Wang Yan (tennis player)

Wang Yan
Nation:	People's Republic of China
Birthday:	January 1, 1996
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Liu Shuo
Prize money:	$ 44,424
singles
Career record:	108: 88
Career title:	0 WTA , 2 ITF
Highest ranking:	359 (March 23, 2015)
Double
Career record:	71:68
Career title:	0 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking:	220 (May 1, 2017)
Last update of the infobox: March 2nd, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Wang Yan ( Chinese  王妍 , Pinyin Wáng Yán , IPA ( standard Chinese) [ wǎŋ jɛ̌n ]; born January 1, 1996 ) is a Chinese tennis player .

Career

Wang started tennis when he was ten and prefers hard courts. She mainly plays on the ITF Women's Circuit , where she has so far won two tournaments in singles and four in doubles.

Wang played her first professional tournament in July 2012 in Huzhu . At the beginning of 2013 she was listed for the first time in the world rankings, her first major successes she achieved at the end of 2013 with the two round of 16 appearances at the tournaments endowed with 25,000 US dollars in Monterrey and Merida . She reached her first quarter-finals at a tournament in Shenzhen in March 2014, her first final in Tarakan in July 2014. With further good results, she made it to place 500 in the world rankings by the end of 2014.

On the WTA Tour , she made her first appearance at the $ 125,000 WTA Challenger Ningbo , a tournament of the WTA Challenger Series , where she reached the quarter-finals. With this and other good successes at the beginning of 2015, she achieved her best individual world ranking in March 2015 with place 359. In July 2016 she won her first two tournaments in Gimcheon .

In June 2017, she played her last professional match so far.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 10, 2016	Gimcheon	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Park Sang-hee	4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 4
2.	17th July 2016	Gimcheon	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Choi Ji-hee	6: 4, 7: 6 1

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	17th August 2014	Istanbul	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	You Xiaodi	Gao Xinyu Yang Zhaoxuan	without a fight
2.	September 28, 2014	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	You Xiaodi	Harriet Dart Jessica Simpson	6: 1, 3: 6, [10: 8]
3.	5th March 2016	Nanjing	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Li Yihong	Chen Jiahui Xin Yuan	6: 2, 6: 3
4th	May 29, 2016	Tianjin	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Li Yihong	Liu Wanting Lu Jingjing	1: 6, 6: 0, [10: 4]

Web links

• WTA profile Wang Yan (English)
• ITF profile Wang Yan (English)
• ITF junior profile Wang Yan (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Wang is the family name here, Yan is the first name.