The Most Famous
TENNIS PLAYERS from South Korea
This page contains a list of the greatest South Korean Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,569 Tennis Players, 3 of which were born in South Korea. This makes South Korea the birth place of the 60th most number of Tennis Players behind Venezuela, and Paraguay.
Top 4
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South Korean Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous South Korean Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Chung Hyeon (b. 1996)
With an HPI of 35.13, Chung Hyeon is the most famous South Korean Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Chung Hyeon (Korean: 정현; Hanja: 鄭泫; Korean pronunciation: [tɕəːŋ çʌn]; born 19 May 1996) is a South Korean professional tennis player. He is the 2017 Next Gen Finals champion. As an unseeded player, he became the first Korean player to reach a Grand Slam semifinal at the 2018 Australian Open.
2. Cho Yoon-jeong (b. 1979)
With an HPI of 34.59, Cho Yoon-jeong is the 2nd most famous South Korean Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Cho Yoon-jeong (Korean: 조윤정, born 2 April 1979) is a South Korean former tennis player. In her career, she won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, at Seoul in 2004. Her best Grand Slam performance came when she made the third round of the 2005 US Open by defeating Arantxa Parra Santonja in three sets in the first round, upsetting the 27th seed Gisela Dulko in the second round, before she fell to No. 7, Justine Henin. She reached career-high WTA rankings of No. 45 in singles (in July 2003), and No. 98 in doubles (in September 2003). Yoon-jeong retired from professional tennis in 2008.
3. Lee Hyung-taik (b. 1976)
With an HPI of 34.30, Lee Hyung-taik is the 3rd most famous South Korean Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages.
Lee Hyung-taik (Korean: 이형택, born 3 January 1976) is a former professional tennis player from South Korea. He won one singles title and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 36, in August 2007.
4. Kwon Soon-woo (b. 1997)
With an HPI of 29.05, Kwon Soon-woo is the 4th most famous South Korean Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Kwon Soon-woo (Korean: 권순우; born 2 December 1997) is a South Korean professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 52 ranking by the ATP, achieved in November 2021 and a doubles ranking of world No. 224, attained in December 2022. Kwon has won two ATP, three ATP Challenger Tour and five ITF World Tennis Tour singles titles. He broke into the top 100 of the ATP singles rankings in August 2019 after reaching the quarterfinals at the Los Cabos Open and contested his first ATP Tour final at the Astana Open in September 2021, where he won his maiden title and made his top 60 debut. In January 2023, he won his second ATP Tour title at the Adelaide International as a lucky loser, becoming the first Korean to win multiple ATP titles and the tenth lucky loser winner overall in the Open Era.
People
Pantheon has 4 people classified as South Korean tennis players born between 1976 and 1997. Of these 4, 4 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living South Korean tennis players include Chung Hyeon, Cho Yoon-jeong, and Lee Hyung-taik. As of April 2024, 1 new South Korean tennis players have been added to Pantheon including Kwon Soon-woo.
Living South Korean Tennis Players
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Chung Hyeon
1996 - Present
HPI: 35.13
Cho Yoon-jeong
1979 - Present
HPI: 34.59
Lee Hyung-taik
1976 - Present
HPI: 34.30
Kwon Soon-woo
1997 - Present
HPI: 29.05
