Tsao Chia-yi
Taiwanese tennis player (born 2003)
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Tsao Chia-yi (Chinese: 曹家宜, born 2 December 2003), is a Taiwanese professional tennis player. She has a career-high doubles ranking by the WTA of world No. 115, achieved on 12 August 2024.
Chinese Taipei| Country (sports) | Chinese Taipei |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 December 2003 New Taipei City, Taiwan |
| Retired | Feb 2025 (last doubles match played) |
| Plays | Right (two-handed both sides) |
| Prize money | $69,931 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 75–56 |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 464 (9 October 2023) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 97–33 |
| Career titles | 1 |
| Highest ranking | No. 115 (12 August 2024) |
| Grand Slam doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 1R (2025) |
| Other doubles tournaments | |
| Olympic Games | QF (2024) |
| Last updated on: 9 February 2026. | |
Tsao has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour and one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She has also won 14 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In October 2023, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 464.
Career
Tsao made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2023 Hong Kong Open in doubles and won the title with Tang Qianhui.[1][2]
Partnering Hsieh Su-wei,[3] she reached the quarterfinals at the 2024 Paris Olympics, defeating Romanian duo Irina-Camelia Begu and Monica Niculescu[4] and Ukrainians Marta Kostyuk and Dayana Yastremska.[5] They lost to Czech pairing Karolína Muchová and Linda Nosková.[6]
2025: One year ban from competition
Tsao accepted a ban from professional tennis for 12 months, starting from March 2025, after she unintentionally took a cold medicine containing the banned stimulant Methylephedrine without having a valid therapeutic use exemption.[7]
WTA Tour finals
Doubles: 1 (title)
| Legend |
|---|
| Grand Slam |
| WTA 1000 |
| WTA 500 |
| WTA 250 (1–0) |
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1–0 | Oct 2023 | Hong Kong Open, China SAR | WTA 250 | Hard |  Tang Qianhui |
 Oksana Kalashnikova  Aliaksandra Sasnovich |
7–5, 1–6, [11–9] |
WTA Challenger finals
Doubles: 1 (title)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1–0 | Jul 2024 | Båstad Open, Sweden | Clay |  Peangtarn Plipuech |
 María Lourdes Carlé Julia Riera |
7–5, 6–3 |
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 2 (runner-ups)
| Legend |
|---|
| W15 tournaments (0–2) |
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 0–1 | Oct 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard |  Kristina Paskauskas |
2–6, 6–4, 6–7(8) |
| Loss | 0–2 | Nov 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard |  Hanne Vandewinkel |
2–6, 5–7 |
Doubles: 18 (14 titles, 4 runner-ups)
| Legend |
|---|
| W100 tournaments (0–1) |
| W40/50 tournaments (1–1) |
| W25/35 tournaments (2–2) |
| W15 tournaments (11–0) |
| Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1–0 | May 2022 | ITF Cancún, Mexico | W15 | Hard |  Saki Imamura |
 Melissa Morales Kirsten-Andrea Weedon |
6–3, 6–1 |
| Win | 2–0 | Sep 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Lee Ya-hsin |
 Emilia Durska  Camilla Zanolini |
7–6(6), 6–4 |
| Win | 3–0 | Sep 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Lee Ya-hsin |
Abigail Amos  Jaeda Daniel |
6–0, 6–1 |
| Win | 4–0 | Oct 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Lee Ya-hsin |
 Priska Madelyn Nugroho Wei Sijia |
1–6, 6–1, [10–3] |
| Win | 5–0 | Oct 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Lee Ya-hsin |
 Flavie Brugnone  Stéphanie Visscher |
6–4, 6–0 |
| Win | 6–0 | Oct 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Lee Ya-hsin |
Hanne Vandewinkel  Radka Zelníčková |
6–2, 6–4 |
| Win | 7–0 | Nov 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Wu Fang-hsien |
 Kamilla Bartone  Bojana Marinković |
6–0, 7–5 |
| Win | 8–0 | Nov 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Wu Fang-hsien |
Anastasiia Gureva Vlada Mincheva |
6–3, 6–4 |
| Win | 9–0 | Dec 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Wu Fang-hsien |
 Oana Gavrilă Emilie Lindh |
6–4, 6–3 |
| Loss | 9–1 | Jan 2023 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W25 | Hard | Miho Kuramochi |
Oana Gavrilă  Sapfo Sakellaridi |
5–7, 6–4, [6–10] |
| Loss | 9–2 | Jan 2023 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard |  Nadine Keller |
Lee Ya-hsin Yang Yidi |
6–2, 3–6, [13–15] |
| Win | 10–2 | Mar 2023 | ITF Hinode, Japan | W15 | Hard | Akari Inoue |
Li Yu-yun Rinon Okuwaki |
6–4, 6–7(5), [10–5] |
| Win | 11–2 | Jun 2023 | ITF Tainan, Taiwan | W25 | Clay | Yang Ya-yi |
 Monique Barry Lee Ya-hsin |
6–2, 6–2 |
| Win | 12–2 | Sep 2023 | ITF Kyoto, Japan | W25 | Hard | Aoi Ito |
Hiromi Abe Anri Nagata |
6–2, 6–1 |
| Loss | 12–3 | Jan 2024 | ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand | W50 | Hard | Lanlana Tararudee |
 Zhibek Kulambayeva Sapfo Sakellaridi |
w/o |
| Win | 13–3 | Mar 2024 | ITF Solarino, Italy | W35 | Carpet | Martyna Kubka |
Katarina Kozarov Veronika Miroshnichenko |
6–4, 6–2 |
| Win | 14–3 | Apr 2024 | ITF Kashiwa, Japan | W50 | Hard |  Ankita Raina |
Madeleine Brooks  Eudice Chong |
6–4, 6–4 |
| Loss | 14–4 | Nov 2024 | Takasaki Open, Japan | W100 | Hard | Liang En-shuo |
Momoko Kobori Ayano Shimizu |
6–4, 4–6, [3–10] |
