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Sun Tiantian (Chinese: 孙甜甜; pinyin: Sūn Tiántián; Mandarin pronunciation: [swə́n tʰjɛ̌n tʰjɛ̌n]; born 12 October 1981) is a Chinese former professional tennis player. She won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles along with her partner Li Ting.

Sun Tiantian
孙甜甜
Country (sports) China
ResidenceBeijing
Born (1981-10-12) 12 October 1981 (age 41)
Zhengzhou, Henan
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro1999
Retired2010
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$1,019,657
Singles
Career record217–156 (58.2%)
Career titles1 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 77 (19 March 2007)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open1R (2006, 2007)
French Open2R (2006)
Wimbledon2R (2004, 2006)
US Open2R (2005)
Doubles
Career record268–154 (63.5%)
Career titles11 WTA, 13 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 16 (22 October 2007)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenQF (2007)
French OpenQF (2005)
WimbledonQF (2007)
US Open3R (2005)
Mixed doubles
Career titles1
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian OpenW (2008)
French OpenSF (2007)
Wimbledon3R (2007, 2004)
US Open2R (2006)
Team competitions
Fed Cup16–10
Medal record
Olympic Games
2004 Athens Doubles

Sun reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 77 in March 2007, winning her only WTA Tour singles title at the 2006 Tashkent Open, and a career-high doubles ranking of No. 16 in October 2007, winning eleven WTA titles and reaching the quarterfinals of three Grand Slam women's doubles tournaments, and winning the mixed doubles event at the 2008 Australian Open alongside Nenad Zimonjić.


Career


In September 2000, Sun won two successive $10k 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 $25k tournaments: firstly in April, at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (beating countrywoman Zheng Jie in the semifinal and Korean Jeon Mi-ra in the final); and then in August at Beijing (beating Zheng Jie in the semifinal again, and Rika Fujiwara in the final).

In 2003, she reached the final of a $50k 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 Suchá, Maret Ani and Gala León García, 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, Ľubomíra Kurhajcová and María Sánchez Lorenzo, only to lose in the deciding set of her opening round match against Nicole Pratt; and at the US 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 ranked world No. 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 Birnerová and Sandra Kleinová 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 $50k Shenzhen tournament to countrywoman Li Na. Her year-end ranking had improved to world No. 118.

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

In 2005, she reached her first WTA singles quarterfinal at Hyderabad, defeating Tamarine Tanasugarn 6–2, 6–1 in the second round before losing a close match against prominent German player Anna-Lena Grönefeld 6–7, 3–6. After 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 US Open, where she qualified with convincing straight-sets wins over Marlene Weingärtner and Ľudmila Cervanová and went on to defeat Samantha 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 world No. 1 player Serena Williams in straight sets in the second round after an easy first-round victory over Tatiana Panova of Russia, only to be outperformed in her second WTA quarterfinal by rising star Maria Kirilenko. This run of results propelled her to a career-best ranking of world No. 88, but by the close of the year, she had slipped back slightly to world No. 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, Sun fought her way past Iroda Tulyaganova in the final to win the first WTA Tour 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 world No. 81.

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 in the round of 16 at Beijing in 2005.

On 27 January 2008, Sun captured her first Grand Slam title when she won the Australian Open mixed doubles crown, partnering with Nenad Zimonjić. The pair defeated Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi in two sets. They won the title with their fifth championship point.


Major finals



Grand Slam finals



Mixed doubles: 1 title

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner2008Australian OpenHard Nenad Zimonjić Sania Mirza
Mahesh Bhupathi
7–6(4), 6–4

Olympic finals



Doubles: 1 gold medal

Outcome Year Location Surface Partner Opponents Score
Gold2004AthensHard Li Ting Conchita Martínez
Virginia Ruano
6–3, 6–3

WTA career finals



Singles: 1 title


Legend
Tier I (0–0)
Tier II (0–0)
Tier III (0–0)
Tier IV & V (1–0)
Result Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Win 8 October 2006 Tashkent Open Hard Iroda Tulyaganova 6–2, 6–4

Doubles: 21 (11 titles, 10 runner-ups)


Legend: Before 2009Legend: Starting in 2009
Tier I (0–1) Premier Mandatory (0–0)
Tier II (1–1) Premier 5 (0–0)
Tier III (6–4) Premier (0–0)
Tier IV & V (4–3) International (0–1)
Result No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1. 14 June 2003 Austrian Open Clay Li Ting Yan Zi
Zheng Jie
6–3, 6–4
Loss 1. 12 October 2003 Tashkent Open Hard Li Ting Yuliya Beygelzimer
Tatiana Poutchek
3–6, 6–7(0)
Win 2. 2 November 2003 Tournoi de Québec Hard(i) Li Ting Els Callens
Meilen Tu
6–3, 6–3
Win 3. 9 November 2003 Pattaya Open Hard Li Ting Wynne Prakusya
Angelique Widjaja
6–4, 6–3
Loss 2. 22 February 2004 Bangalore Open Hard Li Ting Liezel Huber
Sania Mirza
6–7(1), 4–6
Win 4. 3 October 2004 Guangzhou Open Hard Li Ting Yang Shujing
Yu Ying
6–4, 6–1
Loss 3. 12 February 2005 Bangalore Open Hard Li Ting Yan Zi
Zheng Jie
4–6, 1–6
Win 5. 1 May 2005 Estoril Open Clay Li Ting Michaëlla Krajicek
Henrieta Nagyová
6–3, 6–1
Win 6. 12 February 2006 Pattaya Open Hard Li Ting Yan Zi
Zheng Jie
3–6, 6–1, 7–6(5)
Loss 4. 4 March 2006 Qatar Open Hard Li Ting Daniela Hantuchová
Ai Sugiyama
4–6, 4–6
Win 7. 7 May 2006 Estoril Open Clay Li Ting Gisela Dulko
María Sánchez Lorenzo
6–2, 6–2
Win 8. 1 October 2006 Guangzhou Open Hard Li Ting Vania King
Jelena Kostanić Tošić
6–4, 2–6, 7–5
Loss 5. 15 April 2007 Charleston Open Hard Peng Shuai Yan Zi
Zheng Jie
5–7, 0–6
Loss 6. 26 May 2007 Internationaux de Strasbourg Clay Alicia Molik Zheng Jie
Yan Zi
3–6, 4–6
Loss 7. 17 June 2007 Birmingham Classic Grass Meilen Tu Chuang Chia-jung
Chan Yung-jan
6–7(3), 3–6
Loss 8. 19 October 2007 Guangzhou Open Hard Vania King Peng Shuai
Yan Zi
6–3, 6–4
Win 9. 7 October 2007 Japan Open Hard Yan Zi Chuang Chia-jung
Vania King
1–6, 6–2, [10–6]
Win 10. 14 October 2007 Bangkok Open Hard Yan Zi Ayumi Morita
Junri Namigata
w/o
Win 11. 9 March 2008 Bangalore Open Hard Peng Shuai Chan Yung-jan
Chuang Chia-jung
6–4, 5–7, [10–8]
Loss 9. 21 September 2008 Guangzhou Open Hard Yan Zi Mariya Koryttseva
Tatiana Poutchek
4–6, 6–4, [8–10]
Loss 10. 20 September 2009 Guangzhou Open Hard Kimiko Date-Krumm Olga Govortsova
Tatiana Poutchek
6–3, 2–6, [8–10]

ITF Circuit finals



Singles: 11 (6–5)


$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Result No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 1. 16 April 2000 ITF Shenyang, China Hard Li Na 0–6, 4–6
Loss 2. 4 June 2000 ITF Shenzhen, China Hard Kim Eun-ha 4–6, 3–6
Win 3. 4 September 2000 ITF Hangzhou, China Hard Zheng Jie 6–2, 6–2
Win 4. 17 September 2000 ITF Hohhot, China Hard Ding Ding 6–4, 6–3
Win 5. 17 June 2001 ITF Seoul, South Korea Hard Choi Jin-young 3–6, 6–3, 6–1
Win 6. 24 June 2001 ITF Inchon, South Korea Hard Chung Yang-jin 6–4, 6–3
Win 7. 14 April 2002 ITF Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Hard Jeon Mi-ra 6–3, 6–4
Loss 8. 13 May 2002 ITF Shanghai, China Hard Zheng Jie 2–6, 2–6
Win 9. 6 August 2002 ITF Beijing, China Hard Rika Fujiwara 6–3, 6–0
Loss 10. 20 July 2003 ITF Modena, Italy Clay Melinda Czink 3–6, 3–6
Loss 11. 31 October 2004 ITF Shenzhen, China Hard Li Na 3–6, 6–4, 2–6

Doubles: 21 (13–8)


Result No. Date Tournament Surface Partnering Opponent Score
Win 1. 13 June 1999 ITF Shenyang, China Hard Chen Yan Chen Yin
Tuo Qi
6–2, 6–4
Win 2. 10 September 2000 ITF Zhejiang, China Hard Chen Yan Zheng Jie
Yan Zi
6–3, 7–5
Win 3. 10 September 2000 ITF Hohhot, China Clay Chen Yan Ding Ding
Tang Yan
6–0, 6–3
Loss 4. 4 June 2001 ITF Hohhot, China Hard Chen Yan Zheng Jie
Yan Zi
4–6, 6–2, 3–6
Loss 5. 29 July 2001 ITF Guangzhou, China Hard Chen Yan Li Ting
Tong Ka-po
5–7, 3–6
Win 6. 27 January 2002 ITF Hull, United Kingdom Hard (i) Zheng Jie Claire Curran
Elsa O'Riain
7–6(4), 7–5
Loss 7. 10 February 2002 ITF Redbridge, United Kingdom Hard (i) Helen Crook Magda Mihalache
Ekaterina Sysoeva
6–4, 4–6, 4–6
Win 8. 11 August 2002 ITF Beijing, China Hard Li Ting Yan Zi
Zheng Jie
7–5, 6–3
Win 9. 23 February 2003 ITF Columbus, United States Hard (i) Li Ting Bruna Colósio
Joana Cortez
6–3, 6–1
Win 10. 2 March 2003 ITF Saint Paul, United States Hard Li Ting Teryn Ashley
Abigail Spears
6–3, 6–1
Win 11. 30 March 2003 ITF Atlanta, United States Hard Li Ting Leanne Baker
Francesca Lubiani
4–6, 6–4, 6–4
Loss 12. 16 June 2003 ITF Gorizia, Italy Clay Li Ting Yan Zi
Zheng Jie
6–7(5), 6–1, 4–6
Win 13. 23 June 2003 ITF Fontanafredda, Italy Clay Li Ting Maria Geznenge
Dragana Zarić
6–4, 6–3
Loss 14. 30 June 2003 ITF Orbetello, Italy Clay Li Ting Yan Zi
Zheng Jie
2–6, 5–7
Winner 15. 13 July 2003 ITF Modena, Italy Clay Li Ting Rika Fujiwara
Trudi Musgrave
3–6, 7–5, 7–5
Winner 16. 30 November 2003 ITF Changsha, China Hard Li Ting Yan Zi
Zheng Jie
6–4, 6–2
Winner 17. 7 December 2003 ITF Shenzhen, China Hard Li Ting Yan Zi
Zheng Jie
6–3, 3–6, 6–4
Runner-up 18. 6 June 2005 ITF Beijing, China Hard Li Ting Yan Zi
Zheng Jie
1–6, 5–7
Winner 19. 16 August 2005 Bronx Classic, United States Hard Li Ting Tatiana Poutchek
Anastasiya Yakimova
2–6, 6–2, 6–4
Runner-up 20. 17 May 2009 Open de Saint-Gaudens, France Clay Kimiko Date Rika Fujiwara
Chanelle Scheepers
5–7, 4–6
Runner-up 21. 10 August 2009 ITF Quanzhou, China Hard Hao Jie Han Xinyun
Kao Shao-yuan
6–1, 2–6, [6–10]

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    На других языках


    [de] Sun Tiantian

    Sun Tiantian (chinesisch .mw-parser-output .Hant{font-size:110%}孫甜甜 / .mw-parser-output .Hans{font-size:110%}孙甜甜, Pinyin Sūn Tiántián; * 12. Oktober 1981 in Zhengzhou, Henan) ist eine ehemalige chinesische Tennisspielerin.
    - [en] Sun Tiantian

    [es] Sun Tiantian

    Sun Tiantian es una jugadora de tenis profesional china nacida el 12 de octubre de 1981 en He Nan, China. Ha ganado varios títulos del circuito profesional WTA tanto en individuales como sobre todo, donde más destaca, en dobles.

    [it] Sun Tiantian

    Sun Tiantian[1] (Zhengzhou, 12 ottobre 1981) è un'ex tennista cinese.

    [ru] Сунь Тяньтянь

    Сунь Тяньтя́нь (кит. упр. 孙甜甜, пиньинь Sun Tiantian; родилась 12 октября 1981 года в Чжэнчжоу, Китай) — китайская теннисистка; первая олимпийская чемпионка по теннису от Китая (совместно с Ли Тин); первая победительница турнира Большого шлема в миксте от Китая (Открытый чемпионат Австралии-2008); победительница 13 турниров WTA (из них один в одиночном разряде.



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