Lu Yen-hsun

Infobox Tennis player
playername= Yen-Hsun Lu


country= flagicon|Taiwan Taiwan
residence= Taipei, Taiwan
datebirth= birth date and age|1983|8|14
placebirth= Taoyuan, Taiwan
height= height|m=1.80
weight= convert|72|kg|lb st|abbr=on|lk=on
turnedpro= 2001
coach= Dirk Hordorff, Jan Stoces
plays= Right-handed; two-handed backhand
careerprizemoney= $739,991
singlesrecord= 31–52
singlestitles= 0
highestsinglesranking= No. 69 (September 29, 2008)
AustralianOpenresult= 2R(2007)
FrenchOpenresult= -
Wimbledonresult= 2R(2004, 2005)
USOpenresult= 2R(2008)
Othertournaments = Yes
Olympicsresult = 3R (2008)
doublesrecord= 16–18
doublestitles= 1
highestdoublesranking= No. 86 (January 31, 2005)
updated= July 21, 2008

Lu Yen-Hsun (盧彥勳; born August 14, 1983 in Taoyuan, Taiwan) is the number one professional tennis player in Taiwan, and the rest of Asia. He goes by the nickname "Rendy." As of September 29, 2008, Lu is ranked #69 in the world and #1 in Asia (making him the highest ranking non-Western male player).

Lu is sponsored by Adidas (apparel and shoes), Head (rackets) and CPC Corporation. On court, Lu currently uses Head Flexpoint Instinct (racket), the Alu Big Banger (string) and Tournagrip (overgrip). His favorite surface is hard.

Career Highlights

Junior career

Lu was an accomplished junior's player, reaching career-high #3 in the ITF circuit (February 5, 2001). During his junior years, he defeated a handful of future ATP stars, including Robin Söderling, Mario Ančić and Philipp Kohlschreiber.

2004

In 2004, Lu became the first player from Taiwan to break into ATP Top 100, thanks to a solid performance from the Challenger circuit. After solid challenger performance in the first half of 2004, he started to participate in many tour level events. Though suffering from a lot of defeats, his effort also yielded some good wins. The most notable win came on the grass court in Queen's, where he gained first career top 10 win by defeating then world number 3 Guillermo Coria.

2005

However, a series of injures caused his ranking to fall rapidly in 2005. He did not participate in any tournaments after walking over in the second round from Ho Chi Minh City.

2006

Returning to the circuit, Lu enjoyed a solid performance throughout the season, and a late surge at the end of the season, advancing to semi-finals or better in four consecutive Challengers (Rimouski, Busan, Caloundra, Kawana). Lu lost in the finals of Rimouski to his friend Kristian Pless. Two weeks later, Lu won the Caloundra challenger, beating Australia's Peter Luzak. The following week, Lu lost in the final to Julien Jeanpierre of France. Lu's hot streak moved him from #140 in the ATP in October to #89 at the year-end.

2007

In winter 2006, Lu was training with Rainer Schüttler and Janko Tipsarević in Dubai, under Dirk Hordorff. The training seems to yield good result, seeing Lu reached second round in Australian Open and his first ATP level quarter final in Memphis in 2007. By defeating Jürgen Melzer in 2nd round, Lu entered his first ATP level quarter final, but lost to eventual finalist Andy Roddick. With the strong performance in Memphis, Lu broke into top 80 in the ranking released on February 26, 2007.

2008

Lu participated in the San Jose ATP tournament in California. He defeated Max Mirnyi in the first round. Then he defeated Wayne Odesnik in straight sets to book a spot in the quarterfinals. He then lost to Radek Stepanek in the quarter finals in two sets with the score of 2–6, 6–7.

Lu participated at the Beijing Olympics with a first round match against Andy Murray, currently ranked world number six. Despite the difficulties of the match he shocked the audiences by defeating Murray in two straight sets with a 7-6, 6-4 victory to reach the second round (Round of 32). Lu continued his winning streak at the Olympics by defeating (6-4, 6-4) Agustín Calleri of Argentina to advance to the fourth round (Round of 16). He eventually lost to Jürgen Melzer of Austria (6-2, 6-4) in the third round.

ingles Titles

ingles Performance Timeline

"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. Davis Cup matches are included in the statistics. This table is current through 2008 Australian Open, which concluded on January 14, 2008."

A = did not participate in the tournament.

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

¹The win total does not include walkovers.

ee also

* Sport in Taiwan
* Chinese Taipei

External links

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* [http://steveghelper.com/MatchResults.php?players=Yen-Hsun&weeks=12 Yen-Hsun Recent Match Results]
* [http://steveghelper.com/RankingHistory.php?player=Yen-Hsun Yen-Hsun World Ranking History]
* [http://www.daviscup.com/teams/player.asp?player=30019224 Davis Cup Profile]
* [http://www.itftennis.com/Mens/players/player.asp?player=30019224 ITF Profile]
* [http://www.rendylu.com Official Website]