Australia, 13 March 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Hayden Jones has skyrocketed to a career-high world No.11 within the newest ITF World Tennis Tour junior boys’ rankings.
It follows the 17-year-old from the Gold Coast scooping back-to-back singles titles in Thailand prior to now fortnight.
This effort improves Jones’ season report to 16 wins and simply two losses in junior singles matches.
Jones recorded his finest Grand Slam junior singles end in January, progressing to the quarterfinals at Australian Open 2024.
The highest-ranked Australian boy is now solely 30 rating factors shy of breaking into the world’s high 10.
> VIEW: Newest ITF World Tennis Tour junior boys’ rankings
For the reason that introduction of mixed junior rankings in 2005 (which calculate factors gained in singles and doubles), there have been 18 Australian boys attain a top-10 rating.
The newest to realize this feat was Rinky Hijikata in December 2018.
| Prime-10 ranked Australian junior boys | ||
| Participant | Prime-10 debut | Profession-high |
| Carsten Ball | Could 2005 | No.9 |
| Greg Jones | January 2007 | No.4 |
| John-Patrick Smith | April 2007 | No.6 |
| Stephen Donald | April 2007 | No.9 |
| Bernard Tomic | January 2008 | No.2 |
| Jason Kubler | November 2009 | No.1 |
| James Duckworth | June 2010 | No.7 |
| Ben Wagland | January 2011 | No.10 |
| Andrew Whittington | March 2011 | No.6 |
| Luke Saville | July 2011 | No.1 |
| Andrew Harris | January 2012 | No.6 |
| Nick Kyrgios | July 2012 | No.1 |
| Thanasi Kokkinakis | December 2013 | No.10 |
| Omar Jasika | September 2014 | No.6 |
| Akira Santillan | March 2015 | No.7 |
| Alex de Minaur | January 2016 | No.2 |
| Alexei Popyrin | Could 2017 | No.2 |
| Rinky Hijikata | December 2018 | No.9 |
Jones’ youthful sister, 15-year-old Emerson, was a ladies’ singles finalist at Australian Open 2024 and is at the moment ranked world No.4 within the ITF junior ladies’ rankings.
Alana Subasic is making big strikes within the newest ladies’ rankings, rising 37 spots to a career-high world No.90.
The 17-year-old from Sydney is now the No.3-ranked Australian and makes her top-100 debut following back-to-back singles remaining appearances in Thailand.
Since returning in January from a six-month damage lay-off as a result of a damaged wrist, Subasic has gained 22 of her 27 junior singles matches.
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