Yang Zhaoxuan

Yang Zhaoxuan (; ; born 11 February 1995) is a Chinese tennis player. She reached her career-high WTA doubles ranking of No. 9 on 30 January 2023.

Yang has won seven doubles titles on the WTA Tour and one WTA Challenger doubles title. In September 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 151. In addition, she has won three singles and twelve doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Career 2014: WTA Tour debut Yang made her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 Shenzhen Open, partnering Ye Qiuyu in doubles. The pair lost their first-round match against third seeds Irina Buryachok and Oksana Kalashnikova. which they lost to Latisha Chan and Martina Hingis. At the WTA Elite Trophy, she lost both matches in the round-robin stage together with Han Xinyun.

2018: First major doubles semifinal At the French Open, Yang alongside Chan Hao-ching reached her first major semifinal but then lost to Eri Hozumi and Makoto Ninomiya.

2019: Mixed doubles semifinal At the Wimbledon Championships, she reached the round of the last four in mixed doubles alongside Matwé Middelkoop, after overcoming the top-seeded couple of Nicole Melichar and Bruno Soares. They lost their semifinal match to Jeļena Ostapenko and Robert Lindstedt.

2021: Second WTA 1000 final In March, Yang reached the final of the Dubai Tennis Championships along with Xu Yifan but they were defeatet by Alexa Guarachi and Darija Jurak.

2022: WTA 1000 doubles title and WTA Finals At the WTA 1000 Indian Wells Open, she won the biggest title of her career in doubles with Xu Yifan. They also took the title at the Silicon Valley Classic She qualified for the 2022 WTA Finals with partner Xu Yifan.

2023: Top 10 debut, major quarterfinal She reached her first Grand Slam tournament quarterfinal outside of Paris at the Australian Open, partnering with Chan Hao-ching. As a result, she recorded a new career-high ranking of world No. 9, on 30 January 2023.

Performance timeline Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Doubles Current through the 2023 Dubai Open.

Significant finals WTA Elite Trophy Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups) ResultYearLocationSurfacePartnerOpponents ScoreLoss 2016 Zhuhai, China Hard (i) You Xiaodi İpek Soylu Xu Yifan 4–6, 6–3, [7–10]Loss 2019 Zhuhai, China Hard (i) Duan Yingying Lyudmyla Kichenok Andreja Klepač 3–6, 3–6

WTA 1000 tournaments Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 2017 Wuhan Open Hard Shuko Aoyama Chan Yung-jan Martina Hingis 6–7(5–7), 6–3, [4–10]Loss 2021 Dubai Championships Hard Xu Yifan Alexa Guarachi Darija Jurak 0–6, 3–6Win 2022 Indian Wells Open Hard Xu Yifan Asia Muhammad Ena Shibahara 7–5, 7–6(7–4)

WTA Tour finals Doubles: 16 (7 titles, 9 runner-ups) LegendElite Trophy (0–2)WTA 1000 (1–2)WTA 500 (2–1)WTA 250 (4–4)Finals by surfaceHard (6–7)Clay (1–1)Grass (0–1)

WTA 125 finals Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up) Legend$25,000 tournaments (0–1)$10,000 tournaments (3–0)Finals by surfaceHard (3–1)Clay (0–0)

Doubles: 24 (12 titles, 12 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments (2–3)$75,000 tournaments (0–1)$50,000 tournaments (3–3)$25,000 tournaments (2–2)$10,000 tournaments (5–3)Finals by surfaceHard (8–10)Clay (1–2)Grass (3–0)