Tennis News: At this time last season, Chris Bint was preparing Janice Tjen for her Grand Slam debut by participating in the US Open, the tournament which was the beginning of the tennis player’s breakthrough.
The Indonesian tennis player was previously ranked outside the top 140 in the world and had never appeared in the main round of a WTA tournament. In Flushing Meadows, New York, she made it through three qualifying rounds before surprisingly defeating the 24th seed, Veronika Kudermetova. It was the first time a player from his country had won a US Open main draw match in more than two decades.
Since then, Tjen won the first WTA tournament title of her career in India at the end of last season and is now ranked 35th in the world. The only player from Southeast Asia who is ranked higher than her is Alexandra Eala, who became the first player from the region to reach world number 18 in the Open Era.
“There are many firsts for her. Especially for Janice, her main priority is to gather as much experience as possible in the biggest tournaments, be among the best tennis players, and continue to develop her game when facing various opponents and playing on various types of court surfaces,” explained Bint to Ubitennis ahead of the US Open.
“He continues to show improvement in all aspects of his game and that is reflected in the data reports I receive from our analysts.”
“I am very impressed with his willingness to learn and his openness to the coach’s instructions from day to day, he continues to strive to learn, grow and develop, while undergoing a busy tournament schedule for 45 weeks a season. He has extraordinary game tools, explosive movement skills and the spirit of a true competitor, now it’s just a matter of combining all these elements into one unified whole.”
Tjen started this week’s Monterrey Open with an unequal win-loss record, namely 11-21. Six of these defeats came against players who were currently ranked in the top 20 and another defeat occurred against former world number 1 Karolina Pliskova. He has made it to the last 16 in four tournaments since the start of this season.
Bint acknowledged that there is still room for improvement for the 24-year-old, who previously played college-level tennis for the University of Oregon, then Pepperdine University between 2020 and 2024 before turning professional.
“If you don’t have the mentality to keep improving, then you are in the wrong sport or maybe you won’t have a chance to become a top 100 women’s singles player,” added Bint.
“We have worked hard to continue improving his ability to play behind the baseline at a high tempo, while working on his decision-making, when to hit the forehand with more spin, and when to hit the kill.”
“For the backhand side, the focus is to continue varying the tempo using slice shots, with the mindset that these strokes can be a weapon to disrupt the rhythm and change the height of the opponent’s ball contact point, while continuing to develop a two-handed topspin backhand to dampen and redirect the opponent’s ball speed, while reducing the opponent’s reaction time.”
Interestingly, one of the team’s targets is for Indonesian tennis players to be able to serve first at a speed of 200 km/hour.
Tjen will appear in the main draw of a Grand Slam for the fifth time at the US Open next week. In his previous four appearances, he managed to win at least one match on three occasions, but had never gone beyond the second round.
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