Sun Shengnan

Sun Shengnan
孙胜男
Country (sports)	China
Residence	Beijing
Born	21 January 1987 (age 37); Beijing
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	2002
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$289,473
Singles
Career record	205–166
Career titles	6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 216 (4 April 2011)
Grand Slam singles results
US Open	Q2 (2007)
Doubles
Career record	256–158
Career titles	1 WTA, 26 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 50 (17 September 2007)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2007)
French Open	2R (2007)
Wimbledon	1R (2007, 2008)
US Open	1R (2007)

Sun Shengnan (Chinese: 孙胜男; pinyin: Sūn Shèngnán; Mandarin pronunciation: [swə́n ʂə̂ŋ nǎn]; born 21 January 1987) is a Chinese former tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 216th, which she reached on 4 April 2011.^[1] Her career-high in doubles is 50th, which she reached on 17 September 2007.^[1]

By March 2006, Sun had won two ITF singles titles and risen to No. 320 in the WTA rankings, and had earned herself a reputation as 'one to watch', having shown plenty of recent promise of further improvement in the preceding year.

Career

Sun Shengnan began competing on the ITF Women's Circuit at the age of 15, in May 2002.^[1] Over the next few months, she won seven matches (mostly in qualifying draws) and lost just five. However, she did not compete again for a whole year after the beginning of August, and thus gained for herself only a lowly end-of-year foothold on the world ranking list at No. 1031.

When August finally came around again in 2003, she returned to competition as a 16-year-old at ITF events; and that October she reached the quarterfinal of a $25k tournament at Beijing after being awarded a wildcard entry into the main draw, before losing to Yuka Yoshida. She finished the year with a 5–5 win–loss record after just a few events played. The record of her year-end ranking seems to have been lost by the WTA, but it was undoubtedly an improvement on her 2002 outcome thanks to the quarterfinal finish at Beijing.

2004 was another moderate year for Sun, as she won six matches and lost seven, her best finish again coming at October's $25k tournament at Beijing, where she repeated her previous year's performance in reaching the quarterfinal, this time losing to high-ranked countrywoman Zheng Jie. She finished the year world-ranked 588, which logically should have been similar to her previous year's finish.

But it was to be in 2005 that the Chinese teenager would first break through to greater results, including two tournament wins. In February, she reached her career-first semifinal in the $10k tournament at Melilla. In April, she won the $10k event at Wuhan. Then in May, she won another $10k title at Ahmedabad. In August, she reached the final of a $25k fixture at Wuxi, losing to Miho Saeki of Japan. Then in September, she qualified for her first WTA Tour event at Guangzhou International Open with an impressive three-set victory over the young Croat prospect Ivana Lisjak, but lost in the first round of the main draw to Alina Jidkova of Russia. At the end of the year, her world ranking had leapt up to 336.

In January 2006, she suffered a few early losses, but picked up enough points in qualifying rounds to improve to a career-best ranking of 311 early in February. Then she defended but did not improve upon her previous year's semifinal performance at Melilla.

With youth still very much on her side, the 19-year-old appeared to be one of China's hottest next-generation prospects for advancement into the world's top 150. But after rising to a career high of No. 233 in May 2007, a dismal run of early losses over the summer and Autumn that year caused her ranking to slip back to No. 400 by the beginning of December the same year before a quarterfinal result at a $75k tournament that month revived it to around 350 at the close of the year.

She then started the year off in 2011, making the semifinals in the $50k event at Quanzhou moving her rankings up to world No. 248.

WTA Tour finals

Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

Legend (pre/post 2009)
Grand Slam tournaments
Tier I / Premier M & Premier 5
Tier II / Premier
Tier III, IV & V / International (1–2)

Finals by surface
Hard (1–1)
Grass (0–0)
Clay (0–1)
Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	13 May 2007	Prague Open, Czech Republic	Clay	Ji Chunmei	Petra Cetkovská Andrea Hlaváčková	6–7^(7–9), 2–6
Winner	1.	16 September 2007	Bali Tennis Classic, Indonesia	Hard	Ji Chunmei	Jill Craybas Natalie Grandin	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	13 February 2011	Pattaya Open, Thailand	Hard	Zheng Jie	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	6–3, 3–6, [5–10]

ITF Circuit finals

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Singles: 8 (6–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	Apr 2005	ITF Wuhan, China	Hard	Liang Chen	6–3, 4–6, 6–3
Winner	2.	May 2005	ITF Ahmedabad, India	Hard	Ankita Bhambri	6–2, 6–2
Runner–up	1.	Aug 2005	ITF Wuxi, China	Hard	Miho Saeki	2–6, 6–7⁽¹⁾
Winner	3.	Sep 2006	ITF Guangzhou, China	Hard	Yurika Sema	6–2, 6–4
Winner	4.	Jun 2009	ITF Qianshan, China	Hard	Han Xinyun	6–1, 6–4
Winner	5.	Aug 2009	ITF Pingguo, China	Hard	Zhou Yimiao	6–4, 6–4
Winner	6.	Aug 2009	ITF Qianshan, China	Hard	Liang Chen	6–3, 6–3
Runner–up	2.	May 2010	Kangaroo Cup, Japan	Hard	Karolína Plíšková	3–6, 6–3, 3–6

Doubles: 43 (26–17)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner–up	1.	27 February 2005	ITF Melilla, Spain	Hard	Yang Shujing	Sara Errani María José Martínez Sánchez	7–6⁽²⁾, 0–6, 5–7
Runner–up	2.	29 May 2005	ITF Shanghai, China	Hard	Liu Wanting	Chuang Chia-jung Remi Tezuka	6–4, 4–6, 1–6
Winner	3.	26 February 2006	ITF Melilla, Spain	Hard	Liu Wanting	Sara del Barrio Aragón Sabrina Méndez Domínguez	6–4, 6–0
Winner	4.	4 June 2006	ITF Tianjin, China	Hard	Ji Chunmei	Chan Chin-wei Chen Yi	3–6, 7–6⁽⁷⁾, 6–1
Runner–up	5.	23 July 2006	ITF Chongqing, China	Hard	Ji Chunmei	Ren Jing Zhang Shuai	4–6, 3–6
Runner–up	6.	27 August 2006	ITF Nanjing, China	Hard	Ji Chunmei	Chuang Chia-jung Xie Yanze	1–6, 6–7⁽¹¹⁾
Winner	7.	29 October 2006	Beijing Challenger, China	Hard (i)	Ji Chunmei	Marina Erakovic Raquel Kops-Jones	6–2, 6–2
Winner	8.	5 November 2006	ITF Shanghai, China	Hard	Ji Chunmei	Akgul Amanmuradova Iroda Tulyaganova	6–4, 7–5
Winner	9.	14 October 2007	ITF Beijing, China	Hard	Ji Chunmei	Liang Chen Zhao Yijing	6–2, 6–3
Winner	10.	11 November 2007	ITF Taizhou, China	Hard	Ji Chunmei	Huang Lei Zhang Shuai	7–6⁽⁵⁾, 1–6, [13–11]
Runner-up	11.	2 December 2007	ITF Xiamen, China	Hard	Ji Chunmei	Han Xinyun Xu Yifan	4–6, 5–7
Winner	12.	14 March 2008	ITF New Delhi, İndia	Hard	Ji Chunmei	Sunitha Rao Aurélie Védy	2–6, 6–2, [10–4]
Runner-up	13.	21 November 2008	ITF Kolkata, İndia	Hard	Lu Jingjing	Laura Siegemund Ágnes Szatmári	5–7, 3–6
Winner	14.	13 February 2009	ITF Mildura, Australia	Grass	Lu Jingjing	Han Xinyun Ji Chunmei	7–6⁽²⁾, 7–6⁽⁴⁾
Runner-up	15.	21 February 2009	ITF Guangzhou, China	Hard	Han Xinyun	Ji Chunmei Liang Chen	7–6⁽⁷⁾, 2–6, [3–10]
Winner	16.	8 March 2009	ITF Lyon, France	Hard (i)	Lu Jingjing	Pemra Özgen Zhang Shuai	6–4, 7–5
Winner	17.	14 March 2009	ITF Las Palmas, Spain	Hard	Lu Jingjing	Yana Buchina Taja Mohorcic	6–3, 7–6⁽¹⁾
Winner	18.	21 March 2009	ITF Tenerife, Spain	Hard	Zhang Shuai	Paula Fondevila Castro Laura Thorpe	6–1, 6–2
Winner	19.	27 March 2009	ITF La Palma, Spain	Hard	Lu Jingjing	Eleni Daniilidou Jasmin Wöhr	6–2, 5–7, [10–5]
Winner	20.	17 May 2009	Kurume Cup, Japan	Grass	Lu Jingjing	Chang Kai-chen Ayaka Maekawa	6–3, 6–2
Winner	21.	24 May 2009	Incheon Open, Korea	Hard	Lu Jingjing	Han Xinyun Ji Chunmei	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	22.	31 May 2009	ITF Goyang, Korea	Hard	Lu Jingjing	Yayuk Basuki Romana Tedjakusuma	6–7⁽⁵⁾, 3–6 [8–10]
Runner-up	23.	7 June 2009	ITF Gimhae, Korea	Hard	Liang Chen	Yayuk Basuki Romana Tedjakusuma	5–7, 1–6
Winner	24.	27 June 2009	ITF Qianshan, China	Hard	Zhou Yimiao	Han Xinyun Ying Qian	6–2, 6–4
Winner	25.	3 July 2009	ITF Xiamen, China	Hard	Lu Jingjing	Han Xinyun Kao Shao-yuan	6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	26.	21 August 2009	ITF Pingguo, China	Hard	Lu Jingjing	Chan Chin-wei Hwang I-hsuan	6–3, 5–7, [7–10]
Winner	27.	28 August 2009	ITF Qianshan, China	Hard	Liang Chen	Alison Bai Sacha Jones	6–2, 6–4
Winner	28.	10 May 2010	Kurume Cup, Japan	Grass	Xu Yifan	Karolína Plíšková Kristýna Plíšková	6–0, 6–3
Runner-up	29.	17 May 2010	ITF Karuizawa, Japan	Carpet	Xu Yifan	Ayumi Oka Akiko Yonemura	6–7⁽¹⁾, 3–6
Winner	30.	2 August 2010	Beijing Challenger, China	Hard	Zhang Shuai	Ji Chunmei Liu Wanting	4–6, 6–2, [10–5]
Runner–up	31.	14 August 2010	ITF Tallinn, Estonia	Hard	Lu Jingjing	Emma Laine Melanie South	3–6, 4–6
Winner	32.	3 January 2011	Blossom Cup, China	Hard	Liu Wanting	Yuliya Beygelzimer Oksana Kalashnikova	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	33.	10 January 2011	ITF Pingguo, China	Hard	Liu Wanting	Shuko Aoyama Rika Fujiwara	4–6, 3–6
Runner-up	34.	23 May 2011	Grado Tennis Cup, Italy	Clay	Liu Wanting	María Irigoyen Ekaterina Lopes	3–6, 0–6
Winner	35.	16 July 2011	Challenger de Granby, Canada	Hard	Sharon Fichman	Viktoriya Kisialeva Nathalia Rossi	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	36.	26 March 2012	ITF Phuket, Thailand	Hard	Han Xinyun	Noppawan Lertcheewakarn Zheng Saisai	3–6, 3–6
Winner	37.	14 May 2012	Kurume Cup, Japan	Grass	Han Xinyun	Ksenia Lykina Melanie South	6–1, 6–0
Runner-up	38.	28 May 2012	ITF Gimcheon, Korea	Hard	Liang Chen	Hu Yueyue Xu Yifan	0–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Winner	39.	18 June 2012	ITF Goyang, Korea	Hard	Liu Wanting	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai Peangtarn Plipuech	6–7⁽¹⁾, 6–3, [10–7]
Winner	40.	30 June 2012	Incheon Open, Korea	Hard	Liang Chen	Kim Ji-young Yoo Mi	6–3, 6–2
Winner	41.	5 August 2012	Beijing Challenger, China	Hard	Liu Wanting	Chan Chin-wei Han Xinyun	5–7, 6–0, [10–7]
Runner-up	42.	3 January 2013	Blossom Cup, China	Hard	Liang Chen	Irina Buryachok Nadiia Kichenok	6–3, 3–6, [10–12]
Winner	43.	24 June 2013	ITF Huzhu, China	Clay	Chan Chin-wei	Liu Chang Zhou Yimiao	6–4, 6–3