The 21st century
China · born Shijiazhuang, 1999 · right-handed · Wimbledon doubles champion 2025
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Matches in de Groot's winning run she ended
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Major doubles titles with Wang Ziying, 2025
6-3, 6-1
Wimbledon doubles final, 2025
2026
Australian Open singles champion
Born in Shijiazhuang in 1999, Li plays right-handed with a one-handed backhand. She came to notice in May 2024, when she beat Diede de Groot 6-3, 6-2 at the World Team Cup in Antalya, ending the Dutch player's run of 145 matches and helping China to its second title. With Wang Ziying she won the 2025 Australian Open doubles, the first all-Chinese pair to win a major wheelchair doubles title, and added Wimbledon and the US Open that year. She lost her first major singles final to Yui Kamiji at the 2025 US Open, then beat de Groot 6-1, 6-2 for the 2026 Australian Open singles title. On grass in 2026 she and Wang won the British Open doubles at Roehampton and reached the Wimbledon doubles final, lost to Zhu Zhenzhen and Kamiji.
| Major doubles titles | 1: Wimbledon (2025) |
|---|---|
| Other grass doubles titles | 1: British Open (2026) |
| Wimbledon doubles 2025 | With Wang Ziying: beat the defending champions Yui Kamiji and Kgothatso Montjane in the quarter-finals, then Angélica Bernal and Ksénia Chasteau 6-3, 6-1 in the final |
| Wimbledon doubles final lost | 2026 with Wang Ziying, to Zhu Zhenzhen and Yui Kamiji |
| Wimbledon singles | Quarter-final 2024, semi-final 2025 |
| British Open, Roehampton | 2025 doubles final lost with Wang Ziying to Manami Tanaka and Zhu Zhenzhen 7-6, 3-6, 6-10; 2026 doubles title with Wang by walkover in the final |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Women's wheelchair doubles | with Wang Ziying |
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
"I was calm on the court and followed our coach's plan."
The person behind the player.
Antalya 2024
At the World Team Cup in May 2024 she beat the world No. 1, Diede de Groot, 6-3, 6-2, ending a winning run of 145 matches that went back to the 2021 Australian Open. Wang Ziying won the other singles and China took the title. Li called it a confidence boost before the Paralympics.
Source: International Paralympic CommitteeRoland Garros 2024
Weeks later she met de Groot again in the first round of her Roland Garros debut and lost 6-3, 6-4. "No matter what I tried, she got every ball back, so I started to feel the pressure," she said. Wang, due to face de Groot next, planned to ask Li for tips.
Source: ITFWimbledon 2025
In an eight-pair draw she and Wang beat the holders, Yui Kamiji and Kgothatso Montjane, in the quarter-finals and took the final 6-3, 6-1 against Angélica Bernal and Ksénia Chasteau. The same weekend Wang won the singles title.
Source: WikipediaMelbourne 2026
After losing her first major singles final to Kamiji at the 2025 US Open, she beat de Groot 6-1, 6-2 in Melbourne. "Last season, the strategy was not really super clear, in general," she said, explaining the extra problem-solving with her team. "Right now, we are at peace."
Source: ITFRoehampton 2026
At the British Open on the grass at Roehampton, de Groot retired injured in the singles final against Wang, and the doubles final was not played. Li and Wang took the doubles title by walkover, the first British Open title for either player.
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