Class of 2003
Ling Tsui Yuen Yuen

Biography

Mrs. Ling is widely accepted as the jewel in Hong Kong women’s tennis in the 20th century. Under the tutelage of her father, Tsui Wai Pui, she quickly grasped the intricacies of the game and began to make her mark as a young teenager. She captured the first of her ten record-setting ladies’ singles at the Hong Kong Hardcourt Championships in 1956 at age fifteen and then proceeded to win a further record five straight from 1958-1962. She tallied eighteen ladies’ singles crowns, with her last two coming at the Hong Kong National Tennis Championships and SCAA Open in 1981, a span of twenty-five years since her maiden triumph. She also claimed the inaugural ladies’ singles crown at the Hong Kong Grass Court Championships in 1962. In all, she won a staggering 51 local majors (18 singles, 17 doubles, and 16 mixed doubles).

She was a member of the Hong Kong team when tennis first became a medal sport at the III Asiad in Tokyo in 1958. Then, at the IV Asiad in Jakarta in 1962, she became the first tennis player from Hong Kong to medal at the Asian Games when she partnered Ceylon’s Ranjani Jayasuriya to land a silver in women’s doubles after finishing runners-up, 6-4, 6-2, to an all-conquering Japanese duo of Akiko Fukui and Reiko Miyagi, who swept all golds before them that year. The Hong Kong-Ceylon pairing’s path to the final included a victory over defending silver medallists Desideria Ampon and Patricia Yngayo of the Philippines, who went on to claim silver again at the V Asiad in Bangkok in 1966.

In 1969, her participation in the ladies’ doubles qualifying cemented her place as the first female from Hong Kong to compete at Wimbledon in the Open Era. When Hong Kong first entered the Federation Cup in 1981, Mrs. Ling served as the Playing-Captain, and the following year, as the Playing-Manager as well. Besides her accomplishments as a player, she was also coach of the Hong Kong women’s team at the World University Games in Kobe in 1985.

 

Local Majors


Ladies’ Singles

Hong Kong Grass Court Championships
1962 1968 1969

Hong Kong Hardcourt Championships
1956 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1966 1968 1969 1970

CRC Open
1977 1980

SCAA Open
1981

Hong Kong National Tennis Championships
1980 1981


Ladies’ Doubles

Hong Kong Grass Court Championships
1968 1969 1976

Hong Kong Hardcourt Championships
1966 1969 1970

CRC Open
1979 1980 1981 1982

SCAA Open
1979 1980 1981

Hong Kong National Tennis Championships
1978 1980 1981 1982


Mixed Doubles

Hong Kong Grass Court Championships
1968

Hong Kong Hardcourt Championships
1959 1961 1962 1966 1969

CRC Open
1977 1979 1981 1982

SCAA Open
1976

Hong Kong National Tennis Championships
1978 1979 1980 1981 1982