Zheng Saisai

Zheng Saisai
Zheng Saisai during US Open 2016 / women's singles
Nation:	People's Republic of China
Birthday:	5th February 1994
Size:	170 cm
Weight:	62 kg
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Alan Ma
Prize money:	$ 3,787,683
singles
Career record:	316: 216
Career title:	1 WTA , 3 WTA Challenger, 11  ITF
Highest ranking:	34 (March 16, 2020)
Current placement:	34
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	214: 149
Career title:	4 WTA, 2 WTA Challenger, 9 ITF
Highest ranking:	15 (July 11, 2016)
Current placement:	24
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Zheng Saisai ( 鄭 賽 賽 , Zhèng Sàisài , born February 5, 1994 in Xi'an ) is a Chinese tennis player . Your father is Tibetan .

Career

Zheng, who started tennis at the age of eight, was one of the best of her class as a junior. In 2010 she won the individual competition of the Osaka Mayor's Cup , one of the most important junior tennis tournaments , and won the gold medal in doubles at the Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore alongside Tang Haochen after beating Jana Čepelová and Chantal Škamlová in the final . In the individual competition she was defeated in the final Darja Gavrilowa and won silver. At the beginning of 2011 she achieved her highest ranking in the junior tennis world rankings with seventh place .

In 2008 Zheng made her debut on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour and celebrated her first professional title in 2009. In 2011 she made her debut in the main draw of a WTA tournament in Guangzhou after she had received a wildcard from the organizers , but was eliminated at the start against Noppawan Lertcheewakarn . In doubles, however, she went straight to the final and won her first WTA title together with Hsieh Su-wei . In 2012 she won an ITF tournament in the $ 50,000 category in Kurume for the first time and then won her first match in the main draw of a WTA tournament in Stanford . After she had originally failed in the qualification, she moved up as a lucky loser in the main round and benefited from the abandonment of her opponent Ayumi Morita in the first round before losing to Sorana Cîrstea in the second round . She then appeared at the US Open for the first time in the qualification of a Grand Slam tournament, in which she was only defeated in the final round.

The following year Zheng reached the final at a tournament of the WTA Challenger Series in Suzhou , but had to admit defeat to Shahar Peer in three sets. Her best result of the season by far was achieved in doubles, where she and Varvara Lepchenko made it to the semifinals at the start of the season at the Australian Open , in which the two were only defeated by Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua . In 2014 she won another ITF title in the $ 50,000 category in Anning , before qualifying for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament in New York for the first time, and after beating Stefanie Vögele immediately in the second Round advanced in which she was defeated by Lucie Šafářová . Then Zheng achieved her first WTA quarter-finals in Hong Kong, which was followed by her first entry into a semifinals in Tianjin the following week , in which she was stopped by the eventual winner Alison Riske . By reaching the quarter-finals in two other WTA Challenger tournaments at the end of the season, she made it into the top 100 of the tennis world rankings. At the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, she lost the team competition finals together with Duan Yingying , Zhang Shuai and Zheng Jie to the team from Taiwan and won silver. In 2015, Zheng kicked off with a semi-final in Shenzhen , before winning two ITF $ 75,000 tournaments in Gifu and Anning in succession . She had her greatest success with the triumph at the WTA Challenger in Dalian , where she won her biggest title to date after beating Julia Glushko in the final . In addition, she and her compatriot Xu Yifan won two more WTA doubles titles in Stanford and Tianjin . In the four Grand Slam tournaments of the year, however, she was eliminated in the first round.

With her, she made it into the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open 2016 for the second time since 2013, before they were beaten by Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Hradecká . In individual, she achieved her best results of the season with the semi-finals in Nottingham and the quarter-finals in Stanford , where she lost to Johanna Konta . In addition, she was able to land her first two victories against players from the top 10 of the world rankings against Petra Kvitová in Shenzhen and Angelique Kerber in Doha . In addition, she received a place in the main field at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro from the ITF and defeated Agnieszka Radwańska in the first round of the individual competition , but had to admit defeat in the second round Darja Kassatkina . She also reached the second round in doubles with Xu Yifan after a first success against the sisters Ljudmyla and Nadija Kitschenok , in which they failed to Roberta Vinci and Sara Errani .

In 2017, Zheng started playing again on the ITF tour, where she won a tournament in the $ 60,000 category in Quanzhou , followed by a title in the $ 100,000 category in Anning . In Madrid , she then won her fifth top win against Elina Switolina in the first round. After being eliminated in the second round of the US Open , she ended the season early due to injury. Nevertheless, she overwintered for the fourth year in a row in the top 100 of the ranking. It was not until March 2018 that Zheng made her comeback on the tennis tour at an ITF tournament in Shenzhen and a little later won her second title in a WTA challenger in Zhengzhou after a final victory over Wang Yafan . She was also in the final in Anning , but lost there against Irina Chromatschowa in the tie-break of the third set. Zheng succeeded for the first time through her first participation in the final on the WTA tour in Nanchang , where she had to give up in the final against her compatriot Wang Qiang , as well as making it into the semi-finals in Washington and finally winning the title at the ITF tournament in the $ 100,000 category in Suzhou Jump into the top 50 of the tennis world rankings. In the final of the women's singles at the Asian Games in Jakarta in 2018, she lost to her compatriot Wang Qiang and won silver.

After a changeable start to the season, Zheng won her third title in a Chinese WTA challenger in Anning in 2019 by beating Zhang Shuai in the final and then made it to the round of 16 in Madrid , where she was defeated by Sloane Stephens . At the French Open , she surprisingly reached her first Grand Slam final in doubles, which she lost to Kristina Mladenovic and Tímea Babos , alongside Duan Yingying . She had previously won her fourth WTA double title with Wiktoryja Asaranka in Acapulco . In New York they both made it to the quarter-finals again, losing to the eventual winners Aryna Sabalenka and Elise Mertens . At the premier tournament in San José , she won her first WTA individual title after three first round defeats on grass; in the final she defeated Aryna Sabalenka in straight sets. Although they like 2,015 remained without main round success in a Grand Slam tournament, she received by their success a wild card for the WTA Elite Trophy in 2019 in Zhuhai, look out for a victory in the group stage on Madison Keys and losing to Petra Martić due the better game difference advanced to the semi-finals, in which they had to admit defeat Kiki Bertens .

At the beginning of 2020, Zheng reached the quarter-finals of the mixed competition for the first time in Melbourne alongside Joran Viegen . After moving into the quarter-finals in Doha , in which she was eliminated in three sets against the eventual winner Aryna Sabalenka, she achieved her highest world ranking position to date with 34th place.

In 2015, Zheng made his debut for the Chinese Fed Cup team in the 2-1 loss to Kazakhstan . Since then she has contested 17 matches in singles and doubles for her country, of which she was able to win eleven (individual balance 9: 3).

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	13th September 2015	Dalian	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Julia Glushko	2: 6, 6: 2, 7: 5
2.	April 22, 2018	Zhengzhou	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Wang Yafan	5.7, 6: 2, 6: 1
3.	April 28, 2019	Anning	WTA Challenger	sand	Zhang Shuai	6: 4, 6: 1
4th	4th August 2019	San Jose	WTA Premier	Hard court	Aryna Sabalenka	6: 3, 7: 6 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	October 24, 2011	Guangzhou	WTA International	Hard court	Hsieh Su-wei	Chan Chin-wei Han Xinyun	6: 2, 6: 1
2.	2nd August 2015	Nanchang	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Chang Kai-chen	Chan Chin-wei Wang Yafan	6: 3, 4: 6, [10: 3]
3.	August 8, 2015	Stanford	WTA Premier	Hard court	Xu Yifan	Anabel Medina Garrigues Arantxa Parra Santonja	6: 1, 6: 3
4th	September 12, 2015	Dalian	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Zhang Kailin	Chan Chin-wei Darija Jurak	6: 3, 6: 4
5.	October 18, 2015	Tianjin	WTA International	Hard court	Xu Yifan	Darija Jurak Nicole Melichar	6: 2, 3: 6, [10: 8]
6th	2nd March 2019	Acapulco	WTA International	Hard court	Viktoriya Azaranka	Desirae Krawczyk Giuliana Olmos	6: 1, 6: 2

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	-	1	2	1	1	1	2	2: 6	2
French Open	-	1	1	1	1	1		0: 5	1
Wimbledon	-	1	1	1	2	1		1: 5	2
US Open	2	1	2	2	-	1		3: 5	2

Double

competition	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	-	HF	1	1	HF	AF	-	1	1	10: 7	HF
French Open	2	VF	2	2	VF	VF	1	F.		17: 8	F.
Wimbledon	1	2	1	1	1	-	-	AF		3: 6	AF
US Open	1	2	2	2	AF	2	-	VF		9: 7	VF

Mixed

competition	2013	2014 - 2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Balance sheet	Career
Australian Open	-	-	1	AF	-	-	VF	3: 3	VF
French Open	-	-	-	-	-	-		0-0	-
Wimbledon	2	-	-	-	-	AF		3: 2	AF
US Open	1	-	-	-	-	1		0: 1	1

Web links

Commons : Zheng Saisai  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• WTA profile Zheng Saisai (English)
• ITF profile Zheng Saisai (English)
• Fed Cup Statistics for Zheng Saisai (English)

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