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Cho Yoon-jeong

South Korean tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ484657 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cho Yoon-jeong (Korean: 조윤정, born 2 April 1979) is a South Korean former tennis player.

In her career, she won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, at Seoul in 2004. Her best Grand Slam performance came when she made the third round of the 2005 US Open by defeating Arantxa Parra Santonja in three sets in the first round, and upsetting the 27th seed Gisela Dulko in the second, before she fell to No. 7, Justine Henin. She reached career-high WTA rankings of No. 45 in singles (in July 2003), and No. 98 in doubles (September 2003).

Yoon-jeong retired from professional tennis in 2008.

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The public source identifies “Cho Yoon-jeong” as south Korean tennis player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Yoon-jeong, South and Korean.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 2004, 2005, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-04-02. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Yoon-jeong, South and Korean providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q484657. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979, 2004, 2005 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cho Yoon-jeong” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.