Zheng Jie

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Zheng Jie Tennis player
Zheng Jie
2010 at the US Open
Nation: China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
Birthday: 5th July 1983
Size: 164 cm
1st professional season: 2003
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money: $ 6,157,773
singles
Career record: 384: 266
Career title: 4 WTA , 4 ITF
Highest ranking: 15 (May 18, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record: 437: 213
Career title: 15 WTA, 17 ITF
Highest ranking: 3 (July 10, 2006)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Olympic games
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Zheng Jie ( Chinese  郑洁 , Pinyin Zhèng Jié ; born July 5, 1983 in Chengdu , Sichuan ) is a former Chinese tennis player .

Career

She started playing tennis at the age of ten because she wanted to emulate her older sister. In 2003 she became a professional player and by the end of the year she was already in the top 100 . On the WTA Tour she was able to celebrate four singles and 15 doubles. From 2002 to 2012 she played intermittently for the Chinese Fed Cup team ; their record shows 22 wins out of nine losses. She worked for the Chinese Olympic team in Athens in 2004 and in Beijing in 2008 .

Her greatest successes include the Grand Slam titles in doubles in Melbourne and in Wimbledon in 2006 , both alongside her compatriot Yan Zi , with whom she won a total of eleven titles.

In 2008, in the third round of Wimbledon, she defeated world number one Ana Ivanović 6-1 and 6-4, after which she made it to the semi-finals. In 2010 she reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne again.

In May 2009 Zheng reached her best position in the single world rankings with rank 15 , in 2006 she was number 3 in the world in doubles.

The year 2011 began with cancellations due to injuries, including for Melbourne; first round defeats followed. In May Zheng won the clay court tournament in Rome alongside her compatriot Peng Shuai . At the French Open as in Wimbledon, the end came in round two. On January 8, 2012, she won an individual title on the tour in Auckland after more than five years. After she had defeated number 3 seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova in the semifinals , she benefited in the final from the fact that number 4 seeded Flavia Pennetta had to retire in the third set.

In 2012, Zheng and Katarina Srebotnik reached the semi-finals at the WTA tournament in Cincinnati , which they lost to Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Hradecká with 1: 6 and 3: 6.

In Melbourne in 2013 she promoted the favored Samantha Stosur in the second round from their "home tournament". The week before she had defeated Stosur in Sydney in round one, also in three sets. In 2014 she was in the final of the 's-Hertogenbosch grass tournament , which she lost to Coco Vandeweghe 2: 6 and 4: 6.

Zheng Jie has not competed on the women's tour since the 2015 Wimbledon tournament . In spring 2016 she became the mother of a daughter.

Tournament victories

singles

No. date competition category Topping Final opponent Result
1. January 14, 2005 AustraliaAustralia Hobart WTA Tier V Hard court ArgentinaArgentina Gisela Dulko 6: 2, 6: 0
2. May 7, 2006 PortugalPortugal Oeiras WTA Tier IV sand China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Na 6: 7 5 , 7: 5, retirement
3. August 13, 2006 SwedenSweden Stockholm WTA Tier IV Hard court RussiaRussia Anastassija Myskina 6: 4, 6: 1
4th January 7, 2012 New ZealandNew Zealand Auckland WTA International Hard court ItalyItaly Flavia Pennetta 2: 6, 6: 3, 2: 0 task

Double

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1. January 14, 2005 AustraliaAustralia Hobart WTA Tier V Hard court China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yan Zi SpainSpain Anabel Medina Garrigues Dinara Safina
RussiaRussia 
6: 4, 7: 5
2. February 12, 2005 IndiaIndia Hyderabad WTA Tier IV Hard court China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yan Zi China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Ting Sun Tiantian
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
6: 4, 6: 1
3. January 28, 2006 AustraliaAustralia Australian Open Grand Slam Hard court China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yan Zi United StatesUnited States Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur
AustraliaAustralia 
2: 6, 7: 6 7 , 6: 3
4th May 14, 2006 GermanyGermany Berlin WTA Tier I sand China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yan Zi RussiaRussia Jelena Dementjewa Flavia Pennetta
ItalyItaly 
6: 2, 6: 3
5. May 21, 2006 MoroccoMorocco Rabat WTA Tier IV sand China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yan Zi United StatesUnited States Ashley Harkleroad Bethanie Mattek
United StatesUnited States 
6: 1, 6: 3
6th June 24, 2006 NetherlandsNetherlands 's-Hertogenbosch WTA Tier III race China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yan Zi Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro Ana Ivanović Marija Kirilenko
RussiaRussia 
3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 2
7th August 8, 2006 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Wimbledon Grand Slam race China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yan Zi SpainSpain Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suarez
ArgentinaArgentina 
6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 2
8th. August 26, 2006 United StatesUnited States New Haven WTA Tier II Hard court China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yan Zi United StatesUnited States Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur
AustraliaAustralia 
6: 4, 6: 2
9. April 15, 2007 United StatesUnited States Charleston WTA Tier I sand China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yan Zi China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Peng Shuai Sun Tiantian
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
7: 5, 6: 0
10. May 26, 2007 FranceFrance Strasbourg WTA Tier III sand China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yan Zi AustraliaAustralia Alicia Molik Sun Tiantian
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
6: 3, 6: 4
11. January 11, 2008 AustraliaAustralia Sydney WTA Tier II Hard court China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yan Zi UkraineUkraine Tetjana Perebyjnis Tazzjana Putschak
BelarusBelarus 
6: 4, 7: 6 5
12. February 28, 2010 MalaysiaMalaysia Kuala Lumpur WTA International Hard court Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan AustraliaAustralia Anastassija Rodionova Arina Rodionova
RussiaRussia 
6: 7 4 , 6: 2, [10: 7]
13. August 8, 2010 United StatesUnited States San Diego WTA Premier Hard court RussiaRussia Maria Kirilenko United StatesUnited States Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs
AustraliaAustralia 
6: 4, 6: 4
14th May 15, 2011 ItalyItaly Rome WTA Premier 5 sand China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Peng Shuai United StatesUnited States Vania King Jaroslawa Schwedowa
KazakhstanKazakhstan 
6: 2, 6: 3
15th August 24, 2013 United StatesUnited States New Haven WTA Premier Hard court IndiaIndia Sania Mirza SpainSpain Anabel Medina Garrigues Katarina Srebotnik
SloveniaSlovenia 
6: 3, 6: 4

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Balance sheet Career
Australian Open - 1 1 1 1 - AF HF - AF 3 3 1 15:10 HF
French Open - AF 1 2 1 3 2 2 2 2 3 1 - 12:11 AF
Wimbledon - 1 - 3 - HF 2 2 2 3 1 2 - 13: 9 HF
US Open - 1 2 2 - 3 3 2 2 3 3 1 - 12:10 3

Double

competition 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Balance sheet Career
Australian Open - VF 1 S. HF HF AF AF - AF VF 1 F. 31:10 S.
French Open - 1 AF HF 1 AF VF AF 2 AF AF 1 AF 20:12 HF
Wimbledon - AF - S. - AF AF 1 VF 1 AF HF 1 21: 9 S.
US Open 1 2 VF VF - VF VF HF 1 1 HF VF - 24:11 HF

Mixed

competition 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Career
Australian Open - - 1 - - - - - - HF HF
French Open AF - HF - - AF - - 1 HF HF
Wimbledon HF - - - - - VF VF 1 2 HF
US Open - - - - - - 1 1 - - 1

Web links

Commons : Zheng Jie  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. China's Zheng Jie gives birth to first child