Yang Zhaoxuan

Yang Zhaoxuan (Mandarin pronunciation: ; born 11 February 1995) is an inactive Chinese tennis player. She reached her best WTA doubles ranking of world No. 9 on 30 January 2023.

Yang has won seven doubles titles on the WTA Tour and one WTA Challenger doubles title. In September 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 151. In addition, she has won three singles and twelve doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

2014: WTA Tour debut
Yang made her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 Shenzhen Open, partnering Ye Qiuyu in doubles. The pair lost their first-round match against third seeds Irina Buryachok and Oksana Kalashnikova.

2017: First WTA 1000 final
Alongside Shuko Aoyama, she reached the final of the Wuhan Open which they lost to Latisha Chan and Martina Hingis. At the WTA Elite Trophy, she lost both matches in the round-robin stage together with Han Xinyun.

2018: First Grand Slam doubles semifinal
At the French Open, Yang alongside Chan Hao-ching reached her first Grand Slam semifinal but then lost to Eri Hozumi and Makoto Ninomiya.

2019: First mixed doubles semifinal
At the Wimbledon Championships, she reached the round of the last four in mixed doubles alongside Matwé Middelkoop, after overcoming the top-seeded couple of Nicole Melichar and Bruno Soares. They lost their semifinal match to Jeļena Ostapenko and Robert Lindstedt.

2021: Second WTA 1000 final
In March, Yang reached the final of the Dubai Tennis Championships along with Xu Yifan but they lost to Alexa Guarachi and Darija Jurak.

2022: WTA 1000 doubles title and WTA Finals
At the WTA 1000 Indian Wells Open, she won the biggest title of her career in doubles with Xu Yifan. She qualified for the 2022 WTA Finals with partner Yifan.

2023: Top 10 debut, major quarterfinal
She reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the Australian Open, partnering with Chan Hao-ching. As a result, she recorded a new career-high ranking of world No. 9, on 30 January 2023.

Performance timeline
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Doubles
Current through the 2023 Dubai Open.