Zhu Lin (tennis player)

Zhu Lin
Zhu Lin at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships
Nation:	People's Republic of China
Birthday:	28th January 1994 (age 26)
Size:	173 cm
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Tim Nicholls
Prize money:	$ 1,129,424
singles
Career record:	314: 206
Career title:	0 WTA , 12 ITF
Highest ranking:	69 (February 17, 2020)
Current placement:	74
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	107: 117
Career title:	0 WTA, 5 ITF 1 WTA Challenger
Highest ranking:	103 (February 24, 2020)
Current placement:	107
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Zhu Lin ( Chinese  朱 琳 ; born January 28, 1994 ) is a Chinese tennis player .

Career

Zhu started playing tennis at the age of five and plays mostly in China on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour , where she has won ten singles and five doubles titles so far, her first in 2010 in Thailand.

In 2013 she was allowed to start with a wildcard for the first time at a tournament of the WTA Challenger Series in Suzhou , but failed there in the first round to Tímea Babos . In 2014, Zhu won more than 50 matches on the ITF tour and made it into the top 200 of the world rankings . At the US Open , she took part in the qualification of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time and only lost in the final round. She then received several wild cards for Chinese WTA tournaments, including the Premier Mandatory tournament in Beijing , where she moved into the second round after Anastassija Pavlyuchenkova had given up and was defeated by Simona Halep . Before that, she achieved her first main draw win on the WTA Tour , coming from qualifying in Hong Kong against Kristýna Plíšková .

In 2015, Zhu began playing smaller WTA tournaments outside of China, but only survived the first round in Pattaya City . In Wimbledon , she qualified for the first time for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament through her ranking, but lost there as well as in the qualifying rounds for the other three Grand Slam tournaments at the beginning. In 2016 she reached her first WTA semi-final as a qualifier in Lumpur , in which she had to admit defeat to the eventual winner Elina Switolina . In April 2017 she triumphed at the side of her compatriot Han Xinyun at the WTA Challenger tournament in Zhengzhou . Despite three more quarter-finals in Taipei , Nanchang and Tianjin , where she recorded her first win against a top 20 player against Petra Kvitová , she missed both 2017 and the following year 2018, in which she won two ITF titles in the $ 60,000 category won, just made the decisive jump into the top 100 of the world rankings.

Zhu only achieved this with a final spurt at the end of the 2019 season, when she first advanced into the second round in New York in her seventh participation in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament after a success over Wang Xinyu . She then reached the final at the highly endowed ITF tournament in Suzhou , won her first title in a tournament in the $ 100,000 category in Liuzhou and the week after in Shenzhen . Zhu achieved her highest world ranking to date with position 69 at the beginning of 2020, after she won a match in the main draw for the first time in Melbourne after beating Viktorija Golubic .

In 2017, Zhu was called up for the first time in the Chinese Fed Cup team . Since then she has played seven individual matches for her country, of which she has won four.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 23, 2010	Khon Kaen	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Luksika Kumkhum	6: 3, 6: 2
2.	May 28, 2011	Jakarta	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Nadia Abdala	7: 6 4 , 6: 3
3.	March 9, 2014	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Iryna Schymanowitsch	6: 1, 6: 4
4th	June 1, 2014	Balikpapan	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Ankita Raina	7: 5, 2: 6, 6: 3
5.	June 8, 2014	Tarakan	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court (hall)	Wang Yan	4: 6, 6: 0, 6: 2
6th	June 14, 2014	solo	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Lavinia Tananta	6-0, 6-0
7th	May 28, 2017	Lu'an	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Ankita Raina	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 4
8th.	May 13, 2018	Lu'an	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Liu Fangzhou	6-0, 6-2
9.	August 12, 2018	Jinan	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Wang Yafan	6: 4, 6: 1
10.	January 27, 2019	Singapore	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Han Na-lae	6: 2, 6: 3
11.	3rd November 2019	Liuzhou	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Arina Rodionova	2: 6, 6: 0, 6: 1
12.	9th November 2019	Shenzhen	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court	Peng Shuai	6: 3, 1: 3 problem

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	November 6, 2010	Manila	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Yang Zhaoxuan	Kim Ji-young Kim Jin-hee	6: 4, 6: 7 5 , [10: 7]
2.	February 16, 2014	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Li Yihong	Gabriela Talaba Patricia Maria Țig	6: 2, retirement
3.	March 1, 2014	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Li Yihong	Nicoleta-Cătălina Dascălu Raluca Georgiana Șerban	3: 6, 6: 3, [10: 3]
4th	5th February 2016	Launceston	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court	Xiaodi You	Nadija Kitschenok Mandy Minella	2: 6, 7: 5, [10: 7]
5.	July 30, 2016	Lexington	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Hiroko Kuwata	Sophie Chang Alexandra Mueller	6-0, 7-5
6th	April 23, 2017	Zhengzhou	WTA Challenger	Hard court	Han Xinyun	Jacqueline Cako Julia Glushko	7: 5, 6: 1

Web links

Commons : Zhu Lin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Zhu Lin (English)
• ITF profile Zhu Lin (English)
• Fed Cup Stats Zhu Lin (English)

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