Yang_Zhaoxuan

Yang Zhaoxuan

Yang Zhaoxuan

Chinese tennis player


Yang Zhaoxuan (Chinese: 杨钊煊; pinyin: Yáng Zhāoxuān; Mandarin pronunciation: [jǎŋ ʈʂáʊ ɕɥɛ́n]; born 11 February 1995) is an inactive Chinese professional tennis player. She reached her best WTA doubles ranking of world No. 9 on 30 January 2023.

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Yang has won seven doubles titles on the WTA Tour and one WTA Challenger doubles title. In September 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 151. In addition, she has won three singles and twelve doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Career

2014: WTA Tour debut

Yang made her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 Shenzhen Open, partnering Ye Qiuyu in doubles.[1] The pair lost their first-round match against third seeds Irina Buryachok and Oksana Kalashnikova.[1]

2017: First WTA 1000 final

Alongside Shuko Aoyama, she reached the final of the Wuhan Open[2] which they lost to Latisha Chan and Martina Hingis.[3] At the WTA Elite Trophy, she lost both matches in the round-robin stage together with Han Xinyun.[4][5]

2018: First Grand Slam doubles semifinal

At the French Open, Yang alongside Chan Hao-ching reached her first Grand Slam semifinal but then lost to Eri Hozumi and Makoto Ninomiya.[6]

2019: First mixed doubles semifinal

At the Wimbledon Championships, she reached the round of the last four in mixed doubles alongside Matwé Middelkoop, after overcoming the top-seeded couple of Nicole Melichar and Bruno Soares.[7] They lost their semifinal match to Jeļena Ostapenko and Robert Lindstedt.[8]

2021: Second WTA 1000 final

In March, Yang reached the final of the Dubai Tennis Championships along with Xu Yifan but they lost to Alexa Guarachi and Darija Jurak.[9]

2022: WTA 1000 doubles title and WTA Finals

At the WTA 1000 Indian Wells Open, she won the biggest title of her career in doubles with Xu Yifan.[10] She qualified for the 2022 WTA Finals with partner Yifan.[11]

2023: Top 10 debut, major quarterfinal

She reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the Australian Open, partnering with Chan Hao-ching. As a result, she recorded a new career-high ranking of world No. 9, on 30 January 2023.

Performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Doubles

Current through the 2023 Dubai Open.

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Significant finals

WTA Elite Trophy

Doubles: 2 (2 runner–ups)

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WTA 1000 tournaments

Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

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WTA Tour finals

Doubles: 15 (7 titles, 8 runner-ups)

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WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

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ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner–up)

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Doubles: 24 (12 titles, 12 runner–ups)

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Notes

  1. The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open since 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009 to 2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The Premier 5 tournaments were reclassified as WTA 1000 tournaments in 2021.
  2. Withdraw during the tournament.
  3. The WTA International tournaments were reclassified as WTA 250 tournaments in 2021.
  4. The WTA Premier tournaments were reclassified as WTA 500 tournaments in 2021.

References

  1. "Shenzhen Open 2014" (PDF). Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
  2. WTA Staff (29 September 2017). "Chan and Hingis into Wuhan final". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  3. WTA Staff (30 September 2017). "Hingis, Chan capture third straight title at Wuhan". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  4. WTA Staff (31 October 2017). "Olaru and Savchuk triumph in Zhuhai doubles opener". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  5. WTA Staff (4 November 2017). "Duan and Han seal spot in Zhuhai doubles final". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  6. Alex Macpherson (8 June 2018). "Hozumi & Ninomiya make history in Paris as first all-Japanese pair in Slam final". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  7. WTA Staff (11 July 2019). "Yang, Middelkoop shock No.1 seeds Melichar, Soares to make Wimbledon mixed semis". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  8. WTA Staff (12 July 2019). "Ostapenko, Lindstedt book spot vs. Chan, Dodig in Wimbledon mixed doubles final". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  9. "Muguruza back in the winner's circle, beats Krejcikova for Dubai title". WTA Tennis. 13 March 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  10. WTA Staff (19 March 2022). "Xu, Yang charge to Indian Wells doubles title". WTA Tennis. Retrieved 28 August 2022.

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