Zhao Yijing

Zhao Yijing (born February 7, 1989) is a professional Chinese tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. 11 June 2012, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 244. On 9 July 2012, she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of No. 222.

Zhao was accepted as a wildcard into the qualifying of the 2011 Guangzhou International Women's Open, where she defeated 8th seed Hsu Wen-hsin and 2nd seed Mădălina Gojnea. She was accepted into the main draw where 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, 4-6, 6-2, 5-7. After this good result, she rose 92 ranks to 345. She then also reached the final of a $10,000 ITF event, losing to Luksika Kumkhum, leaving her end of year ranking at 318, an increase of 538 ranks from 2010.

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 singles finals (4-2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponents in the final	Score
Winner	1.	May 8, 2006	New Delhi, India	Hard	Nagaraj Sandhya	6–4, 4–6, 7–5
Winner	2.	May 15, 2006	New Delhi, India	Hard	Song Shanshan	6–2, 6–2
Winner	3.	September 1, 2007	Saitama, Japan	Hard	Mari Tanaka	6–4, 6–3
Runner Up	1.	September 15, 2007	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Sophie Ferguson	6–2, 6–4
Runner Up	2.	November 14, 2011	Manila, Philippines	Hard	Luksika Kumkhum	4–6, 6–4, 6–2
Winner	4.	January 9, 2012	Pingguo, China	Hard	Erika Takao	6–2, 6–4

ITF Circuit doubles finals (9-8)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
Winner	1.	May 8, 2006	New Delhi, India	Hard	Song Shanshan	Rushmi Chakravarthi Archana Venkataraman	6–3, 6–4
Runner Up	1.	May 15, 2006	New Delhi, India	Hard	Song Shanshan	Rushmi Chakravarthi Archana Venkataraman	6–7(5–7), 6–2, 6–4
Winner	2.	July 10, 2007	Miyazaki, Japan	Carpet	Zhang Shuai	Natsumi Hamamura Ayaka Maekawa	6–4, 6–4
Winner	3.	August 14, 2007	Tokyo, Japan	Carpet	Song Shanshan	Maiko Inouei Mari Inoue	6–3, 6–1
Runner Up	2.	October 8, 2007	Beijing, China	Hard	Liang Chen	Ji Chunmei Sun Shengnan	6–2, 6–3
Runner Up	3.	June 9, 2008	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Liu Wanting	Maya Kato Miki Miyamura	6–4, 6–2
Winner	4.	March 29, 2010	Ningbo, China	Hard	Liu Wanting	Lu Jiaxing Li Xi	6–0, 6–4
Winner	5.	May 9, 2011	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Li Ting	Ayu-Fani Damayanti Lavinia Tananta	6–7(2–7), 6–4, 6–4
Winner	6.	June 13, 2011	Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Liang Chen	Luksika Kumkhum Napatsakorn Sankaew	1–6, 6–1, 7–5
Runner Up	4.	June 20, 2011	Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Liang Chen	Emi Mutaguchi Kotomi Takahata	4–6, 7–5, 6–4
Winner	7.	June 27, 2011	Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Liang Chen	Misa Eguchi Akiko Omae	6–3, 6–4
Winner	8.	July 4, 2011	Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Liang Chen	Yurina Koshino Varatchaya Wongteanchai	6–1, 6–4
Runner Up	5.	September 26, 2011	Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Kao Shao-yuan	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai Nungnadda Wannasuk	4–6, 4–6
Runner Up	6.	November 14, 2011	Manila, Philippines	Hard	Zheng Junyi	Luksika Kumkhum Peangtarn Plipuech	3–6, 0–6
Winner	9.	January 9, 2012	Pingguo, China	Hard	Kao Shao-yuan	Liang Chen Tian Ran	3–6, 7–6(7–3), [10–7]
Runner-up	7.	October 8, 2012	Suzhou, China	Hard	Yang Zhaoxuan	Timea Bacsinszky Caroline Garcia	5–7, 3–6
Runner-up	8.	September 9, 2013	Sanya, China	Hard	Yang Zhaoxuan	Sun Ziyue Xu Shilin	7–6(7–5), 3–6, [3–10]