ranking points accrued from her performance so far will give her a very strong chance of edging just inside the world top 100 for the first time in her career in the week following the tournament. 2007 Yuan won her first 2007 main-draw match at Indian Wells, where she qualified and beat Frenchwoman Virginie Razzano in three sets. She then lost in two tight sets to Japanese veteran Ai Sugiyama. Two weeks later, she won a $25k tournament in Hammond, Louisiana. While Yuan struggled during the clay-court- and grass-court season, she won a few main draw matches in the hardcourt season. She defeated Casey Dellacqua of Australia in Cincinnati, eighth-seeded Russian Yaroslava Shvedova in Bali, Marina Erakovic of New Zealand in Seoul, and fourth-seeded Japanese Ai Sugiyama in Tokyo. This win over 37th-ranked Sugiyama was Yuan's best win of the season. 2008 In July, Yuan won three matches to reach the quarterfinals of the East West Bank Classic in Carson, California where she lost to wildcard Bethanie Mattek of the U.S., 2–6, 5–7. As a result, her world singles ranking jumped 24 places, from No. 122 to 98. Later that month, as a qualifier at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, she had to quit in the first round against ninth seed Patty Schnyder because of a left thigh injury, 7–6, 3–2 (ret.). In August, Yuan was the top seed in the US Open women's singles qualifying tournament, but she lost in the qualifying first round to unseeded Hana Šromová of the Czech Republic, 3–6, 2–6. 2009 In January's Australian Open women's singles, Yuan lost 3–6, 2–6 to No. 2 seed and eventual champion, Serena Williams, in the first round. ITF finals Singles: 7 (4–3) Doubles: 2 (1–1) Performance timelines Singles Doubles See also Chinese tennis players Tennis in China References External links 1986 births Living people Chinese female tennis players Sportspeople from Changsha Tennis players from Hunan 21st-century Chinese women