Duan Yingying

Duan Yingying (Chinese: 段莹莹; pinyin: Duàn Yíngyíng; born July 3, 1989 in Tianjin) is a professional Chinese tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On August 10, 2015, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 100. On October 15, 2012, she also reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of 331.

2012

Starting the year ranked #378 in the world, Duan's ranking would improve significantly to #128 by the year's end. Some of the highlights of her 2012 season included winning 4 ITF titles at the 25k level in Wellington, Changwon, Gimcheon and Goyang. Playing qualifying at the US Open, Duan had her first experience in a Grand Slam tournament. She would win her first qualifying round defeating Réka-Luca Jani, but would fall in the next round to Kirsten Flipkens. She received a wildcard to the 2012 Guangzhou International Women's Open and won her first WTA main draw match defeating Luksika Khumkum in the first round. Duan also achieved her best results in ITF challengers near the end of 2012, reaching the semifinals of 100K+H Ningbo and the finals of 100K Suzhou, losing both matches to top-100 veteran Hsieh Su-wei.

2013

Duan was due to make her main draw Grand Slam singles debut at Wimbledon, but withdrew to compete in the National Games of China. She made her Grand Slam singles debut in the main draw of the US Open after winning three qualifying matches. She lost to sixth seed Caroline Wozniacki in the opening round. During the televised commentary of her match against Caroline Wozniacki, the commentators compared Duan's game to that of former World No. 1 Lindsay Davenport. They also began referring to her by the nickname of Duan-venport （段文波特） on the Chinese internet.

2015

As a qualifier, Duan beat Wimbledon 2014 finalist Eugenie Bouchard 7–6^(7–3), 6–4 in the first round of Wimbledon 2015. This match was considered as one of the biggest upset of the tournament. In the second round, Duan lost to Tatjana Maria from Germany in a long three-set match by 6–1, 2–6, 8–10.

2016

In July, Duan won her first WTA tour title at the Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open, defeating Vania King in the final by 1–6, 6–4, 6–2.

2017

Duan had 3 match points against Agnieszka Radwanska at the Shenzhen Open, eventually losing the match.

Duan had her best Grand Slam showing to date at the 2017 Australian Open. She defeated Rebecca Sramkova and Varvara Lepchenko to reach the third round, where she lost to former world number 1 and eventual finalist Venus Williams by a scoreline of 6–0, 6–1.

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	7 August 2016	Jiangxi Open, Nanchang, China	Hard	Vania King	1–6, 6–4, 6–2

WTA 125K Series

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner Up	1.	6 September 2014	Huangcangyu WTA Suzhou Ladies Open, Suzhou, China	Hard	Anna-Lena Friedsam	1–6, 3–6

Singles 16 (10–6)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
Winner	1.	9 February 2009	Jiangmen, China	Hard	Xie Yanze	6–2, 6–4
Winner	2.	25 May 2009	New Delhi, India	Hard	Keren Shlomo	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	29 June 2009	Xiamen, China	Hard	Zhang Shuai	2–6, 1–6
Winner	4.	29 March 2010	Nanjing, China	Hard	Liu Wanting	6–4, 7–6(8–6)
Winner	5.	28 June 2010	Hefei, China	Hard	Zheng Saisai	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	6.	23 August 2010	Saitama, Japan	Hard	Hsu Wen-hsin	1–6, 6–1, 3–6
Runner-up	7.	22 August 2011	Saitama, Japan	Hard	Ayumi Oka	3–6, 4–6
Winner	8.	27 February 2012	Wellington, New Zealand	Hard	Sandra Zaniewska	6–1, 6–4
Winner	9.	21 May 2012	Changwon, Korea	Hard	Zhang Ling	6–4, 6–3
Winner	10.	28 May 2012	Gimcheon, Korea	Hard	Chanel Simmonds	6–2, 6–1
Winner	11.	18 June 2012	Goyang, Korea	Hard	Zhang Ling	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	12.	16 July 2012	Evansville, United States	Hard	Mallory Burdette	1–6, 2–6
Runner-up	13.	8 October 2012	Suzhou, China	Hard	Hsieh Su-wei	2–6, 2–6
Winner	14.	26 May 2013	Goyang, Korea	Hard	Liu Fangzhou	6–3, 6–4
Winner	15.	23 June 2014	Xi'an, China	Hard	Zhu Lin	4–6, 7–6(11–9), 6–4
Runner-up	16.	25 October 2015	Suzhou, China	Hard	Zhang Kailin	6–1, 3–6, 4–6

Doubles Finals: 4 (1–3)

Outcome	NO	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
Runner–up	1.	19 May 2008	Khon Kaen, Thailand	Hard	Chen Hui	Kim Sun-jung Lee Cho-won	4–6, 6–4, [4–10]
Runner–up	2.	13 February 2012	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Han Xinyun	Arina Rodionova Melanie South	6–3, 3–6, [8–10]
Winner	3.	16 July 2012	Evansville, United States	Hard	Xu Yifan	Mallory Burdette Natalie Pluskota	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	4.	30 July 2016	Wuhan, China	Hard	Chang Kai-chen	Shuko Aoyama Makoto Ninomiya	4–6, 4–6