The 21st century
Chinese Taipei · born Hsinchu, 1986 · right-handed, two hands on both sides · four times Wimbledon women's doubles champion
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4
Wimbledon women's doubles titles, with three different partners, 2013 to 2023
2013
First major title won by a player from Taiwan
38
Her age when she won her first Wimbledon mixed title, 2024
74
Combined age in years of Hsieh and Barbora Strýcová at Wimbledon 2023, a Guinness record for a major women's doubles title
3
Birmingham doubles titles, 2012, 2019 and 2024
Hsieh Su-wei was born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on 4 January 1986 and grew up in Kaohsiung. Her father introduced her to tennis at five, and her younger sister and brother also became professionals. She plays with two hands on both sides, hitting flat and early and mixing in slices, drop shots and sharp angles. She turned professional in 2001, reached No. 23 in singles in February 2013 and No. 1 in doubles on 12 May 2014, and finished 2020 as the year-end doubles No. 1.
She has won seven major women's doubles titles: Wimbledon in 2013 with Peng Shuai, in 2019 and 2023 with Barbora Strýcová and in 2021 with Elise Mertens, the French Open in 2014 with Peng and in 2023 with Wang Xinyu, and the Australian Open in 2024 with Mertens. In 2024 she added the Australian Open and Wimbledon mixed titles with Jan Zieliński. In singles she reached the quarter-finals of the 2021 Australian Open at 35, the first Taiwanese woman to reach a major singles quarter-final, and she beat two world No. 1s, Simona Halep at Wimbledon in 2018 and Naomi Osaka in Miami in 2019. She played at the 2012 and 2024 Olympic Games.
She retired from singles at the majors in 2024 but kept playing doubles. With Jeļena Ostapenko she reached the finals of the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2025, and she was still on the tour in 2026.
| Wimbledon women's doubles finals | 2013 with Peng Shuai: beat Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua 7-6 (7-1), 6-1. 2019 with Barbora Strýcová: beat Gabriela Dabrowski and Xu Yifan 6-2, 6-4, without losing a set all fortnight. 2021 with Elise Mertens: beat Veronika Kudermetova and Elena Vesnina 3-6, 7-5, 9-7, after being two championship points down at 5-4 in the second set. 2023 with Strýcová, unseeded: beat Storm Hunter and Mertens 7-5, 6-4 |
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| Wimbledon 2024 mixed | With Jan Zieliński, seeded seven, beat Santiago González and Giuliana Olmos 6-4, 6-2 on Centre Court without facing a break point. Because of rain, a first-to-10-points tiebreak replaced the third set in every round |
| Wimbledon 2025 | Lost the women's doubles final with Jeļena Ostapenko to Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens |
| Wimbledon 2018 singles | Beat the world No. 1 and French Open champion Simona Halep 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 in the third round, coming back from 5-2 down in the final set, then lost to Dominika Cibulková |
| Birmingham | 2012 with TÃmea Babos, her first grass title, beating the world No. 1 pair Lisa Raymond and Liezel Huber; 2019 with Strýcová; 2024 with Mertens, beating Miyu Kato and Zhang Shuai |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Women's doubles | with Peng Shuai |
| 2019 | Women's doubles | with Barbora Strýcová |
| 2021 | Women's doubles | with Elise Mertens |
| 2023 | Women's doubles | with Barbora Strýcová |
| 2024 | Mixed doubles | with Jan Zieliński |
| Birmingham | ||
| 2012 | Women's doubles | with TÃmea Babos |
| 2019 | Women's doubles | with Barbora Strýcová |
| 2024 | Women's doubles | with Elise Mertens |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"Down 5-2, against this big player on the big court, you could get smashed."
The person behind the player.
Kaohsiung
Her father, Hsieh Tze-lung, introduced her to tennis at five. Her younger sister Hsieh Shu-ying and brother Hsieh Cheng-peng also became professional players, and she later trained at a Taipei school run by Hu Na, who had defected from mainland China to the United States in 1982.
Source: WikipediaKuala Lumpur, 2013
Asked about her slight build next to the more muscular players at the top of the game, she said: "I don't really go to gym. I'm not interested to be a 'King Kong Barbie!'"
Source: Tennis.comMelbourne, 2021
Hsieh had lost all three of her previous matches against Sara Errani, each time conceding a bagel, a 6-0 set. Before their 2021 Australian Open meeting she avoided bagels altogether: "So before the match I was thinking today you better not eat the bagel today." She won 6-4, 2-6, 7-5.
Source: Tennis.comWimbledon, 2023
Hsieh returned to the tour in 2023 after a break and reunited with Barbora Strýcová, who was back from maternity leave and planned to retire later that year. Unseeded, they won the title again, and with a combined age of 74 years and 303 days they became the oldest pair to win a major women's doubles title.
Source: Guinness World Records; WTAWimbledon, 2024
At 38 she won her first Wimbledon mixed title with the 27-year-old Pole Jan Zieliński, their second major of the year after Melbourne. "It's great to be back again in the Centre Court," she said, and thanked Zieliński "to bring us back to this amazing court again".
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