Chung Hyeon
Chung Hyeon was born in Seoul, South Korea on May 19th, 1996 and is the Tennis Player. At the age of 28, Chung Hyeon biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Chung Hyeon (born 19 May 1996) is a South Korean professional tennis player.
He is currently the second highest-ranked South Korean and also the 2017 Next Gen Finals champion.
He was the first Korean player to reach the Grand Slam semifinals at the 2018 Australian Open as an unseeded participant.
Junior career
Since being unable to wear glasses at a young age, Chung took up tennis to help keep his eyesight. In December 2008, he won the Eddie Herr International and Junior Orange Bowl Boys Under 12s championships, and later joined the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida, alongside his brother Chung Hong. He began competing on the ITF junior tour in 2012 and finished runner-up in the 2013 Wimbledon Boys' Singles, a month after winning his first Futures title. He later competed in his first ATP tournament, the Malaysian Open, losing in the first round. He made a career debut at No. 58 in No. 93. with an 84–32 win-loss record.
Professional career
Chung won three Futures tournaments and the 2014 Bangkok Open, his first Challenger level tournament, as Chung made it to the men's professional game. He participated in the qualifying for the 2014 US Open and captured two matches for the South Korea Davis Cup team in order to keep them in Group I of Asia/Oceania Zones. He also won gold in the doubles competition at the 2014 Asian Games and finished 2014 ranked 151 in the ATP rankings.
Chung made it to the final qualifying round of the Australian Open but he concentrated his attention on the Challenger Tour. He won the Burnie Challenger in February and then earned a Wildcard for the ATP World Tour Championship in the Miami Open, advancing to the second round of this Masters level tournament. In April and May 2015, two more Challenger titles were released, with him achieving the top 100 for the first time. His meteoric ascension to the top of the charts and an oversight on behalf of the Korean Tennis Federation meant he skipped the entry deadline for the 2015 French Open. Despite being given a wildcard into the qualifying tournament later this year, he was disqualified in the first round. Chung then lost in straight sets to unranked Nicholas Monroe in the first round of qualifiers in the Topshelf Open. He claimed in five sets in the first round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career. Following his first round loss at Wimbledon, Chung returned to his home country and won the Men's Singles and Men's Team competition at the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju. Chung qualified for the main draw and won his first match in a Grand Slam against James Duckworth at the 2015 US Open. Despite losing in straight sets in the second round to fifth seed Stanislas Wawrinka in straight sets, Chung lost in straight sets in the second round against fifth seed Stanislas Wawrinka in straight sets. He continued to play on both the Challenger and ATP tour through 2015, winning another Challenger at Kaohsiung in September and winning his first ATP quarterfinal at the Shenzhen Open. After rising over 120 places to No. 1, he was awarded the year-end ATP Most Improved Player award for 2015. In the rankings, 51th in the top 50 countries.
Chung won his first round match in Brisbane against Sam Groth. He failed in the second round to the 3rd seed Marin ili. Chung of the Australian Open lost in the first round to Novak Djokovic.
Chung lost in Sofia in the first round to qualifier Marius Copil in February. In Rotterdam Chung's second round, he lost to Viktor Troicki. He lost in the first round to David Goffin in Marseille. In the first round of Dubai, Chung defeated Andreas Seppi. In this match, then lost to Roberto Bautista Agut, losing only one game in the tournament. In the Davis Cup match against New Zealand, Chung defeated New Zealand in both singles and doubles. South Korea defeated North Korea 3-1.
Chung took almost four months off to recover from an abdominal injury after the 2016 French Open.
Chung defeated Renzo Olivo in his first Australian Open match. Despite winning the first set, he lost in the second round against eventual semifinalist Grigor Dimitrov. Chung reached the quarterfinals of the 2017 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell in April, defeating Rafael Nadal in a tie-break before losing. Chung won six in a row in a row without losing a single point, with victories over Denis Istomin, Phillip Kohlschreiber, and Alexander Zverev.
Chung qualified in May at the 2017 BMW Open in Munich, reaching the semifinals. Chung defeated Gael Monfils in the second round, who finished ranked No. 1 in the second round. Chung's highest-ranked player was 16, and he had defeated 16 people. Chung made his first Grand Slam appearance by reaching the third round, with a victory over 27th seed Sam Query in the first round. In five sets, he lost to Kei Nishikori, the eighth seed.
Chung defeated 13th-ranked David Goffin in the second round of the Rogers Cup, his best result at an ATP Masters 1000 tournament to date. He qualified for the Next Generation ATP Finals in Milan and defeated Andrey Rublev in the final. Chung, the undefeated champion, took home $390,000.
By progressing to the quarterfinals of the Auckland Open, Chung recorded his first big result of the year, defeating John Isner in the second round.
Chung made his comeback to the spotlight by becoming the first South Korean player, male or female, to advance to the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament. He won his first match over a Top ten player in the third round, defeating world No. 1. In five sets, Alexander Zverev defeated 4 Alexander Zverev. Chung defeated six-time Australian Open champion and former world number one Novak Djokovic, who had just recovered from injury, in the next round. Djokovic had lost in straight sets at the Australian Open for the first time since 2007. Chung defeated unseeded American Tennys Sandgren in the quarterfinals, his first Grand Slam semifinalist appearance. In 2010, he was the youngest Australian Open semifinalist since Marin ili and his lowest ranking since then-No. In 2004, Marat Safin, 86, became a member of the Association of Women in 2005. Chung defeated Roger Federer in the semi-finals, but he lost due to foot blisters when he was close to winning two sets. The Koreans also competed in the doubles tournament with Radu Albot, defeating the defending champions Henri Kontinen and John Peers.
Following the Australian Open, Chung continued to compete in the Delray Beach Open, where he defeated Cameron Norrie and Franko kugor before bowing out to eventual champion Frances Tiafoe. He then competed in the Mexican Open, defeating Donald Young and Ernesto Escobedo before losing in straight sets to Kevin Anderson.
Chung won in straight sets over Roger Federer at Indian Wells to advance to his second Masters quarterfinals appearance, beating Duan Lajovi, Tomas Berdych, and Pablo Cuevas. Chung beat Matthew Ebden, Michael Mmoh, and Joo Sousa in straight sets, beating John Isner, who went on to win the tournament in straight sets. He did not qualify for the 2018 French Open or the 2018 Wimbledon Championships.
Chung defeated Bradley Klahn in the first round of the 2019 Australian Open Seeded 24th. He barely won in two sets in tiebreakers, but came back to win in five sets in the second round, where he defeated Pierre-Hugues Herbert in four sets.
He suffered with injuries in 2019 and dropped outside the top 150 from a career-high ranking of 19. Chung returned from Chengdu in 2019.
For the first time at this Major, he made it to the third round of the 2019 US Open for the first time. However, he did not play after October 2020, when he appeared in two qualifying matches at the 2020 Roland Garros in October 2020.
After two years of being absent from the ATP tour, he returned to play doubles with compatriot Kwon Soonwoo at the Korea Open. In the first round, they defeated Hans Hach Verdugo and Treat Huey in three sets.