The WTA official website has just updated the list of winners of the year-end finals doubles matches, with Zhang Shuai/Stosur becoming the fifth team finalist, and the two have only played four tournaments this season, including two of which are one round.
It can be said that the entry of Zhang Shuai and Stosur is entirely dependent on the stunning performances of the two in Cincinnati and the US Open, and they lifted their second Grand Slam doubles title trophy in Flushing Park.
Although the players themselves have not yet determined whether to participate, being able to be shortlisted is still an affirmation of the performance of the players, so what achievements have Chinese players achieved in the doubles stage of the WTA year-end finals in the past?
2006 Zheng Jie/Yan Zi
0 wins, 1 loss
As early as the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the women's doubles event surprised the Chinese people, and the first major gain of the professional arena came from the 2006 season.
The combination of Zheng Jie and Yan Zi took the lead in the Australian Open that year, and won the first Grand Slam championship trophy in the history of Chinese tennis.
They also made it to the year-end finals of that year, but Zheng Jie/Yan Zi, the No. 2 seed of the tournament, were eventually eliminated in the first match, and they lost to Black/Stubbs in three sets to stop the semi-finals (only four pairs in total, direct elimination).
2013 Peng Shuai / Xie Shuwei
2 wins and 0 losses
After Zheng Jie/Yan Zi made their first year-end finals in 2006, it was a full seven years after the next Chinese player appeared, and the straits duo Peng Shuai/Xie Shuwei once again played as the No. 2 seed, this time they once again rewrote the history of the Chinese women's tennis.
Peng Shuai / Xie Shuwei finally cooperated with tacit understanding, starting with Kpatrova / Slebernik, and facing the Russian combination of Makarova / Vesnina in the final, the two finally won 6-4, 7-5.
At this point, Peng Shuai won the first year-end finals championship trophy in the history of Chinese tennis, that year Li Na not only entered the year-end and also performed the same experience, she reached the final and finally lost to Xiao Wei and won the year-end finals singles runner-up.
2014 Peng Shuai / Xie Shuwei
2 wins, 1 loss
In the 2014 year-end finals, the doubles line-up expanded, accumulating eight pairs of finalists, Peng Shuai and Xie Shuwei once again sat in the bottom half as no. 2 seeds, and defeated Muguruzza/Navarro and Kudriavtseva/Rodionova in the first two rounds to reach the final.
Their final opponents were third-seeded Black/Mirza, and the two were swept by their opponents with a score of 6-1, 6-0, and missed the stable year-end women's doubles match for two consecutive years.
2017 + 2018 + 2019 Xu Yipan / Dabrowski
1 win, 5 losses
The pair has been paired for several consecutive seasons, with the duo making the WTA Year-End Finals doubles event for three consecutive years, but stopping in the first round in 2012 and 2018.
It was only in 2019 that they won their first victory in the newly established group stage, when they defeated No. 2 seeds Xie Shuwei/Strikova in three sets.
2019 Zhang Shuai /Stosur
2 wins, 2 losses
Before finalising this season, Zhang Shuai and Stosur made their first WTA year-end finals in 2019, when they qualified for the group stage with a record of 2 wins and 1 loss.
The two who finished out of the group stage were eliminated in the semifinals by No. 3 seeds Babos/Mladenovic, who also became the doubles champion of that year's Finals. (Source: House of Tennis Author: Barbie)
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