Zheng Jie

Playing career

Zheng Jie was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, on 5 July 1983. She started tennis at about seven at a local sports clinic, though her parents had never heard of the game, and was picked out by coaches with her future partner Yan Zi. She turned professional in 2003 and won singles titles at Hobart in 2005, Estoril and Stockholm in 2006 and Auckland in 2012.

In 2006 she and Yan won the Australian Open, China's first Grand Slam title, and then Wimbledon, and she rose to No. 3 in doubles. At the Asian Games in Doha that year she won gold in both singles and doubles. An ankle injury at the 2007 French Open kept her out for the rest of the year, and she returned to Wimbledon in 2008 as a wild card ranked No. 133 and reached the semi-finals. A month later she and Yan won the Olympic doubles bronze in Beijing.

She reached the Australian Open semi-finals in 2010 and a singles high of No. 15 in May 2009, then the best by a Chinese player. She played three Olympic Games, 2004, 2008 and 2012, and her last professional matches were at Wimbledon in 2015. She married her coach and hitting partner, Zhang Yu, and announced the birth of her first child in April 2016.

On grass

Every grass title: 2

Show every title, tournament by tournament

Wimbledon
2006	Women's doubles	with Yan Zi
's-Hertogenbosch (Rosmalen)
2006	Women's doubles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships	with Yan Zi

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 will donate all my portion (of the prize money), I want to do as much as I can."