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. Alongside Li Na,

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Peng Shuai Peng Shuai (; born 8 January 1986) is a Chinese retired professional tennis player. In February 2014, she was ranked world No. 1 doubles player by the WTA, becoming the first Chinese tennis player to achieve that ranking (in either single ...

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, Wang is one of only five Chinese tennis players to have reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament.

Career

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Wang was born in

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. At age nine, she started playing tennis. That year, she became the promotion player for the Tianjin National Tennis Center. For two years consecutively (2006, 2007), she won the Junior's Tennis Championship in China. She officially started touring the

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in Japan as of 2007. In February 2010, she was a main-draw player at the AOAO Sports charity themed 'Fiji Tennis Invitation Classis'

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created by Ademola Oduwole on Denarau Island in Fiji aimed at promoting girls sports. She defeated Christina Visico of the Philippines in the finals to win her $2,000 purse and a $4,000 Chris Aire watch donated by the Hollywood Luxury watch designer Wang achieved her first big

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win at the 2013 Malaysian Open where, after qualifying, she beat top seed and world No. 10,

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in the first round.Caroline Wozniacki loses to Qiang Wang in Malaysian Open
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from Poland in the first round by 6–2, 6–0, before losing to Australian Casey Dellaqua in the second round. In 2016, Wang's best results came at the Grand Slam tournaments, reaching the second round of the Australian Open, French Open, and US Open. She also competed in singles at the 2016 Summer Olympics, but lost in the first round to two-time Grand Slam winner Svetlana Kuznetsova. In 2017, Wang reached her first quarterfinal at a Premier-level tournament, winning three straight set matches in

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(a Premier 5 tournament) before losing to

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. She finished the year ranked inside the top 50 for the first time, at No. 45 in the world.

2018: Asian Games gold medalist, two WTA titles, world No. 20

Wang got off to a very slow start in the 2018 season, winning just one main draw match in her first four tournaments. She then reached the fourth round in Indian Wells, defeating former top-10 players

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and

Kristina Mladenovic Kristina "Kiki" Mladenovic (; sr, Кристина "Кики" Младеновић, Kristina "Kiki" Mladenović, ; born 14 May 1993) is a French professional tennis player and a former world No. 1 in doubles. She is a nine-time Grand Slam c ...

en route, before falling to world No. 1,

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. Wang struggled in her next tournaments, and her ranking dropped to No. 91 in the world. She then reached her first quarterfinal of the year in Strasbourg, losing to top seed

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. At the French Open, Wang upset the ninth seed and seven-time Grand Slam winner

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in the first round, then defeated Petra Martić to advance to the third round of a Grand Slam event for the first time. However, she was then beaten by

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. The only grass-court tournament she played in was Wimbledon, where she lost in the opening round to

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. Wang won the golden medal in singles at the Asian Games defeating Jeong Su-nam, Gozal Ainitdinova, Aldila Sutjiadi, Liang En-shuo, and finally compatriot

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in the final. Wang also had a great run in the Asian Swing. She won her first WTA tour tile in July at

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, where she defeated Zheng Saisai in the final. After reaching the third round at the US Open before falling to

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, Wang won her second title of the year (and career) in

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, where she didn't drop more than four games in each match throughout the tournament. As a result of her Guangzhou triumph, she reached a new career-high ranking of world No. 34 and replaced Zhang Shuai as the highest-ranked Chinese player. The next week, she competed at the Premier-5 tournament in

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, where she defeated

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, eighth seed

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, and

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in the first three matches. In the quarterfinals, she defeated 2016 Olympic gold medalist

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in straight sets to reach the semifinals, but was forced to retire from the match against

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due to injury. She became the first ever Chinese player to reach the semifinals at the tournament, and reached another new career-high ranking of No. 28. Wang received a wildcard into the China Open in Beijing. As a Wuhan Open semifinalist, she received a first-round bye. She defeated the

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champion Jelena Ostapenko in the second round by 6–0, 6–0. In the third round, she beat Karolína Plíšková for the second time in consecutive weeks in straight sets. In the quarterfinal, she defeated Wuhan champion

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in two very tight sets. Her run ended in the semifinal, at the hands of former world No. 1, Caroline Wozniacki. However, her first ever Premier Mandatory semifinal earned her a new career-high ranking of No. 24. Wang was seeded sixth at the Hong Kong Open. She defeated Zhang Ling and

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to reach the quarterfinals, where she faced top seed Elina Svitolina. Wang took a decisive lead quickly, taking the first set 6–2 and was leading 5–2 in the second when the match was suspended for the night due to a sudden downpour. She closed out the set 6–4 the next day, advancing to the semifinals; she defeated fourth seed

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in three sets, coming back from a 1–4 deficit in the third to win 7–5. In her third final of the year, Wang was defeated by 18-year-old

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in straight sets. On 22 October, she reached a new career-high ranking of No. 22. She was awarded a wildcard to enter the Elite Trophy, but with withdrawals from both

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and Jelena Ostapenko, she qualified for the main draw with her ranking. In her first round-robin match, she lost to

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in three sets. She then played

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, winning the match in three sets. Later, Keys, as the winner of the group, announced her withdrawal due to a knee injury, allowing the second-placed Wang to play the semifinal match against Muguruza, where she won in straight sets. In the final, she was defeated by

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. Her performance in Zhuhai saw her break the top 20 for the first time, and ensured she would end the year as world No. 20.

2019: First Grand Slam quarterfinal, top 15 debut and career-high ranking

Seeded 21st at the Australian Open (her first ever seeding at a Grand Slam tournament), Wang defeated

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and

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, and then lost to 13th seed Anastasija Sevastova. This was her best performance to date at the tournament. At Indian Wells, she defeated 16th seed

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and reached the fourth round, losing to the Canadian wildcard (and eventual champion)

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. In

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, she reached the quarterfinals, where she lost to second seed Simona Halep. At the

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, she was seeded third, reaching the quarterfinals and then lost to

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. Wang failed to advance past the second round at any tournament during the clay-court season, losing in the first round at

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and

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, and losing in the second round at Strasbourg and the French Open. At the Birmingham Classic, she defeated

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and then lost to Venus Williams in the second round. She subsequently withdrew from the

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. At Wimbledon, she was seeded 15th. She defeated

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and

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, and then lost to Elise Mertens in the third round. This was her best result at the tournament to date. She achieved a series of new career-high rankings over the course of the year, achieving the world No. 15 ranking prior to Wimbledon. Seeded 18th at the US Open, Wang defeated

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, Alison Van Uytvanck, and

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to advance to the second week of a Grand Slam event for the first time. She then upset tournament favorite and world No. 2, Ash Barty, in the fourth round, her first victory over a top-three player, to advance to her first Grand Slam quarterfinal. She became just the fifth Chinese player in history, after

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,

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,

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, and Zhang Shuai, to reach a Grand Slam singles quarterfinal, and the third to do so at the US Open, after Li and Peng. However, she heavily lost to eventual runner-up Serena Williams in straight sets, winning just one game. After the tournament, she rose six places to reach another new career high of world No. 12, becoming the second-highest ranked Chinese singles player in history. Wang struggled following the US Open though, managing just two match wins on the Asian hard courts, one in

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and the other in

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. After failing to qualify or receive a wildcard for the Elite Trophy, she finished the year ranked No. 29, her second consecutive year inside the top 30.

2020: Australian Open win over Serena Williams

Wang opened her new season with a quarterfinal appearance at the Shenzhen Open and a first-round loss to

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at

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. Seeded 27th at the Australian Open, she defeated

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and Fiona Ferro to reach the third round, where she pulled off a major upset by defeating eighth seed Serena Williams in three sets, avenging her lopsided loss to the American at the previous US Open. However, she was upset herself in the fourth round by the unseeded Tunisian

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. After the Australian Open, Wang played three more events, losing in the quarterfinals of the Hua Hin Championships, and the first round of both the Dubai Open and Qatar Open.

2021: Rough start, first clay final, return to top 40, hiatus, out of top 100

Wang returned to action on the WTA Tour in the Abu Dhabi Open but lost to Daria Kasatkina in the first round. This was followed by another two opening-match losses in the Gippsland Trophy and the Australian Open. Wang finally won her first match of the season against

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in the Phillip Island Trophy, but lost in the next round to Irina-Camelia Begu. Wang's next event was in

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, where again she was able to get a round of 32 win, this time against Olivia Gadecki, before falling to

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in her fifth three-set loss of the season. Wang failed to get a win in the Middle East swing, losing to

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and Svetlana Kuznetsova, despite serving for the match against the latter. Wang played at

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, where she managed to win a deciding set for the first time in the season, beating

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, but fell in two tight sets to

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in the next round. Following this event, due to Wang defending a large number of ranking points, Wang fell to the world No. 50, as the China No. 2. Wang opened her clay-court season with a win over Anastasia Gasanova in the

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, however she suffered three consecutive losses after this; against Ana Konjuh in that same tournament, then

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. However, Wang rebounded for the next event, the

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, where she beat a top 100 player for the first time that season, defeating

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, followed by victories over

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, Petra Martić, and

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to reach her first ever clay final and first final outside of China in three years. However, she ended up losing in a lopsided final, winning only four games against

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. This tournament brought Wang back into the top 40 of the

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, and she regained the spot as the top ranked Chinese tennis player. She left the French Open with a second-round finish, again with a straight-sets loss to Coco Gauff. At the Tokyo Olympics, she reached the second round defeating

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. Her win over the Paraguayan bettered her Rio 2016 debut where she lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the first round.

2022: Australian Open third round

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by upsetting 18th seed Coco Gauff in the first round, and then defeating Alison Van Uytvanck. Wang backed up this result with a semifinal appearance in Abierto Zapopan, where she fell in straight sets to

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, then a quarterfinal appearance in the

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, where she was also beaten in straight sets, this time by

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. At the 2022 Wimbledon Qiang Wang defeated 14th seed

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in 3 sets in the first round, but lost in the next round to the unseeded

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. Wang headed into the

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as the 2nd seed in the qualifying draw, getting into the main draw in straight sets. In the main draw Wang was able to get into the semi-finals, before losing to the 7th seed

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.

Performance timelines

''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.''

Singles

''Current through the

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.''

Doubles

''Current after the 2021 Italian Open.''

Significant finals

WTA Elite Trophy

Singles: 1 (runner–up)

WTA career finals

Singles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

WTA Challenger finals

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

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 18 (13 titles, 5 runner–ups)

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)

WTA Tour career earnings

''Current after the 2022 Abierto Zapopan''

Career Grand Slam statistics

Seedings

The tournaments won by Wang are in boldface, and advanced into finals by Wang are in ''italics''.

Head-to-head record

Record against top 10 players

''Wang's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10. Active players are in boldface.''

Wins over top 10 players

Notes

References

External links

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Qiang Living people 1992 births Tennis players from Tianjin Chinese female tennis players Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games medalists in tennis Tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games Olympic tennis players of China Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics