Chinese tennis enjoyed a memorable finish to Wimbledon 2026, with Guo Hanyu winning the women’s doubles title and 15-year-old Sun Xinran reaching the girls’ singles final.
Guo partnered France’s Kristina Mladenovic to defeat second seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Luisa Stefani 6-3 7-5 in the final. The 10th seeds completed the victory in one hour and 32 minutes to lift their first Grand Slam title together.
Guo and Mladenovic made a strong start to the final, winning the opening five games before Dabrowski and Stefani began to find their rhythm. The Chinese-French pair held on to take the first set and remained patient during a much closer second.
The second set remained close until 5-5, when Guo and Mladenovic secured the decisive break. They then held serve in the following game to complete the victory in straight sets.
It was Guo’s first appearance in a Grand Slam final and also the biggest title of her career. Guo became the fourth player representing China to win the Wimbledon women’s doubles title, following Yan Zi and Zheng Jie, who lifted the trophy together in 2006, and Peng Shuai, who won the title in 2013. For Mladenovic, it was a seventh Grand Slam women’s doubles title and her first Wimbledon crown in the event.
Their road to the title included victories over both of the tournament’s top two seeded teams. In the quarter-finals, they defeated top seeds and reigning Roland Garros champions Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend 7-6(8) 7-5.
They then faced the Chinese pair of Jiang Xinyu and Xu Yifan in the semi-finals. Guo and Mladenovic recovered from a 3-0 deficit in the opening set to win 7-6(5) 6-4 and reach the final. The result also meant that three Chinese players were involved in the same Wimbledon women’s doubles semi-final.
Guo and Mladenovic dropped only one set across their six matches at Wimbledon. That came in the third round, when they fought back from a set down against Anastasia Detiuc and Irina Khromacheva 4-6 7-6 (5) 6-3.
The partnership has enjoyed an impressive first season together. They won the Auckland title in their first tournament as a team in January, before adding the Wimbledon trophy as their second title of the year. The victory also took Guo into the doubles Top 10 for the first time, at a career-high world No. 9.
China also had plenty to celebrate in the junior competition, where Sun Xinran continued her excellent season by reaching the girls’ singles final.
Playing as the top seed, Sun produced a dominant performance in the quarter-finals to defeat Austria’s Anna Pircher 6-0 6-3. She followed it with another straight-sets victory in the semi-finals, beating Janae Preston of the United States 6-1 6-3.
In the final, Sun faced 14th seed Anna Pushkareva. The Chinese junior made the stronger start and took the opening set 7-5, but Pushkareva responded to win the second set 6-3.
The deciding set remained close, with both players fighting for every game. Pushkareva eventually secured the decisive break and completed a 5-7 6-3 6-4 victory after two hours and 23 minutes.
It was the longest girls’ singles final in Wimbledon history. Although Sun narrowly missed out on the title, her run marked another important result in what has already been an outstanding year.
Wimbledon was Sun’s second consecutive junior Grand Slam singles final. She had also finished runner-up at Roland Garros in June, where she became the first Chinese player to reach the girls’ singles final. Reaching the final on both clay and grass at the age of 15 underlined her ability to perform on different surfaces and against the leading players of her generation.
Guo left Wimbledon with the biggest title of her career, while Sun added another Grand Slam final to her growing list of achievements. Together, their performances brought a memorable conclusion to the Championships for China and Asian tennis.
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