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{{Infobox player
|image = CarolZhao.png
|birthdate = June 20, 1995
|birthplace = Chongqing, China
|dateofdeath =
|placeofdeath =
|from = Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
|residence =
|height = 5’6” (1,68m)
|styleofplay = Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
|turnedpro = 2016
|retired =
|bestwtasinglesranking = No. 131 (June 25, 2018)
|bestwtadoublesranking = No. 157 (July 18, 2016)
|bestitfjuniorranking =
|canadiantennishalloffame =
|cdntennisprofile = [http://www.cdntennis.ca/carolzhao Profile on CdnTennis.ca]
}}
 
==Biography==
'''Carol Zhao''' (born June 20, 1995 in Chongqing, China) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 131 on June 25, 2018 and a career-high WTA doubles ranking of No. 157 on July 18, 2016.
'''Carol Zhao''' (born June 20, 1995 in Chongqing, China) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She reached her highest WTA singles ranking of No. 132 on June 11, 2018 and her career-high junior rank of No. 9 on January 1, 2013. She won the Australian Open junior doubles title in 2013. Zhao was a member of the Stanford University tennis team from September 2013 to May 2016. She ended her college career with a 76–16 overall record and helped the team win the 2016 NCAA championship. She also was the 2015 NCAA singles runner-up. At the 2015 Pan American Games, she won a gold medal in doubles with [[Gabriela Dabrowski]]. Zhao turned professional in June 2016. In 2013, she won the doubles title at the ITF 25K in Granby, her first pro title. In 2017, she captured her first singles title with a win over Junri Namigata at the ITF 25K in Nanao. Also in 2017, Zhao won her second singles title after defeating Liu Fangzhou at the ITF 100K in Shenzhen.
 
In 2013, Zhao won the Australian Open junior doubles title. Also in 2013, she won the doubles title at the ITF 25K in [[Championnats de Granby|Granby]], her first pro title. At the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Ontario, she won a gold medal in doubles with [[Gabriela Dabrowski]]. She was a member of the Stanford University tennis team from September 2013 to May 2016. She ended her college career with a 76–16 overall record and helped the team win the 2016 NCAA championship. She also was the 2015 NCAA singles runner-up. Zhao turned professional in June 2016. In 2017, she captured her first singles title with a win over Junri Namigata at the ITF 25K in Nanao. Also in 2017, Zhao won her second singles title after defeating Liu Fangzhou at the ITF 100K in Shenzhen. In 2022, she won her third singles title at the ITF W25 in Incheon. Also in 2022, Zhao won her fourth ITF singles title and her second W100 at the tournament in Charleston.
 
Zhao was born in Chongqing, China to Ping and Lily Zhao and started playing tennis at the age of five, with the encouragement of her grade school teacher. At the age of seven, she and her family emigrated to Canada and settled in the city of Richmond Hill, Ontario. In September 2010, she relocated to Montréal to be part of the National Training Centre until August 2013.
 
==ITF Circuit finals==
===Singles: 48 (24 titles, 24 runners-up)===
{|
|- valign="top"
|
{|class="wikitable"
!Legend
|- style="background:#f88379;"
|ITF $100,000 tournaments / ITF W100 (1–02–0)
|- style="background:#f7e98e;"
|ITF $75,000 / ITF $80,000 tournaments / ITF W75 / ITF W80 (0–0)
|- style="background:#addfad;"
|ITF $50,000 / ITF $60,000 tournaments / ITF W50 / ITF W60 (0–0)
|- style="background:#ffe4c4;"
|ITF W40 (0–0)
|- style="background:lightblue;"
|ITF $25,000 tournaments / ITF W25 / ITF W35 (1–12–3)
|- style="background:#ccccff;"
|ITF $15,000 tournaments / ITF W15 (0–0)
|- style="background:#f0f8ff;"
|ITF $10,000 / $15,000 tournaments (0–1)
|}
|
{|class="wikitable"
!Titles by surface
|-
|Hard (2–3)
|-
|Clay (1–1)
|-
|Grass (0–0)
|-
|Carpet (1–0)
|}
|}
 
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|May 2013
|style="background:#f0f8ff;"|Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy
|style="background:#f0f8ff;"|$10,000
|Clay
|Sofiya Kovalets (UKR)
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|Aug 2017
|style="background:lightblue;"|Tsukuba, Japan
|style="background:lightblue;"|$25,000
|Hard
|Zhang Ling (HKG)
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|Sep 2017
|style="background:lightblue;"|Nanao, Japan
|style="background:lightblue;"|$25,000
|Carpet
|Junri Namigata (JPN)
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|Nov 2017
|style="background:#f88379;"|Shenzhen, China
|style="background:#f88379;"|$100,000
|Hard
|Liu Fangzhou (CHN)
|7–5, 6–2
|-
|style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss
|<small>2–3</small>
|Feb 2021
|style="background:lightblue;"|Potchefstroom, South Africa
|style="background:lightblue;"|W25
|Hard
|Nuria Párrizas Díaz (ESP)
|3–6, 0–6
|-
|style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss
|<small>2–4</small>
|May 2021
|style="background:lightblue;"|Salinas, Ecuador
|style="background:lightblue;"|W25
|Hard
|Mai Hontama (JPN)
|5–7, 1–6
|-
|style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
|<small>3–4</small>
|Jun 2022
|style="background:lightblue;"|Incheon, South Korea
|style="background:lightblue;"|W25
|Hard
|Mayuka Aikawa (JPN)
|6–4, 6–1
|-
|style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
|<small>4–4</small>
|Jul 2022
|style="background:#f88379;"|Charleston, United States
|style="background:#f88379;"|W100
|Clay
|Himeno Sakatsume (JPN)
|3–6, 6–4, 6–4
|}
 
===Doubles: 1314 (67 titles, 7 runners-up)===
{|
|- valign="top"
|
{|class="wikitable"
!Legend
|- style="background:#f88379;"
|ITF $100,000 tournaments / ITF W100 (0–0)
|- style="background:#f7e98e;"
|ITF $75,000 / ITF $80,000 tournaments / ITF W75 / ITF W80 (0–0)
|- style="background:#addfad;"
|ITF $50,000 / ITF $60,000 tournaments / ITF W50 / ITF W60 (2–0)
|- style="background:#ffe4c4;"
|ITF W40 (0–0)
|- style="background:lightblue;"
|ITF $25,000 tournaments / ITF W25 / ITF W35 (2–53–5)
|- style="background:#ccccff;"
|ITF $15,000 tournaments / ITF W15 (2–1)
|- style="background:#f0f8ff;"
|ITF $10,000 / $15,000 tournaments (2–20–1)
|}
|
{|class="wikitable"
!Titles by surface
|-
|Hard (6–4)
|-
|Clay (1–3)
|-
|Grass (0–0)
|-
|Carpet (0–0)
|}
|}
 
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|May 2013
|style="background:#f0f8ff;"|Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy
|style="background:#f0f8ff;"|$10,000
|Clay
|[[Erin Routliffe]] (CAN)
|Martina Caregaro (ITA) <br /> Anna Floris (ITA)
|2–6, 7–5, [7–10]
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|<small>1–1</small>
|Jul 2013
|style="background:lightblue;"|[[Challenger Banque NationaleChampionnats de Granby|Granby]], Canada
|style="background:lightblue;"|$25,000
|Hard
|Lena Litvak (USA)
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|<small>1–2</small>
|Jul 2014
|style="background:lightblue;"|[[Challenger Banque NationaleChampionnats de Granby|Granby]], Canada
|style="background:lightblue;"|$25,000
|Hard
|[[Erin Routliffe]] (CAN)
|Hiroko Kuwata (JPN) <br /> Riko Sawayanagi (JPN)
|Walkover
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|<small>2–2</small>
|Aug 2015
|style="background:lightblue;"|[[Challenger Banque Nationale de Gatineau|Gatineau]], Canada
|style="background:lightblue;"|$25,000
|Hard
|Jessica Moore (AUS)
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|Jan 2016
|style="background:lightblue;"|Daytona Beach, United States
|style="background:lightblue;"|$25,000
|Clay
|[[Sharon Fichman]] (CAN)
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|Feb 2016
|style="background:lightblue;"|Rancho Santa Fe, United States
|style="background:lightblue;"|$25,000
|Hard
|Jessica Pegula (USA)
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|Jun 2016
|style="background:lightblue;"|Sumter, United States
|style="background:lightblue;"|$25,000
|Hard
|Jamie Loeb (USA)
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|Jul 2016
|style="background:lightblue;"|El Paso, United States
|style="background:lightblue;"|$25,000
|Hard
|Sanaz Marand (USA)
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|<small>3–6</small>
|Jan 2017
|style="background:#f0f8ffccccff;"|Petit-Bourg, France
|style="background:#f0f8ffccccff;"|$15,000
|Hard
|Mayo Hibi (JPN)
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|<small>3–7</small>
|Mar 2017
|style="background:#f0f8ffccccff;"|Heraklion, Greece
|style="background:#f0f8ffccccff;"|$15,000
|Clay
|[[Charlotte Robillard-Millette]] (CAN)
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|<small>4–7</small>
|Apr 2017
|style="background:#f0f8ffccccff;"|Heraklion, Greece
|style="background:#f0f8ffccccff;"|$15,000
|Clay
|[[Charlotte Robillard-Millette]] (CAN)
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|<small>5–7</small>
|Jul 2017
|style="background:#addfad;"|[[Challenger Banque NationaleChampionnats de Granby|Granby]], Canada <small>(2)</small>
|style="background:#addfad;"|$60,000
|Hard
|Ellen Perez (AUS)
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|<small>6–7</small>
|Oct 2017
|style="background:#addfad;"|[[Challenger Banque Nationale de Saguenay|Saguenay]], Canada
|style="background:#addfad;"|$60,000
|Hard (i)
|[[Bianca Andreescu]] (CAN)
|Francesca Di Lorenzo (USA) <br /> [[Erin Routliffe]] (NZL)
|Walkover
|-
|style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
|<small>7–7</small>
|Feb 2022
|style="background:lightblue;"|Cancún, Mexico
|style="background:lightblue;"|W25
|Hard
|Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR)
|Jacqueline Cabaj Awad (SWE) <br /> Lina Glushko (ISR)
|7–5, 6–7<sup>(5–7)</sup>, [10–7]
|}
 
==Junior Grand Slam finals==
===Doubles: 1 (1 title)===
{|class="sortable wikitable"
!style="width:65px;"|Result
!style="width:40px;"|Year
!style="width:150px;"|Tournament
!style="width:50px;"|Surface
!style="width:150px225px;"|Partner
!style="width:175px225px;"|Opponents
!style="width:125px150px;" class="unsortable"|Score
|- style="background:#ffffcc;"
|style="background:#98fb98;"|Win||2013||Australian Open||Hard||Ana Konjuh (CRO)||Oleksandra Korashvili (UKR) <br /> Barbora Krejčíková (CZE)||5–7, 6–4, [10–7]
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==Singles performance timeline==
''This table is current through the 20182024 WimbledonAustralian ChampionshipsOpen.''
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!Tournament!!2018!!2019!!2020!!2021!!2022!!2023!!2024!!SR!!W–L!!Win %
|-
|colspan=511 style="text-align:left;"|'''Grand Slam Tournamentstournaments'''
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Australian Open
|style="background:#ecf2ff;"|Q1
|A
|A
|A
|A
|style="background:#ecf2ff;"|Q2
|style="background:#ecf2ff;"|Q2
|0 / 0
|0–0
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|style="text-align:left;"|French Open
|style="background:#ecf2ff;"|Q1
|A
|A
|style="background:#ecf2ff;"|Q3
|A
|style="background:#ecf2ff;"|Q2
|
|0 / 0
|0–0
Line 260 ⟶ 379:
|style="text-align:left;"|Wimbledon
|style="background:#ecf2ff;"|Q1
|A
|0 / 0
|style="color:#cccccc;"|NH
|0–0
|–A
|A
|style="background:#afeeee;"|1R
|
|0 / 1
|0–1
|0%
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|US Open
|style="background:#ecf2ff;"|Q1
|A
|A
|A
|style="background:#ecf2ff;"|Q1
|A
|
|0 / 0
Line 272 ⟶ 403:
|style="text-align:left;"|Win–Loss
|0–0
|0 / 0
|0–0
|0–0
|–
|0–0
|}
|0–0
 
==Record against top-100 players==
Zhao's win-loss record (6–11, 35%) against players who were ranked world No. 100 or higher when played is as follows: <br /><small>''Players who have been ranked world No. 1 are in boldface.''</small>
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|style="width:225px; background:#efefef;"|'''Player'''
|style="width:60px; background:#efefef;"|'''Top-100 record'''
|style="width:60px; background:#efefef;"|'''Overall record'''
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Yanina Wickmayer (BEL)
|1–0
|2–0
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)
|1–0
|1–0
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Kristýna Plíšková (CZE)
|1–0
|1–0
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Kateryna Kozlova (UKR)
|1–0
|1–0
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Verónica Cepede Royg (PAR)
|1–0
|1–0
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Ons Jabeur (TUN)
|1–0
|1–0
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|'''Ana Ivanovic (SRB)'''
|0–1
|0–0
|0 / 1
|0–1
|-0%
|style="text-align:left;"|Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)
|0–1
|0–1
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Sorana Cîrstea (ROU)
|0–1
|0–1
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Mona Barthel (GER)
|0–1
|0–1
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Christina McHale (USA)
|0–1
|0–1
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Monica Niculescu (ROU)
|0–1
|0–1
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Madison Brengle (USA)
|0–1
|0–1
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Alison Van Uytvanck (BEL)
|0–1
|0–1
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Tatjana Maria (GER)
|0–1
|0–1
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Nicole Gibbs (USA)
|0–1
|0–1
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS)
|0–1
|0–1
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:#efefef;"
|style="text-align:left;"|Total
|6–11
|7–11
|}
 
:''*Statistics as of June 5, 2018''
'''Notes'''
*<sup>NB</sup> The French Open was played in September and after the US Open due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
 
==External links==
*[http://www.cdntennis.ca/carolzhao Profile on CdnTennis.ca]
 
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