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After ranking leap, Tjen aims for more
The Morning Standard
|November 01, 2025
ONE year can be defining in sportspersons’ career. Sometimes it takes them to the top of their game or plunge them to the depths of despair. For Indonesian tennis player Janice Tjen too, that one year has been quite defining in her career. From nowhere in the ranking, she has broken into the top 100 and now rest gleefully in the top 80.
The game against junior Wimbledon Champion Mia Pohankova in the quarterfinal of the WTA Chennai Open here showed how Tjen has improved. There were deft touches and powerful shots. Same time around last year, Tjen was ranked 580 and now she is ranked World No 82 after reaching career-best 80. Like most sportspersons, her journey too far has not been easy. Growing ina country that adores badminton, Tjen found tennis through a family trip with her
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