When it comes to Chinese Jinhua players, I believe that the first thing that comes to most fans' minds is Li Na and Zheng Jie, who have retired top players, who have brought countless glories to Chinese tennis.
Among the active Jinhua players, the most discussed by fans, in addition to Zhang Shuai, Wang Qiang and Zheng Saisai, who have performed well in singles events, the new generation such as Wang Xiyu, Wang Xinyu and Zheng Qinwen also have a lot of attention.
In contrast, Xu Yipan, born in 1988, is much more low-key, and as a veteran who has played on the professional field for more than a decade, her career is equally exciting.
As early as 2007, Xu Yipan began to appear in the field of fans, when she and Zhejiang player Han Xinyun worked together to compete in the women's doubles match of the China Open, and finally won a good result of runner-up.
At that time, she also stood out from the women's singles qualifiers with only 415th world rankings, and brought a lot of trouble to Peng Shuai in the first round of the women's singles main competition.
The same birthday as idol Federer, Xu Yipan, who is more like the girl next door, whether external or talking, is actually a player who takes care of singles and doubles in the early stage of his career.
She has a highest world ranking of No. 148 in singles and has played in the Women's Singles Tournament at wimbledon, with the 2014 ITF Nanning 25K as her only singles title of her career.
But then she focused entirely on the doubles event, which may also be a fairly wise choice, after all, the competition in doubles is obviously lower than in singles.
Compared with the only regular experience at Wimbledon in Grand Slam singles, Xu Yipan's performance in doubles is quite good, and in 2014 she partnered Díaz to reach the quarterfinals, knowing that this is her first Grand Slam doubles main event trip.
After that, Xu Yipan partnered with different players, and achieved the Australian Open women's doubles semifinals (2016), the French Open twice women's doubles quarterfinals (2016 and 2019), Wimbledon once runner-up (2019), a semi-final four (2018), and the US Open one runner-up (2020).
On January 13, 2020, Xu Yipan's women's doubles world ranking came to the seventh highest place in her current career, and when Li Na, Zheng Jie and other generations of Jinhua retired, she often played the role of the last surviving Jinhua player in the signing table.
This week, Xu Yipan partnered Yang Zhaoxuan in the Dubai women's doubles event, and she also has a lot of pressure as last year's runner-up winner.
In the first two rounds, the two Chinese Golden Flowers defeated Kenning/Pudinseva and Gauff/Pegula respectively, but in the semi-finals against No. 2 seeds Kudmetova/Mertens, they lost 0-2 to the final.
Xu Yipan, who has lost a huge number of points, has slipped significantly in the world rankings, and one of her records is also ancient - ranking top 50 in doubles for 316 consecutive weeks (currently ranking 51st in real time). (Source: House of Tennis Author: Barbie)