Sun Tiantian

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Sun Tiantian

Country	China
Residence	Beijing, China
Date of birth	October 12, 1981
Place of birth	Henan, China
Height	5' 9in (1.75 m)
Weight	143 1/2 lbs. (65 kg)
Turned pro	1999
Plays	Right-handed; two-handed backhand
Career prize money	US$930,228
Singles
Career record:	207-145
Career titles:	1 WTA, 6 ITF Titles
Highest ranking:	No. 77 (March 19, 2007)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	1st (2006)
French Open	2nd (2006)
Wimbledon	2nd (2004, 2006)
US Open	2nd (2005)
Doubles
Career record:	236-125
Career titles:	12 (13 ITF titles)
Highest ranking:	No. 16 (October 22, 2007)
Infobox last updated on: April 7, 2008.

Olympic medal record
Women's Tennis
Gold	2004 Athens	Doubles

Sun Tiantian (Simplified Chinese: 孙甜甜; pinyin: Sūn Tiántián; born October 12, 1981 in Henan province) is a female tennis player from the People's Republic of China.

Contents 1 Biography 2 WTA Tour titles (13) 2.1 Singles wins (1) 2.1.1 Doubles (12) 3 Grand Slam mixed doubles title(1) 3.1 Wins (1) 4 External links

[edit] Biography

In September 2000, she won two successive $10,000 ITF singles titles, a feat she would repeat in June 2001, when she won another two back-to-back.

In 2002, she found repeat success at the next level up, winning two $25,000 tournaments: firstly in April, at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (beating countrywoman Zheng Jie in the semi-final and Korean Mi Ra Jeon in the final); and then in August at Beijing (beating Zheng Jie in the semi-final again, and Rika Fujiwara of Japan in the final)

In 2003, she reached the final of a $50,000 tournament at Modena despite entering as a lucky loser to countrywoman Yan Zi in the final round of qualifying. Having defeated several high-quality opponents in the forms of Martina Sucha, Maret Ani and Gala Leon Garcia, she lost in the final against Melinda Czink.

This year, she also gained entry into several WTA tournaments, most notably coming through qualifying at Doha by defeating Yuliana Fedak, Lubomira Kurhajcova and Maria Sanchez Lorenzo, only to lose in the deciding set of her opening round match against Nicole Pratt; and at the U.S. Open after a narrow victory over Selima Sfar, only to lose to Saori Obata at the first hurdle in the main draw. But she finished the year world-ranked 141.

In 2004, she qualified for the Australian Open after a win over Roberta Vinci, then qualified for Doha for the second year running. She went on to record impressive wins over Eva Birnerova and Sandra Kleinova to qualify for Miami; and over Camille Pin and Mara Santangelo to qualify for Amelia Island, where she also beat Cara Black in the main draw first round. At Wimbledon, she qualified with a win over Barbara Schwartz and won her first-round tie against Tathiana Garbin before succumbing to Anne Kremer in Round Two. At the end of the year, she lost in a tight three-set final in the first $50,000 Shenzhen tournament to on-form countrywoman Li Na, 3–6 6–4 2–6. Her year-end ranking had improved to 118.

Sun also competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, defeating Conchita Martinez and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain in the women's tennis doubles final to win a gold medal along with her partner Li Ting.

In 2005, she reached her first WTA singles quarter-final at Hyderabad, defeating Tamarine Tanasugarn 6–2 6–1 in the second round before losing a close match against prominent German player Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6–7 3–6. After a relatively barren Spring season marked by several near-misses in qualifying, she again made her mark in August: both at Los Angeles, where she took French star Marion Bartoli to three sets in the second round, and in the U.S. Open, where she qualified with convincing straight-sets wins over Marlene Weingartner and Ludmila Cervanova and went on to defeat Sam Stosur 6–3 7–6 in the first round of the main draw before succumbing to Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain. But her career-best win to date was yet to come the following month at Beijing, where she defeated former #1 player Serena Williams in the 2nd Round after an easy first-round victory over Tatiana Panova of Russia, only to be outperformed in her second WTA quarter-final by rising star Maria Kirilenko. This run of results propelled her to a career-best world ranking of 88; but by the close of the year she had slipped back slightly to #105.

Early in 2006, Sun suffered some extremely tough draws, but fought every inch of the way in tight three-set losses to Amélie Mauresmo in the first round of the Australian Open and Nuria Llagostera Vives in the first round at Gold Coast, only to lose in qualifying for Doha and Dubai.

At the Tashkent Open held in Uzbekistan, Sun fought her way past Iroda Tulyaganova in the final to win the first WTA title of her career and became only the fourth Chinese woman to win a WTA title. On 9 October 2006, she moved to a new career high of No.81 and is currently the Chinese No.4.

She is one of only two active players (the other is Sybille Bammer of Austria) to have a winning record against Serena Williams. In their only meeting, she defeated Williams 6–2, 7–6(7) in the Round of 16 at Beijing in 2005.

On January 27, 2008, Sun captured her first Grand Slam title when she won the Australian Open mixed doubles crown, partnering with Nenad Zimonjić of Serbia. The pair defeated Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi of India 7–6(4), 6–4. They won the title with their fifth championship point.

[edit] WTA Tour titles (13)

[edit] Singles wins (1)

Legend

Grand Slam (0)

Tier I (0)

Tier II (0)

Tier III (0)

Tier IV (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	October 8, 2006	Tashkent	Hard	Iroda Tulyaganova	6–2, 6–4

[edit] Doubles (12)

Legend (Singles)

Grand Slam (0)

Tour Championships (0)

Olympic Games (1)

Tier I Event (0)

Tier II Event (1)

Tier III Event (6)

Tier IV/V Event (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	June 14, 2003	Vienna, Austria	Clay	Li Ting	Yan Zi Zheng Jie	6–3, 6–4
2.	November 2, 2003	Quebec City, Canada	Hard(i)	Li Ting	Els Callens Meilen Tu	6–3, 6–3
3.	November 9, 2003	Pattaya City, Thailand	Hard	Li Ting	Wynne Prakusya Angelique Widjaja	6–4, 6–3
4.	August 22, 2004	Olympic Games, Athens, Greece	Hard	Li Ting	Conchita Martinez & Virginia Ruano Pascual	6–3, 6–3
5.	October 3, 2004	Guangzhou, China	Hard	Li Ting	Yang Shu-jing & Yu Ying	6–4, 6–1
6.	May 1, 2005	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Li Ting	Michaëlla Krajicek & Henrieta Nagyová	6–3, 6–1
7.	February 12, 2006	Pattaya City, Thailand	Hard	Li Ting	Yan Zi & Zheng Jie	3–6, 6–1, 7–6(5)
8.	May 7, 2006	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Li Ting	Gisela Dulko & María Sánchez Lorenzo	6–2, 6–2
9.	October 1, 2006	Guangzhou, China	Hard	Li Ting	Vania King & Jelena Kostanić Tošić	6–4, 2–6, 7–5
10.	October 7, 2007	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Yan Zi	Chuang Chia-jung & Vania King	1–6, 6–2, 10-6
11.	October 14, 2007	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Yan Zi	Ayumi Morita & Junri Namigata	W/O
12.	March 9, 2008	Bangalore, India	Hard	Peng Shuai	Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung	6–4 5–7, 10-8

[edit] Grand Slam mixed doubles title(1)

[edit] Wins (1)

Year	Championship	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
2008	Australian Open	Hard	Nenad Zimonjić	Sania Mirza & Mahesh Bhupathi	7–6(4), 6–4

[edit] External links

• Sun Tiantian profile on the WTA Tour's official website
• China Daily