[3] Started the year as the top-seed at the ITF tournament Innisbrook Open in Florida on clay with a first-round loss to 468th ranked wildcard Asia Muhammad.

In doubles, she and partner Sharon Fichman were seeded second and lost in the quarterfinals to the eventual winners, qualifiers Angelina Gabueva & Allie Will.

Returning stateside losing to 131st ranked wildcard Bethanie Mattek-Sands in the qualifying final of the Miami Open, teaming up with Megan Moulton-Levy, lost in the second round to third seeded Nadia Petrova and Katarina Srebotnik.

[12] Zhang entered the doubles draw of the Madrid Open with Zheng Jie as the seventh seeded team, they lost in the first round to Kristina Mladenovic & Galina Voskoboeva.

She also entered the mixed-doubles tournament with Julian Knowle, losing in the second round to the fifth-seeded team of Kristina Mladenovic & Daniel Nestor.

[27] Zhang entered the Guangzhou International Open as a wildcard, winning her first WTA Tour singles title over qualifier Vania King (No.

[30] She entered the doubles competition with Chan Yung-jan winning the title over the fourth-seeded team of Irina Buryachok & Oksana Kalashnikova.

[34] She entered the doubles tournament with Sam Stosur losing in straight sets to the second seeded team of Kristina Mladenovic & Flavia Pennetta in the final.

[36] Zhang also reached the final in doubles with Shvedova as the top-seeded team losing to Misaki Doi and Xu Yifan, in straight sets.

[43] She reached the doubles final with Lisa Raymond as the second seeded team losing again to Niculescu & Zakopalová in a match decided in a super tiebreak.

[44] Zhang's winless streak in the Grand Slam tournaments reached nine as she had a disappointing opening-round loss to Mona Barthel in the Australian Open.

[47] After being three games from losing the doubles finals in the second, she and partner Peng Shuai as the fourth-seeded team rallied back to defeat the third-seeded Kudryavtseva & Rodionova in a thrilling match decided by a super tiebreak.

[54] In the doubles competition with Lisa Raymond, she lost in straight sets to the top-seeded team of Sara Errani & Roberta Vinci in the second round.

[67] and reached the quarterfinal round with Sílvia Soler Espinosa losing to the top-seeded team of Cara Black & Sania Mirza the doubles competition.

Her winless streak in major events reached ten as she lost to third seed Agnieszka Radwańska at Roland Garros, in two sets.

[76] Zhang began her grass-court season at the Birmingham Classic as the ninth seed, losing to the top-seed and eventual champion Ana Ivanovic in the semifinal.

[77] Played in the doubles competition with Caroline Garcia losing to the second-seeded team of Ashleigh Barty & Casey Dellacqua in the semifinal round.

[79] She suffered another first-round loss in a major at Wimbledon against 15th seed Carla Suárez Navarro in straight sets, and her losing streak reached eleven.

[81] She withdrew from the Baku Cup and started preparing for the US Open at the San Jose Classic, but lost to qualifier Sachia Vickery in the first round.

[82] She entered the doubles competition with Caroline Garcia losing to the third-seeded team of Garbiñe Muguruza & Carla Suárez Navarro in the quarterfinals.

[84] Zhang played doubles with Samantha Stosur losing against the sixth-seeded team of Raquel Kops-Jones & Abigail Spears in the first round.

[90] Zhang started new season at the Shenzhen Open where she beat fellow wildcard Irina Khromacheva in straight sets, before losing to top-seed and eventual champion, Agnieszka Radwańska, in the second round.

[91] Prior to the Australian Open, Zhang was contemplating retirement due to a lack of success in majors, having not won a match in a main draw in 14 attempts.

She won five matches to claim the Morgan Run Women's Open title, culminating in a three-set victory over Vania King.

With home-favorite Sam Stosur, she won her maiden major doubles title, upsetting defending champions, Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic, in straight sets.

[100] She became the fourth player from mainland China to win a major women's doubles title, after Zheng Jie, Yan Zi and Peng Shuai.

At Wimbledon, Zhang reached the second quarterfinal of a major singles event of her career, before losing to Simona Halep in straight sets.

[107] At the US Open, Zhang became the oldest from all the four Chinese female players that reached the fourth round at this major[108][109][110] but lost to Coco Gauff in a thrilling match lasting almost two hours.

[119][120][121][122] With her straight sets wins over Greet Minnen and 23rd seed Magdalena Fręch, to reach her fifth career WTA 1000 quarterfinal, she moved back into the top 250 in the singles rankings, close to 350 positions up from the start of the tournament.

[126] Partnering Kateřina Siniaková, she won the doubles at the 2024 Guangzhou Open, defeating Katarzyna Piter and Fanny Stollár in the final.