 in prize money. With
an improvement of 100 places this year, we hope to see a continual rise as
Jimmy fights his way back to the tour.
Lee Hsin-Han
Doubles Rank: 95
Note: Finally broke top 100 after about six years on tour.
Hsieh Cheng-Peng
Note: Su-wei's (Taiwan's top female player) younger brother.
Peng Hsien-Yin
Doubles Rank: 172
Note: Started the year with a doubles ranking in the
1000s.
Hsin-Han won Qarshi and Seoul Challenger tournaments with
Hsien-Yin and Prostějov Challenger with Cheng-Peng. Time will tell if these
three can be fixtures in the doubles scene.
Not really MIA. But what happened? Turn things around
please in 2013!!!
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