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Tong Ka-po (Chinese: 湯嘉寶, born 17 March 1981) is a female tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Hong Kong.
On 17 March 1981, Tong was born in Hong Kong.[1][2]
By age 12, she was ranked number one in Hong Kong and ranked fifth in the world.[3]
Tong featured in 32 ties for the Hong Kong Fed Cup team and represented her nation twice at the Asian Games.[4]
As a singles player on the professional tour, Tong reached a best ranking of 236 and won three singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
All of her main-draw appearances on the WTA Tour came in doubles, including quarterfinal appearances at the 2000 China Open and the 2001 Qatar Open. She had a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 154 and took part in the women's doubles qualifying draw at the 2001 Wimbledon Championships.[5]
Tong now is a tennis coach and director at Modern Tennis Academy in Hong Kong.[6]
Singles (3–0)
| Legend |
|---|
| $50,000 tournaments |
| $25,000 tournaments |
| $10,000 tournaments |
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1. | 29 November 1998 | Manila, Philippines | Hard |  Lara van Rooyen |
6–3, 6–1 |
| Winner | 2. | 3 September 2000 | Kugayama, Japan | Hard |  Chang Kyung-mi |
7–6(3), 7–5 |
| Winner | 3. | 2 June 2002 | Tianjin, China | Hard (i) |  Liu Weijuan |
6–3, 6–4 |
Doubles (6–2)
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1. | 20 December 1999 | Lucknow, India | Grass |  Manisha Malhotra |
 Maša Vesenjak Urška Vesenjak |
6–3, 5–7, 6–1 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 6 February 2000 | Wellington, New Zealand | Hard |  Jenny Belobrajdic |
Mireille Dittmann Kristen van Elden |
6–7(6), 4–6 |
| Runner-up | 3. | 16 July 2000 | Winnipeg, Canada | Clay |  Kirstin Freye |
 Renata Kolbovic Vanessa Webb |
1–6, 4–6 |
| Winner | 4. | 6 August 2000 | Alghero, Italy | Clay |  Ayami Takase |
 Alice Canepa Valentina Sassi |
3–6, 6–3, 6–1 |
| Winner | 5. | 14 August 2000 | Istanbul, Turkey | Hard |  Magda Mihalache |
 Maria Goloviznina Evgenia Kulikovskaya |
6–1, 6–2 |
| Winner | 6. | 3 September 2000 | Kugayama, Japan | Hard |  Chen Yu-an |
Chang Kyung-mi Chae Kyung-yee |
6–3, 6–1 |
| Winner | 7. | 29 July 2001 | Guangzhou, China | Hard | Li Ting |
Chen Yan Sun Tiantian |
7–5, 6–3 |
| Winner | 8. | 2 June 2002 | Tianjin, China | Hard (i) | Chan Chin-wei |
Choi Jin-young Choi Young-ja |
6–3, 3–6, 6–1 |
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