Zhang Shuai (simplified Chinese: 张帅; traditional Chinese: 張帥) (born 21 January 1989) is a Chinese professional tennis player.
She is the highest ranked Chinese women’s singles player currently. She has a career-high singles world ranking of 30th, which was achieved on 7 July 2014, and a career-high doubles ranking of 29th, which was achieved on 1 April 2013. She won her first singles match in a Grand Slam tournament at the 2016 Australian Open, when she defeated World Number two Simona Halep. Zhang had lost all fourteen of her main draw Grand Slam matches up to that point, a stretch that started with the 2008 US Open. Alongside Li Na, Zheng Jie and Peng Shuai, Zhang is one of only four Chinese tennis players to make the quarter finals of a Grand Slam tournament.
