Xu Yifan

Xu Yifan

Xu Yifan at the 2015 French Open
Country (sports)	China
Residence	Tianjin, China
Born	(1988-08-08) 8 August 1988 Tianjin, China
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US $ 702,212
Singles
Career record	205–172
Career titles	0 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 148 (13 July 2015)
Current ranking	No. 383 (24 October 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2016)
Wimbledon	1R (2015)
US Open	Q2 (2012)
Doubles
Career record	248–139
Career titles	3 WTA, 22 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 16 (11 July 2016)
Current ranking	No. 16 (11 July 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2016)
French Open	QF (2016)
Wimbledon	1R (2015, 2016)
US Open	QF (2014)
Last updated on: 4 November 2016.

Xu Yifan (Chinese: 徐一幡, born 8 August 1988 in Tianjin) is a Chinese female professional tennis player playing on the ITF and WTA Women's Circuits. She reached her highest WTA (Women's Tennis Association) Singles ranking of No.148 on 13 July 2015. She also reached her current and highest WTA (Women's Tennis Association) Doubles ranking of No 16 in the world as of 11 July 2016. She was a finalist in Women's Doubles at the 2008 China Open in Beijing, and Quarterfinalist at the 2014 US Open in Women's Doubles. And most recently she was a semi-finalist at the 2016 Australian Open, and a Quarterfinalist at the 2016 French Open in Women's Doubles with Zheng Saisai. They are currently the No. 5 WTA Women's Doubles Team as of 27 June 2016.

2011

Xu posted good results at the 2011 Guangzhou International Women's Open where she fought her way from the qualifying draw unseeded, defeating 7th seed Wang Qiang and 10th seed Chan Chin-Wei to qualify. In the first round, she lost to Mandy Minella.

2014

On 2 September 2014, Xu made it to the Quarter Finals in Women's Doubles at the 2014 US Open, where she defeated the 6th seeded team Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears, and the 11th seeded team Lucie Hradecká and Michaëlla Krajicek before her partner Zarina Diyas retired.

On 28 October 2014, Xu came back from a 5-1 game deficit for the win in the Ningbo Challenger series against her old rival, Zhang Kailin.

2015

In January, Xu partnered with two-time Grand Slam Doubles champion Peng Shuai in women's doubles at the 2015 Australian Open. Going in as unseeded, they lost in three sets in the first round to 15th seeds Kimiko Date-Krumm and Casey Dellacqua.

Significant finals

WTA Elite Trophy

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2016	Zhuhai	Hard (i)	İpek Soylu	Yang Zhaoxuan You Xiaodi	6–4, 3–6, [10–7]

WTA finals

Doubles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner–up	1.	23 September 2007	China Open, Beijing, China	Hard	Han Xinyun	Chuang Chia-jung Hsieh Su-wei	6–7(3–7), 3–6
Runner–up	2.	28 September 2008	China Open, Beijing, China	Hard	Han Xinyun	Anabel Medina Garrigues Caroline Wozniacki	1–6, 3–6
Winner	1.	22 September 2013	KDB Korea Open, Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Chan Chin-wei	Raquel Kops-Jones Abigail Spears	7–5, 6–3
Winner	2.	9 August 2015	Bank of the West Classic, Stanford, United States	Hard	Zheng Saisai	Anabel Medina Garrigues Arantxa Parra Santonja	6–1, 6–3
Winner	3.	18 October 2015	Tianjin Open, Tianjin, China	Hard	Zheng Saisai	Darija Jurak Nicole Melichar	6–2, 3–6, [10–8]
Runner–up	3.	9 January 2016	Shenzhen Open, Shenzhen, China	Hard	Zheng Saisai	Vania King Monica Niculescu	1–6, 4–6
Runner–up	4.	16 October 2016	Tianjin Open, Tianjin, China	Hard	Magda Linette	Christina McHale Peng Shuai	6–7(8–10), 0–6
Winner	4.	06 November 2016	WTA Elite Trophy, Zhuhai, China	Hard (i)	İpek Soylu	Yang Zhaoxuan You Xiaodi	6–4, 3–6, [10–7]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 6 (1–5)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	13 May 2007	Chengdu, China	Hard	Zhang Shuai	2–6, 3–6
Runner-up	2.	25 April 2010	Changwon, South Korea	Hard	Lee Jin-a	6–3, 4–6, 2–6
Runner-up	3.	23 May 2010	Karuizawa, Japan	Carpet	Natsumi Hamamura	1–6, 2–6
Winner	4.	21 April 2014	Nanning, China	Hard	Chan Yung-jan	6–3, 7–6(7–1)
Runner-up	5.	26 May 2014	Zhengzhou, China	Hard	Zhang Kailin	5–7, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	14 July 2014	Phuket, Thailand	Hard (i)	Wang Yafan	6–3, 2–6, 5–7

Doubles: 35 (22–13)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
Winner	1.	13 May 2006	Tarakan, Indonesia	Hard	Xia Huan	Sandy Gumulya Septi Mende	6–2, 6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–5)
Runner-up	2.	30 July 2006	Chengdu, China	Hard	Xia Huan	Ren Jing Zhang Shuai	4–6, 2–6
Runner-up	3.	6 August 2006	Changsha, China	Hard	Xia Huan	Chen Yanchong Liu Wanting	3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	4.	12 May 2007	Chengdu, China	Hard	Lei Huang	Song Shanshan Xie Yanze	3–6, 5–7
Winner	5.	8 June 2007	Changsha, China	Hard	Lei Huang	Chan Chin-wei Kumiko Iijima	6–3, 6–4
Winner	6.	16 June 2007	Guangzhou, China	Hard	Lei Huang	Chen Yanchong Zhou Yimiao	6–2, 7–6(7–4)
Runner-up	7.	18 November 2007	Kunming, China	Hard	Han Xinyun	Urszula Radwańska Yanina Wickmayer	4–6, 1–6
Winner	8.	2 December 2007	Xiamen, China	Hard	Han Xinyun	Ji Chunmei Sun Shengnan	6–4, 7–5
Winner	9.	16 May 2008	Caserta, Italy	Clay	Han Xinyun	Sophie Ferguson Christina Wheeler	4–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Runner-up	10.	28 June 2008	Périgueux, France	Clay	Han Xinyun	Anna-Lena Grönefeld İpek Şenoğlu	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	11.	6 February 2009	Burnie, Australia	Hard	Zhou Yimiao	Monique Adamczak Abigail Spears	2–6, 4–6
Winner	12.	7 June 2009	Komoro, Japan	Clay	Zhang Shuai	Ayumi Oka Varatchaya Wongteanchai	6–2, 6–1
Winner	13.	15 January 2010	Pingguo, China	Hard	Chan Chin-wei	Ji Chunmei Liu Wanting	6–3, 6–1
Winner	14.	21 February 2010	Surprise, United States	Hard	Ji Chunmei	Christina Fusano Courtney Nagle	5–7, 6–2, [10–5]
Winner	15.	6 March 2010	Hammond, United States	Hard	Zhou Yimiao	Christina Fusano Courtney Nagle	6–2, 6–2
Winner	16.	14 March 2010	Clearwater, United States	Hard	Zhou Yimiao	Alina Jidkova Laura Siegemund	6–4, 6–4
Winner	17.	16 May 2010	Kurume, Japan	Grass	Sun Shengnan	Karolína Plíšková Kristýna Plíšková	6–0, 6–3
Runner-up	18.	23 May 2010	Karuizawa, Japan	Carpet	Sun Shengnan	Ayumi Oka Akiko Yonemura	6–7(1–7), 3–6
Winner	19.	9 July 2010	Fuzhou, China	Hard	Liu Shaozhuo	Kao Shao-yuan Ayaka Maekawa	3–6, 6–1, [10–2]
Runner-up	20.	16 October 2011	Kalgoorlie, Australia	Hard	Zhang Kailin	Casey Dellacqua Olivia Rogowska	1–6, 1–6
Runner-up	21.	15 April 2012	Wenshan, China	Hard	Liu Wanting	Hsieh Shu-ying Hsieh Su-wei	3–6, 2–6
Winner	22.	21 May 2012	Changwon, South Korea	Hard	Liu Wanting	Yang Zhaoxuan Zhang Kailin	6–4, 7–5
Winner	23.	21 May 2012	Gimcheon, South Korea	Hard	Hu Yueyue	Liang Chen Sun Shengnan	6–0, 3–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	24.	9 July 2012	Yakima, United States	Hard	Zhou Yimiao	Samantha Crawford Madison Keys	3–6, 6–2, 3–6
Winner	25.	16 July 2012	Evansville, United States	Hard	Duan Yingying	Mallory Burdette Natalie Pluskota	6–2, 6–3
Winner	26.	29 July 2012	Lexington, United States	Hard	Shuko Aoyama	Julia Glushko Olivia Rogowska	7–5 6–7(7–9), [10–4]
Runner-up	27.	18 February 2013	Surprise, United States	Hard	Emily J. Harman	Samantha Crawford Sachia Vickery	3–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Runner-up	28.	13 May 2013	Balikpapan, Indonesia	Hard	Chen Yi	Naomi Broady Teodora Mirčić	3–6, 3–6
Winner	29.	3 November 2013	Nanjing, China	Hard	Misaki Doi	Zhang Shuai Yaroslava Shvedova	6–1, 6–4
Winner	30.	16 February 2014	Rancho Santa Fe, United States	Hard	Samantha Crawford	Danielle Lao Keri Wong	3–6, 6–2, [12–10]
Winner	31.	3 March 2014	Quanzhou, China	Hard	Chan Chin-wei	Sun Ziyue Xu Shilin	7–6(7–4), 6–1
Runner–up	32.	27 July 2014	Nanchang, China	Hard	Chan Chin-wei	Junri Namigata Chuang Chia-jung	6–7(4–7), 3–6
Winner	33.	27 April 2015	Gifu, Japan	Hard	Wang Yafan	An-Sophie Mestach Emily Webley-Smith	6–2, 6–3
Winner	34.	8 May 2015	Anning, China	Hard	Zheng Saisai	Yang Zhaoxuan Ye Qiuyu	7–5, 6–2
Winner	35.	21 June 2015	Ilkley, United Kingdom	Grass	Raluca Olaru	An-Sophie Mestach Demi Schuurs	6–3, 6–4

References

• Xu Yifan at the Women's Tennis Association
• Xu Yifan at the International Tennis Federation

Women's Tennis Association: Top Chinese female doubles tennis players as of 28 November 2016
1. Xu Yifan (20 ) 2. Zheng Saisai (24 ) 3. Peng Shuai (43 ) 4. Yang Zhaoxuan (60 ) 5. Liang Chen (61 )
6. Wang Yafan (80 ) 7. Han Xinyun (94 ) 8. Zhu Lin (109 ) 9. You Xiaodi (112 ) 10. Lu Jingjing (140 )