Wang Xinyu


Wang Xinyu is a Chinese tennis player.
Wang's current team consists of her father Wang Peng; a Serbian technical coach, Aleksandar Slović, who won the men's singles title at 2009 Summer Universiade and once trained with Novak Djokovic when young; a fitness coach from Croatia; and a Chinese physio from Nanjing. With the help of Slović, Wang was able to train with a few Serbian players abroad. She currently trains at the Tennis & Badminton Centre of the Shenzhen Sports Centre.

Personal life

Wang was born in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Her father, Wang Peng, is a former head coach of the Shenzhen tennis team and the Chinese women's national tennis team, but resigned from the latter to concentrate on his daughter's tennis career. Her mother was a former player in the Zhejiang women's basketball team. Both of them have devoted themselves to accompanying Wang everywhere. Wang showed great enthusiasm for tennis from early childhood and, coached by her father, she started playing properly at the age of five.

Tennis career

2017: Ticket to Grand Slam debut

Wang booked her ticket to a Grand Slam debut in the 2018 Australian Open on 3 December 2017 in Zhuhai, by winning the Asia-Pacific Wildcard playoff, coming back to edge out the Papua New Guinean No. 1 Abigail Tere-Apisah in the final. Tere-Apisah was only two points away from victory when leading 5–3, 30–0 in the second set, looking to become the first player from Papua New Guinea to compete in a Grand Slam main draw, when momentum shifted and Wang, demonstrating fearlessness for her age, won the next seven points before going on to level the match. Wang eventually won the match 4–6, 7–5, 6–4, seizing the most crucial break with a splendid backhand passing shot in the ninth game, and then closed out the final set after saving four break points. “It's probably the most important day in my life so far,” Wang said in the post-match news conference to CCTV Sports Channel, the official TV broadcaster of the Australian Open in China. At the age of 16, she is the youngest Chinese player to make a Grand Slam main draw.

2018: First Junior Grand Slam champion

In the 2018 Australian Open, as the second youngest competitor in the main draw, Wang lost her debut Grand Slam match 6–4, 6–2, to Alizé Cornet. But, going through to the Junior girls' doubles final with her partner Liang En-shuo from Taiwan, Wang claimed the title in a close match, 7–6, 4–6, against Violet Apisah of Papua New Guinea and Lulu Sun, a New Zealand-born Swiss player of Chinese descent.

Playing style

Wang has an offense-oriented game with big groundstrokes and serve.

Performance timeline

Singles

This table is current through 2020 Hua Hin Championships.

WTA career finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–02019 Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open – Doubles|Jiangxi Open, ChinaInternationalHard Zhu Lin Peng Shuai
Zhang Shuai		6–2, 7–6

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

ITF finals

Singles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runners-up)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Jun 2018ITF Maribor, Slovenia15,000Clay Irina Ramialison2–6, 7–6, 5–7
Win1–1Aug 2018ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand25,000Hard Wang Xiyu6–1, 4–6, 6–1
Win2–1Jun 2019ITF Shenzhen, China25,000Hard Xun Fangying6–1, 6–0
Win3–1Jun 2019ITF Hengyang, China25,000Hard Sun Ziyue6–4, 6–3
Win4–1Jul 2019ITF Tianjin, China25,000Hard Jovana Jakšić6–4, 6–2
Loss4–2Jul 2019ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand25,000Hard Yuki Naito6–2, 6–7, 3–6

Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Sep 2017ITF Győr, Hungary15,000Clay Tamara Čurović Mira Antonitsch
Panna Udvardy		1–6, 2–6
Loss0–2Mar 2018ITF Shenzhen, China60,000Hard Danka Kovinić Anna Kalinskaya
Viktória Kužmová		4–6, 6–1,
Loss0–3Apr 2018ITF Quanzhou, China60,000Hard Guo Hanyu Han Xinyun
Ye Qiuyu		6–7, 6–7