50 Facts About Zhizhen Zhang

In 2021, Zhang became the first Chinese man in Open Era to play in the main draw at Wimbledon.

Zhizhen Zhang reached his career high singles ranking of world No 109 in 17 October 2022 and his career high doubles ranking of world No 211 in September 2017.

Zhizhen Zhang has won two singles and two doubles titles on the ATP Challenger and two singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Futures Tour.

Zhizhen Zhang began his career in Chico, California, playing on the ITF Futures Tour.

Zhizhen Zhang lost in the first round of the following two futures tournaments he entered.

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Zhizhen Zhang continued to play professional events sporadically, managing to come through qualifying to make the 2013 Shanghai Challenger's main draw - his first ATP Challenger Tour appearance.

Zhizhen Zhang's ranking bolstered by positive results on the 2015 ITF Men's Circuit, Zhang began entering tournaments on the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour, though he failed to win any main draw matches in his first few months on the higher-level Challenger circuit.

Zhizhen Zhang then made his ATP tour debut at the 2015 Shenzhen Open.

Zhizhen Zhang played in the qualifying draws of both the 2015 Beijing Open, and the 2015 Shanghai Rolex Masters, though he failed to breach the main draw of either venue.

Zhizhen Zhang rounded out the year with a few early losses in Challenger tournaments.

Zhizhen Zhang inexplicably missed the first four months of the 2016 ATP World Tour, and when he did arrive, he returned on the 2016 ITF Men's Circuit.

Zhizhen Zhang lost early through much of April and May, though he did manage to play in both a 2016 ATP Challenger Tour event, and the qualifying draw of the ATP Tour 250 tournament in Nice: the 2016 Open de Nice Cote d'Azur, where he lost a third set tiebreaker to future world-number-one Daniil Medvedev in the second round of qualifying.

Zhizhen Zhang finished the year outside the top 800, a drop of four-hundred ranking places from the previous year.

Zhizhen Zhang's ranking hovered 800 from September, 2016, to May 2017, when the Chinese youngster, still only twenty years old, reached a third Futures final, this time in Lu'an, China.

Now ranked just outside of the top-700, Zhizhen Zhang continued his ascent, winning the Shenzhen Futures tournament, and losing in the finals of another futures tournament in China two weeks later.

Zhizhen Zhang then began competing on the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour, and for the first time, he had no need to play qualifying draws to enter said Challenger Tour events.

Zhizhen Zhang spent the first half of 2018 losing early on both the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Men's Circuit.

Zhizhen Zhang reached a sixth futures final, losing to Jelle Sels in Casina.

Zhizhen Zhang then lost to Andy Murray in Shenzhen, retiring due to injury halfway through the third set.

Zhizhen Zhang recovered in time for both the 2018 China Open, and the 2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters, although he failed to win matches in either.

Zhizhen Zhang started his 2019 season with back-to-back quarterfinal showings on the 2019 ITF Men's World Tennis Tour.

Zhizhen Zhang then transitioned to the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour, where he reached the round of sixteen in Anning, followed by a quarterfinal loss to Ramkumar Ramanathan at the 2019 ATP Challenger China International – Nanchang.

Zhizhen Zhang's fifth quarterfinal was a defeat; he fell to Bai Yan at the 2019 Chengdu Challenger.

Zhizhen Zhang won the 2019 Jinan International Open, beating top one-hundred player Soonwoo Kwon en route.

Zhizhen Zhang reached the second round of both the 2019 Zhuhai Championships and the 2019 China Open, with the latter being a loss to top-five player and eventual champion Dominic Thiem.

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Zhizhen Zhang concluded October with a second Challenger crown, ousting Li Zhe in the final round of the 2019 Shenzhen Longhua Open.

Zhizhen Zhang skipped most of the already abridged 2020 ATP Tour season.

Zhizhen Zhang played and lost in the first round of the 2020 Tata Open Maharashtra, and failed to progress past qualifying at the 2020 Dubai Tennis Championships.

Zhizhen Zhang started his 2021 year with a first-round loss at the 2021 Istanbul Challenger, and a second round loss in Dubai, ending his hopes of qualifying for the 2021 Australian Open.

Zhizhen Zhang fell short of qualifying for the 2021 French Open, thus concluding his clay season.

Zhizhen Zhang became the first male Chinese in the Open Era to qualify at Wimbledon.

Zhizhen Zhang was only the fourth Chinese man to play singles in the main draw of any Grand Slam since 1968, with the others being Wu Di at the Australian Open in 2013,2014 and 2016, Zhang Ze at the Australian Open in 2014 and 2015, and Li Zhe at the 2019 Australian Open.

Zhizhen Zhang finished the year outside the top three-hundred, despite peaking just outside of the top-one-hundred in the ATP rankings earlier in the season.

The following week in Florida, at the 2022 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger, Zhizhen Zhang made it to the last four, losing to Wu Tung-lin in two close sets.

Zhizhen Zhang then made a challenger quarterfinal for the third week in a row, losing to former top-ten player and 2017 Rolex Paris Masters champion Jack Sock in the final eight.

Zhizhen Zhang failed to reach the Wimbledon Championships' main draw again, losing in the second round of qualifying to Daniel Masur.

Zhizhen Zhang returned to the Challenger tour after his loss to Masur, opting to play the 2022 Platzmann-Sauerland Open.

Zhizhen Zhang reached the final without dropping a set, eliminating both third-seeded Manuel Guinard and seventh-seeded Pablo Cuevas en route.

Zhizhen Zhang next travelled to Braunschweig with a special exemption entry into the Brawo Open.

Zhizhen Zhang would reach the semifinals in Braunschweig, defeating World No 51 Pedro Martinez and 2018 French Open semifinalist Marco Cecchinato.

Zhizhen Zhang entered the 2022 Internazionali di Tennis Citta di Trieste Challenger as a qualifier, defeating fifth-seeded Marco Cecchinato and eighth-seeded Alexandre Muller en route to the final, where he lost to Francesco Passaro despite clinching the first set.

Zhizhen Zhang re-entered the top-200 for the first time since he injured himself at the 2021 Hamburg European Open.

Zhizhen Zhang reached a second straight Challenger tour final at the 2022 Internazionali di Tennis del Friuli Venezia Giulia in Cordenons, Italy upsetting fourth seed Pavel Kotov in the first round, and Alexandre Muller in the semifinals to reach the final.

Zhizhen Zhang rallied after losing the first set against Andrea Vavassori, defeating the home-crowd favorite in three sets to lift the title - Zhang's first Challenger title in nearly three years.

Zhizhen Zhang rose to world No 157 in the ATP rankings following Cordenons, his highest ranking in two and a half years.

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Zhizhen Zhang lost to fifth-seeded Tomas Machac in the final, despite winning the first set six games to one.

Zhizhen Zhang's run elevated his ranking to No 138, placing him within two spots of his career high ranking.

Zhizhen Zhang made his debut at the US Open, successfully competing in the qualifying tournament, and qualified for the main draw alongside his friend Yibing Wu, making history for his country.

Zhizhen Zhang narrowly missed being the first Chinese male national to win a Grand Slam main draw match in 63 years after losing to Tim van Rijthoven, failing to convert 7 match points in the third set.

Zhizhen Zhang lost to fifth seed Andrey Rublev in the second round.