Jaimee Fourlis

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Jaimee Fourlis
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Fourlis at the 2022 French Open
Country (sports)  Australia
Residence Melbourne, Australia
Born (1999-09-17) 17 September 1999 (age 24)
Melbourne
Height 1.68 m
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money US $510,256
Singles
Career record 157–110 (58.8%)
Career titles 7 ITF
Highest ranking No. 150 (27 June 2022)
Current ranking No. 150 (27 June 2022)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 2R (2017)
French Open 1R (2017)
Wimbledon 1R (2022)
US Open Q3 (2018, 2019)
Doubles
Career record 65–51 (56.03%)
Career titles 3 ITF
Highest ranking No. 138 (2 March 2020)
Current ranking No. 259 (27 June 2022)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open 2R (2020)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open F (2022)
Last updated on: 27 June 2022.

Jaimee Fourlis (born 17 September 1999) is a professional Australian tennis player of Greek descent. She has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 150, achieved on 27 June 2022, and a highest doubles ranking of World No. 138, reached on 2 March 2020. She has won seven ITF singles titles and three ITF doubles titles.

On the ITF Junior Circuit, Fourlis reached a career-high combined ranking of 38, achieved in February 2016. She reached the girls' doubles semifinals of the 2016 Australian Open, partnering with Maddison Inglis.

Fourlis made her Grand Slam main draw debut after winning the 2017 Australian Open Wildcard Playoff by defeating Abbie Myers in the final, earning her a wildcard into the 2017 Australian Open singles tournament.

Personal Info

She grew up in Melbourne and attended Northcote High School. Her family comes from Agrinio and Thessaloniki, Greece. Her Greek Orthodox name is Dimitra.

Career

2014–2016: The beginnings

Fourlis made her ITF debut in Glen Iris in March 2014. Her first win came in October 2014 in Cairns when her opponent Carolin Daniels retired while down 0–3.

In March 2015, she qualified for the Melbourne ITF event and made the semifinal. She played two more ITF tournaments in Croatia for the year.

In 2016, Fourlis commenced the year at the ITF Perth $25k event, where from qualifying she won eight matches en route to her first title.[1] She played a number of events across Australia and Great Britain, with limited success. She ended the 2016 season with a ranking of 427.

2017: Grand Slam debut

Fourlis was given a wildcard into the Hobart International where she lost to Kirsten Flipkens in the opening round. She made her Grand Slam debut at the Australian Open, after winning the Wildcard Playoff. She defeated Anna Tatishvili before losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the second round. In February and March, Fourlis competed on the Australian ITF Circuit, reaching the quarterfinals in Launceston. In May, she competed in Wiesbaden, before winning an Australian wildcard playoff[2] into the French Open, losing to former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki in three sets. After the French Open, Fourlis took three months off to focus on her Year 12 studies, returning to the Australian ITF Circuit in September,[3] where she reached the quarterfinals in both Penrith and Brisbane. In December, Fourlis won the Under-18 Australian Championships and received a main draw wildcard to the 2018 Australian Open.[4]

2018: Top 200

Fourlis was given a wildcard into the Hobart International where she defeated Nina Stojanović,[5] before losing to Heather Watson in the second round. At the Australian Open, she lost to Olivia Rogowska in the first round. In April, Fourlis won her second and third ITF titles.[6] In June, her ranking peaked inside the world's top 200.[7] She ended 2018 with a singles ranking of 202.

2019-2020

In January 2019, Fourlis lost in the first round of qualifying for the Australian Open. She spent the next months of 2019 on the ITF tour with her best result being a semi-final result in Rome in May 2019 and Barcelona in June 2019.

In July 2019, she qualified for WTA events in Bucharest and Palermo.

In August 2019, Fourlis reached the final round of 2019 US Open – Women's singles qualifying. She ended 2019 with a singles ranking of 248.

Following a first round loss in Perth ITF in March 2020, she underwent shoulder surgery.

2021: Return from surgery

In August 2021, Fourlis won her fourth ITF tournament. It was her first after returning to tour in June 2021 following a shoulder reconstruction in March 2020, and her first singles title in three years.[8][9] Fourlis lost in the first round of the 2021 US Open – Women's singles qualifying.

2022: Australian Open mixed doubles finalist, top 150 debut

In January, Fourlis reached the second round of the 2022 Australian Open – Women's singles qualifying.[10] At the same tournament as a wildcard pair, she reached the final in the mixed doubles event partnering Jason Kubler, but lost to fifth seeds Kristina Mladenovic and Ivan Dodig in the final.

She reached the top 150 on 27 June 2022 at the start of the 2022 Wimbledon Championships where she qualified into the main draw, making her debut at this Major.

Grand Slam performance timelines

Key
W  F  SF QF R# RR Q# A P Z# PO G F-S SF-B NMS NH
(W) Won tournament; reached (F) final, (SF) semifinal, (QF) quarterfinal; (R#) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; competed at a (RR) round-robin stage; reached a (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent from tournament; played in a (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; won a (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; or (NH) tournament not held.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated either at the conclusion of a tournament, or when the player's participation in the tournament has ended.

Singles

Tournament 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 W–L
Australian Open A 2R 1R Q1 Q1 A Q2 1–2
French Open A 1R A A A A Q2 0–1
Wimbledon A A Q1 A NH A 1R 0–1
US Open A A Q3 Q3 A Q1 0–0
Win–loss 0–0 1–2 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 1–4
Career statistics
Year-end ranking 424 327 202 248 278

Grand Slam tournament finals

Mixed doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 2022 Australian Open Hard Australia Jason Kubler France Kristina Mladenovic
Croatia Ivan Dodig
3–6, 4–6

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 7 (7titles)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$80,000 tournaments
$60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (4–0)
Clay (3–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Feb 2016 ITF Perth, Australia 15,000 Hard South Korea Jang Su-jeong 6–4, 2–6, 7–6(7–1)
Win 2–0 Apr 2018 ITF Canberra, Australia 15,000 Clay Australia Ellen Perez 6–3, 6–2
Win 3–0 Apr 2018 ITF Pula, Italy 15,000 Clay Italy Anastasia Grymalska 6–4, 4–6, 6–0
Win 4–0 Aug 2021 ITF Ourense, Spain 25,000 Clay Hungary Fanny Stollár 7–6(7–3), 6–3
Win 5–0 Mar 2022 ITF Bendigo, Australia 25,000 Hard Australia Olivia Gadecki 6–3, 0–0, ret.
Win 6–0 Jun 2022 ITF Brașov, Romania 60,000 Clay Turkey İpek Öz 7–6(7–0), 6–2
Win 7–0 Jun 2022 ITF Madrid, Spain 25,000 Hard Spain Guiomar Maristany 6–4, 6–2

Doubles: 12 (3 titles, 9 runner–ups)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$80,000 tournaments (0–1)
$60,000 tournaments (0–3)
$25,000 tournaments (3–5)
$15,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (2–5)
Clay (1–4)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 May 2018 ITF Caserta, Italy 25,000 Clay Australia Ellen Perez Chinese Taipei Chen Pei-hsuan
Chinese Taipei Wu Fang-hsien
6–7(6–8), 3–6
Win 1–1 Mar 2019 ITF Canberra, Australia 25,000 Clay Australia Alison Bai United Kingdom Naiktha Bains
Slovakia Tereza Mihalíková
6–2, 6–2
Loss 1–2 Apr 2019 ITF Chiasso, Switzerland 25,000 Clay Canada Sharon Fichman Spain Cristina Bucșa
Ukraine Marta Kostyuk
1–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Loss 1–3 May 2019 ITF Wiesbaden, Germany 60,000 Clay Liechtenstein Kathinka von Deichmann Russia Anna Blinkova
Belgium Yanina Wickmayer
3–6, 6–4, [3–10]
Loss 1–4 Sep 2019 ITF Darwin, Australia 60,000 Hard Australia Alison Bai Australia Destanee Aiava
Australia Lizette Cabrera
4–6, 6–2, [3–10]
Loss 1–5 Oct 2019 ITF Macon, United States 80,000 Hard Greece Valentini Grammatikopoulou United States Usue Maitane Arconada
United States Caroline Dolehide
7–6(7–2), 2–6, [8–10]
Win 2–5 Jan 2020 ITF Canberra, Australia[lower-alpha 1] 25,000 Hard Australia Alison Bai Hungary Anna Bondár
Turkey Pemra Özgen
5–7, 6–4, [10–8]
Win 3–5 Feb 2020 ITF Launceston, Australia 25,000 Hard Australia Alison Bai Australia Alicia Smith
Papua New Guinea Abigail Tere-Apisah
7–6(7–4), 6–3
Loss 3–6 Feb 2020 ITF Perth, Australia 25,000 Hard New Zealand Erin Routliffe Japan Kanako Morisaki
Japan Erika Sema
5–7, 4–6
Loss 3–7 Aug 2021 ITF Versmold, Germany 60,000 Clay Sweden Mirjam Björklund Kazakhstan Anna Danilina
Ukraine Valeriya Strakhova
6–4, 5–7, [4–10]
Loss 3–8 Feb 2022 ITF Canberra, Australia 25,000 Hard Australia Alison Bai United States Asia Muhammad
Australia Arina Rodionova
3–6, 6–3, [6–10]
Loss 3–9 Feb 2022 ITF Canberra, Australia 25,000 Hard Australia Alison Bai United States Asia Muhammad
Australia Arina Rodionova
6–7(2), 6–7(5)

Playing style

Fourlis is an offensive baseliner and has a powerful forehand which she uses to try to dictate play from the back of the court. Her backhand and serve are reliable. She covers the court well. When she plays, she looks to use her forehand to finish off points.

Notes

  1. Tournament was moved from Canberra to Bendigo due to the smoke affecting Canberra from the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season.

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