Duan Yingying
Duan Yingying is a Chinese tennis player.
She has won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, and two WTA 125s doubles titles, as well as eleven singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
Her nickname is lightning for her amazing forehand.
On 24 April 2017, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 60. On 3 February 2020, she peaked at No. 16 in the WTA doubles rankings.
Career
2012
Starting the year as the No. 378 in the world, Duan's ranking would improve significantly to No. 128 by the year's end. Some of the highlights of her 2012 season included winning four 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 wild card to the Guangzhou International and won her first WTA Tour main-draw match defeating Luksika Khumkum in the first round. Duan also achieved her best results in ITF events 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 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 on the Chinese internet.2015
At Wimbledon, as a qualifier, Duan defeated 2014 finalist Eugenie Bouchard in straight sets in the first round by 7–6, 6–4. This was considered as one of the biggest upset of the tournament. In the second round, Duan lost to Tatjana Maria in a long three-set match by 6–1, 2–6, 8–10.2016: First WTA title
In July, she won her first WTA Tour title at the Jiangxi International Open, defeating Vania King in the final.2017: Elite Trophy doubles title
In the first-round match at the Shenzhen Open, Duan wasted three match points and eventually lost to first seed and world No. 3, Agnieszka Radwańska. At the Australian Open, she had her best Grand Slam performance to date by defeating Rebecca Šramková and Varvara Lepchenko to reach the third round, where she lost to former world No. 1 and eventual finalist Venus Williams by 1–6, 0–6.Duan won her first ever WTA doubles title at the 2017 Elite Trophy with Han Xinyun.
2018
Duan won her second doubles title at the 2018 Taiwan Open, playing with Wang Yafan.2019
Duan and Zheng Saisai reached the final of the French Open in June 2019, losing to Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic. In September, they reached the quarterfinal of the US Open, where they were beaten by the eventual champions Elise Mertens and Aryna Sabalenka. The following week, with Zheng unavailable, she partnered with Veronika Kudermetova for the first time to win the doubles title at the Wuhan Open, beating Mertens and Sabalenka in the final.Grand Slam performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
Significant finals
Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 finals
Doubles: 1 (1 title)
WTA Elite Trophy
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)
WTA career finals
Singles: 1 (1 title)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | 2016 Jiangxi International Women's Tennis Open – Singles| | Jiangxi Open, China | International | Hard |
Doubles: 8 (3 titles, 5 runner-ups)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | 2017 WTA Elite Trophy – Doubles| | WTA Elite Trophy, China | Elite Trophy | Hard |  Han Xinyun | Lu Jingjing Zhang Shuai | 6–2, 6–1 |
| Win | 2–0 | 2018 Taiwan Open – Doubles| | Taiwan Open, Taiwan | International | Hard | Wang Yafan |  Nao Hibino  Oksana Kalashnikova | 7–6, 7–6 |
| Loss | 2–1 | 2019 WTA Shenzhen Open – Doubles| | Shenzhen Open, China | International | Hard |  Renata Voráčová | Peng Shuai Yang Zhaoxuan | 4–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 2–2 | 2019 Internationaux de Strasbourg – Doubles| | Internationaux de Strasbourg, France | International | Clay | Han Xinyun |  Daria Gavrilova Ellen Perez | 4–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 2–3 | 2019 French Open – Women's Doubles| | French Open, France | Grand Slam | Clay | Zheng Saisai |  Tímea Babos  Kristina Mladenovic | 2–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 3–3 | 2019 Wuhan Open – Doubles| | Wuhan Open, China | Premier 5 | Hard |  Veronika Kudermetova |  Elise Mertens  Aryna Sabalenka | 7–6, 6–2 |
| Loss | 3–4 | 2019 WTA Elite Trophy – Doubles| | WTA Elite Trophy, China | Elite Trophy | Hard | Yang Zhaoxuan |  Lyudmyla Kichenok  Andreja Klepač | 3–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 3–5 | Jan 2020 | Shenzhen Open, China | International | Hard | Zheng Saisai | Barbora Krejčíková Kateřina Siniaková | 2–6, 6–3, |
WTA 125K series finals
Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)
Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 19 (11 titles, 8 runner–ups)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Feb 2009 | ITF Jiangmen, China | 10,000 | Hard | Xie Yanze | 6–2, 6–4 |
| Win | 2–0 | May 2009 | ITF New Delhi, India | 10,000 | Hard |  Keren Shlomo | 6–3, 6–4 |
| Loss | 2–1 | Jun 2009 | ITF Xiamen, China | 25,000 | Hard | Zhang Shuai | 2–6, 1–6 |
| Win | 3–1 | Mar 2010 | ITF Nanjing, China | 10,000 | Hard | Liu Wanting | 6–4, 7–6 |
| Win | 4–1 | Jun 2010 | ITF Hefei, China | 10,000 | Hard | Zheng Saisai | 6–3, 6–4 |
| Loss | 4–2 | Aug 2010 | ITF Saitama, Japan | 10,000 | Hard |  Hsu Wen-hsin | 1–6, 6–1, 3–6 |
| Loss | 4–3 | Aug 2011 | ITF Saitama, Japan | 10,000 | Hard | Ayumi Oka | 3–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 5–3 | Feb 2012 | ITF Wellington, New Zealand | 25,000 | Hard |  Sandra Zaniewska | 6–1, 6–4 |
| Win | 6–3 | May 2012 | ITF Changwon, Korea | 25,000 | Hard |  Zhang Ling | 6–4, 6–3 |
| Win | 7–3 | May 2012 | ITF Gimcheon, Korea | 25,000 | Hard |  Chanel Simmonds | 6–2, 6–1 |
| Win | 8–3 | Jun 2012 | ITF Goyang, Korea | 25,000 | Hard | Zhang Ling | 6–3, 6–3 |
| Loss | 8–4 | Jul 2012 | ITF Evansville, United States | 10,000 | Hard |  Mallory Burdette | 1–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 8–5 | Oct 2012 | ITF Suzhou, China | 100,000 | Hard | Hsieh Su-wei | 2–6, 2–6 |
| Win | 9–5 | May 2013 | ITF Goyang, Korea | 25,000 | Hard | Liu Fangzhou | 6–3, 6–4 |
| Win | 10–5 | Jun 2014 | ITF Xi'an, China | 50,000 | Hard | Zhu Lin | 4–6, 7–6, 6–4 |
| Win | 11–5 | Jul 2015 | ITF Tianjin, China | 25,000 | Hard | Wang Qiang | 4–6, 7–6, 3–0 ret. |
| Loss | 11–6 | Jul 2015 | ITF Zhengzhou, China | 25,000 | Hard | Wang Yafan | 4–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 11–7 | Oct 2015 | ITF Suzhou, China | 50,000 | Hard | Zhang Kailin | 6–1, 3–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 11–8 | May 2019 | ITF Lu'an, China | 60,000 | Hard | Han Xinyun | 4–6, 3–6 |
Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner–ups)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | May 2008 | ITF Khon Kaen, Thailand | 10,000 | Hard | Chen Hui |  Kim Sun-jung Lee Cho-won | 4–6, 6–4, |
| Loss | 0–2 | Feb 2012 | ITF Sydney, Australia | 25,000 | Hard | Han Xinyun | Arina Rodionova  Melanie South | 6–3, 3–6, |
| Win | 1–2 | Jul 2012 | ITF Evansville, United States | 10,000 | Hard | Xu Yifan | Mallory Burdette Natalie Pluskota | 6–2, 6–3 |
| Loss | 1–3 | Jul 2016 | ITF Wuhan, China | 50,000 | Hard | Chang Kai-chen | Shuko Aoyama Makoto Ninomiya | 4–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 2–3 | May 2019 | ITF Gifu, Japan | 80,000 | Hard | Han Xinyun | Akiko Omae  Peangtarn Plipuech | 6–3, 4–6, |
| Win | 3–3 | Jun 2019 | ITF Manchester, England | 100,000 | Grass | Zhu Lin | Robin Anderson  Laura-Ioana Paar | 6–4, 6–3 |