Bai Yan

Bai Yan (; ; born May 21, 1989, in Nanjing, Jiangsu) is a Chinese tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 200, achieved in 2016. He has been inactive during 2026.

Yan has reached 34 career singles finals all on the ITF Futures tour, with a record of 27 wins and 7 losses. Additionally, he has reached 20 career doubles finals with a record of 13 wins and 7 losses, which includes four ATP Challenger Tour titles.

Yan has represented his native country of China competing during the Davis Cup. He holds a singles record of 3–2 and a doubles record of 1–1 for a combined Davis Cup record of 4–3.

Career

2007: Juniors and first Pro ITF title As a junior, Bai reached his highest ranking as world No. 10 in the ITF junior singles rankings in January 2007.

2008-2016: Masters debut and first win Yan won back-to-back ITF Men's Circuit titles in September before knocking off World No. 30 Radek Štěpánek at the 2010 Shanghai Masters the following month.

After not competing on tour in 2011, Bai opened 2012 by reaching the singles semifinals of China F2 ITF Men's Circuit tournament.

2017-2025: United Cup debut Bai opened the 2017 season by winning the Hong Kong F6 futures.

He was selected as part of the 2025 United Cup Team China as the No. 2 ATP player.

ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals Singles: 39 (29–10) LegendITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (29–10)Finals by surfaceHard (27–8)Clay (2–2)

Doubles: 20 (13–7) LegendATP Challenger (4–0)ITF Futures (9–7)Finals by surfaceHard (10–5)Clay (3–2)