Li Zhe (tennis) explained

Li Zhe 李喆
Residence:	Tianjin, China
Birth Date:	1986 9, df=yes
Birth Place:	Tianjin, China
Turnedpro:	2004
Coach:	Christophe Lambert
Plays:	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Careerprizemoney:	$ 791,369
Singlesrecord:	6–14
Singlestitles:	0
Highestsinglesranking:	No. 193 (11 November 2019)
Currentsinglesranking:	No. 596 (1 July 2024)
Australianopenresult:	1R (2019)
Frenchopenresult:	Q2 (2016)
Wimbledonresult:	Q2 (2016)
Usopenresult:	Q1 (2019)
Doublesrecord:	9–29
Doublestitles:	0
Highestdoublesranking:	No. 136 (28 February 2011)
Currentdoublesranking:	No. 481 (1 July 2024)
Team:	yes
Daviscupresult:	11–11
Updated:	30 June 2024

Li Zhe (; ;^[1] born September 20, 1986) is a Chinese tennis player who plays mainly on the ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Tours. On 11 November 2019, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 193. His highest doubles ranking of world No. 136 was achieved on 28 February 2011.

Li represents his native country of China competing during the Davis Cup. He competes in both singles, for which he has a record of 6–3, and doubles where his record is 5–8, for a combined total record of 11–11. He has reached 27 career singles finals, boasting a record of 14 wins and 13 losses, including a 0–2 record in ATP Challenger finals. Additionally he has reached a bountiful 81 doubles finals with a record of 53 wins and 28 losses, including a 6–7 record in ATP Challenger finals.

Personal

Li Zhe was born in Tianjin, China on September 20, 1986.^[2] He began playing tennis at age 8 and turned professional in 2004. He plays right-handed, and his favorite surface is hard court.^[3] His goal as a professional tennis player is to enter the top 100 ranked tennis players in the world.^[4]

Career

In December 2018, Li defeated his compatriot Ze Zhang in three sets to win the 2019 Australian Open Asia-Pac Wildcard Play-off, which secured a wildcard place for him to make his Grand Slam singles debut at age 32 at the 2019 Australian Open.^[5]

He received a wildcard in doubles partnering Sun Fajing at the 2023 Rolex Shanghai Masters.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Finals

Singles: 29 (16–13)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–2)
ITF Futures Tour (16–11)

Titles by surface
Hard (16–13)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1		China F3, Taizhou	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	4–6, 5–7
Win	1–1		China F4, Taizhou	Futures	Hard	Satoshi Iwabuchi	2–6, 7–5, 7–5
Win	2–1		China F4, Guiyang	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	6–4, 6–3
Loss	2–2		China F4, Chengdu	Futures	Hard	Im Kyu-tae	6–7^(8–10), 1–6
Win	3–2		Canada F3, Mississauga	Futures	Hard	Steven Diez	6–2, 6–3
Win	4–2		Israel F8, Ramat HaSharon	Futures	Hard	Chang Yu	6–4, 7–5
Win	5–2		China F9, Shenyang	Futures	Hard	Wu Di	1–6, 7–6^(7–3), 6–3
Win	6–2		China F1, Guangzhou	Futures	Hard	Bai Yan	6–7^(4–7), 7–6^(7–3), 6–1
Loss	6–3		China F6, Putian	Futures	Hard	Bai Yan	2–6, 1–6
Loss	6–4		China F8, Shenzhen	Futures	Hard	Bai Yan	6–4, 2–6, 1–6
Win	7–4		China F9, Zhangjiagang	Futures	Hard	Nikola Milojević	6–2, 6–2
Loss	7–5		China F5, Wuhan	Futures	Hard	Wu Di	6–3, 4–6, 6–7^(3–7)
Win	8–5		China F6, Wuhan	Futures	Hard	Bai Yan	6–4, 6–3
Loss	8–6		China F8, Zhangjiagang	Futures	Hard	Wu Di	3–6, 7–6^(7–2), 3–6
Win	9–6		China F10, Xi'an	Futures	Hard	Zhang Ze	6–2, 2–6, 6–4
Win	10–6		China F11, Xi'an	Futures	Hard	He Yecong	6–1, 6–1
Loss	10–7		Australia F6, Alice Springs	Futures	Hard	Robin Staněk	2–6, 3–6
Loss	10–8		China F10, Longyan	Futures	Hard	Lee Duck-hee	4–6, 4–6
Loss	10–9		Bangkok, Thailand	Challenger	Hard	Janko Tipsarević	2–6, 3–6
Win	11–9		China F4, Luzhou	Futures	Hard	Shuichi Sekiguchi	6–3, 6–0
Loss	11–10		China F10, Kunshan	Futures	Hard	Prajnesh Gunneswaran	3–6, 1–6
Loss	11–11		China F14, Tianjin	Futures	Hard	Nikola Milojević	4–6, 2–6
Win	12–11		Japan F5, Kashiwa	Futures	Hard	Yusuke Takahashi	6–4, 6–7^(5–7), 7–5
Win	13–11		China F7, Luzhou	Futures	Hard	Wu Di	2–6, 6–2, 6–2
Win	14–11		China F8, Yinchuan	Futures	Hard	Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul	6–3, 6–3
Loss	14–12	Nov 2019	style=background:#FFE4B5	Shenzhen, China P.R.	style=background:#FFE4B5	Challenger	Hard	Zhang Zhizhen	3–6, 6–4, 1–6
Loss	14–13		M25 Monastir, Tunisia	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Akira Santillan	6–2, 6–7⁽³⁻⁷⁾, 2−6
Win	15–13		M15 Tianjin, China	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Lee Kuan-yi	6–3, ret.
Win	16–13		M15 Tianjin, China	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Cui Jie	4–6, 7–6⁽⁸⁻⁶⁾, 6−4

Doubles: 81 (53–28)

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (6–7)
ITF Futures Tour (47–21)

Titles by surface
Hard (51–26)
Clay (1–2)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–0)

Result	W–L	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	China F4, Tianjin	Futures	Hard	Wang Yu jr.	David To Marcus Walker	6–1, 6–2
Loss	1–1	China F5, Guangzhou	Futures	Hard	Xue Feng	James Cerretani Jesse Huta Galung	6–4, 3–6, 6–7^(3–7)
Loss	1–2	Italy F25, Imperia	Futures	Clay	Wang Yu jr.	Fabio Colangelo Mattia Livraghi	4–6, 4–6
Loss	1–3	Italy F27, Bolzano	Futures	Clay	Wang Yu jr.	Dušan Karol David Luque-Velasco	3–6, 5–7
Win	2–3	China F2, Tianjin	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Chang Huai-en Lee Hsin-han	6–3, 3–6, 6–1
Win	3–3	China F3, Beijing	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Matthew Ebden Jose Statham	0–6, 6–3, 7–5
Loss	3–4		Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Antal van der Duim Boy Westerhof	6–7^(5–7), 4–6
Loss	3–5		Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Hiroki Kondo Hiroyasu Sato	6–3, 6–7^(3–7), [2–10]
Win	4–5	Japan F3, Kōfu	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	G.D. Jones Daniel King-Turner	6–1, 7–5
Loss	4–6	Korea Rep. F4, Seogwipo	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Yaoki Ishii Hiroki Kondo	4–6, 5–7
Win	5–6	Japan F6, Akishima	Futures	Carpet	Gong Maoxin	Wang Yu jr. Xu Junchao	6–4, 3–6, [10–7]
Win	6–6	Japan F7, Ariake	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Minh Le Lee Hsin-han	6–2, 6–1
Win	7–6	Japan F8, Osaka	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Hiroki Kondo Hiroyasu Sato	6–4, 6–3
Loss	7–7	China F1, Guangzhou	Futures	Hard	Wang Yu jr.	Lee Hsin-han Yang Tsung-hua	0–6, 3–6
Loss	7–8	Korea Rep. F1, Daegu	Futures	Hard	Kim Young-jun	G.D. Jones Daniel King-Turner	2–6, 4–6
Loss	7–9	Korea Rep. F2, Seogwipo	Futures	Hard	Clément Reix	Satoshi Iwabuchi Gouichi Motomura	3–6, 2–6
Win	8–9	Korea Rep. F3, Changwon	Futures	Hard	Wang Yu jr.	Ervin Eleskovic Frederik Nielsen	6–2, 6–3
Loss	8–10	Korea Rep. F4, Gimcheon	Futures	Hard	Wang Yu jr.	G.D. Jones Daniel King-Turner	4–6, 1–6
Win	9–10	China F7, Ningbo	Futures	Hard	Wang Yu jr.	Gong Maoxin Xue Feng	4–6, 6–1, [10–6]
Loss	9–11	Australia F6, Darwin	Futures	Hard	Wang Yu jr.	Kaden Hensel Adam Hubble	4–6, 3–6
Loss	9–12	Azerbaijan F1, Baku	Futures	Hard (i)	Gong Maoxin	Petru-Alexandru Luncanu Matwé Middelkoop	7–6^(9–7), 3–6, [10–12]
Loss	9–13	China F3, Chongqing	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Wu Di Zhang Ze	3–6, 6–1, [8–10]
Win	10–13	China F4, Guiyang	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Chang Yao-lun Daniel Yoo	5–7, 6–3, [10–4]
Loss	10–14	Korea F3, Changwon	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Nikolaus Moser Max Raditschnigg	2–6, 6–2, [5–10]
Loss	10–15	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Brendan Evans Toshihide Matsui	6–3, 3–6, [8–10]
Win	11–15	China F5, Wuhan	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Ma Yanan Yu Xinyuan	7–5, 6–3
Win	12–15	China F6, Jiaxing	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Gao Peng Gao Wan	6–4, 6–3
Win	13–15	Karshi, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Divij Sharan Vishnu Vardhan	6–3, 6–1
Win	14–15	Bangkok, Thailand	Challenger	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Yuki Bhambri Ryler DeHeart	6–3, 6–4
Win	15–15	China F8, Shanghai	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Harri Heliövaara Jose Statham	7–6^(7–3), 7–6^(8–6)
Win	16–15	China F1, Mengzi	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Lee Hsin-han Yi Chu-huan	6–1, 6–1
Win	17–15	China F2, Mengzi	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Lee Hsin-han Yi Chu-huan	4–6, 6–3, [10–4]
Win	18–15	China F3, Chengdu	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Chen Ti Xu Junchao	6–0, 6–3
Win	19–15	China F4, Chengdu	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Im Kyu-tae Hiroki Kondo	6–3, 7–6^(7–4)
Win	20–15	China F7, Shenzhen	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Jun Woong-sun Daniel Yoo	6–0, 6–3
Win	21–15	China F8, Huizhou	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Gao Peng Gao Wan	6–4, 6–2
Win	22–15	Canada F3, Mississauga	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Peter Aarts Daniel Chu	6–4, 7–6^(7–1)
Win	23–15	Indonesia F4, Jakarta	Futures	Hard	Yi Chu-huan	Yuki Bhambri Rohan Gajjar	6–3, 6–2
Win	24–15	Thailand F5, Phuket	Futures	Hard (i)	Kelsey Stevenson	Weerapat Doakmaiklee Kirati Siributwong	6–4, 4–6, [10–3]
Win	25–15	China F5, Chengdu	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Chang Yu Wu Di	2–2 ret.
Win	26–15	Israel F7, Ashkelon	Futures	Hard	Chang Yu	Saar Steele Amir Weintraub	6–3, 6–2
Win	27–15	China F8, Fuzhou	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Takuto Niki Arata Onozawa	6–2, 6–3
Win	28–15	China F10, Shenyang	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Huang Liang-chi Yi Chu-huan	6–4, 7–5
Win	29–15	Hong Kong F2, Hong Kong	Futures	Hard	Chang Yu	Gao Peng Patrik Rosenholm	6–4, 6–4
Loss	29–16	Turkey F6, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Chang Yu	Chen Ti Hiroki Kondo	0–6, 2–6
Win	30–16	Turkey F7, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Chang Yu	Mate Delić Ilija Vučić	7–5, 3–6, [11–9]
Win	31–16	China F4, Fuzhou	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Gao Peng Gao Wan	6–4, 2–6, [12–10]
Win	32–16	China F3, Yuxi	Futures	Hard	Wu Di	Lim Yong-kyu Nam Ji-sung	6–4, 6–4
Win	33–16	China F4, Chengdu	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Huang Liang-chi Hung Jui-chen	6–3, 6–4
Win	34–16	China F5, Chengdu	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Victor Baluda Ilya Ivashka	0–1 ret.
Win	35–16	Thailand F4, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Christopher Rungkat	Phassawit Burapharitta Grittaboon Prahmanee	6–0, 6–1
Win	36–16	China F6, Putian	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Peng Hsien-yin Yang Tsung-hua	6–1, 6–3
Loss	36–17	Turkey F2, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Kim Cheong-eui	Artem Smirnov Volodymyr Uzhylovskyi	3–6, 0–6
Loss	36–18	Turkey F3, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Ruan Roelofse	Lucas Miedler Maximilian Neuchrist	4–6, 4–6
Win	37–18	Turkey F4, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Ruan Roelofse	Jan Choinski Kevin Krawietz	6–3, 4–6, [10–2]
Win	38–18	Japan F3, Kōfu	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Takashi Saito Yusuke Watanuki	6–0, 6–7^(4–7), [10–1]
Win	39–18	China F4, Yuxi	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Kim Cheong-eui Boy Westerhof	6–4, 6–4
Win	40–18	China F6, Wuhan	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Bai Yan Arata Onozawa	7–5, 6–3
Win	41–18	Gimcheon, Korea, Rep.	Challenger	Hard	Jose Statham	Dean O'Brien Ruan Roelofse	6–4, 6–2
Win	42–18	China F10, Xi'an	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Bai Yan Chen Ti	4–6, 7–6^(7–2), [13–11]
Loss	42–19	China F11, Xi'an	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Bai Yan Hsieh Cheng-peng	7–6^(7–4), 3–6, [7–10]
Loss	42–20	Bangkok, Thailand	Challenger	Hard	Chen Ti	Bai Yan Riccardo Ghedin	2–6, 5–7
Win	43–20	Australia F6, Alice Springs	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Alex Bolt Jordan Thompson	3–6, 6–3, [10–1]
Win	44–20	Australia F7, Cairns	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Finn Tearney Yusuke Watanuki	6–1, 6–2
Win	45–20	Rome, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Bai Yan	Sander Arends Tristan-Samuel Weissborn	6–3, 3–6, [11–9]
Win	46–20	China F10, Longyan	Futures	Hard	Bai Yan	Sun Fajing Wang Aoran	7–6^(7–1), 6–4
Loss	46–21	Chengdu, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Gao Xin	Gong Maoxin Zhang Ze	3–6, 6–4, [11–13]
Loss	46–22	Shanghai, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Gao Xin	Hsieh Cheng-peng Yi Chu-huan	6–7^(6–8), 7–5, [0–10]
Win	47–22	China F4, Luzhou	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Peng Hsien-yin Jimmy Wang	4–6, 6–3, [10–6]
Loss	47–23	China F7, Wuhan	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Shintaro Imai Kaichi Uchida	6–4, 4–6, [8–10]
Win	48–23	China F10, Kunshan	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	He Yecong Zhang Zhizhen	6–3, 6–2
Win	49–23	China F11, Shenzhen	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Wu Hao Xia Zihao	7–6^(7–4), 6–2
Win	50–23	Australia F6, Toowoomba	Futures	Hard	Bradley Mousley	Nathan Pasha Darren Polkinghorne	6–4, 7–6^(7–4)
Win	51–23	Granby, Canada	Challenger	Hard	Alex Lawson	JC Aragone Liam Broady	7–6^(7–2), 6–3
Loss	51–24	Kobe, Japan	Challenger	Hard (i)	Go Soeda	Gonçalo Oliveira Akira Santillan	6–2, 4–6, [10–12]
Win	52–24	Bangkok, Thailand	Challenger	Hard	Gonçalo Oliveira	Enrique López Pérez Hiroki Moriya	6–2, 6–1
Loss	52–25	Shenzhen, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Gonçalo Oliveira	Hsieh Cheng-peng Christopher Rungkat	4–6, 6–3, [6–10]
Loss	52–26	Granby, Canada	Challenger	Hard	Hugo Nys	Andre Goransson Sem Verbeek	2–6, 4–6
Loss	52–27	M15 Monastir, Tunisia	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Bu Yunchaokete	Charles Broom Constantin Franzen	5–7, 6–2, [8–10]
Loss	52–28	M15 Monastir, Tunisia	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Gao Xin	Skander Mansouri Akira Santillan	3–6, 0–6
Win	53–28	M15 San Diego, United States	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Yang Tsung-Hua	Ethan Quinn Siem Woldeab	6–4, 3–6, [10−8]

Performance timeline

Singles

Tournament	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	Q1	A	A	1R	Q3	Q2	A	0 / 1	0–1
French Open	Q2	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Wimbledon	Q2	A	A	Q1	style=color:#767676	NH	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
US Open	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 1	0–1

Rankings

Year end ATP rankings

Year	Singles	Doubles
2012	385	359
2011	374	181
2010	449	146
2009	753	396
2008	552	548
2007	894	600
2006	968	453
2005	1187	666
2004	n/a	n/a

Sponsorship

In November 2010, Zhe Li signed as a spokesperson for Dunlop Sport, after gaining recognition as the captain of the Chinese national men's tennis team and winning the China Tennis Grand Prix men's doubles title.^[6]

Notes and References

Web site: The pronunciation by Li Zhe himself. ATPWorldTour.com. 2018-10-16.
Web site: Zhe Li – Tennis Players - Tennis. ATP World Tour. 2019-05-20.
Web site: Pro Circuit - Player Profile - LI, Zhe (CHN) . ITF Tennis . 2013-09-05.
Web site: Google Translate . 2013-09-05.
Web site: 2019 AO Asia-Pac. Wildcard Play-off: Zhe Li makes Grand Slam debut at 32!.
Web site: Google Translate . 2013-09-05.