The 21st century
China · born 1989 · left-handed · Wimbledon wheelchair doubles champion 2026
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Major doubles titles in 2026
2020
First Chinese wheelchair player at a major
6-4, 7-5
Wimbledon doubles final, 2026
2024
Roland Garros singles final, a Chinese first
Born in 1989 and based in Liaocheng, Zhu turned professional in 2007 and played her first Paralympics in Rio in 2016. In 2017 she led China to an upset of the Netherlands in the World Team Cup final. At the 2020 Australian Open she became the first Chinese wheelchair player to compete at a major, and beat the defending champion and world No. 1, Diede de Groot, on the way to the semi-finals. She reached No. 4 in singles in 2022 and in 2024 became the first Chinese player to reach a major singles final, losing to De Groot at Roland Garros 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. With Yui Kamiji she won the 2025 Doubles Masters in Huzhou. In 2026 the pair won Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open.
| Major doubles titles | 1: Wimbledon (2026) |
|---|---|
| Other grass doubles titles | 1: British Open (2025) |
| Wimbledon doubles | 2026 with Yui Kamiji, seeded first: beat the defending champions Li Xiaohui and Wang Ziying 6-4, 7-5 in the final |
| British Open, Roehampton | Doubles champion 2025 with Manami Tanaka: beat Wang Ziying and Li Xiaohui, the Australian Open champions, 6-7, 6-3, 10-6 |
| Wimbledon singles | Best result: quarter-finals, 2023 |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Women's wheelchair doubles | with Yui Kamiji |
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
"It was persistency and tenacity that kept me fighting to finally reach this level."
The person behind the player.
World Team Cup 2017
The Netherlands had won the women's World Team Cup many times when Zhu led China against them in the 2017 final. China won, one of the biggest upsets the event had seen. "We wanted to produce a miracle as they have won many times," she said.
Source: International Paralympic CommitteeMelbourne 2020
No Chinese wheelchair player had played a major until Zhu entered the 2020 Australian Open. In the quarter-finals she beat Diede de Groot, the defending champion and world No. 1. She called it "my best game yet", but went home analysing each point she had lost: "I am very strict on myself."
Source: International Paralympic CommitteeChina 2020
Ranked fifth in the world after winning 11 titles in 2019, she was already thinking past her own career. "I want to organise wheelchair tennis events successfully in China through my efforts," she said, so that more people with disabilities could take up the sport. Five years later the season-ending Masters was held in China for the first time.
Source: International Paralympic CommitteeHuzhou 2025
At the first Doubles Masters held in China, Zhu and Yui Kamiji lost their round-robin match to Li Xiaohui and Wang Ziying. They met again in the final, lost the first set 1-6, then won 6-0 and took the match tiebreak 10-8. It was the pair's sixth title together.
Source: ITFWimbledon 2026 · Final
The Wimbledon ladies' wheelchair doubles final of 2026 had Chinese players on both sides of the net. Zhu and Kamiji, the top seeds, beat Li and Wang, the defending champions and second seeds, 6-4, 7-5, adding the grass title to the Roland Garros crown they had won a month earlier.
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