Yan Zi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yan Zi
Occupation	Tennis Player
Date Of Birth	Nov 12, 1984(1984-11-12)
Age	40
Birthplace	Chengdu
Country	China
Horoscope	Scorpio

Yan Zi Biography

Yan Zi is one of the most popular and richest Tennis Player who was born on November 12, 1984 in Chengdu, China. Yan Zi, Chinese: Yan Zi; pinyin pronunciation: Yan Zi; Mandarin pronunciation: [jentsi]; born 12/11/1984) is a retired Hong Kong tennis player who was Chinese-born.

Yan fought her way past three top-quality opponents, Julia Schruff and Shikha Uberoi, in January 2005 to qualify for Tennis Gold Coast. Tatiana Golovin, a French WTA player, was then able to remove Yan. After qualifying for Rabat, Yan beat Uberoi once more with a win against Sun Tiantian. However, she lost to Arantxa Paarra Santonja in round 2. In June, she reached the final of the $50k tournament in Beijing, surpassing her career-best result. She beat Sun Tiantian and Zheng, but was defeated by Li Ting, her less-feted counterpart. She was a direct entry to the WTA Modena event as a direct participant. In the final, she defeated Marta Domachowska, a Polish player, before losing to Sanda Mamic in a three-setter. She reclaimed her defeat by Li Ting in September to qualify for Bali. However, her former doubles partner Li Na defeated her in round 2.

She began 2006 by narrowly failing to qualify for Tennis Gold Coast, despite wins over Vania King and Shikha Uberoi, as Angela Haynes defeated her in three sets. But she succeeded in qualifying for Sydney with stunning straight-sets victories over Eva Birnerová, Denisa Chládková and Anastasia Yakimova, and beat the high-ranked Russian Anna Chakvetadze 6–3, 6–3 in the main draw first round before losing a three-set match to Francesca Schiavone, who had to struggle through a nail-bitingly close second-set tiebreak to avoid a straight sets loss to Yan, only to win the final set by a more comfortable margin.

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 the Tier I Rogers Cup in August, reaching the semifinals before finally being defeated by world No. 1 Justine Henin, 6–3, 6–0.

Unfortunately, 2004 was a difficult year for her. Although she had a series of early losses that slowed her progress, she was determined to now only target WTA events, which would raise the standard for success in competition. The entire year she failed to win a main-round match, and only moderate success was achieved in qualifying rounds. She finally found relief in retreating to ITF events in the latter part of the year. She reached the semifinals of the $25k Beijing tournament in September, losing to Zheng Jie again. She also reached the Shenzhen stage where she was shocked by Li Na in quarterfinals and lost to Zheng again. She was able to make it to the semifinals of a $25k tournament in Beijing in September, losing again to Zheng Jie.

Yan Zi Net Worth

Yan Zi is one of the richest Tennis Player from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yan Zi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Yan had mixed results until January 2002 as a singles player at the lower levels of the ITF tournament hierarchy. She lost to Liu Nannan in the final of a $10k Hull event that she won. She reclaimed her victory in May with a win over Liu at Fukuoka’s $50k tournament. In August, she beat Liu again, but this time she lost to Rika Fujiwara in Beijing’s quarterfinal of the $25k tournament. She qualified for the WTA Tour contest in Shanghai in September but lost in the first round. She had been to several ITF quarterfinals throughout the year and was ranked at No. 299.

In February 2003, she was unable to qualify in Hyderabad. She lost to Maria Kirilenko in three sets in the final round. Fukuoka was her best performance, with wins over Sun Tiantian and Rika Fujiwara. She lost to Saori Obata in the semifinal, despite having won more games. The score was 6-2, 7-6, 5-7. She qualified for the WTA event at Palermo in July by beating Zheng Jie, Ivana Abramovic and then lost in the main-draw to Francesca Schiavone, an Italian rising star. In this three-setter, she won more games that her victorious counterpart, the score being 6-0, 6-4, 3-6. These losses suggest that she is exhausted quickly after giving her all in the first set. This allows her opponent to regroup and ultimately win the contest. She defeated Sun Tiantian, her countrywoman, to reach Modena’s $50k tournament. In the main draw, she beat Yulia Belzimer and Adriana Sara Zanetti, en route to losing in the quarterfinals. She qualified for the Japan Open WTA event in September. In round two, she defeated Ashley Harkleroad, before falling to Zheng Jie in quarterfinals. She reached the semifinals of the $50k tournament in December. She beat Tzipora Obziler at Changsha, before losing to Peng Shuai, another prominent countrywoman. She lost to Sesil Karatantcheva in Shenzhen’s quarterfinals of the $50k tournament the following week, 6-3. Yan’s singles results had seen a significant improvement, and her year-end ranking was 179.

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

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On September 26, she began competing in the WTA event at Guangzhou, this year up-rated to Tier III status, and shocked herself by proceeding to win the entire tournament, having previously failed to win even one ITF singles title, and having only once reached the quarter-final stage at any WTA Tour event. To achieve this astonishing outcome, she had to produce some of her best tennis to conquer defending champion Li Na in the quarterfinal, which she finally won 6–7, 7–5, 7–6 after an intense battle. The other matches against worthy opposition looked easy by comparison, as she crushed Marta Domachowska for the loss of just three games in round two, fought past impressive emerging teen star Victoria Azarenka 6–4, 6–3 in the semifinal, and was up 6–4, 4–0 against Nuria Llagostera Vives in the final when the Spaniard conceded victory.

Facts & Trivia

Yan Ranked on the list of most popular Tennis Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Yan Zi celebrates birthday on November 12 of every year.

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.