Sun Tiantian

Chinese tennis player

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In this Chinese name, the family name is  Sun (孙).

Sun Tiantian
孙甜甜Country (sports)|  China

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Residence| Beijing
Born|  (1981-10-12) 12 October 1981 (age 42)
Zhengzhou, Henan
Height| 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro| 1999
Retired| 2010
Plays| Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money| $1,019,657
Singles
Career record| 217–156 (58.2%)
Career titles| 1 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking| No. 77 (19 March 2007)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open| 1R (2006, 2007)
French Open| 2R (2006)
Wimbledon| 2R (2004, 2006)
US Open| 2R (2005)
Doubles
Career record| 268–154 (63.5%)
Career titles| 11 WTA, 13 ITF
Highest ranking| No. 16 (22 October 2007)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open| QF (2007)
French Open| QF (2005)
Wimbledon| QF (2007)
US Open| 3R (2005)
Mixed doubles
Career titles| 1
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open| W (2008)
French Open| SF (2007)
Wimbledon| 3R (2007, 2004)
US Open| 2R (2006)
Team competitions
Fed Cup| 16–10

Medal record

Olympic Games
|  2004 Athens | Doubles

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

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[edit]

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[edit]

### Grand Slam finals[edit]

#### Mixed doubles: 1 title[edit]

Outcome  | Year  | Championship  | Surface  | Partner  | Opponents  | Score

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Winner | 2008 | Australian Open | Hard |  Nenad Zimonjić |  Sania Mirza
Mahesh Bhupathi | 7–6(4), 6–4

### Olympic finals[edit]

#### Doubles: 1 gold medal[edit]

Outcome  | Year  | Location  | Surface  | Partner  | Opponents  | Score

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Gold | 2004 | Athens | Hard |  Li Ting |  Conchita Martínez
Virginia Ruano | 6–3, 6–3

## WTA career finals[edit]

### Singles: 1 title[edit]

Legend

Tier I (0–0)
Tier II (0–0)
Tier III (0–0)
Tier IV & V (1–0)
Result  | Date  | Tournament  | Surface  | Opponent  | Score

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Win  | 8 October 2006  | Tashkent Open | Hard  |  Iroda Tulyaganova | 6–2, 6–4

### Doubles: 21 (11 titles, 10 runner-ups)[edit]

Legend: Before 2009 | Legend: Starting in 2009

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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

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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[edit]

### Singles: 11 (6–5)[edit]

$50,000 tournaments

$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Result  | No.  | Date  | Tournament  | Surface  | Opponent  | Score

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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)[edit]

Result  | No.  | Date  | Tournament  | Surface  | Partnering  | Opponent  | Score

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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]

## See also[edit]

* Tennis in China

## References[edit]

* Chinese duo win Olympic tennis gold, China Daily 2004-08-23

## External links[edit]

* Sun Tiantian at the Women's Tennis Association
* Sun Tiantian at the International Tennis Federation
* Sun Tiantian at the Billie Jean King Cup

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Australian Open mixed doubles champions

Amateur Era|

* 1922: Esna Boyd Robertson / Jack Hawkes
* 1923: Sylvia Lance Harper / Horace Rice
* 1924: Daphne Akhurst Cozens / Jim Willard
* 1925: Daphne Akhurst Cozens / Jim Willard
* 1926: Esna Boyd Robertson / Jack Hawkes
* 1927: Esna Boyd Robertson / Jack Hawkes
* 1928: Daphne Akhurst Cozens / Jean Borotra
* 1929: Daphne Akhurst Cozens / Edgar Moon
* 1930: Nell Hall Hopman / Harry Hopman
* 1931: Marjorie Cox Crawford / Jack Crawford
* 1932: Marjorie Cox Crawford / Jack Crawford
* 1933: Marjorie Cox Crawford / Jack Crawford
* 1934: Joan Hartigan Bathurst / Edgar Moon
* 1935: Louise Bickerton / Christian Boussus
* 1936: Nell Hall Hopman / Harry Hopman
* 1937: Nell Hall Hopman / Harry Hopman
* 1938: Margaret Wilson / John Bromwich
* 1939: Nell Hall Hopman / Harry Hopman
* 1940: Nancye Wynne Bolton / Colin Long
* 1946: Nancye Wynne Bolton / Colin Long
* 1947: Nancye Wynne Bolton / Colin Long
* 1948: Nancye Wynne Bolton / Colin Long
* 1949: Doris Hart / Frank Sedgman
* 1950: Doris Hart / Frank Sedgman
* 1951: Thelma Coyne Long / George Worthington
* 1952: Thelma Coyne Long / George Worthington
* 1953: Julia Sampson Hayward / Rex Hartwig
* 1954: Thelma Coyne Long / Rex Hartwig
* 1955: Thelma Coyne Long / George Worthington
* 1956: Beryl Penrose / Neale Fraser
* 1957: Fay Muller / Mal Anderson
* 1958: Mary Bevis Hawton / Bob Howe
* 1959: Sandra Reynolds Price / Bob Mark
* 1960: Jan Lehane O'Neill / Trevor Fancutt
* 1961: Jan Lehane O'Neill / Bob Hewitt
* 1962: Lesley Turner Bowrey / Fred Stolle
* 1963: Margaret Smith Court / Ken Fletcher
* 1964: Margaret Smith Court / Ken Fletcher
* 1965: Robyn Ebbern / Owen Davidson & Margaret Smith Court / John Newcombe
* 1966: Judy Tegart-Dalton / Tony Roche
* 1967: Lesley Turner Bowrey / Owen Davidson
* 1968: Billie Jean King / Dick Crealy

Open Era|

* 1969: Margaret Court / Marty Riessen & Ann Haydon-Jones / Fred Stolle
* 1987: Zina Garrison / Sherwood Stewart
* 1988: Jana Novotná / Jim Pugh
* 1989: Jana Novotná / Jim Pugh
* 1990: Natalia Zvereva / Jim Pugh
* 1991: Jo Durie / Jeremy Bates
* 1992: Nicole Provis / Mark Woodforde
* 1993: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario / Todd Woodbridge
* 1994: Larisa Savchenko Neiland / Andrei Olhovskiy
* 1995: Natalia Zvereva / Rick Leach
* 1996: Larisa Savchenko Neiland / Mark Woodforde
* 1997: Manon Bollegraf / Rick Leach
* 1998: Venus Williams / Justin Gimelstob
* 1999: Mariaan de Swardt / David Adams
* 2000: Rennae Stubbs / Jared Palmer
* 2001: Corina Morariu / Ellis Ferreira
* 2002: Daniela Hantuchová / Kevin Ullyett
* 2003: Martina Navratilova / Leander Paes
* 2004: Elena Bovina / Nenad Zimonjić
* 2005: Samantha Stosur / Scott Draper
* 2006: Martina Hingis / Mahesh Bhupathi
* 2007: Elena Likhovtseva / Daniel Nestor
* 2008: Sun Tiantian / Nenad Zimonjić
* 2009: Sania Mirza / Mahesh Bhupathi
* 2010: Cara Black / Leander Paes
* 2011: Katarina Srebotnik / Daniel Nestor
* 2012: Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Horia Tecău
* 2013: Jarmila Gajdošová / Matthew Ebden
* 2014: Kristina Mladenovic / Daniel Nestor
* 2015: Martina Hingis / Leander Paes
* 2016: Elena Vesnina / Bruno Soares
* 2017: Abigail Spears / Juan Sebastián Cabal
* 2018: Gabriela Dabrowski / Mate Pavić
* 2019: Barbora Krejčíková / Rajeev Ram
* 2020: Barbora Krejčíková / Nikola Mektić
* 2021: Barbora Krejčíková / Rajeev Ram
* 2022: Kristina Mladenovic / Ivan Dodig
* 2023: Luisa Stefani / Rafael Matos
* 2024: Hsieh Su-wei / Jan Zieliński

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Olympic tennis women's doubles champions

Demonstration|

* 1968:  Edda Buding & Helga Niessen (FRG)

Outdoor|

* 1920:  Kathleen McKane & Winifred McNair (GBR)
* 1924:  Hazel Wightman & Helen Wills (USA)
* 1988:  Zina Garrison & Pam Shriver (USA)
* 1992:  Gigi Fernández & Mary Joe Fernández (USA)
* 1996:  Gigi Fernández & Mary Joe Fernández (USA)
* 2000:  Serena Williams & Venus Williams (USA)
* 2004:  Sun Tiantian & Li Ting (CHN)
* 2008:  Serena Williams & Venus Williams (USA)
* 2012:  Serena Williams & Venus Williams (USA)
* 2016:  Ekaterina Makarova & Elena Vesnina (RUS)
* 2020:  Barbora Krejčíková & Kateřina Siniaková (CZE)

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