Sun Fajing Explained

Sun Fajing (; ; born 3 October 1996) is a Chinese tennis player.

Sun has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 320 achieved on 21 October 2024. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 181 achieved on 26 February 2024. He is the current No. 5 Chinese player.^[1]

Career

Sun made his ATP main draw debut at the 2016 Chengdu Open, where he was granted a wildcard entry in the doubles draw alongside compatriot He Yecong. They were defeated in the first round by Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram in straight sets.

The following year, he was again given a wildcard at the 2017 Chengdu Open with partner Te Rigele, and again he would lose in the first round to Nenad Zimonjic and Santiago Gonzalez in straight sets.

In his third main draw appearance, he and partner Zhizhen Zhang were given a wildcard entry into the doubles draw of the 2018 ATP Shenzhen Open but lost in the first round to Marcin Matkowski and Nicholas Monroe.

His fourth and most recent ATP appearance (also his third at the tournament) was a wildcard entry into the doubles draw of the 2019 Chengdu Open pairing up with Wang Aoran, and to round up an 0–4 record he lost to Dominic Inglot and Austin Krajicek.

He was given a wildcard at the 2023 China Open partnering Zhou Yi.He received a wildcard in doubles partnering Li Zhe at the 2023 Rolex Shanghai Masters and also a qualifying wildcard in singles at the 2024 Rolex Shanghai Masters where he upset fourth seed Borna Ćorić in the first round of qualifying but lost in the second in straight sets to alternate player Ramkumar Ramanathan.^{[2] [3] [4]}

ATP Challenger Tour finals

Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Finals by surface Hard (3–3) Clay (0–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0		style=background:moccasin	Suzhou, China	style=background:moccasin	Challenger	Hard	Xin Gao	Gong Maoxin Zhang Ze	7–6(7–5), 4–6, [10–7]
Win	2–0		style=background:moccasin	Shanghai, China	style=background:moccasin	Challenger	Hard	Xin Gao	Marc Polmans Scott Puodziunas	2–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Loss	2–1		style=background:moccasin	Segovia, Spain	style=background:moccasin	Challenger	Hard	Francis Casey Alcantara	Dan Added Pierre-Hugues Herbert	6–4, 3–6, [10–12]
Loss	2–2		style=background:moccasin	Zhangjiagang, China	style=background:moccasin	Challenger	Hard	Francis Casey Alcantara	Ray Ho Matthew Romios	3–6, 4–6
Loss	2–3		style=background:moccasin	Nonthaburi II, Thailand	style=background:moccasin	Challenger	Hard	Francis Casey Alcantara	Manuel Guinard Grégoire Jacq	4–6, 6–7(6–8)
Win	3–3		style=background:moccasin	Hangzhou, China	style=background:moccasin	Challenger	Hard	Te Rigele	Thomas Fancutt Yuta Shimizu	6–3, 7–5

ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 20 (6 titles, 14 runner-ups)

Finals by surface Hard (5–13) Clay (1–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1		Thailand F1, Hua Hin	Futures	Hard	Chen Ti	3–6, 1–6
Loss	0–2		Indonesia F1, Jakarta	Futures	Hard	Chen Ti	6–7(4–7), 3–6
Win	1–2		China F5, Luzhou	Futures	Hard	Bradley Mousley	7–6(7–2), 6–2
Loss	1–3		Qatar F1, Doha	Futures	Hard	Scott Griekspoor	4–6, 3–6
Loss	1–4		China F6, Lu'an	Futures	Hard	Patrik Niklas-Salminen	6–2, 4–6, 4–6
Loss	1–5		M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	WTT	Hard	Filip Bergevi	6–7(4–7), 6–7(2–7)
Win	2–5		M25 Lu'an, China	WTT	Hard	Cui Jie	7–5, 6–4
Loss	2–6		M25 Hengyang, China	WTT	Hard	Harry Bourchier	6–7(7–9), 1–6
Win	3–6		M25 Kunshan, China	WTT	Hard	Yang Tsung-Hua	6–2, 6–2
Loss	3–7		M25 Qujing, China	WTT	Hard	Bai Yan	3–6, 1–6
Loss	3–8		M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Christoph Negritu	6–7(5–7), 6–7(5–7)
Win	4–8		M25 Martos, Spain	WTT	Hard	Pedro Vives Marcos	7–6(7–3), 6–4
Win	5–8		M25 Anning, China	WTT	Clay	Cui Jie	6–3, 4–6, 6–2
Loss	5–9		M25 Yinchuan, China	WTT	Hard	Cui Jie	3–6, 5–7
Win	6–9		M25 Lu'an, China	WTT	Hard	Mo Yecong	6–3, 6–1
Loss	6–10		M25 Baotou, China	WTT	Clay (i)	Te Rigele	2–6, 4–6
Loss	6–11		M25 Tianjin, China	WTT	Hard	Zhou Yi	6–4, 3–6, 5–7
Loss	6–12		M25 Yinchuan, China	WTT	Hard	Bai Yan	4–6, 6–7(1–7)
Loss	6–13		M25 Huzhou, China	WTT	Hard	Bai Yan	3–6, 6–4, 2–6
Loss	6–14		M25 Qian Daohu, China	WTT	Hard	Elliot Benchetrit	3–6, 2–6

Doubles: 33 (16 titles, 17 runner-ups)

Finals by surface Hard (13–13) Clay (3–4) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	class=unsortable	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	class=unsortable	Score
Loss	0–1		style=background:#cffcff	China F1, Anning	style=background:#cffcff	Futures	Clay	Wang Aoran	Lin Hsin Enrique López Pérez	walkover
Loss	0–2		style=background:#cffcff	China F10, Longyan	style=background:#cffcff	Futures	Hard	Wang Aoran	Bai Yan Li Zhe	6–7(1–7), 4–6
Win	1–2		style=background:#cffcff	China F11, Anning	style=background:#cffcff	Futures	Clay	Wang Aoran	Ning Yuqing Qiu Zhuoyang	6–3, 6–4
Loss	1–3		style=background:#cffcff	Egypt F8, Longyan	style=background:#cffcff	Futures	Hard	Chen Ti	Francis Casey Alcantara Benjamin Lock	3–6, 7–6(9–7), [7–10]
Win	2–3		style=background:#cffcff	China F8, Fuzhou	style=background:#cffcff	Futures	Hard	Te Rigele	Alexander Sarkissian Finn Tearney	6–2, 6–4
Win	3–3		style=background:#cffcff	China F12, Shenzhen	style=background:#cffcff	Futures	Hard	Lý Hoàng Nam	Francis Casey Alcantara Karunuday Singh	6–4, 6–4
Loss	3–4		style=background:#cffcff	Thailand F12, Hua Hin	style=background:#cffcff	Futures	Hard	Xin Gao	Chung Hong Song Min-kyu	6–7(5–7), 6–3, [6–10]
Win	4–4		style=background:#cffcff	Qatar F3, Doha	style=background:#cffcff	Futures	Hard	Wong Chun-hun	Matěj Vocel Marek Gengel	6–3, 6–3
Loss	4–5		style=background:#cffcff	China F4, Wuhan	style=background:#cffcff	Futures	Hard	Wang Ruikai	Te Rigele Yuta Shimizu	6–7(3-7), 3–6
Loss	4–6		style=background:#cffcff	China F7, Luzhou	style=background:#cffcff	Futures	Hard	Francis Casey Alcantara	Sami Reinwein Rhett Purcell	5–7, 3–6
Win	5–6		style=background:#cffcff	China F8, Yinchuan	style=background:#cffcff	Futures	Hard	Francis Casey Alcantara	Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul Kento Takeuchi	6–4, 2–6, [10–5]
Win	6–6		style=background:#cffcff	M25 Wuhan, China	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Hard	Te Rigele	Sora Fakuda Yuki Mochizuki	6–1, 3–6, [12–10]
Loss	6–7		style=background:#cffcff	M25 Luzhou, China	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Hard	Xin Gao	Wang Aoran Wu Hao	6–3, 1–6, [7–10]
Win	7–7		style=background:#cffcff	M25 Kunshan, China	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Hard	Xin Gao	Zeng Shihong Hua Runhao	6–2, 7–6(7–5)
Win	8–7		style=background:#cffcff	M25 Qujing, China	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Hard	Hua Runhao	Francis Casey Alcantara Rhett Purcell	6–1, 6–1
Win	9–7		style=background:#cffcff	M25 Monastir, Tunisia	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Hard	Hsu Yu-hsiou	Jayden Court Dane Sweeny	7–6(7–4), 6–3
Win	10–7		style=background:#cffcff	M25 Monastir, Tunisia	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Hard	Hsu Yu-hsiou	Blake Bayldon Jordan Smith	6–4, 7–6(7–2)
Loss	10–8		style=background:#cffcff	M25 Chiang Rai, Thailand	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Hard	Hsu Yu-hsiou	Congsup Congcar Shintaro Imai	4–6, 6–1, [8–10]
Win	11–8		style=background:#cffcff	M15 Kottingbrunn, Austria	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Clay	Niklas Schell	Stefano Battaglino Lorenzo Rottoli	6–4, 6–2
Loss	11–9		style=background:#cffcff	M15 Monastir, Tunisia	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Hard	Bruno Kuzuhara	James Frawley Christoph Negritu	4–6, 6–1, [6–10]
Loss	11–10		style=background:#cffcff	M25 Jakarta, Indonesia	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Hard	Seita Watanabe	Thomas Fancutt Brandon Walkin	6–4, 3–6, [6–10]
Loss	11–11		style=background:#cffcff	M25 Jakarta, Indonesia	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Hard	Coleman Wong	Tomohiro Masabayashi Seita Watanabe	6–4, 4–6, [7–10]
Loss	11–12		style=background:#cffcff	M15 Singapore, Singapore	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Hard	Francis Casey Alcantara	Justin Barki Igor Sijsling	1–6, 1–6
Win	12–12		style=background:#cffcff	M25 Jakarta, Indonesia	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Hard	Ray Ho	Francis Casey Alcantara Pruchya Isaro	6–4, 7–5
Win	13–12		style=background:#cffcff	M25 La Nucia, Spain	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Clay	Amr Elsayed	Dimitris Sakellaridis Stefanos Sakellaridis	6–2, 6–3
Win	14–12		style=background:#cffcff	M25 Bakio, Spain	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Hard	John Echeverría	Noah Lopez Robin Bertrand	6–3, 6–2
Loss	14–13		style=background:#cffcff	M25 Roda de Bara, Spain	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Hard	John Echeverría	Pedro Vives Marcos Alberto Barroso Campos	7–5, 3–6, [4–10]
Loss	14–14		style=background:#cffcff	M25 Anning, China	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Clay	Evan Zhu	Cui Jie Wang Xiaofei	6–3, 2–6, [8–10]
Win	15–14		style=background:#cffcff	M25 Lu'an, China	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Hard	Ajeet Rai	Cui Jie Lee Duck-hee	6–2, 6–2
Loss	15–15		style=background:#cffcff	M25 Anning, China	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Clay	Cui Jie	Jeffrey Chuan En Hsu Woobin Shin	6–2, 3–6, [5–10]
Loss	15–16		style=background:#cffcff	M25 Baotou, China	style=background:#cffcff	WTT	Clay (i)	Cui Jie	Te Rigele Evan Zhu	3–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Loss	15–17		M25 Tianjin, China	WTT	Hard	Chung Yun-seong	Hsu Yu-hsiou Ryotaro Taguchi	6–3, 3–6, [12–14]
Win	16–17		M25 Qian Daohu, China	WTT	Hard	Te Rigele	Zheng Baoluo Hsieh Cheng-peng	6–3, 3–6, [10–3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rankings | Singles. ATP Tour.
2. Some unexpected wins for the Chinese players in Shanghai Q today - Fajing Sun just saved 4 MPs (mostly on unforced errors) to beat Coric 6-7(5) 6-1 7-6(9).... 1840702461658435923. 30 September 2024. damiankust.
3. 3 hours battle between Borna Coric and Fajing Sun. Sun wins from a set down 6-7, 6-1, 7-6. 11-9 in the 3'd set tie breaker, he saved 4 match points !. 1840702485888979071. 30 September 2024. edgeAI.
4. Web site: 2024 Shanghai Masters: Ramkumar Ramanathan beats Sun Fajing in straight sets; qualifies for main draw. 1 October 2024.