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Template:Chinese name Chan Yung-jan (Chinese: 詹詠然; Chinese: 詹咏然; Pinyin: Zhān Yǒngrán) is a professional female tennis player from Taiwan. Chan was born on August 17, 1989 in Dongshih, Taichung County, Taiwan, and currently lives in Taipei.

She has won 9 ITF singles titles; and 1 WTA and 8 ITF doubles titles. Her carer highlights include semifinals in the Japan Open in 2006.

In the Australian Open 2007, she lost to her first-round opponent Alicia Molik 2-6 6³-7⁷. Nevertheless, she reached the final in the women's doubles with another Taiwanese player, Chuang Chia-jung, where they lost in three sets to Cara Black and Liezel Huber. She lost in the first round of the 2007 French Open to Elena Likhovtseva, but made her top 50 debut afterwards, at #50.

Chan started playing in the junior circuit in 2002, and reached the SF stage at her first ITF junior event. With solid performances both in junior and challenger events, her combined junior ranking reached No. 2 on May 24, 2004.

However, her most significant junior victory came in 2004 Australian Open Junior Championships, where she partnered Sheng-Nan Sun to win the double trophy. The achievement hinted at the emergence of a talented double player.

While still a junior, Chan entered her very first pro tour in Tainan, where she reached the semi-final in the singles, and the quarter-final in the doubles.

Chan started her professional career in 2004. By the end of 2004, she already was the singles title holder of three 10,000 USD ITF events, including Colombo, Jakarta 3, and Taipei. She also won three doubles titles in Jakarta 3, Haibara, and Mount Gambier.

Chan's 2005 season got a strong start with a win in the 25,000 USD ITF event in Taipei. She also won a 50,000 USD ITF event in Fukuoka. Later that year, she qualified for the US Open, but failed to defeat Serena Williams in the first round. After the US Open, she played two qualifying events in Beijing and Seoul, but failed to enter the main draw. However, she teamed up with Chia-Jung Chuang to win her first tour-level doubles title in Seoul.

Chan played in the qualifying events of all four grand slams, and qualified into the main draws in Wimbledon and the US Open, but failed to beat resurgent Alicia Molik and Belgian Kirsten Flipkens respectively. Her breakthrough and first tour-level win came at the Tokyo Open, where she reached the SF stage by defeating local favourite and two-time winner Ai Sugiyama. The victory marked her first Top 30 win. She also participated in the doubles event of Tokyo Open and reached the final stage, once again partnering Chia-Jung Chuang.

As for her achievements in the challenger circuit: she won the singles titles in Melbourne, Fukuoka, Kurume, and Kaohsiung. Together with regular partner Chia-Jung Chuang she also won the doubles titles in Sydney, Gosford, Fukuoka, Kurume, and Kaohsiung. After her victory in Kaohsiung, she surged into the Top 100, and was ranked No. 73 in the singles.

To establish herself in tour level, Chan has only participated in Tour events in the beginning of 2007. She entered the main draws of the Australian Open, Pattaya, Bangalore, and Indian Wells, but failed to advance past the first round. In Miami she reached the second round by defeating Nuria Llagostera Vives, before losing to first seed Maria Sharapova.

Chan finally found her footing after entering the clay court season. In Charleston, she qualified into the main draw, and stunned No. 39 ranked Séverine Bremond in two sets to set up a rematch against reigning Australian Open and Miami winner Serena Williams. Chan was 5-3 up before Serena retired with a groin injury. Her magical journey in Charleston ended in the third round, where she was defeated by Venus Williams in straight sets.

To improve her singles game, Chan entered three ITF pro events after Charleston, and won all three of them. With the success in these events, her ranking rose to career high No.52 on May 7th, 2007.

Her singles achievements aside, Chan's doubles performance has been stunning. Awarded with a wild-card entry, Chan and Chuang reached the Final stage of the Australian Open, which was Chan's first Grand Slam doubles event ever. On their way to the final, they defeated 2006 US Open doubles finalists Safina/Srebotnik and 2006 Australian Open and Wimbledon champions Yan / Zheng. In February, they participated in two more events. They reached the final in both Pattaya and Bangalore, and won the double title in the latter.

In their Indian Wells debut, they again stormed into the final with back-to-back wins over 2006 Australian Open and Wimbledon champs Yan / Zheng in the QF, and 2006 US Open champions Zvonareva / Dechy in the SF. However, they lost the final to 2006 Roland Garros champions Raymond / Stosur in straight sets. Had they won the final match, they would have beaten every 2006 Grand Slam champion team in one single event. So far, they have made it into the final in all six tour-level doubles events they'd entered. Their finals streak was broken in Miami, where they lost to Raymond / Stosur in the semi-final.

#	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent in final	Score
1.	August 22, 2004	Colombo, Sri Lanka	ITF	Clay	Montinee Tangphong	6-1, 6-1
2.	September 26, 2004	Jakarta 3, Indonesia	ITF	Hard	Sandy Gumulya	6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-1
3.	October 31, 2004	Taipei, Taiwan	ITF	Hard	Wen-Hsin Hsu	7-5, 6-3
4.	February 27, 2005	Taipei, Taiwan	ITF	Hard	Seiko Okamoto	6-3, 6-2
5.	May 15, 2005	Fukuoma, Japan	ITF	Carpet	Ayumi Morita	6-3, 6-2
6.	March 26, 2006	Melbourne, Australia	ITF	Clay	Sophie Ferguson	6-3,7-6 (4)
7.	May 14, 2006	Fukuoma, Japan	ITF	Carpet	Ayumi Morita	6-3, 4-6, 6-1
8.	July 23, 2006	Kurume, Japan	ITF	Carpet	Chia-Jung Chuang	5-7, 6-4, 6-2
9.	November 19, 2006	Kao-hsiung, Japan	ITF	Hard	Su-Wei Hsieh	5-7, 7-6 (6), 6-0
10.	April 22, 2007	Dothan, USA	ITF	Clay	Alla Kudryavtseva	6-4, 6-2
11.	May 6, 2006	Gifu, Japan	ITF	Carpet	Ayumi Morita	6-3, 6-1
12.	May 13, 2006	Fukuoma, Japan	ITF	Carpet	Casey Dellaqua	6-4, 6-4

#	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent in final	Score
1.	February 26, 2006	Gosford, Australia	ITF	Hard	Jarmila Gajdosova	6-3, 3-0 ret.
2.	October 1, 2006	Tokyo, Japan	ITF	Hard	Ayumi Morita	3-6, 6-3, 6-4

No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	September 26, 2004	Jakarta, Indonesia	ITF	Hard	P. Thingdach	Liza Andriyani Thassha Vitayaviroj	6-3, 6-4
2.	October 24, 2004	Haibara, Japan	ITF	Carpet	Chin-Wei Chan	Chia-Jung Chuang Su-Wei Hsieh	7-6(5), 4-6, 7-6(3)
3.	November 28, 2004	Mount Gambier, Australia	ITF	Hard	Chin-Wei Chan	Ryoko Fuda Su-Wei Hsieh	6-3, 5-7, 7-5
4.	October 2, 2005	Seoul, Korea	IV	Hard	Chia-Jung Chuang	Jill Craybas Natalie Grandin	6-2, 6-4
5.	February 19, 2006	Sydney, Australia	ITF	Hard	Chia-Jung Chuang	Ayumi Morita Junri Namigata	6-2, 6-1
6.	February 26, 2006	Gosford, Australia	ITF	Hard	Chia-Jung Chuang	Beti Sekulovski Cindy Watson	6-2, 6-3
7.	May 14, 2006	Fukuoka, Japan	ITF	Carpet	Chia-Jung Chuang	Leanne Baker Christina Horiatopoulos	6-1, 6-2
8.	July 23, 2006	Kurume, Japan	ITF	Hard	Chia-Jung Chuang	Seiko Okamoto Ayami Takase	N/A
9.	November 19, 2006	Kao-hsiung, Taiwan	ITF	Hard	Chia-Jung Chuang	Chin-Wei Chan Su-Wei Hsieh	7-6(2), 6-1
10.	February 18, 2007	Bangalore, India	III	Hard	Chia-Jung Chuang	Su-Wei Hsieh Alla Kudryavtseva	6-7(4), 6-2, 11-9
11.	April 22, 2007	Dothan, USA	ITF	Clay	Chia-Jung Chuang	Angelika Bachmann Vanessa Henke	6-2, 6-3

No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	August 22, 2004	Colombo, Sri Lanka	ITF	Clay	Takemoto	Rushmi Chakravarthi Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram	6-2, 5-7, 6-3
2.	October 24, 2004	Taipei, Taiwan	ITF	Hard	S. Lin	Hsin-Chieh Chang Hsiao-Han Chao	3-6, 6-1, 6-3
3.	May 15, 2005	Fukuoka, Japan	ITF	Carpet	Chia-Jung Chuang	Ryoko Fuda Seiko Okamoto	6-2, 7-6(1)
4.	September 11, 2005	Beijing, China	ITF	Hard	I-Hsuan Hwang	Maki Arai So-Yung Kim	6-4, 6-0
5.	November 13, 2005	Jakarta, Indonesia	ITF	Hard	Chia-Jung Chuang	Ryoko Fuda Wynne Prakusya	6-4, 6-4
6.	March 26, 2006	Melbourne, Australia	ITF	Clay	Chia-Jung Chuang	Monique Adamczak Erica Krauth	7-6(4), 1-6, 6-1
7.	May 7, 2006	Gifu, Japan	ITF	Carpet	Chia-Jung Chuang	Chin-Wei Chan Su-Wei Hsieh	7-6(5), 3-6, 7-5
8.	October 8, 2006	Tokyo, Japan	III	Hard	Chia-Jung Chuang	Vania King Jelena Kostanic Tosic	7-6(2) 5-7 6-2
9.	January 27, 2007	Australian Open, Australia	GS	Hard	Chia-Jung Chuang	Cara Black Liezel Huber	6-4 6-7(4) 6-1
10.	February 11, 2007	Pattaya, Thailand	IV	Hard	Chia-Jung Chuang	Nicole Pratt Mara Santangelo	6-4 6-7(4) 6-1
11.	March 18, 2007	Indian Wells, USA	I	Hard	Chia-Jung Chuang	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur	6-3 7-5
12.	May 26, 2007	Istanbul, Turkey	III	Clay	Sania Mirza	Agnieszka Radwańska Urszula Radwańska	6-1, 6-3

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only after a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through Birmingham, which concluded on June 17, 2007.

A = did not participate in the tournament

Q = Qualifying round loss

SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only after a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through Birmingham, which concluded on June 17, 2007.

A = did not participate in the tournament

SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

• Sport in Taiwan

• Yung-jan, Chan at the Women's Tennis Association
• "Yung-Jan Chan". Junior Tennis, Inc. Retrieved 2006-10-20.