Chen Ti Explained

Chen Ti (; born 3 October 1983) is a Taiwanese professional tennis player. He is part of the Chinese Taipei Davis Cup team. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles.

In singles, all of Chen's appearances in a final of a tournament have come at the ITF Tour level, where he has a record of 23 wins and 23 losses. The time from when he won his first title to when he won his most recent title spans 15 years, from September 2003 to July 2018.

In 2005, Chen successfully qualified for his first main draw at the ATP Tour level, at the 2005 Thailand Open defeating Tatsushi Fakuda and Nathan Healey in qualifying before being eliminated in the first round by Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand, 3–6, 4–6. He has since made 2 other singles main draw appearances; the 2006 Tokyo tournament defeating Takahiro Ittogi and Lars Burgsmüller in qualifying before losing to Japan's Satoshi Iwabuchi in the first round 2–6, 1–6, and the 2007 Mumbai tournament where he defeated Tushar Liberhan and Leoš Friedl in qualifying before losing to Australia's Lleyton Hewitt in the first round 3–6, 3–6. He has yet to win a singles main draw match other than in Davis Cup play.

In June 2012, Chen reached the finals of Toyota Bangalore Open ITF tournament, losing to Vishnu Vardhan, 6–2, 4–6, 6–1.^[2]

Im doubles, Chen has won 6 ATP Challenger Tour titles and 25 on the ITF Futures Tour. In total, he has a doubles finals record of 31 wins and 29 losses. Other than Davis Cup matches, Chen has played made 2 main doubles draw appearances At the ATP Tour level, at the 2008 Cincinnati Masters partnering with Phillip King where they lost to John Isner and Mardy Fish 4–6, 6–7^(2–7), and secondly at the 2015 Shenzhen Open partnering Austin Krajicek where they lost to Chris Guccione and André Sá 1–6, 5–7.

In Davis Cup matches playing for Chinese Taipei, Chen has a singles record of 15–17, and a doubles record of 3–3.

Grand Slams

Chen has competed in the qualifying rounds of a Grand Slam tournament on 18 occasions, none of which saw him advance through to the main draw. His best result was reaching the 3rd and final round of qualifying at the 2008 Australian Open.

Performance timeline

Singles

Tournament	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009–11	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018–21	SR	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	Q1	A	A	Q3	A	A	Q2	A	Q1	Q1	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	Q1	A	0 / 0	0–0
Wimbledon	Q1	A	Q1	Q2	A	A	Q1	A	Q1	Q1	Q2	A	0 / 0	0–0
US Open	Q1	A	A	Q1	A	Q1	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 0	0–0
ATP Tour Masters 1000
bgcolor=efefef align=left	Canadian Open	A	A	A	Q2	A	A	Q2	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
bgcolor=efefef align=left	Cincinnati Masters	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 46 (23–23)

Legend ATP Challenger (0–1) ITF Futures (23–22)

Finals by surface Hard (23–22) Clay (0–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1		Indonesia F2, Jakarta	Futures	Hard	Jimmy Wang	6–7(4–7), 4–6
Loss	0–2		Japan F2, Kashiwa	Futures	Hard	Satoshi Iwabuchi	4–6, 2–6
Loss	0–3		USA F30, Baton Rouge	Futures	Hard	Justin Bower	7–6(8–6), 4–6, 4–6
Win	1–3		Australia F1, Wollongong	Futures	Hard	Todd Reid	6–3, 6–0
Win	2–3		China F5, Beijing	Futures	Hard	Oh-Hee Kwon	3–6, 6–1, 6–1
Loss	2–4		Penza, Russia	Challenger	Hard	Farrukh Dustov	7–5, 2–6, 4–6
Loss	2–5		Thailand F4, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Hee-Seok Chung	4–6, 0–6
Loss	2–6		Australia F2, Sydney	Futures	Hard	Timo Nieminen	5–7, 4–6
Loss	2–7		Japan F2, Tokyo	Futures	Hard	Kyu-Tae Im	6–7(5–7), 6–7(2–7)
Loss	2–8		Japan F1, Tokyo	Futures	Hard	Tatsuma Ito	2–6, 4–6
Win	3–8		Thailand F4, Khon Kaen	Futures	Hard	Tasuku Iwami	6–1, 6–0
Win	4–8		Thailand F5, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Nathan Thompson	6–2, 6–4
Win	5–8		Malaysia F3, Kuala Lumpur	Futures	Hard	Luigi D'Agord	7–5, 6–4
Win	6–8		Korea F5, Gyeongsan	Futures	Hard	Yang Tsung-hua	6–2, 6–2
Loss	6–9		Japan F9, Kashiwa	Futures	Hard	Danai Udomchoke	4–6, 2–6
Loss	6–10		Thailand F1, Khon Kaen	Futures	Hard	Danai Udomchoke	0–6, 2–6
Win	7–10		China F3, Chengdu	Futures	Hard	Lim Yong-kyu	3–6, 6–1, 6–4
Win	8–10		China F5, Nanjing	Futures	Hard	Chuhan Wang	6–2, 1–0 ret.
Loss	8–11		Chinese Taipei F4, Tainan	Futures	Clay	Victor Baluda	7–6(8–6), 3–6, 5–7
Win	9–11		Vietnam F3, Ho Chi Minh City	Futures	Hard	Kevin Botti	7–5, 6–2
Loss	9–12		China F8, Fuzhou	Futures	Hard	Di Wu	1–6, 2–6
Loss	9–13		India F9, Bangalore	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	2–6, 6–4, 1–6
Loss	9–14		Indonesia F2, Jakarta	Futures	Hard	Yūichi Sugita	2–6, 5–7
Loss	9–15		Kazakhstan F7, Astana	Futures	Hard	Dzmitry Zhyrmont	1–6, 4–6
Loss	9–16		Kuwait F2, Meshref	Futures	Hard	Mohammed Ghareeb	7–5, 6–7(6–8), 2–6
Win	10–16		Kuwait F3, Meshref	Futures	Hard	Abdullah Maqdes	6–3, 6–1
Win	11–16		Israel F6, Netanya	Futures	Hard	Maximilian Neuchrist	6–4, 6–3
Win	12–16		Spain F20, Bakio	Futures	Hard	Carlos Boluda-Purkiss	6–3, 6–3
Win	13–16		Cambodia F3, Phnom Penh	Futures	Hard	Toshihide Matsui	6–3, 6–4
Win	14–16		Thailand F8, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Kento Takeuchi	6–4, 6–1
Win	15–16		Thailand F9, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Dayne Kelly	6–4, 6–1
Loss	15–17		Kazakhstan F10, Astana	Futures	Hard	Denys Molchanov	3–6, 4–6
Win	16–17		Hong Kong F1	Futures	Hard	Alexander Sarkissian	4–1 ret.
Loss	16–18		Thailand F6, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Jordan Thompson	2–6, 2–6
Loss	16–19		Thailand F7, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Jordan Thompson	0–6, 6–3, 2–6
Loss	16–20		Cambodia F3, Phnom Penh	Futures	Hard	Kim Cheong-Eui	3–6, 4–6
Loss	16–21		Uzbekistan F3, Andijan	Futures	Hard	Temur Ismailov	6–2, 5–7, 5–7
Win	17–21		Uzbekistan F4, Namangan	Futures	Hard	Markos Kalovelonis	6–4, 6–2
Loss	17–22		Korea F4, Gimcheon	Futures	Hard	Makoto Ochi	6–2, 0–6, 1–6
Win	18–22		Thailand F1, Hua Hin	Futures	Hard	Fajing Sun	6–3, 6–1
Win	19–22		Vietnam F6, Thủ Dầu Một	Futures	Hard	Makoto Ochi	6–0, 6–0
Win	20–22		Indonesia F1, Jakarta	Futures	Hard	Fajing Sun	7–6(7–4), 6–3
Win	21–22		Indonesia F5, Jakarta	Futures	Hard	Brydan Klein	3–6, 7–6(7–2), 6–3
Win	22–22		Indonesia F6, Jakarta	Futures	Hard	Max Purcell	6–3, 6–4
Win	23–22		Thailand F2, Hua Hin	Futures	Hard	Dayne Kelly	6–3, 4–6, 6–4
Loss	23–23		Chinese Taipei F2, Taiwan	Futures	Hard	Tseng Chun Hsin	1–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–7(1–7)

Doubles: 60 (31–29)

Legend ATP Challenger (6–11) ITF Futures (25–18)

Finals by surface Hard (29–29) Clay (2–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0		USA F29, Arlington	Futures	Hard	Go Soeda	Scott Lipsky Todd Widom	7–5, 6–2
Loss	1–1		China F1, Jiangmen	Futures	Hard	Shuon Madden	Flavio Cipolla Alessandro Motti	6–7(4–7), 1–6
Loss	1–2		Spain F13, Lanzarote	Futures	Hard	Jimmy Wang	Komlavi Loglo Rafael Moreno-Negrin	5–7, 7–6(10–8), 4–6
Loss	1–3		Uzbekistan F2, Namangan	Futures	Hard	Jimmy Wang	Lukáš Rosol Martin Slanar	2–6, 6–3, 1–6
Win	2–3		China F6, Beijing	Futures	Hard	Phillip King	Xin-Yuan Yu Shao-Xuan Zeng	7–5, 3–6, [10–7]
Win	3–3		Caloundra, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Woong-Sun Jun	Ivan Cerović Vjekoslav Skenderovic	6–2, 6–3
Win	4–3		Uzbekistan F2, Namangan	Futures	Hard	Sebastian Rieschick	Sergey Bubka Vladyslav Klymenko	7–5, 5–7, [10–5]
Loss	4–4		Winnetka, United States	Challenger	Hard	José Statham	Todd Widom Michael Yani	2–6, 2–6
Loss	4–5		Thailand F4, Khon Kaen	Futures	Hard	Mikal Statham	Gao Wan Xin-Yuan Yu	5–7, 7–6(10–8), [7–10]
Loss	4–6		Toyota, Japan	Challenger	Hard	Grzegorz Panfil	Frederik Nielsen Aisam Qureshi	5–7, 3–6
Loss	4–7		Melbourne, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Danai Udomchoke	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	6–7(5–7), 7–5, [7–10]
Loss	4–8		Malaysia F2, Petaling Jaya	Futures	Hard	Phillip King	Arnau Brugués Davi Luigi D'Agord	2–6, 3–6
Win	5–8		Korea F5, Gyeongsan	Futures	Hard	Yang Tsung-hua	Satoshi Iwabuchi Gouichi Motomura	7–6(7–4), 6–4
Loss	5–9		Korea F6, Gyeongsan	Futures	Hard	Satoshi Iwabuchi	Yang Tsung-hua Lee Hsin-han	6–7(4–7), 7–5, [8–10]
Win	6–9		USA F7, McAllen	Futures	Hard	Nikoloz Basilashvili	Jared Easton Matheson Klein	7–5, 4–6, [10–4]
Loss	6–10		China F3, Chengdu	Futures	Hard	Xu Junchao	Zhe Li Mao-Xin Gong	0–6, 3–6
Win	7–10		Korea F2, Changwon	Futures	Hard	Hiroki Kondo	Lim Yong-kyu Im Kyu-Tae	6–4, 6–2
Win	8–10		Israel F8, Ramat HaSharon	Futures	Hard	Marcus Daniell	Noam Behr Noam Okun	7–6(7–1), ret.
Win	9–10		Israel F9, Ramat HaSharon	Futures	Hard	Marcus Daniell	Aviv Ben Shabat Noam Okun	6–0, 6–2
Win	10–10		Turkey F6, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Hiroki Kondo	Yu Chang Zhe Li	6–0, 6–2
Win	11–10		Turkey F8, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Gao Wan	Michal Konecny Michal Pazicky	7–6(7–3), 6–3
Win	12–10		Israel F6, Netanya	Futures	Hard	Maximilian Neuchrist	Jérôme Inzerillo Alexis Musialek	7–5, 6–3
Win	13–10		Uzbekistan F1, Namangan	Futures	Hard	Marek Semjan	Sergey Betov Dzmitry Zhyrmont	6–2, 7–6(7–3)
Win	14–10		Qarshi, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Guillermo Olaso	Jordan Kerr Konstantin Kravchuk	7–6(7–5), 7–5
Win	15–10		Chinese Taipei F1, Taipei	Futures	Hard	Huang Liang-chi	Hiroki Kondo Yuichi Ito	6–1, 6–1
Win	16–10		Bangkok, Thailand	Challenger	Hard	Huang Liang-chi	Ji Sung Nam Suk-Young Jeong	6–3, 6–2
Win	17–10		Turkey F51, Istanbul	Futures	Hard	Stanislav Vovk	Tuna Altuna Baris Erguden	6–2, 6–1
Loss	17–11		China F2, Guangzhou	Futures	Hard	Ruan Roelofse	Riccardo Ghedin Claudio Grassi	4–6, 1–6
Win	18–11		Qatar F2, Doha	Futures	Hard	Ruan Roelofse	Luke Bambridge Antoine Benneteau	6–4, 6–3
Win	19–11		Qatar F3, Doha	Futures	Hard	Ruan Roelofse	Oliver Golding Joshua Ward-Hibbert	6–1, 6–1
Win	20–11		Nanchang, China	Challenger	Hard	Peng Hsien-Yin	Jordan Kerr Fabrice Martin	6–2, 3–6, [12–10]
Loss	20–12		Thailand F9, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Ruan Roelofse	Pruchya Isaro Nuttanon Kadchapanan	4–6, 1–6
Loss	20–13		Kaohsiung, Taiwan	Challenger	Hard	Huang Liang-chi	Peng Hsien-Yin Mao-Xin Gong	3–6, 2–6
Loss	20–14		Astana, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Hard	Huang Liang-chi	Sergey Bubka Marco Chiudinelli	3–6, 4–6
Win	21–14		Kazakhstan F11, Astana	Futures	Hard	Denis Matsukevich	N.Sriram Balaji Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	6–2, 6–3
Loss	21–15		Chinese Taipei F1, Kaohsiung	Futures	Hard	Huang Liang-chi	Arata Onozawa Takao Suzuki	6–7(3–7), 3–6
Loss	21–16		Bangkok, Thailand	Challenger	Hard	Peng Hsien-Yin	Pruchya Isaro Nuttanon Kadchapanan	4–6, 4–6
Loss	21–17		Egypt F4, Sharm El Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Stefano Travaglia	Ivan Bjelica Matija Pecotić	3–6, 2–6
Loss	21–18		Turkey F19, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Francesco Vilardo	Erik Crepaldi Hugo Grenier	4–6, 3–6
Loss	21–19		Eskişehir, Turkey	Challenger	Hard	Ruan Roelofse	Sergey Betov Mikhail Elgin	4–6, 7–6(7–2), [7–10]
Loss	21–20		China F10, Xi'an	Futures	Hard	Yan Bai	N.Sriram Balaji Zhe Li	6–4, 6–7(2–7), [11–13]
Loss	21–21		Bangkok, Thailand	Challenger	Hard	Zhe Li	Riccardo Ghedin Yan Bai	2–6, 5–7
Loss	21–22		Kobe, Japan	Challenger	Hard	Franko Škugor	Sonchat Ratiwatana Sanchai Ratiwatana	4–6, 6–2, [9–11]
Loss	21–23		Thailand F9, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Connor Smith	Pruchya Isaro Nuttanon Kadchapanan	3–6, 6–7(4–7)
Win	22–23		Uzbekistan F1, Qarshi	Futures	Hard	Sumit Nagal	Sanjar Fayziev Jurabek Karimov	5–5 ret.
Win	23–23		Bangkok, Thailand	Challenger	Hard	Jason Jung	Ruan Roelofse Dean O'Brien	6–4, 3–6, [10–8]
Loss	23–24		Uzbekistan F4, Namangan	Futures	Hard	Denis Matsukevich	Timur Khabibulin Yaraslav Shyla	3–6, 3–6
Win	24–24		Thailand F1, Hua Hin	Futures	Hard	John Paul Fruttero	Yunseong Chung Xin Gao	6–2, 6–2
Win	25–24		Vietnam F6, Thủ Dầu Một	Futures	Hard	Hung Jui-Chen	Chiu Yu Hsiang Ken Onishi	4–6, 6–1, [11–9]
Win	26–24		Vietnam F9, Thủ Dầu Một City	Futures	Hard	Nam Hoang Ly	Ju-Hae Moon Sang-Woo Noh	6–2, 4–6, [10–5]
Loss	26–25		Egypt F8, Sharm El Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Fajing Sun	Francis Casey Alcantara Benjamin Lock	3–6, 7–6(9–7), [7–10]
Loss	26–26		Zhangjiagang, China	Challenger	Hard	Yi Chu-Huan	Xin Gao Zhizhen Zhang	2–6, 3–6
Win	27–26		Gwangju, South Korea	Challenger	Hard	Ben McLachlan	Jarryd Chaplin Luke Saville	2–6, 7–6(7–1), [10–1]
Win	28–26		Thailand F9, Pattaya	Futures	Hard	Max Purcell	Skyler Butts Yuanfeng Li	6–1, 6–1
Win	29–26		Hong Kong F4	Futures	Hard	Gonçalo Oliveira	Shintaro Imai Cheong-Eui Kim	4–6, 7–5, [10–8]
Loss	29–27		Seoul, South Korea	Challenger	Hard	Yi Chu-Huan	Toshihide Matsui Frederik Nielsen	4–6, 6–7(3–7)
Loss	29–28		China F10, Shenzhen	Futures	Hard	Rubin Statham	Ji Sung Nam Min-Kyu Song	6–7(3–7), 2–6
Loss	29–29		Thailand F9, Nonthaburi	Futures	Hard	Sora Fakuta	Pruchya Isaro Min-Kyu Song	3–6, 6–4, [11–13]
Win	30–29		M15 Anning, China	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Ray Ho	Anirudh Chandrasekar N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth	6–4, 7–6(10–8)
Win	31–29		M15 Anning, China	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Ray Ho	Lee Kuan-Yi Hong Kit Wong	6–4, 3–6, [10–8]

Notes and References

1. https://www.itftennis.com/en/players/ti-chen/800221058/tpe/mt/d/activity/#pprofile-info-tabs
2. News: Ti-Chen. The Hindu. 17 June 2012. 2012-06-17.