For the primary time in additional than 5 years, Australia has 4 girls inside the highest 100 – a quantity that doubled after an excellent week for the green-and-gold on the WTA Tour.
Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 4 March 2025 | Matt Trollope
Girls’s singles
Maya Joint and Ajla Tomljanovic surged inside the highest 100 after glorious weeks at WTA occasions in North America, doubling Australia’s illustration inside this bracket.
They joined Kimberly Birrell and Olivia Gadecki, giving Australia 4 top-100 girls for the primary time since October 2019.
Whereas Tomljanovic returns to the highest 100, it marks 18-year-old Joint’s debut, an achievement she unlocked by routing top-20 star Donna Vekic to achieve the WTA 500 quarterfinals in Merida.
Tomljanovic reached the semifinals in Austin, whereas Daria Saville was a set away from becoming a member of her compatriots within the prime 100 earlier than falling within the Merida semifinals.
It was the primary time in seven years Australia had two WTA-level semifinalists in the identical week – it final occurred when Saville and Ash Barty reached the 2018 Sydney Worldwide semifinals – and the primary time at two separate occasions in the identical week since 2011.
The final time Australia had 5 girls inside the highest 100 was Might 2019.
Elsewhere, Arina Rodionova’s run to the ITF W50 closing in Ahmedabad, India boosted her again contained in the Australian prime 10.
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AUSSIE TOP 10 |
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Participant |
Rating |
Transfer |
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Kimberly Birrell |
No.76 |
0 |
|
Maya Joint |
No.85 |
+18 |
| Ajla Tomljanovic |
No.94 |
+17 |
| Olivia Gadecki |
No.99 |
-6 |
| Daria Saville |
No.109 |
+12 |
| Maddison Inglis |
No.136 |
-2 |
| Talia Gibson |
No.139 |
0 |
| Destanee Aiava |
No.148 |
+7 |
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Priscilla Hon |
No.159 |
-1 |
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Arina Rodionova |
No.187 |
+21 |
Males’s singles
9 Australians stay within the ATP prime 100, with Alex de Minaur sustaining his place within the prime 10.
Whereas there was little vital motion among the many Aussie prime 10, there have been notable enhancements a bit additional down the record.
James McCabe made his top-200 debut after advancing to the ATP Challenger semifinals in Bengaluru, India, whereas Blake Ellis hit a career-high rating of 295th after advancing to the second spherical of the identical occasion.
In the meantime, Jason Kubler soared 70 spots, again inside prime 450, after his current Australian Professional Tour success in Tasmania.
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AUSSIE TOP 10 |
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Participant |
Rating |
Transfer |
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Alex de Minaur |
No.10 |
-2 |
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Alexei Popyrin |
No.27 |
0 |
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Jordan Thompson |
No.38 |
-1 |
| Aleksandar Vukic |
No.64 |
+2 |
| Chris O’Connell |
No.75 |
0 |
| Rinky Hijikata |
No.83 |
-1 |
|
Thanasi Kokkinakis |
No.86 |
-2 |
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Adam Walton |
No.96 |
+1 |
| James Duckworth |
No.97 |
-3 |
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Max Purcell |
No.124 |
+2 |
Girls’s doubles
Elena Micic made her top-250 debut within the tandem sport after scooping the Australian Professional Tour title in Burnie with Monique Barry.
Micic and Barry backed that up with victory in Launceston, that means Micic stands to rise even larger when subsequent week’s doubles rankings are launched.
Gabriella Da Silva Fick, in the meantime, rose 26 locations to crack the highest 350 after reaching the Burnie closing with Belle Thompson.
Ellen Perez stays Australia’s prime feminine doubles participant, at world No.16.
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AUSSIE TOP 10 |
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Participant |
Rating |
Transfer |
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Ellen Perez |
No.16 |
-3 |
| Olivia Gadecki |
No.104 |
-28 |
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Storm Hunter |
No.123 |
-27 |
|
Jaimee Fourlis |
No.146 |
0 |
|
Petra Hule |
No.149 |
-1 |
| Priscilla Hon |
No.158 |
0 |
| Maya Joint |
No.173 |
-12 |
| Kimberly Birrell |
No.175 |
0 |
| Taylah Preston |
No.201 |
-2 |
| Alexandra Osborne |
No.217 |
-3 |
Males’s doubles
Alexei Popyrin’s victory within the doubles occasion on the ATP Dubai 500 event has seen the Aussie soar into the world’s prime 150.
Popyrin rose greater than 700 locations to set a career-high doubles rating of world No.148 after combining with India’s Yuki Bhambri – a former Australian Open junior champion – to triumph within the Center East.
John Friends rose 4 locations this week after reaching the semifinals in Dubai alongside Jamie Murray; they fell to Popyrin and Bhambri.
In the meantime, Blake Bayldon set a career-high rating of 137th after reaching the Bengaluru Challenger closing with fellow Aussie Matthew Romios. The transfer vaults him contained in the Aussie prime 10.
Romios rose to a career-high doubles rating of world No.79, making him Australia’s fifth-ranked doubles participant on the ATP record.
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AUSSIE TOP 10 |
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Participant |
Rating |
Transfer |
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Jordan Thompson |
No.11 |
0 |
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Max Purcell |
No.13 |
0 |
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Matt Ebden |
No.20 |
+1 |
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John Friends |
No.31 |
+4 |
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Matthew Romios |
No.79 |
+2 |
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John-Patrick Smith |
No.85 |
+6 |
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Rinky Hijikata |
No.106 |
+1 |
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Thomas Fancutt |
No.117 |
-1 |
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Luke Saville |
No.122 |
+3 |
| Blake Bayldon |
No.137 |
+22 |
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