Xu Yifan (; ; born 8 August 1988) is a professional

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player from China. She reached a career-high

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of No. 148 in singles, on 13 July 2015. Since October 2018, she has specialized playing in doubles. On 13 January 2020, she peaked at No. 7 in the WTA doubles rankings.

Career

Xu made her debut playing on the

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in China. She won her first doubles title with Xia Huan in 2006. She was a finalist in women's doubles at the 2008 China Open in Beijing.

2014–2016: Australian Open semifinalist

She was a quarterfinalist at the 2014 US Open in women's doubles with

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. She reached the semifinals at the 2016 Australian Open and was a quarterfinalist at the 2016 French Open in women's doubles with

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2017–2019: Major final and semifinal at Wimbledon, five quarterfinals

She was also a quarterfinalist in doubles at the

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in 2017 with

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. In 2017, she formed a new partnership with Canadian

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. Xu won the Miami Open and the Connecticut Open women's doubles with Dabrowski. She partnered with Dabrowski again in the US Open, with the pair reaching the quarterfinals. In 2018, the duo won the doubles competition at the Sydney International, and then reached the quarterfinals in

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, just like 2019 at the

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and US Open. The biggest achievement of the Canadian/Chinese pair was reaching the final of the

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2020: US Open and WTA 1000 finals, world No. 7 in doubles

She reached the finals of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati and the US Open with

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2021–2022: Olympics, second WTA 1000 title, French Open quarterfinal

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. She qualified for her fourth

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with a different partner compatriot Yang Zhaoxuan.

Performance timeline

Doubles

Grand Slam tournament finals

Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

Significant finals

WTA 1000 finals

Doubles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runner-ups)

WTA career finals

Doubles: 22 (12 titles, 10 runner-ups)

WTA Challenger finals

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

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 6 (1–5)

Doubles: 33 (21–12)

Notes

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Xu, Yifan 1988 births Living people Tennis players from Tianjin Chinese female tennis players Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic tennis players of China Tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in tennis Asian Games gold medalists for China Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Chinese women