Wang Xinyu (, ; born 26 September 2001) is a Chinese professional

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player. Wang reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 32 on 9 October 2023, and set a doubles ranking of No. 16 on 20 May 2024. Partnering with

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, she won the women's doubles title at the

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. She also won a silver medal in mixed doubles, alongside

Zhang Zhizhen Zhang Zhizhen (; ; born 16 October 1996) is a Chinese professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 31 in July 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 47 in July 2024. As of July 2023, he became the highest-eve ...

at the

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Personal life

Wang was born in

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. Her father, Wang Peng (born in

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), is a former head coach of the Shenzhen tennis team and the Chinese women's national tennis team, but resigned from the latter to concentrate on his daughter's tennis career. Her mother was a former player in the Zhejiang women's basketball team. Both of them have devoted themselves to accompanying Wang everywhere. Wang showed great enthusiasm for tennis from early childhood and, coached by her father, she started playing properly at the age of five.

Career

2018: Major debut and junior champion

Wang booked her ticket to her

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debut at the

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on 3 December 2017 in

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by winning the Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoffs, coming back to edge out the Papua New Guinean No. 1,

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, in the final. Tere-Apisah was only two points away from victory when leading 5–3, 30–0 in the second set, looking to become the first player from Papua New Guinea to compete in a major main draw, when momentum shifted and Wang, demonstrating fearlessness for her age, won the next seven points, before going on to level the match. Wang eventually won the match in three sets, seizing the most crucial break with a splendid backhand passing shot in the ninth game, and then closed out the final set after saving four break points. "It's probably the most important day in my life so far," Wang said in the post-match news conference to CCTV Sports Channel, the official TV broadcaster of the

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in China. At the age of 16, she was the youngest Chinese player to make a Grand Slam championship main draw. At the 2018 Australian Open, as the second youngest competitor in the main draw (just older than 15-year-old

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), Wang lost her debut match at a major to

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, in straight sets. But going through to the girls' doubles final with her partner

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from Taiwan, Wang claimed the title in a close match against

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of Papua New Guinea (Abigail Tere-Apisah's niece) and

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, a New Zealand-born Swiss player of Chinese descent.

2019: WTA Premier debut, first career doubles title

She made her Premier Mandatory debut at the 2019 Miami Open as a wildcard. In September, Wang reached her first

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-level final at the Jiangxi International Open in the doubles event. Alongside Zhu Lin, she defeated compatriots

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and

Zhang Shuai Zhang Shuai ( zh , s = 张帅 , p = Zhāng Shuài ; ; born 21 January 1989) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has a career-high doubles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 2, achieved in July 2022 and a singles ranking of No. 22 re ...

2020–2021: Top 100 debut in singles

She made her debut in the top 100, after reaching the quarterfinal of the Ladies Linz at world No. 99 in the year-end rankings, on 15 November 2021. However, she lost to the eventual champion,

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2022: First major win and top 75 in singles, top 100 in doubles

Wang won her first Grand Slam match of her career which was against Ann Li and was defeated in the second round at the

by world No. 2,

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. She made her top 100 debut in doubles, on 25 April 2022, and top 75 in singles, on 16 May 2022, after winning her biggest title on the ITF World Tennis Tour at the 100k Solgironès Open in Spain.

2023: Major title in doubles, singles fourth round and top 35

Partnering

at the

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, using protected ranking, she reached the final for the first time at a major. En-route the pair upset defending champion

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, who was partnering Zhang Shuai this year, in the second round, and fifth seeds

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and

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in the third round. In the quarterfinals, they beat

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and

Liudmila Samsonova Liudmila Dmitrievna Samsonova ( rus, Людмила Дмитриевна Самсонова, , lʲʊdˈmʲiɫə sɐmˈsonəvə; born 11 November 1998) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 12 in singles ...

, and in the semifinals sixth seeds

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and

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to advance to their first final as a pair. There, they defeated

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and

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to win the title, their first title as a team and the first Grand Slam title for Wang Xinyu. At the

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, she reached the fourth round in singles for the first time at a major. At the

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, she reached the third round at the WTA 1000 level for the second time by defeating 11th seed

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. As a result, she reached the top 35 in the WTA rankings on 9 October 2023.

2024: WTA 1000 singles & doubles semifinals, Olympic silver medal in mixed doubles

Using protected ranking on her debut, she reached in doubles, the second round at the Miami Open and the quarterfinals at the Madrid Open with

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. Also on her debut, she reached the semifinals for the first time at the next WTA 1000, the Italian Open, again with Zheng, upsetting top-seeded pair Hsieh/Mertens to face third seeds Gauff and Routliffe for a spot in the final. Wang and Zheng won the doubles at the

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. At

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, she defeated world No. 5,

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, in the second round to record her first win over a top-10 ranked player. Wang went on to reach the fourth round before she lost to 21st seed

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. She won the silver medal with

in mixed doubles at the Paris Summer Olympics. At the

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, she reached her first singles semifinal at the WTA 1000-level defeating second seed and world No. 3, Jessica Pegula, in the round of 16, her second top five win in three months, and

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in the quarterfinals. The semifinal between her and compatriot

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was the first All-Chinese showdown at this level and guaranteed a first-time finalist from China at the tournament.

2025: First Tour singles final

Partnering Zheng Saisai, Wang reached the doubles final at the Singapore Open, losing to second seeds

and

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. At the

, she qualified for the main draw and defeated Daria Kasatkina, second seed

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eighth seed

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and

to make it through to her first WTA Tour singles final. She lost the championship match to

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in three sets.

Coaching team

Wang's current team consists of her father, Wang Peng; a Serbian technical coach, Aleksandar Slović, who won the men's singles title at the

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and once trained with

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when he was younger; a fitness coach, Miro Hrvatin from Croatia; and a Chinese physio from

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. With the help of Slović, Wang was able to train with a few Serbian players abroad. She currently trains at the Tennis & Badminton Centre of the Shenzhen Sports Centre.

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 2023 US Open.''

Doubles

''Current through the 2023 US Open.''

Grand Slam tournament finals

Doubles: 1 (title)

Other significant finals

Summer Olympics

Mixed doubles: 1 (silver medal)

WTA Tour finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Doubles: 9 (4 titles, 5 runner-ups)

WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Doubles: 1 (title)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 12 (7 titles, 5 runner-ups)

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

Junior Grand Slam performance

Singles

* Australian Open: SF (2018) * French Open: 3R (2017, 2018) * Wimbledon: SF (2018) * US Open: 2R (2017)

Doubles

* Australian Open: W (2018) * French Open: 2R (2017) * Wimbledon: W (2018) * US Open: SF (2017)

Wins against top 10 players

*Wang has a 4–9 () record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10. :*'

Notes

References

External links

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