Zhao Yijing

Full name	Zhao Yijing
Native name	赵依静
Country (sports)	China
Residence	Liaoning, China
Born	(1989-02-07) 7 February 1989 Liaoning
Turned pro	2004
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$63,439
Singles
Career record	142–95
Career titles	0 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 244 (11 June 2012)
Doubles
Career record	97–70
Career titles	9 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 222 (9 July 2012)

Zhao Yijing (Chinese: 赵依静; pinyin: Zhào Yījìng; Mandarin pronunciation: [ʈʂâʊ í tɕîŋ]; born 7 February 1989) is a Chinese former tennis player.

On 11 June 2012, she reached her career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 244. On 9 July 2012, she peaked at No. 222 in the doubles rankings. Zhao won four singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Career

Zhao was accepted as a wild card into the qualifying of the 2011 Guangzhou International Women's Open, where she defeated eighth seed Hsu Wen-hsin and second seed Mădălina Gojnea. In the main draw, she defeated Misaki Doi in the first round, 6–4, 6–3. This was her first WTA main-draw appearance. In the second round she lost to Tetiana Luzhanska in three sets. After this performance, she rose 92 ranks to 345. She then also reached the final of a $10k event, losing to Luksika Kumkhum, leaving her end of year ranking at 318, an increase of 538 ranks from 2010.

In 2012, Zhao started off the year playing ITF events in China, losing in the first round of the Blossom Cup, then moving on to win both the singles and doubles in Pingguo.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 6 (4–2)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1.	13 May 2006	ITF New Delhi, India	Hard	Sandhya Nagaraj	6–4, 4–6, 7–5
Win	2.	20 May 2006	ITF New Delhi, India	Hard	Song Shanshan	6–2, 6–2
Winner	3.	1 September 2007	ITF Saitama, Japan	Hard	Mari Tanaka	6–4, 6–3
Loss	1.	13 September 2007	ITF Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Sophie Ferguson	6–2, 6–4
Loss	2.	20 November 2011	ITF Manila, Philippines	Hard	Luksika Kumkhum	4–6, 6–4, 6–2
Win	4.	15 January 2012	ITF Pingguo, China	Hard	Erika Takao	6–2, 6–4

Doubles: 17 (9–8)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	May 2006	New Delhi, India	Hard	Song Shanshan	Rushmi Chakravarthi Archana Venkataraman	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	May 2006	New Delhi, India	Hard	Song Shanshan	Rushmi Chakravarthi Archana Venkataraman	6–7(5–7), 6–2, 6–4
Winner	2.	Jul 2007	Miyazaki, Japan	Carpet	Zhang Shuai	Natsumi Hamamura Ayaka Maekawa	6–4, 6–4
Winner	3.	Aug 2007	Tokyo, Japan	Carpet	Song Shanshan	Maiko Inoue Mari Inoue	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	2.	Oct 2007	Beijing, China	Hard	Liang Chen	Ji Chunmei Sun Shengnan	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	Jun 2008	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Liu Wanting	Maya Kato Miki Miyamura	6–4, 6–2
Winner	4.	Apr 2010	Ningbo, China	Hard	Liu Wanting	Lu Jiaxing Li Xi	6–0, 6–4
Winner	5.	May 2011	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Li Ting	Ayu-Fani Damayanti Lavinia Tananta	6–7(2–7), 6–4, 6–4
Winner	6.	Jun 2011	Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Liang Chen	Luksika Kumkhum Napatsakorn Sankaew	1–6, 6–1, 7–5
Runner-up	4.	Jun 2011	Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Liang Chen	Emi Mutaguchi Kotomi Takahata	4–6, 7–5, 6–4
Winner	7.	Jul 2011	Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Liang Chen	Misa Eguchi Akiko Omae	6–3, 6–4
Winner	8.	Jul 2011	Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Liang Chen	Yurina Koshino Varatchaya Wongteanchai	6–1, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	Oct 2011	Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Kao Shao-yuan	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai Nungnadda Wannasuk	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	Nov 2011	Manila, Philippines	Hard	Zheng Junyi	Luksika Kumkhum Peangtarn Plipuech	3–6, 0–6
Winner	9.	Jan 2012	Pingguo, China	Hard	Kao Shao-yuan	Liang Chen Tian Ran	3–6, 7–6(7–3), [10–7]
Runner-up	7.	Oct 2012	Suzhou, China	Hard	Yang Zhaoxuan	Timea Bacsinszky Caroline Garcia	5–7, 3–6
Runner-up	8.	Sep 2013	Sanya, China	Hard	Yang Zhaoxuan	Sun Ziyue Xu Shilin	7–6(7–5), 3–6, [3–10]

References

External links

• Zhao Yijing at the Women's Tennis Association
• Zhao Yijing at the International Tennis Federation