On April 30, 1994, Wang Yafan was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Solid bottom-line technology, tenacious play style, she on the court because of some aspects of similarity with Li Na, once by the fans as Na Jie's successor.
Wang Yafan achieved good results in the early stages of her career, winning the ITF Junior Championship in 2012 and the women's singles gold medal at the East Asian Games in 2013... She played steadily all the way and slowly gained a foothold in the WTA.
At the 2016 US Open, Wang Yafan struggled to break through from the women's singles qualifiers, and in the first round of the main round, she defeated Belgium's Ujvank 6-3, 7-6 to win the first grand slam singles main tournament.
Of course, the Chinese Golden Flower's current best season is still in 2019. At the beginning of this year, she first reached the women's singles semifinals in a historic match at the WTA Shenzhen station, and the opponents she defeated on the way to the promotion were many powerful veterans such as Niculescu.
However, in the subsequent semi-finals, she was eliminated by the tournament's top seed, Sabalenka. After moving to the Australian Open, Wang Yafan, who competed in the Australian Open women's singles tournament for the second time, finally won the victory at Melbourne Park and entered the second round of competition.
After the Australian Open, Wang Yafan quickly made a breakthrough in the Acapulco match, and China's Jinhua soared all the way to the women's singles final, and her final opponent was the American player Kenning.
Although Kenning had not yet become a Grand Slam champion at that time, his strength was still not to be underestimated, and Wang Yafan, who finally reached the WTA singles final for the first time, reversed Kenning 2-1 and won the first championship of his career.
It is worth mentioning that that year's Acapulco can be described as a golden flower, in addition to Wang Yafan won the championship in singles, Zheng Saisai also joined hands with the famous Azarenka in the women's doubles competition.
Wang Yafan, who won the first crown of his career, is still moving forward. She also achieved the Miami Women's Singles Round of 16, Seoul Final Four, Tianjin Quarterfinals and other good results in the 2019 season, and her world ranking reached a career-high 47th place on October 7, 2019.
Just when fans were expecting Wang Yafan and other Jinhua to pick up the banner of the Chinese women's tennis team, her state began to decline.
In 2020, Acapulco defended his title in the first game, and then due to the epidemic, Wang Yafan chose to return to China for the off-season, during which he also formed his own family.
In the 2021 season, Wang Yafan's overall performance was not good, coupled with the small number of participants, the world ranking had fallen out of the top three hundred at the end of the season, fortunately, she performed well in some low-level competitions this season, and slowly stabilized her world ranking, currently ranking 327th.
The 28-year-old is not small for professional players, and the future star in the eyes of former fans has become a veteran of the WTA, looking forward to Wang Yafan being able to play back soon! (Source: House of Tennis Author: Barbie)