Li Zhe (tennis)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Li (李).

Li Zhe
李喆

Country (sports)	China
Residence	Tianjin, China
Born	(1986-09-20) 20 September 1986 Tianjin, China
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	2004
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Christophe Lambert
Prize money	$ 713,273
Singles
Career record	6–14
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 193 (11 November 2019)
Current ranking	No. 602 (18 September 2023)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2019)
French Open	Q2 (2016)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2016)
US Open	Q1 (2019)
Doubles
Career record	9–29
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 136 (28 February 2011)
Current ranking	No. 446 (25 September 2023)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	11–11
Last updated on: 30 September 2023.

Li Zhe (Chinese: 李喆; pinyin: Lǐ Zhé; Mandarin pronunciation: [lì ʈʂɤ̌]; born September 20, 1986) is a Chinese tennis player who plays mainly in the ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Tours. On 11 November 2019, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 193. His highest doubles ranking of world No. 136 was achieved on 28 February 2011.

Li represents his native country of China competing during the Davis Cup. He competes in both singles, for which he has a record of 6–3, and doubles where his record is 5–8, for a combined total record of 11–11. He has reached 27 career singles finals, boasting a record of 14 wins and 13 losses, including a 0–2 record in ATP Challenger finals. Additionally he has reached a bountiful 81 doubles finals with a record of 53 wins and 28 losses, including a 6–7 record in ATP Challenger finals.

Personal

Li Zhe was born in Tianjin, China on September 20, 1986. He began playing tennis at age 8 and turned professional in 2004. He plays right-handed, and his favorite surface is hard court. His goal as a professional tennis player is to enter the top 100 ranked tennis players in the world.

Career

In December 2018, Li defeated his compatriot Ze Zhang in three sets to win the 2019 Australian Open Asia-Pac Wildcard Play-off, which secured a wildcard place for him to make his Grand Slam singles debut at age 32 at the 2019 Australian Open.

He received a wildcard in doubles partnering Sun Fajing at the 2023 Rolex Shanghai Masters.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Finals

Singles: 29 (16–13)

Legend (singles) ATP Challenger Tour (0–2) ITF Futures Tour (16–11)

Titles by surface Hard (16–13) Clay (0–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Apr 2008	China F3, Taizhou	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	4–6, 5–7
Win	1–1	Apr 2008	China F4, Taizhou	Futures	Hard	Satoshi Iwabuchi	2–6, 7–5, 7–5
Win	2–1	Apr 2010	China F4, Guiyang	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	6–4, 6–3
Loss	2–2	Apr 2011	China F4, Chengdu	Futures	Hard	Im Kyu-tae	6–7(8–10), 1–6
Win	3–2	Jul 2011	Canada F3, Mississauga	Futures	Hard	Steven Diez	6–2, 6–3
Win	4–2	May 2012	Israel F8, Ramat HaSharon	Futures	Hard	Chang Yu	6–4, 7–5
Win	5–2	Jun 2012	China F9, Shenyang	Futures	Hard	Wu Di	1–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–3
Win	6–2	Mar 2014	China F1, Guangzhou	Futures	Hard	Bai Yan	6–7(4–7), 7–6(7–3), 6–1
Loss	6–3	Jun 2014	China F6, Putian	Futures	Hard	Bai Yan	2–6, 1–6
Loss	6–4	Jul 2014	China F8, Shenzhen	Futures	Hard	Bai Yan	6–4, 2–6, 1–6
Win	7–4	Jul 2014	China F9, Zhangjiagang	Futures	Hard	Nikola Milojević	6–2, 6–2
Loss	7–5	May 2015	China F5, Wuhan	Futures	Hard	Wu Di	6–3, 4–6, 6–7(3–7)
Win	8–5	May 2015	China F6, Wuhan	Futures	Hard	Bai Yan	6–4, 6–3
Loss	8–6	Jun 2015	China F8, Zhangjiagang	Futures	Hard	Wu Di	3–6, 7–6(7–2), 3–6
Win	9–6	Jul 2015	China F10, Xi'an	Futures	Hard	Zhang Ze	6–2, 2–6, 6–4
Win	10–6	Jul 2015	China F11, Xi'an	Futures	Hard	He Yecong	6–1, 6–1
Loss	10–7	Oct 2015	Australia F6, Alice Springs	Futures	Hard	Robin Staněk	2–6, 3–6
Loss	10–8	Jul 2016	China F10, Longyan	Futures	Hard	Lee Duck-hee	4–6, 4–6
Loss	10–9	Jan 2017	Bangkok, Thailand	Challenger	Hard	Janko Tipsarević	2–6, 3–6
Win	11–9	Apr 2017	China F4, Luzhou	Futures	Hard	Shuichi Sekiguchi	6–3, 6–0
Loss	11–10	Jul 2017	China F10, Kunshan	Futures	Hard	Prajnesh Gunneswaran	3–6, 1–6
Loss	11–11	Jul 2017	China F14, Tianjin	Futures	Hard	Nikola Milojević	4–6, 2–6
Win	12–11	Apr 2018	Japan F5, Kashiwa	Futures	Hard	Yusuke Takahashi	6–4, 6–7(5–7), 7–5
Win	13–11	Jun 2018	China F7, Luzhou	Futures	Hard	Wu Di	2–6, 6–2, 6–2
Win	14–11	Jun 2018	China F8, Yinchuan	Futures	Hard	Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul	6–3, 6–3
Loss	14–12	Nov 2019	Shenzhen, China P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Zhang Zhizhen	3–6, 6–4, 1–6
Loss	14–13	May 2022	M25 Monastir, Tunisia	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Akira Santillan	6–2, 6–7(3−7), 2−6
Win	15–13	Jun 2023	M15 Tianjin, China	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Lee Kuan-yi	6–3, ret.
Win	16–13	Jul 2023	M15 Tianjin, China	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Cui Jie	4–6, 7–6(8−6), 6−4

Doubles: 81 (53–28)

Legend (doubles) ATP Challenger Tour (6–7) ITF Futures Tour (47–21)

Titles by surface Hard (51–26) Clay (1–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (1–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 2005	China F4, Tianjin	Futures	Hard	Wang Yu jr.	David To Marcus Walker	6–1, 6–2
Loss	1–1	Mar 2006	China F5, Guangzhou	Futures	Hard	Xue Feng	James Cerretani Jesse Huta Galung	6–4, 3–6, 6–7(3–7)
Loss	1–2	Aug 2006	Italy F25, Imperia	Futures	Clay	Wang Yu jr.	Fabio Colangelo Mattia Livraghi	4–6, 4–6
Loss	1–3	Aug 2006	Italy F27, Bolzano	Futures	Clay	Wang Yu jr.	Dušan Karol David Luque-Velasco	3–6, 5–7
Win	2–3	May 2007	China F2, Tianjin	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Chang Huai-en Lee Hsin-han	6–3, 3–6, 6–1
Win	3–3	May 2007	China F3, Beijing	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Matthew Ebden Jose Statham	0–6, 6–3, 7–5
Loss	3–4	Nov 2007	China F8, Wuxi	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Antal van der Duim Boy Westerhof	6–7(5–7), 4–6
Loss	3–5	Mar 2008	Japan F1, Tokyo	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Hiroki Kondo Hiroyasu Sato	6–3, 6–7(3–7), [2–10]
Win	4–5	Apr 2008	Japan F3, Kōfu	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	G.D. Jones Daniel King-Turner	6–1, 7–5
Loss	4–6	May 2008	Korea Rep. F4, Seogwipo	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Yaoki Ishii Hiroki Kondo	4–6, 5–7
Win	5–6	Jun 2008	Japan F6, Akishima	Futures	Carpet	Gong Maoxin	Wang Yu jr. Xu Junchao	6–4, 3–6, [10–7]
Win	6–6	Jul 2008	Japan F7, Ariake	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Minh Le Lee Hsin-han	6–2, 6–1
Win	7–6	Sep 2008	Japan F8, Osaka	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Hiroki Kondo Hiroyasu Sato	6–4, 6–3
Loss	7–7	Jan 2009	China F1, Guangzhou	Futures	Hard	Wang Yu jr.	Lee Hsin-han Yang Tsung-hua	0–6, 3–6
Loss	7–8	Apr 2009	Korea Rep. F1, Daegu	Futures	Hard	Kim Young-jun	G.D. Jones Daniel King-Turner	2–6, 4–6
Loss	7–9	Apr 2009	Korea Rep. F2, Seogwipo	Futures	Hard	Clément Reix	Satoshi Iwabuchi Gouichi Motomura	3–6, 2–6
Win	8–9	Apr 2009	Korea Rep. F3, Changwon	Futures	Hard	Wang Yu jr.	Ervin Eleskovic Frederik Nielsen	6–2, 6–3
Loss	8–10	May 2009	Korea Rep. F4, Gimcheon	Futures	Hard	Wang Yu jr.	G.D. Jones Daniel King-Turner	4–6, 1–6
Win	9–10	Aug 2009	China F7, Ningbo	Futures	Hard	Wang Yu jr.	Gong Maoxin Xue Feng	4–6, 6–1, [10–6]
Loss	9–11	Sep 2009	Australia F6, Darwin	Futures	Hard	Wang Yu jr.	Kaden Hensel Adam Hubble	4–6, 3–6
Loss	9–12	Feb 2010	Azerbaijan F1, Baku	Futures	Hard (i)	Gong Maoxin	Petru-Alexandru Luncanu Matwé Middelkoop	7–6(9–7), 3–6, [10–12]
Loss	9–13	Apr 2010	China F3, Chongqing	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Wu Di Zhang Ze	3–6, 6–1, [8–10]
Win	10–13	Apr 2010	China F4, Guiyang	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Chang Yao-lun Daniel Yoo	5–7, 6–3, [10–4]
Loss	10–14	Apr 2010	Korea F3, Changwon	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Nikolaus Moser Max Raditschnigg	2–6, 6–2, [5–10]
Loss	10–15	May 2010	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Brendan Evans Toshihide Matsui	6–3, 3–6, [8–10]
Win	11–15	Jun 2010	China F5, Wuhan	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Ma Yanan Yu Xinyuan	7–5, 6–3
Win	12–15	Jun 2010	China F6, Jiaxing	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Gao Peng Gao Wan	6–4, 6–3
Win	13–15	Aug 2010	Karshi, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Divij Sharan Vishnu Vardhan	6–3, 6–1
Win	14–15	Sep 2010	Bangkok, Thailand	Challenger	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Yuki Bhambri Ryler DeHeart	6–3, 6–4
Win	15–15	Oct 2010	China F8, Shanghai	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Harri Heliövaara Jose Statham	7–6(7–3), 7–6(8–6)
Win	16–15	Jan 2011	China F1, Mengzi	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Lee Hsin-han Yi Chu-huan	6–1, 6–1
Win	17–15	Jan 2011	China F2, Mengzi	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Lee Hsin-han Yi Chu-huan	4–6, 6–3, [10–4]
Win	18–15	Apr 2011	China F3, Chengdu	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Chen Ti Xu Junchao	6–0, 6–3
Win	19–15	Apr 2011	China F4, Chengdu	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Im Kyu-tae Hiroki Kondo	6–3, 7–6(7–4)
Win	20–15	Jun 2011	China F7, Shenzhen	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Jun Woong-sun Daniel Yoo	6–0, 6–3
Win	21–15	Jun 2011	China F8, Huizhou	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Gao Peng Gao Wan	6–4, 6–2
Win	22–15	Jul 2011	Canada F3, Mississauga	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Peter Aarts Daniel Chu	6–4, 7–6(7–1)
Win	23–15	Oct 2011	Indonesia F4, Jakarta	Futures	Hard	Yi Chu-huan	Yuki Bhambri Rohan Gajjar	6–3, 6–2
Win	24–15	Nov 2011	Thailand F5, Phuket	Futures	Hard (i)	Kelsey Stevenson	Weerapat Doakmaiklee Kirati Siributwong	6–4, 4–6, [10–3]
Win	25–15	Apr 2012	China F5, Chengdu	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Chang Yu Wu Di	2–2 ret.
Win	26–15	May 2012	Israel F7, Ashkelon	Futures	Hard	Chang Yu	Saar Steele Amir Weintraub	6–3, 6–2
Win	27–15	May 2012	China F8, Fuzhou	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Takuto Niki Arata Onozawa	6–2, 6–3
Win	28–15	Jul 2012	China F10, Shenyang	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Huang Liang-chi Yi Chu-huan	6–4, 7–5
Win	29–15	Dec 2012	Hong Kong F2, Hong Kong	Futures	Hard	Chang Yu	Gao Peng Patrik Rosenholm	6–4, 6–4
Loss	29–16	Feb 2013	Turkey F6, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Chang Yu	Chen Ti Hiroki Kondo	0–6, 2–6
Win	30–16	Feb 2013	Turkey F7, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Chang Yu	Mate Delić Ilija Vučić	7–5, 3–6, [11–9]
Win	31–16	May 2013	China F4, Fuzhou	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Gao Peng Gao Wan	6–4, 2–6, [12–10]
Win	32–16	Mar 2014	China F3, Yuxi	Futures	Hard	Wu Di	Lim Yong-kyu Nam Ji-sung	6–4, 6–4
Win	33–16	Apr 2014	China F4, Chengdu	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Huang Liang-chi Hung Jui-chen	6–3, 6–4
Win	34–16	Apr 2014	China F5, Chengdu	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Victor Baluda Ilya Ivashka	0–1 ret.
Win	35–16	May 2014	Thailand F4, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Christopher Rungkat	Phassawit Burapharitta Grittaboon Prahmanee	6–0, 6–1
Win	36–16	Jun 2014	China F6, Putian	Futures	Hard	Gong Maoxin	Peng Hsien-yin Yang Tsung-hua	6–1, 6–3
Loss	36–17	Jan 2015	Turkey F2, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Kim Cheong-eui	Artem Smirnov Volodymyr Uzhylovskyi	3–6, 0–6
Loss	36–18	Jan 2015	Turkey F3, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Ruan Roelofse	Lucas Miedler Maximilian Neuchrist	4–6, 4–6
Win	37–18	Feb 2015	Turkey F4, Antalya	Futures	Hard	Ruan Roelofse	Jan Choinski Kevin Krawietz	6–3, 4–6, [10–2]
Win	38–18	Mar 2015	Japan F3, Kōfu	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Takashi Saito Yusuke Watanuki	6–0, 6–7(4–7), [10–1]
Win	39–18	Apr 2015	China F4, Yuxi	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Kim Cheong-eui Boy Westerhof	6–4, 6–4
Win	40–18	May 2015	China F6, Wuhan	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Bai Yan Arata Onozawa	7–5, 6–3
Win	41–18	Jun 2015	Gimcheon, Korea, Rep.	Challenger	Hard	Jose Statham	Dean O'Brien Ruan Roelofse	6–4, 6–2
Win	42–18	Jul 2015	China F10, Xi'an	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Bai Yan Chen Ti	4–6, 7–6(7–2), [13–11]
Loss	42–19	Jul 2015	China F11, Xi'an	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Bai Yan Hsieh Cheng-peng	7–6(7–4), 3–6, [7–10]
Loss	42–20	Sep 2015	Bangkok, Thailand	Challenger	Hard	Chen Ti	Bai Yan Riccardo Ghedin	2–6, 5–7
Win	43–20	Oct 2015	Australia F6, Alice Springs	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Alex Bolt Jordan Thompson	3–6, 6–3, [10–1]
Win	44–20	Oct 2015	Australia F7, Cairns	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Finn Tearney Yusuke Watanuki	6–1, 6–2
Win	45–20	May 2016	Rome, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Bai Yan	Sander Arends Tristan-Samuel Weissborn	6–3, 3–6, [11–9]
Win	46–20	Jul 2016	China F10, Longyan	Futures	Hard	Bai Yan	Sun Fajing Wang Aoran	7–6(7–1), 6–4
Loss	46–21	Aug 2016	Chengdu, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Gao Xin	Gong Maoxin Zhang Ze	3–6, 6–4, [11–13]
Loss	46–22	Sep 2016	Shanghai, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Gao Xin	Hsieh Cheng-peng Yi Chu-huan	6–7(6–8), 7–5, [0–10]
Win	47–22	Apr 2017	China F4, Luzhou	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Peng Hsien-yin Jimmy Wang	4–6, 6–3, [10–6]
Loss	47–23	May 2017	China F7, Wuhan	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Shintaro Imai Kaichi Uchida	6–4, 4–6, [8–10]
Win	48–23	Jul 2017	China F10, Kunshan	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	He Yecong Zhang Zhizhen	6–3, 6–2
Win	49–23	Jul 2017	China F11, Shenzhen	Futures	Hard	Gao Xin	Wu Hao Xia Zihao	7–6(7–4), 6–2
Win	50–23	Oct 2017	Australia F6, Toowoomba	Futures	Hard	Bradley Mousley	Nathan Pasha Darren Polkinghorne	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Win	51–23	Jul 2018	Granby, Canada	Challenger	Hard	Alex Lawson	JC Aragone Liam Broady	7–6(7–2), 6–3
Loss	51–24	Nov 2018	Kobe, Japan	Challenger	Hard (i)	Go Soeda	Gonçalo Oliveira Akira Santillan	6–2, 4–6, [10–12]
Win	52–24	Feb 2019	Bangkok, Thailand	Challenger	Hard	Gonçalo Oliveira	Enrique López Pérez Hiroki Moriya	6–2, 6–1
Loss	52–25	Mar 2019	Shenzhen, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Gonçalo Oliveira	Hsieh Cheng-peng Christopher Rungkat	4–6, 6–3, [6–10]
Loss	52–26	Jul 2019	Granby, Canada	Challenger	Hard	Hugo Nys	Andre Goransson Sem Verbeek	2–6, 4–6
Loss	52–27	Apr 2022	M15 Monastir, Tunisia	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Bu Yunchaokete	Charles Broom Constantin Franzen	5–7, 6–2, [8–10]
Loss	52–28	May 2022	M15 Monastir, Tunisia	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Gao Xin	Skander Mansouri Akira Santillan	3–6, 0–6
Win	53–28	Jun 2022	M15 San Diego, United States	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Yang Tsung-Hua	Ethan Quinn Siem Woldeab	6–4, 3–6, [10−8]

Performance timeline

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

DNQ

A

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

Tournament	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	Q1	A	A	1R	Q3	Q2	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
French Open	Q2	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Wimbledon	Q2	A	A	Q1	NH	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
US Open	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 1	0–1	0%

Rankings

Year end ATP rankings

Year	Singles	Doubles
2012	385	359
2011	374	181
2010	449	146
2009	753	396
2008	552	548
2007	894	600
2006	968	453
2005	1187	666
2004	n/a	n/a

Sponsorship

In November 2010, Zhe Li signed as a spokesperson for Dunlop Sport, after gaining recognition as the captain of the Chinese national men's tennis team and winning the China Tennis Grand Prix men's doubles title.

External links

• Li Zhe at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Li Zhe at the International Tennis Federation
• Li Zhe at the Davis Cup