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Yan Zi

Yàn Zī
晏紫
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Country (sports)  China (2000–2014)
 Hong Kong (2014–present)
Residence Hong Kong
Born (1984-11-12) November 12, 1984 (age 32)
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro February 2003
Retired 2016
Plays Right-handed (two-handed both sides)
Prize money US $1,977,871
Singles
Career record 199–160
Career titles 1 WTA, 0 ITF
Highest ranking No. 40 (5 May 2008)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 2R (2006)
French Open 1R (2006, 2008)
Wimbledon 1R (2006, 2007, 2008)
US Open 1R (2006, 2007, 2008)
Doubles
Career record 375–179
Career titles 17 WTA, 16 ITF
Highest ranking No. 4 (10 July 2006)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open W (2006)
French Open SF (2006)
Wimbledon W (2006)
US Open QF (2005, 2006, 2008)
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic Games Bronze medal.svg Bronze medal (2008)
Last updated on: October 17, 2016.

Yan Zi (Chinese: 晏紫; pinyin: Yàn Zī; born November 12, 1984), is a retired Chinese-born Hong Kong female professional tennis player.

In 2005, at the age of 20, Yan Zi won her only WTA Tour singles title at the Guangzhou Tier III tournament.

In singles, she first reached the World Top 100 in January 2006, achieving a then career-high of World No. 72 that March before failing to defend her breakthrough run of results the previous year and dropping back outside the Top 100 that October. Her ranking had slumped to 262 by February 2007 after a year of disappointing results, but her results then picked up again over the rest of 2007; and she regained the top 100 for the first time in ten months after a spectacular run at Canada's Tier I Rogers Cup in August, reaching the semifinals before finally being heavily defeated by World No. 1 Justine Henin 3–6, 0–6.

In doubles, Yan Zi's highest ranking to date is number 4 and she has won two grand slam titles partnering with Zheng Jie. While she has been good at doubles, her singles performance has been inconsistent as her form fluctuates. She has winning records against top 10 stars Jelena Janković 2–0, Ana Ivanovic 1–0, and Marion Bartoli 1–0.

In 2014 Yan received Hong Kong citizenship. In April 2016, she became captain of the Hong Kong Fed Cup team. She announced her retirement that year.

Until January 2002, Yan met with mixed results as a singles player in the lower reaches of the ITF tournament hierarchy. But that month, she reached the final of a $10,000 ITF event at Hull, losing to Liu Nannan. In May, she avenged this defeat with a win over Liu in the first round of a $50,000 tournament at Fukuoka; and again in August she defeated Liu, this time in the quarter-final of a $25,000 tournament at Beijing, only to lose to Rika Fujiwara in the semifinal. In September, she qualified for the WTA Tour contest at Shanghai, only to lose in the first round. But she had reached numerous ITF quarter-finals during the year, and finished it ranked for the first time inside the world Top 300, at #299.


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