Yang Zi-jun also known as Jessica Yang[1] (born February 8, 1990 in Hong Kong)[2] is a Hongkonger tennis player. A member of the Hong Kong Fed Cup team, she is currently ranked No. 24 in the world in juniors and has a career-high ranking of No. 22.[3]
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She has reached the latter stages of many junior tournaments; she won the 2007 Girls Under 18 Toyota Open in Bangkok, Thailand, beating Khunpak Issara 6-3 6-0.[4]
In the 2008 Wimbledon Girls Singles, where she just missed out on being seeded,[5] she beat Anna Orlik of Belarus, 6-2, 6-1.[6] Her run was halted in the second round where she was beaten by World Junior No. 3 Arantxa Rus 6-3, 6-0.[7]
Her best performance in a professional tournament is reaching the second round of various tournaments; the Bangkok tournament in 2006, where she lost to Thassha Vitayaviroj; at another tournament in Bangkok in 2006, as a qualifier, she lost to Lee Jin-A; in Jakarta in 2006 where she lost to Lavinia Tananta, and the 2008 tournament in Bulungan where she lost in the 2nd round to second seed Liang Chen.[8] All the tournaments are $10,000 tier tournaments, the lowest tier tournaments in the WTA Tour.