Varatchaya Wongteanchai

Varatchaya Wongteanchai
วรัชญา วงค์เทียนชัย
Country (sports)	Thailand
Residence	Bangkok, Thailand
Born	7 September 1989 (age 35); Chiang Rai, Thailand
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	2006
Retired	2019
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Bobby Wongteanchai
Prize money	$299,061
Singles
Career record	293–246
Career titles	4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 200 (20 July 2015)
Doubles
Career record	352–219
Career titles	2 WTA, 31 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 77 (12 September 2016)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2017)
Wimbledon	2R (2017)
US Open	1R (2016)
Medal record
Women's tennis
Representing Thailand
Asian Games
Southeast Asian Games
Summer Universiade

Varatchaya "Pias" Wongteanchai (Thai: วรัชญา วงค์เทียนชัย; born 7 September 1989) is a former professional tennis player from Thailand.

In her career, she won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, with four singles titles and 31 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 20 July 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 200. On 12 September 2016, she peaked at No. 77 in the doubles rankings.

Playing for Thailand Fed Cup team, Wongteanchai has accumulated a win–loss record of 10–6.

Her younger sister Varunya Wongteanchai is also a tennis professional.

Career

In February 2012, Wongteanchai made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at her home tournament, the Pattaya Open. She qualified for the main draw by defeating Hsu Wen-hsin in three, and Misa Eguchi in straight sets. She then faced top-seed Vera Zvonareva in the first round but lost in two sets by 2–6, 5–7. She also partnered her younger sister Varunya in the doubles event, but they lost in the quarterfinals.

In 2013, Wongteanchai started her year by winning a title at the Blossom Cup. It was her most important title so far. She was then awarded a wildcard into the Pattaya Open, where she defeated Annika Beck 6–3, 6–3 but lost to Marina Erakovic in the second round. In the doubles event, Wongteanchai partnered with her sister Varunya. In the first round, they defeated the third seeds Chan Yung-jan and Chan Hao-ching as well as Irina Buryachok and Valeria Solovyeva. They then lost to Akgul Amanmuradova and Alexandra Panova in the semifinals. She also played in the qualifying event of the 2013 Roland Garros but lost to Grace Min in the first round.

Partnering Jessica Moore, Wongteanchai won the doubles title at the 2016 Bucharest Open, defeating Alexandra Cadanțu and Katarzyna Piter in the final in straight sets.^[1]

WTA Tour finals

Doubles: 2 (titles)

Legend
Grand Slam tournament
Premier M & Premier 5
Premier
International (2–0)

Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Mar 2016	Malaysian Open	International	Hard	Yang Zhaoxuan	Liang Chen Wang Yafan	4–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Win	2–0	Jul 2016	Bucharest Open, Romania	International	Clay	Jessica Moore	Alexandra Cadanțu Katarzyna Piter	6–3, 7–6⁽⁵⁾

WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 1 (runner–up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Nov 2015	Hua Hin Challenger, Thailand	Hard	Yang Zhaoxuan	Liang Chen Wang Yafan	3–6, 4–6

ITF finals

Singles: 7 (4–3)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface
Hard (4–2)
Clay (0–1)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	27 June 2009	ITF Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Ai Yamamoto	1–6, 1–6
Loss	2.	9 August 2009	ITF Solo, Indonesia	Hard	Lavinia Tananta	1–6, 6–1, 3–6
Loss	3.	18 February 2011	ITF Aurangabad, India	Clay	Vlada Ekshibarova	1–6, 4–6
Win	1.	25 February 2011	ITF Mumbai, India	Hard	Vlada Ekshibarova	2–6, 6–4, 6–1
Win	2.	19 June 2011	ITF Balikpapan, Indonesia	Hard	Wang Qiang	7–5, 6–3
Win	3.	25 June 2011	ITF Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Anna Tyulpa	6–4, 6–1
Win	4.	11 January 2013	Blossom Cup, China	Hard	Nadiya Kichenok	6–2, 6–7⁽⁵⁾, 7–6⁽⁵⁾

Doubles: 61 (31–30)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50/60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface
Hard (27–18)
Clay (2–7)
Carpet (2–5)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	23 July 2006	ITF Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Nungnadda Wannasuk	Chang Kai-chen Nguyen Thuy Dung	6–4, 6–4
Win	2.	26 September 2006	ITF Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Noppawan Lertcheewakarn	Lavinia Tananta Ayu Fani Damayanti	6–2, 6–4
Win	3.	19 November 2006	ITF Manila, Philippines	Hard	Noppawan Lertcheewakarn	Kao Shao-yuan Thassha Vitayaviroj	3–6, 6–3, 7–6⁽²⁾
Win	4.	13 July 2007	ITF Khon Kaen, Thailand	Hard	Sophia Mulsap	Denise Dy Nungnadda Wannasuk	6–4, 6–2
Win	5.	27 July 2007	ITF Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Sophia Mulsap	Noppawan Lertcheewakarn Napaporn Tongsalee	4–6, 6–4, 6–1
Loss	1.	25 August 2007	ITF Noida, India	Carpet	Sophia Mulsap	Ankita Bhambri Sanaa Bhambri	1–6, 4–6
Loss	2.	31 August 2007	ITF New Delhi, India	Hard	Sophia Mulsap	Tara Iyer Nungnadda Wannasuk	4–6, 3–6
Loss	3.	4 November 2007	ITF Kofu, Japan	Hard	Ayaka Maekawa	Maki Arai Chang Kyung-mi	7–5, 2–6, [7–10]
Win	6.	12 November 2007	ITF Pune, India	Hard	Zhang Ling	Wynne Prakusya Angelique Widjaja	1–6, 7–5, [10–5]
Win	7.	19 November 2007	ITF Aurangabad, India	Clay	Sandhya Nagaraj	Ankita Bhambri Sanaa Bhambri	7–6⁽⁴⁾, 7–5
Win	8.	28 March 2008	ITF Wellington, New Zealand	Hard	Ayaka Maekawa	Tomoko Dokei Etsuko Kitazaki	6–1, 6–3
Loss	4.	13 July 2008	ITF Tokyo, Japan	Carpet	Ayumi Oka	Chang Kyung-mi Chae Kyung-yee	6–3, 2–6, [7–10]
Loss	5.	16 August 2008	ITF Chiang Mai, Thailand	Hard	Sophia Mulsap	Chen Yanchong Chen Yi	5–7, 3–6
Win	9.	20 September 2008	ITF Kyoto, Japan	Carpet (i)	Ayumi Oka	Maki Arai Yurina Koshino	5–7, 6–2, [10–2]
Loss	6.	21 March 2009	ITF Hamilton, New Zealand	Hard	Jessy Rompies	Kim So-jung Ayaka Maekawa	5–7, 3–6
Loss	7.	24 May 2009	ITF Nagano, Japan	Carpet	Tomoyo Takagishi	Junri Namigata Akiko Yonemura	1–6, 4–6
Loss	8.	7 June 2009	ITF Komoro, Japan	Clay	Ayumi Oka	Zhang Shuai Xu Yifan	2–6, 1–6
Win	10.	13 June 2009	ITF Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Suchanun Viratprasert	Tomoko Dokei Yoo Mi	6–3, 6–1
Win	11.	26 June 2009	ITF Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Suchanun Viratprasert	Tomoko Dokei Yoo Mi	w/o
Win	12.	2 August 2009	ITF Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Nungnadda Wannasuk	Beatrice Gumulya Jessy Rompies	6–2, 6–7⁽⁵⁾, [10–7]
Loss	9.	5 September 2009	ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand	Hard	Lavinia Tananta	Albina Khabibulina Kanyapat Narattana	7–5, 4–6, [8–10]
Win	13.	3 July 2010	ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand	Hard	Chen Yi	Kim Kun-hee Yu Min-hwa	6–2, 6–2
Loss	10.	10 July 2010	ITF Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Jessy Rompies	Chen Yi Sakiko Shimizu	3–6, 6–7⁽²⁾
Loss	11.	9 October 2010	ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand	Hard	Chen Yi	Peangtarn Plipuech Nungnadda Wannasuk	5–7, 7–6⁽⁴⁾, [9–11]
Win	14.	11 October 2010	ITF Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Chen Yi	Juan Ting-fei Zhu Lin	7–5, 6–2
Win	15.	24 October 2010	ITF Khon Kaen, Thailand	Hard	Luksika Kumkhum	Huỳnh Phương Đài Trang Maya Kato	6–4, 7–5
Win	16.	18 February 2011	ITF Aurangabad, India	Hard	Varunya Wongteanchai	Nicole Clerico Maria Masini	4–6, 6–2, [10–6]
Loss	12.	21 February 2011	ITF Mumbai, India	Hard	Han Sung-hee	Kanae Hisami Li Ting	1–6, 5–7
Loss	13.	11 April 2011	ITF Incheon, South Korea	Hard	Kao Shao-yuan	Han Sung-hee Hong Hyun-hui	3–6, 6–7⁽³⁾
Win	17.	28 May 2011	ITF Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Li Ting	Ayu-Fani Damayanti Lavinia Tananta	6–1, 6–4
Win	18.	3 June 2011	ITF Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Li Ting	Ayu-Fani Damayanti Lavinia Tananta	5–7, 7–6⁽⁵⁾, [10–5]
Win	19.	19 June 2011	ITF Balikpapan, Indonesia	Hard	Kanae Hisami	Yurika Sema Natsumi Hamamura	6–3, 6–2
Loss	14.	4 July 2011	ITF Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Yurina Koshino	Liang Chen Zhao Yijing	1–6, 4–6
Win	20.	11 September 2011	ITF Nato, Japan	Carpet	Kanae Hisami	Ayumi Oka Natsumi Hamamura	1–6, 7–6⁽⁴⁾, [14–12]
Loss	15.	28 October 2011	ITF Hamanako, Japan	Carpet	Huỳnh Phương Đài Trang	Natsumi Hamamura Ayumi Oka	3–6, 3–6
Loss	16.	23 December 2011	ITF Pune, India	Hard	Varunya Wongteanchai	Lu Jiajing Lu Jiaxiang	1–6, 3–6
Win	21.	22 July 2012	ITF Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard	Luksika Kumkhum	Veronika Kapshay Ekaterina Yashina	6–2, 6–4
Win	22.	2 September 2012	ITF Tsukuba, Japan	Hard	Luksika Kumkhum	Yurina Koshino Mari Tanaka	6–2, 6–2
Loss	17.	19 November 2012	ITF Toyota, Japan	Carpet (i)	Miki Miyamura	Ashleigh Barty Casey Dellacqua	1–6, 2–6
Win	23.	18 March 2013	ITF Ipswich, Australia	Hard	Noppawan Lertcheewakarn	Viktorija Rajicic Storm Sanders	4–6, 6–1, [10–8]
Loss	18.	25 March 2013	ITF Bundaberg, Australia	Clay	Miki Miyamura	Jang Su-jeong Lee So-ra	6–7⁽⁴⁾, 6–4, [8–10]
Win	24.	22 April 2013	ITF Wenshan, China	Hard	Miki Miyamura	Rika Fujiwara Junri Namigata	7–5, 6–3
Win	25.	10 February 2014	ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand	Hard	Zhang Ling	Tian Ran Tang Haochen	2–6, 6–2, [12–10]
Loss	19.	28 April 2014	Anning Open, China	Clay	Zhang Ling	Zhang Kailin Han Xinyun	4–6, 2–6
Loss	20.	26 May 2014	ITF Balikpapan, Indonesia	Hard	Varunya Wongteanchai	Michika Ozeki Peangtarn Plipuech	3–6, 6–4, [7–10]
Win	26.	2 June 2014	ITF Tarakan, Indonesia	Hard (i)	Varunya Wongteanchai	Beatrice Gumulya Jessy Rompies	5–7, 6–4, [11–9]
Win	27.	7 July 2014	ITF Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Varunya Wongteanchai	Luksika Kumkhum Tamarine Tanasugarn	6–3, 4–6, [10–8]
Win	28.	13 October 2014	ITF Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Varunya Wongteanchai	Martina Borecká Lesley Kerkhove	6–2, 5–7, [10–7]
Win	29.	1 November 2014	ITF Margaret River, Australia	Hard	Miyabi Inoue	Carolin Daniels Laura Schäder	4–6, 6–4, [10–3]
Loss	21.	14 November 2014	Bendigo International, Australia	Hard	Varunya Wongteanchai	Jessica Moore Abbie Myers	6–3, 1–6, [6–10]
Loss	22.	10 January 2015	ITF Hong Kong	Hard	Varunya Wongteanchai	Han Xinyun Hsu Chieh-yu	6–3, 4–6, [8–10]
Win	30.	27 February 2015	ITF Aurangabad, India	Clay	Lee Ya-hsuan	Hsu Ching-wen Lee Pei-chi	6–1, 7–6⁽⁴⁾
Loss	23.	20 September 2015	ITF Redding, United States	Hard	Michelle Sammons	Ashley Weinhold Caitlin Whoriskey	2–6, 5–7
Loss	24.	24 October 2015	ITF Brisbane, Australia	Hard	Noppawan Lertcheewakarn	Lauren Embree Asia Muhammad	2–6, 6–4, [9–11]
Loss	25.	20 March 2016	ITF Canberra, Australia	Clay	Kanae Hisami	Ashleigh Barty Arina Rodionova	4–6, 2–6
Win	31.	24 April 2016	ITF Nanning, China	Hard	Liu Chang	Ksenia Lykina Emily Webley-Smith	6–1, 6–4
Loss	26.	2 May 2016	Kunming Open, China	Clay	Yang Zhaoxuan	Wang Yafan Zhang Kailin	7–6⁽³⁾, 6–7⁽²⁾, [1–10]
Loss	27.	4 February 2017	Burnie International, Australia	Hard	Alison Bai	Riko Sawayanagi Barbora Štefková	6–7⁽⁶⁾, 6–4, [7–10]
Loss	28.	25 March 2017	ITF Mornington, Australia	Clay	Jessica Moore	Priscilla Hon Fanny Stollár	1–6, 5–7
Loss	29.	31 March 2017	ITF Mornington, Australia	Clay	Jessica Moore	Julia Glushko Barbora Krejčíková	4–6, 6–2, [9–11]
Loss	30.	18 August 2017	ITF Nonthaburi, India	Hard	Varunya Wongteanchai	Chan Chin-wei Choi Ji-hee	6–2, 1–6, [11–13]