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Vania King (金久慈)

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Vania King (金久慈)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Vania King
  • Chinese: 金久慈
  • Era: 1989
  • Geography: Monterey Park/CA
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Vania King (金久慈) is listed in the TAH Foundation Who’s Who Taiwanese American profiles.

Role in the Community

  • Community historical record: a first-person interview, Stringing Together Success: An Interview with Vania King (TA.org, 2013-08-21), is held at Stringing Together Success (interview). From it: born in Monterey Park, CA and raised in Long Beach; youngest of four — brother Phillip (a top-ranked U-18 junior) and twin older sisters Ivana and Mindy; coached from childhood by her father, later by Tarik Benhabiles. Won a wildcard into 2006 US Open qualifying at ~rank 800, reached the top 100 by early 2007, declined a Stanford scholarship to turn pro at her parents’ advice. Won the 2010 Wimbledon and US Open women’s doubles titles.

  • TAH Who’s Who encyclopedia entries preserved in the corpus: 11 and 11.

  • 2026-09-21 (slice 09201300-15): corpus re-grepped — hits (#705, 921, the 2013 interview, works index) are all absorbed above; saturated, no new absorbable facts.

  • 2026-09-22 (slice 09220700-10): re-grepped — identical hit set, still saturated.

  • Re-verified 2026-09-23 (slice 09221500-10): fresh grep returns only #705, 921, the 2013 interview, and the works index — all absorbed above; SKIP-with-reason (saturated).

  • Re-verified 2026-09-25 (slice 09230900-21): fresh grep returns only #705, 921, the 2013 interview, and the works index — all absorbed above; saturated.

  • Re-verified 2026-09-25 (slice 09250317-22): fresh ZH+EN grep returns only #705, 921, the 2013 interview, and the works index — all absorbed above; saturated, no new absorbable facts.

  • Re-verified 2026-09-26 (slice 09252123-2): fresh ZH+EN grep returns only #705, 921, the 2013 interview, and the works index — all absorbed above; saturated, SKIP-with-reason.

  • Re-verified 2026-09-30 (slice 09260900-9): fresh ZH+EN grep returns only #705, 921, the 2013 interview, and the works index — all absorbed above; saturated, SKIP-with-reason.

  • Re-verified 2026-10-06 (slice 10051200-22): fresh ZH+EN grep (‘Vania King’, 金久慈, plus Wimbledon/Benhabiles context sweep) across works/articles/sources/events/topics returns only #705, 921, the 2013 interview, and the works index. The lone extra Wimbledon hit (Into The Forest) is Szu-Chieh Yun’s Wimbledon College of Arts MFA — not Vania. All absorbed above; saturated, SKIP-with-reason.

  • Re-verified 2026-10-08 (slice 10062248-2): fresh ZH+EN grep (‘Vania King’ / 金久慈 / 久慈) across works+articles+sources+events+topics returns the identical hit set — #705, 921 (bibliographic B-band records, full text in vault), the 2013-08-21 Stringing Together interview (full first-person text in corpus; every biographical fact already absorbed in Role/Family above), sources hub, index. No new memoir material. Verified-saturated; SKIP-with-reason.

  • Re-verified 2026-10-09 (slice 10080700-22): fresh ZH+EN grep (‘Vania King’ / 金久慈 / 久慈) across all 5 corpus dirs returns the identical hit set — #705, 921, the 2013 interview, sources hub, works index. Interview wikilink back-references the page; no new memoir material. Verified-saturated; SKIP-with-reason.

  • Re-verified 2026-10-10 (slice 10092054-7): fresh ZH+EN grep (‘Vania King’ / 金久慈 / 久慈) across all 5 corpus dirs returns the identical 5-file hit set — #705, #921 (#49), the 2013-08-21 Stringing Together interview, sources hub, works index. No new corpus material; all facts already absorbed in Role/Family above. Verified-saturated; SKIP-with-reason.

Family

  • Father — tennis coach of Vania and her brother Phillip.
  • Siblings: brother Phillip (eldest, top-ranked junior, later went to college); twin older sisters Ivana and Mindy (per the 2013 interview).

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