Zheng Qinwen born 8 October 2002 is a Chinese professional tennis player. She won the gold medal in women’s singles at the 2024 Paris Olympics, defeating world No. 1, Iga Swiatek, en route to becoming the first Asian tennis player to win an Olympic gold medal in singles. She reached a career-high WTA ranking of No. 5 on 11 November 2024, and is only the second Chinese player to reach the top 10 after Li Na.
Zheng won her first WTA Tour tournament in 2023 at the Palermo Ladies Open, successfully defending the title the following year. In total, she has won five WTA Tour titles, one WTA Challenger title, and eight ITF singles titles, and was named the 2022 WTA Newcomer of the Year and the 2023 WTA Most Improved Player of the Year. She contested a major final at the 2024 Australian Open.
Zheng was born in Shiyan, Hubei. Until the age of three, she spent time in her maternal grandmother’s home in Chengdu, Sichuan, where her mother originated. Zheng began playing tennis at age seven. Two months later, eight-year-old Zheng left her family in Shiyan to train in Wuhan. About three years later, she moved to Beijing to train with Carlos Rodriguez, the former coach of Zheng’s idol Li Na, and then moved to Barcelona (Spain) with her mother in 2019. She began working with coach Pere Riba in 2021.