Who is Coleman Wong, the Hong Kong tennis phenom with two junior grand slams, Rafael Nadal’s backing, and world No 1 dreams?

From dominating the Victoria Park courts to training alongside the ‘King of Clay’, here’s what you need to know about the highly rated teen

‘I always want to win tournaments, not just to try to compete,’ says reigning US and Australian Open boys’ doubles champion

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Hong Kong tennis player Coleman Wong (left) with Bruno Kuzuhara after winning the Australian Open Junior Championships boys’ doubles final event in Melbourne. Photo: @arckphoto

Published: 7:45pm, 28 Jan 2022Updated: 12:51am, 29 Jan 2022

Coleman Wong Chak-lam is the name on every Hongkonger’s lips after being crowned Australian Open Boys’ Doubles champion alongside US partner Bruno Kuzuhara in Melbourne on Friday.

At just 17, the tennis prodigy has two grand slam titles in his cabinet having won a historic 2021 US Open Boys’ doubles last year, becoming the city’s first player to do so.

His scintillating singles and doubles displays Down Under even earned plaudits on social media from Hong Kong’s two-time Olympic silver medallist Siobhan Haughey, to which the teen excitedly replied “No way!!! You know you need to go all out when someone like Siobhan is supporting”.

From dominating the local youth scene, to playing alongside the legendary Andre Agassi, to training with the “King of Clay” Rafael Nadal, here’s what you need to know about the teenager who loves char-siu rice, wants to emulate Felix Auger Aliassime, and has been dreaming of grand slams and the world No 1 spot since childhood.

Biography

Coleman Wong was born on June 6, 2004 in Hong Kong to academic parents. He has one older sister “who likes to study a lot”. He first picked up a racket aged five, and though the family “haven’t really touched a [tennis] ball”, they have been fostering his tennis dreams ever since.

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