Li Zhe (; ; born September 20, 1986) is a Chinese tennis player who plays mainly in the

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and ITF Futures Tours. On 11 November 2019, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 193. His highest doubles ranking of world No. 136 was achieved on 28 February 2011.

Personal

Li Zhe was born in Tianjin,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

on September 20, 1986. He began playing tennis at age 8 and turned professional in 2004. He plays right-handed, and his favorite surface is hard court. He is 6 feet, 1 inch (185 cm) and 178 pounds (81 kg). His goal as a professional tennis player is to enter the top 100 ranked tennis players in the world.

Career

In December 2018 Li defeated his compatriot

Ze Zhang Zhang Ze (; ; born July 4, 1990), is a Chinese people, Chinese male tennis player. Zhang's career highlights include reaching the quarterfinals of the 2012 China Open – Men's singles, 2012 China Open (defeating Richard Gasquet en route), pl ...

in three sets to win the 2019 Australian Open Asia-Pac Wildcard Play-off, which secured a wildcard place for him to make his grand slam singles debut at age 32 at the

2019 Australian Open The 2019 Australian Open was a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park from 14 to 27 January 2019. It was the 107th edition of the Australian Open, the 51st in the Open Era, and the first Grand Slam (te ...

. Li represents his native country of

competing during the

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. He competes in both singles. for which he has a record of 6–3, and doubles which his record is 5–8, for a combined total record of 11–11. He has reached 27 career singles finals, boasting a record of 14 wins and 13 losses, including a 0–2 record in

finals. Additionally he has reached a bountiful 81 doubles finals with a record of 53 wins and 28 losses, including a 6–7 record in

finals.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Finals

Singles: 27 (14–13)

Doubles: 81 (53–28)

Performance timeline

Singles

Rankings

Year end ATP rankings

Sponsorship

In November 2010, Zhe Li signed as a spokesperson for Dunlop Sport, after gaining recognition as the captain of the Chinese national men's tennis team and winning the China Tennis Grand Prix men's doubles title.

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Zhe 1986 births Living people Chinese male tennis players Tennis players at the 2006 Asian Games Tennis players at the 2010 Asian Games Tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games Tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in tennis Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for China Tennis players from Tianjin