Wang Xiyu (; ; born 28 March 2001) is a Chinese

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player. On 7 November 2022, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 50. On 27 May 2019, she peaked at No. 240 in the WTA doubles rankings.

Junior career

Junior Grand Slam performance

Singles: * Australian Open: QF (2018) * French Open: QF (2018) * Wimbledon: SF (2018) * US Open: W (2018) Doubles: * Australian Open: SF (2018) * French Open: SF (2017) * Wimbledon: W (2018) * US Open: F (2017) Wang became junior world No. 1 on 10 September 2018, right after she won her first and only singles Grand Slam title at the 2018 US Open, defeating

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in the final. The same year, she finished as quarterfinalist on the

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and

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and then as semifinalist on

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, all in singles. In doubles, she also has won one Grand Slam title at the

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, partnering with Wang Xinyu, and finished as runner-up at the 2017 US Open, alongside Lea Bošković. She also reached semifinals at the

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and

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. On the ITF Junior Circuit, she has won six singles and eight doubles titles.

Professional career

2016–17: First steps

Wang made her ITF Women's Circuit debut in 2016 at the $10K event in Anning as a wildcard player. Despite the loss in her first match, the following week she reached semifinal at the $10K event in the same city. In October 2017, she made her WTA main-draw debut at the

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, where she also recorded her first win over Danka Kovinić.

2018: Improvement

Season of 2018 was her breakthrough. In the early season, she reached quarterfinal at the $60K Burnie International, and soon after that she played in qualification at the Premier Mandatory Miami Open, but failed to reach main draw. In April, she recorded her first win at the

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in the final of $25 event in Nonthaburi. She then finished as runner-up at the another $25K event in Nonthaburi and win title at the $25K event in

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. Her last tournament of season was Wuhan Open, where she made debut at the Premier 5 level tournaments. There she recorded win over wild card player Bernarda Pera, before she lost in a tense match against

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2019: Grand Slam debut, top 150 debut

Wang reached another quarterfinal at Burnie. In March, she made her debut at the Premier Mandatory level tournaments, reaching second round of Miami Open. There she also recorded her first win on that level, defeating Monica Puig in the first round. In April, she reached final at the $25K event in Osaka and month later won her first bigger ITF title at the $60K event in La Bisbal d'Emporda, defeating Dalma Gálfi in the final. In June, she reached quarterfinals at the $100K Manchester Trophy. Unlike the first three majors of the year, Wang reached the main draw at the US Open, but lost to Kirsten Flipkens in the first round. Later, she had first-round losses at the Wuhan Open and China Open, but ended one round further at the Tianjin Open.

2020-22: First WTA semifinal & major win & third round, top 50

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Wang started the year with a win over Sorana Cîrstea at the Shenzhen Open, but then lost to third seed Elise Mertens. However, she failed to reach the main draw of the

, Wang reached quarterfinals of the

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, where she defeated world No. 15,

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. She followed this up with a semifinal at the Mexican Open; after three wins, she lost to

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. At the

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, she recorded her first Grand Slam career match-win, as a wildcard against qualifier Viktória Kužmová. She reached a new career-high singles ranking of world No. 103, on 9 May 2022, and made her top 100 debut a month later on 13 June 2022, after reaching her first WTA Challenger final at the

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. She made her debut at

where she lost in the first round to another debutante at this major,

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. At the

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, she defeated top seed Barbora Krejčíková in the first round and overcame Ana Bogdan in the longest straight-sets match of the year, in 2 hours and 45 minutes in the second round to move to the quarterfinals. As a result, she recorded a new career-high of No. 93, on 18 July 2022. On 31 August, Wang defeated third seeded Maria Sakkari to enter round three of the US Open in which she lost to Alison Riske-Amritraj, in three sets. She ended the year ranked in the top 50 on 7 November 2022.

Performance timeline

''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

WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 9 (3 titles, 6 runner-ups)

Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' singles: 1 (title)

Girls' doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Record against top 10 players

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

Top 10 wins

Notes

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Xiyu 2001 births Living people Sportspeople from Wuxi Chinese female tennis players Wimbledon junior champions Tennis players at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' singles Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles 21st-century Chinese women