Tsao Chia-yi

In this Chinese name, the family name is Tsao.

Tsao Chia-yi (Chinese: 曹家宜, born 2 December 2003), is a Taiwanese professional tennis player.

Tsao Chia-yi

Country (sports)	Chinese Taipei
Born	(2003-12-02) 2 December 2003 (age 21) New Taipei City, Taiwan
Plays	Right (two-handed both sides)
Prize money	$45,727
Singles
Career record	75–56
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 464 (9 October 2023)
Current ranking	No. 716 (21 October 2024)
Doubles
Career record	97–33
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 115 (12 August 2024)
Current ranking	No. 180 (21 October 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2025)
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	QF (2024)
Last updated on: 21 October 2024.

She has a career-high doubles ranking by the WTA of 115, achieved on 12 August 2024. 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.

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.^[1]

Career

Tsao made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2023 Hong Kong Open in doubles and won the title with Tang Qianhui.^[2][3]

Partnering Hsieh Su-wei,^[4] she reached the quarterfinals at the 2024 Paris Olympics, defeating Romanian duo Irina-Camelia Begu and Monica Niculescu^[5] and Ukrainians Marta Kostyuk and Dayana Yastremska.^[6] They lost to Czech pairing Karolína Muchová and Linda Nosková.^[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]