Wang Xinyu

On 9 October 2023, Wang reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 32. On 11 September 2023, she had peaked at No. 18 in the doubles rankings. Partnering with Hsieh Su-wei, she won the women's doubles title at the 2023 French Open.

Wang Xinyu
王欣瑜

Wang at the 2023 US Open
Country (sports)	China
Residence	Shenzhen, China
Born	(2001-09-26) 26 September 2001 (age 22) Shenzhen
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	2018
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Wang Peng, Aleksandar Slović, Miro Hrvatin
Prize money	$2,453,703
Singles
Career record	206–137 (60.1%)
Career titles	0 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 32 (9 October 2023)
Current ranking	No. 42 (4 March 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2022, 2023)
French Open	3R (2023)
Wimbledon	2R (2023)
US Open	4R (2023)
Doubles
Career record	69–34 (67.0%)
Career titles	3 WTA, 1 WTA 125
Highest ranking	No. 18 (11 September 2023)
Current ranking	No. 25 (4 March 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2023)
French Open	W (2023)
US Open	SF (2023)
Last updated on: 4 March 2024.

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 2009 Summer Universiade and once trained with Novak Djokovic when he was younger; a fitness coach, Miro Hrvatin from Croatia; and a Chinese physio from Nanjing. 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.

Wang was born in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Her father, Wang Peng (born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang), 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.

Grand Slam performance - Singles:

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

Grand Slam performance - Doubles:

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

 

2017: Grand Slam debut

Wang booked her ticket to a Grand Slam debut in the 2018 Australian Open on 3 December 2017, in Zhuhai, by winning the Asia-Pacific Wildcard Playoff, coming back to edge out the Papua New Guinean No. 1, Abigail Tere-Apisah, 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 Grand Slam 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 Australian Open in China. At the age of 16, she was the youngest Chinese player to make a Grand Slam main draw.

2018: First Junior Grand Slam champion

At the Australian Open, as the second youngest competitor in the main draw (just older than 15-year-old Marta Kostyuk), Wang lost her debut Grand Slam match to Alizé Cornet, in straight sets. But going through to the junior girls' doubles final with her partner Liang En-shuo from Taiwan, Wang claimed the title in a close match against Violet Apisah of Papua New Guinea (Abigail Tere-Apisah's niece) and Lulu Sun, a New Zealand-born Swiss player of Chinese descent.

2019: WTA Premier debut, First WTA Tour doubles title

She made her WTA Premier Mandatory debut at the 2019 Miami Open ad a wildcard.

In September, Wang reached her first WTA Tour-level final at the Jiangxi International Open in the doubles event. Alongside Zhu Lin, she defeated compatriots Peng Shuai and Zhang Shuai.

2020-2021: Top 100 debut in singles

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

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 Australian Open by world No. 2, Aryna Sabalenka.

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 La Bisbal d'Emporda in Spain.

2023: Major doubles title and singles fourth round, two WTA 1000 third rounds & top 35 in singles

Partnering Hsieh Su-wei at the French Open, using protected ranking, she reached the final for the first time at a major. En-route the pair upset defending champion Kristina Mladenovic, who was partnering Zhang Shuai this year, in the second round, and fifth seeds Desirae Krawczyk and Demi Schuurs in the third round. In the quarterfinals, they beat Veronika Kudermetova and Liudmila Samsonova, and in the semifinals sixth seeds Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Ellen Perez to advance to their first final as a pair. There, they defeated Leylah Fernandez and Taylor Townsend to win the title, their first title as a team and the first Grand Slam title for Wang Xinyu.

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

At the China Open, she reached the third round at the WTA 1000 level for the second time by defeating 11th seed Daria Kasatkina. As a result, she reached the top 35 in the WTA rankings on 9 October 2023.

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 tournaments

Doubles: 1 (title)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2023	French Open	Clay	Hsieh Su-wei	Leylah Fernandez   Taylor Townsend	1–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–1

Doubles: 7 (3 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Sep 2019	Jiangxi International, China	International	Hard	Zhu Lin	Peng Shuai   Zhang Shuai	6–2, 7–6(7–5)
Win	2–0	Oct 2021	Courmayeur Open, Italy	WTA 250	Hard (i)	Zheng Saisai	Eri Hozumi   Zhang Shuai	6–4, 3–6, [10–5]
Loss	2–1	Nov 2021	Ladies Linz, Austria	WTA 250	Hard (i)	Zheng Saisai	Natela Dzalamidze   Kamilla Rakhimova	4–6, 2–6
Loss	2–2	Feb 2022	Abierto Zapopan, Mexico	WTA 250	Hard	Zhu Lin	Kaitlyn Christian   Lidziya Marozava	5–7, 3–6
Loss	2–3	Feb 2023	Hua Hin Championships, Thailand	WTA 250	Hard	Zhu Lin	Chan Hao-ching   Wu Fang-hsien	1–6, 6–7(6–8)
Loss	2–4	Feb 2023	Mérida Open, Mexico	WTA 250	Hard	Wu Fang-hsien	Caty McNally   Diane Parry	0–6, 5–7
Win	3–4	Jun 2023	French Open, France	Grand Slam	Clay	Hsieh Su-wei	Leylah Fernandez   Taylor Townsend	1–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–1

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Result	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	Sep 2021	Columbus Challenger, United States	Hard (i)	Nuria Párrizas Díaz	6–7(2–7), 3–6

Doubles: 1 (title)

Result	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	Sep 2021	Columbus Challenger, United States	Hard (i)	Zheng Saisai	Dalila Jakupović   Nuria Párrizas Díaz	6–1, 6–1

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

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jun 2018	ITF Maribor, Slovenia	15,000	Clay	Irina Ramialison	2–6, 7–6(3), 5–7
Win	1–1	Aug 2018	ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand	25,000	Hard	Wang Xiyu	6–1, 4–6, 6–1
Win	2–1	Jun 2019	ITF Shenzhen, China	25,000	Hard	Xun Fangying	6–1, 6–0
Win	3–1	Jun 2019	ITF Hengyang, China	25,000	Hard	Sun Ziyue	6–4, 6–3
Win	4–1	Jul 2019	ITF Tianjin, China	25,000	Hard	Jovana Jakšić	6–4, 6–2
Loss	4–2	Jul 2019	ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand	25,000	Hard	Yuki Naito	6–2, 6–7(4), 3–6
Loss	4–3	Apr 2021	Charlottesville Open, United States	60,000	Clay	Claire Liu	6–3, 4–6, 1–4 ret.
Win	5–3	May 2022	Internacional de La Bisbal, Spain	100,000+H	Clay	Erika Andreeva	3–6, 7–6(0), 6–0
Loss	5–4	Oct 2022	Trnava Indoor, Slovakia	60,000	Hard (i)	Katie Swan	1–6, 6–3, 4–6
Loss	5–5	Nov 2022	Open Nantes Atlantique, France	60,000	Hard (i)	Kamilla Rakhimova	4–6, 4–6
Win	6–5	Nov 2022	ITF Tokyo Open, Japan	60,000	Hard (i)	Moyuka Uchijima	6–1, 4–6, 6–3
Win	7–5	Aug 2023	Landisville Tennis Challenge, United States	100,000	Hard	Madison Brengle	6–2, 6–3

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

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2017	ITF Győr, Hungary	15,000	Clay	Tamara Čurović	Mira Antonitsch   Panna Udvardy	1–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2	Mar 2018	Pingshan Open, China	60,000	Hard	Danka Kovinić	Anna Kalinskaya   Viktória Kužmová	4–6, 6–1, [7–10]
Loss	0–3	Apr 2018	Blossom Cup, China	60,000	Hard	Guo Hanyu	Han Xinyun   Ye Qiuyu	6–7(3), 6–7(6)
Win	1–3	Aug 2018	Jinan International Open, China	60,000	Hard	You Xiaodi	Hsieh Yu-chieh   Lu Jingjing	6–3, 6–7(5), [10–2]
Win	2–3	Aug 2018	ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand	25,000	Hard	Wang Xiyu	Destanee Aiava   Naiktha Bains	7–5, 5–7, [10–4]

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2018	Australian Open	Hard	Liang En-shuo	Violet Apisah   Lulu Sun	7–6(4), 4–6, [10–5]
Win	2018	Wimbledon	Grass	Wang Xiyu	Caty McNally   Whitney Osuigwe	6–2, 6–1

Record against top 10 players

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

Player	Record	Win %	Hard	Clay	Grass	Last match
Number 1 ranked players
Maria Sharapova	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (7–6(7–4), 2–5r) at 2019 Shenzhen
Aryna Sabalenka	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (6–1, 4–6, 2–6) at 2022 Australian Open
Iga Świątek	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	Lost (0–6, 0–6) at 2023 French Open
Garbiñe Muguruza	0–2	0%	0–2	–	–	Lost (4–6, 1–6) at 2021 Miami Open
Number 2 ranked players
Barbora Krejčíková	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (1–6, 2–6) at 2021 Prague
Svetlana Kuznetsova	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (1–6, 5–7) at 2021 St. Petersburg
Number 3 ranked players
Sloane Stephens	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	Lost (2–6, 4–6) at 2021 Charleston
Number 4 ranked players
Sofia Kenin	0–2	0%	0–1	–	0–1	Lost (6–7, 3–6) at 2023 Auckland
Number 5 ranked players
Jeļena Ostapenko	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (1–6, 4–6) at 2022 St. Petersburg
Number 8 ranked players
Karolína Muchová	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (3–6, 7–5, 1–6) at 2023 US Open
Number 9 ranked players
CoCo Vandeweghe	2–0	100%	2–0	–	–	Won (7–6(7-3), 6–2) at 2021 Columbus Challenger
Number 10 ranked players
Emma Raducanu	1–0	100%	1–0	–	–	Won (6–1, 6–7, 7–5) at 2021 Linz
Total	3–12	20%	3–9 (25%)	0–2 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	last updated 3 September 2023