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China's Wang Qiang serves the ball to Taiwan's Su-Wei Hsieh during their women's singles first round tennis match at the Roland Garros 2021 French Open in June. Photo: AFP
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Former China No 1 Wang Qiang drops out of WTA Top 100, Wang Xinyu hits career high

  • Wang Xinyu up to career best No 106 in updated rankings ahead of facing US Open champion Emma Raducanu in Austria
  • Zhang Shuai and Zheng Saisai unchanged in singles as they go for doubles gold at WTA Finals and Linz Open respectively
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China’s former No 1 Wang Qiang has dropped out of the WTA women’s singles top 100 after missing much of this year’s tour, while Wang Xinyu has reached a career record high in the updated standings.
Wang Qiang has dropped to No 102 in the rankings, having pulled out of the WTA Tour in June, skipping Wimbledon to concentrate on playing for China at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the summer.
She was China’s top ranked player at the time but has now dropped to No 3 behind Zhang Shuai and Zheng Saisai, who also played at the Olympics and lost to Wang Qiang in the final of the China National Games in September.

Unlike her compatriots Wang Qiang has not returned to the tour since.

Zhang – the only Chinese player to stay on tour all year – is unchanged at No 58 ahead of playing the doubles at the WTA Masters in Guadalajara while Zheng is also unchanged at No 87.

Wang Qiang’s dropped 23 places in Monday’s rankings update while Wang Xinyu is up one place to a career high No 106. China’s Wang Xiyu has risen to No 128 after climbing five spots.

Zhang and Hsieh qualify for WTA Finals doubles

The 20-year-old Wang Xinyu faces the world No 20 and US Open singles champion Emma Raducanu in the round of 16 at the Linz Open, where she and Zheng are also in doubles action in the quarter-finals.

Wang and Zheng beat Austria’s Sinja Kraus and Julia Grabher in straight sets 7-5, 6-0 – to move on.

Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei has returned to the world No 1 doubles ranking, swapping with partner Elise Mertens of Belgium, who replaces the Taiwanese tennis star in fourth place. Czech duo Katerina Siniakova (No 2) and Barbora Krejcikova (No 3) stand between them.

The pair are among the eight invited to the WTA Finals, along with US Open doubles champion Zhang and her partner Samantha Stosur of Australia. Zhang stays eighth on the doubles rankings.

WTA Finals action begins on November 10 in Mexico after the tournament was moved from Shenzhen.

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