Wei Sijia (born 3 December 2003) is a Chinese tennis player.

Wei Sijia
Country (sports) China
Born (2003-12-03) 3 December 2003 (age 20)
PlaysRight-handed
Prize money$130,173
Singles
Career record130–65 (66.7%)
Career titles8 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 206 (4 March 2024)
Current rankingNo. 237 (1 April 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQ3 (2024)
Doubles
Career record66–26 (71.7%)
Career titles11 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 257 (17 July 2023)
Current rankingNo. 399 (1 April 2024)
Last updated on: 1 April 2024.

Wei has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 206, achieved on 4 March 2024. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 257, attained on the 4 December 2023.[1]

Professional career edit

2022: First tournament wins edit

After not playing on the ITF World Tennis Tour in 2021, Wei began 2022 competing in qualifying draws at the $15k level. With steadily improving results, she won her first final at the end of June. This led to a total of 16 titles (ten in doubles), and her WTA ranking climbed from 1054 at the end of 2020 to 434 a year later.[2] All 16 titles were won in Monastir. In 2022, her first full year on the ITF Women's Tour, Wei won more matches than any other player with 64 main-draw wins. Her total of ten doubles titles was also equal to the most for any player.[3]

Wei won her first ITF Circuit title above the $15k-level at the 2022 Open Feu Aziz Zouhir, in the doubles draw, partnering Priska Madelyn Nugroho. It was the fourth title win for the two partners.

2023: WTA Tour debut edit

She received a wildcard for the qualifying competition for the WTA 1000 China Open. She qualified for the 2023 Jiangxi Open making her tour debut.[4]

Grand Slam singles performance timeline edit

ITF Circuit finals edit

Singles: 11 (8 titles, 3 runner–ups) edit

Legend
W40/50 tournaments (1–1)
W25 tournaments (1–1)
W15 tournaments (6–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (8–2)
Clay (0–1)
Result W-L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Jun 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Eri Shimizu 6–3, 6–3
Win 2–0 Aug 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Yao Xinxin 4–6, 7–6(3), 6–4
Loss 2–1 Aug 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Li Zongyu 4–6, 3–6
Win 3–1 Sep 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Bai Zhuoxuan 6–1, 6–4
Win 4–1 Sep 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Li Zongyu 6–3, 6–1
Win 5–1 Oct 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Yao Xinxin 6–3, 6–2
Win 6–1 Oct 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Kyoba Kubo 6–2, 6–0
Win 7–1 Mar 2023 Open de Touraine, France W25 Hard (i)   Bai Zhuoxuan 6–4, 7–6(5)
Loss 7–2 Aug 2023 Kunming Open, China W40 Clay   Gao Xinyu 3–6, 6–7(2)
Loss 7–3 Oct 2023 ITF Qiandaohu, China W25 Hard   Anastasiia Gureva 6–2, 6–7(6), 3–6
Win 8–3 Apr 2024 ITF Kashiwa, Japan W50 Hard   Lee Ya-hsuan 6–1, 7–5

Doubles: 13 (11 titles, 2 runner-up) edit

Legend
W60 tournaments (1–0)
W40 tournaments (1–0)
W25 tournaments (0–1)
W15 tournaments (9–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (11–2)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 May 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Kristina Paskauskas   Liu Fangzhou
  Wang Meiling
6–3, 7–6(4)
Win 2–0 May 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Yao Xinxin   Mei Hasegawa
  Chihiro Takayama
6–1, 6–1
Win 3–0 May 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Yao Xinxin   Valeria Koussenkova
  Milana Zhabrailova
6–3, 6–3
Win 4–0 Jun 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Kristina Paskauskas   Ashmitha Easwaramurthi
  Mei Hasegawa
6–1, 6–2
Win 5–0 Jun 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Yao Xinxin   Abigail Amos
  Arabella Koller
6–0, 6–1
Win 6–0 Jun 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Yao Xinxin   Yuka Hosoki
  Eri Shimizu
6–3, 6–3
Win 7–0 Jul 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Priska Madelyn Nugroho   Back Da-yeon
  Jeong Bo-young
6–4, 6–1
Win 8–0 Jul 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Priska Madelyn Nugroho   Anastasiia Gureva
  Michaela Laki
6–2, 4–6, [10–5]
Loss 8–1 Oct 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Priska Madelyn Nugroho   Lee Ya-hsin
  Tsao Chia-yi
6–1, 1–6, [3–10]
Win 9–1 Oct 2022 Monastir Open, Tunisia W60 Hard   Priska Madelyn Nugroho   Isabelle Haverlag
  Suzan Lamens
6–3, 6–2
Win 10–1 Oct 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard   Elena Milovanović   Feryel Ben Hassen
  Gina Feistel
6–4, 6–1
Loss 10–2 Jun 2023 ITF La Marsa, Tunisia W25 Hard   Isabella Shinikova   Anastasia Gasanova
  Ekaterina Yashina
5–7, 7–6(1), [9–11]
Win 11–2 Jun 2023 ITF La Marsa, Tunisia W40 Hard   Maria Kozyreva   Kateryna Volodko
  Hiroko Kuwata
5–7, 6–4, [10–6]

References edit

  1. ^ "ITF Players Sijia Wei". itftennis.com.
  2. ^ "Sijia Wei rankings history". wtatennis.com.
  3. ^ "The ITF 2022 World Tennis Tour in numbers". itftennis.com.
  4. ^ https://www.wtatennis.com/videos/3739187/birrell-edges-qualifier-wei-in-two-tight-sets-in-nanchang

External links edit