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''Jonathan Zhang’' (張正奇; born 25 January 2000) is a Hong Kong tennis player and a member of the Hong Kong Team. He has been ranked as high as world No. 1532 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved in January 2020. As a junior, Zhang was ranked as high as No. 308 in the world. He won 6 titles on the International Tennis Federation (ITF) junior circuit between 2015-2017. Zhang was ranked No.9 in Hong Kong’s Men’s Singles National Rankings, and No.6 in Hong Kong’s Men’s Doubles National Rankings in March 2020. Zhang also represented Hong Kong in the Asian U14 Tennis Championship, World Junior Championship, and Junior Davis Cup.

Junior career


Zhang won 3 consecutive U18 boys singles champions at the age of 14 before transitioning to playing ITFs globally. Throughout the 5 U18 tournaments he played that year, Zhang secured 4 singles champions, 3 doubles champions and 1 doubles runner up. He was ranked No.2 for U10, U12, U14, and ranked No.1 for U16, U18 in Hong Kong. Zhang captured his first ITF title at the age of 14, winning the G4 doubles champion partnering Wong Hong-kit in Shenzhen, China. Between 2015-2017, Zhang amounted 24 wins over globally ranked top 200 opponents, including 11 wins against top 100 opponents and 4 wins against top 50 opponents. His most notable wins involve defeating Lu Pengyu (ITF rank 52), and Zhang Yu (ITF rank 62) in the same tournament in Shenzhen, China in 2017; defeating Mo Ye Cong (ITF rank 43) in ChengDu, China in 2017; and defeating Coleman Wong (ITF rank 13) in Hong Kong in 2017. Recognizing his accomplishments, Zhang was 1 of 26 Hong Kong athletes awarded the Sports for Hope Foundation (SFHF) Outstanding Junior Athlete Awards (OJAA).

Zhang represented Hong Kong in the 2014 Asian U14 Tennis Championship that was held in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. He compiled multiple singles victories over opponents from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand to finish 11th individually in U14 Asia, including a 6-4 6-1 win over Malaysian tennis player Christian Didier Chin (ITF rank 44). In the same year, Zhang competed for Hong Kong in the World Junior Championship in New Delhi, India. After going 5-1 in singles and 4-2 in doubles, Hong Kong claimed 11th place in Asia. In 2016, Zhang again competed for the Hong Kong team, finishing 11th place in Asia after going 3-3 in singles and 3-3 in doubles.

Collegiate career


Zhang enrolled at the University of Southern California in August 2018. The Trojans has produced numerous Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division 1 national titles, including 21 team champions (most in the country), 15 singles champions (second in the country) and 21 doubles champs (more than any school). During his redshirt freshman year, the Trojans started the year ranked 5th in the nation, and finished the season ranked 8th with a Pac-12 Conference Championship. In Zhang’s freshman year, he went 7-2 in the fall, with wins over players from Texas A&M and UCF, finishing 96th in the nation in singles.

Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to gain playing time, which prompted his transfer to University of California Santa Barbara in spring 2020. More bad luck struck when Zhang arrived on campus, the Covid-19 pandemic took place and caused the season to cancel before he could play a match as a Gaucho. Zhang returned to finish his senior season in September 2021 after taking almost 2 years off of tennis due to the pandemic. He finished the fall 9-3 with wins over players from Cal, UCD, Cal Poly. Throughout his collegiate career, Zhang was an ITA Scholar Athlete, a Pac-12 Conference Champion, and a Big West Conference Champion.