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Former China No 1 Wang Qiang drops out of WTA Top 100, Wang Xinyu hits career high

  • Wang Xinyu up to career best No 106 in updated rankings ahead of facing US Open champion Emma Raducanu in Austria
  • Zhang Shuai and Zheng Saisai unchanged in singles as they go for doubles gold at WTA Finals and Linz Open respectively

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China's Wang Qiang serves the ball to Taiwan's Su-Wei Hsieh during their women's singles first round tennis match at the Roland Garros 2021 French Open in June. Photo: AFP
China’s former No 1 Wang Qiang has dropped out of the WTA women’s singles top 100 after missing much of this year’s tour, while Wang Xinyu has reached a career record high in the updated standings.
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Wang Qiang has dropped to No 102 in the rankings, having pulled out of the WTA Tour in June, skipping Wimbledon to concentrate on playing for China at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the summer.
She was China’s top ranked player at the time but has now dropped to No 3 behind Zhang Shuai and Zheng Saisai, who also played at the Olympics and lost to Wang Qiang in the final of the China National Games in September.

Unlike her compatriots Wang Qiang has not returned to the tour since.

Zhang – the only Chinese player to stay on tour all year – is unchanged at No 58 ahead of playing the doubles at the WTA Masters in Guadalajara while Zheng is also unchanged at No 87.

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