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Maya Joint
Australian tennis player (born 2006) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Maya Joint (born 16 April 2006) is an Australian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of No. 37 and a doubles ranking of No. 69, both achieved on 14 July 2025. Joint is the current No. 2 Australian singles player.[2] Joint has won three WTA 250 tournaments: two singles titles in Morocco and Eastbourne, respectively, and one doubles title with Oksana Kalashnikova at the former.
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On the ITF Junior Circuit, Joint had a combined ranking of No. 20, achieved on 29 January 2024.[3]
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Early life
Joint was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan to an Australian father, professional squash player Michael Joint,[4] and a German mother.[5] In early 2023, at 16 years of age, she made the decision to start representing her father's country of Australia and relocated to Brisbane to begin training at Tennis Australia's National Academy with the likes of junior world no.1 Emerson Jones.[6]
College
On 8 November 2023, Joint committed to the Texas Longhorns tennis team starting from the 2024/25 season.[7] However, on 26 December 2024, Joint announced she would turn professional and forego her college tennis opportunity.[8]
Professional
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2023: Beginnings and first ITF title
Joint won her first ITF Circuit title at the 2023 Gold Coast Tennis International in the doubles draw, partnering Roisin Gilheany.[9]
2024: Major debut and first win
She made her Grand Slam tournament debut at the 2024 Australian Open, in mixed doubles with Dane Sweeny as a wildcard pair.[10]
In July, she was runner-up at the WTA 125 Polish Open, defeating Maja Chwalińska[11] before losing in the final to Alycia Parks.[12]
Ranked as the highest 18 years old at No. 136, she made her Grand Slam singles debut at the 2024 US Open after qualifying[13][14] and recorded her first Grand Slam and also WTA Tour win over Laura Siegemund.[15] She lost in the second round to 14th seed Madison Keys in straight sets.[16]
2025: First WTA Tour title, Billie Jean King Cup debut, top 60
Having announced her decision to turn professional,[8] Joint began the 2025 season with a victory over fellow Australian Maddison Inglis at the Brisbane International,[17] before falling to 10th seed Victoria Azarenka in three sets in the second round.[18] The following week, she reached her first WTA semifinal at the Hobart International by defeating Olga Danilović[19] and then fourth seed Magda Linette for her maiden win against a top-50 ranked player,[20] before overcoming wildcard entrant Sofia Kenin in the quarterfinals.[21] She lost in the last four to second seed Elise Mertens.[22] Joint was given a wildcard entry into the main draw at the Australian Open, but lost to seventh seed Jessica Pegula in the first round.[23]
Partnering Taylah Preston, Joint won her first WTA 125 doubles title at the Cancún Open, defeating Aliona Bolsova and Yvonne Cavallé Reimers in the final.[24] Joint qualified for the main-draw at the Mérida Open[25] and defeated Julia Grabher. As a result, Joint reached the top 100 in the singles rankings on 3 March 2025 for the first time in her career, becoming only the second teenager in the top 100, at the age of 18 (and second youngest after Mirra Andreeva).[26][27][28] She defeated world No. 20 and fifth seed Donna Vekić, conceding only three games, to make it through to her first WTA 500 quarterfinal.[29][30][31] Joint won the first set of her last eight encounter against Elina Avanesyan but ultimately lost the match, getting bagelled in the deciding set.[32] Despite the defeat she rose into the top 85 in the rankings.[33]
In March, Joint qualified for the WTA 1000 tournament at Indian Wells.[34] She lost to Sorana Cîrstea in the first round.[35]
Joint made her debut for the Australia Billie Jean King Cup team against Kazakhstan in the 2025 qualifying round held in Brisbane in April, losing to Yulia Putintseva in the opening singles match.[36] She then defeated Yuliana Monroy as Australia beat Colombia, although it was not enough to see them progress to the finals.[37]
After qualifying for the Madrid Open, Joint overcame wildcard entrant Carlota Martínez Círez to secure her first WTA Tour main draw clay-court win.[38] Aged 19 years and five days at the time, the victory also made her the youngest Australian to win a WTA 1000 match, breaking the previous record of 20 years and 330 days set by Ashleigh Barty at the 2017 Miami Open.[39][40] Joint lost to 11th seed Emma Navarro in the second round.[41] She qualified for the Italian Open, but lost to Emma Raducanu in the first round.[42]
In May at the Morocco Open, Joint won her first WTA Tour title, defeating Jaqueline Cristian in straight sets in the final.[43] She and partner Oksana Kalashnikova won the doubles at the same tournament, overcoming Angelica Moratelli and Camilla Rosatello in the championship match.[43] As a result, Joint rose to new career-high rankings of world No. 53 in singles and No. 107 in doubles on 26 May 2025.[44] That same day, she made her French Open debut but lost to fellow Australian Ajla Tomljanović, in straight sets.[45]
Moving onto the grass-court season at the Eastbourne Open, Joint defeated Ons Jabeur,[46] seventh seed Emma Raducanu,[47] Anna Blinkova[48] and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to reach the final,[49][50] which she won against Alexandra Eala in three sets, saving four match points in the process, to claim her second career singles title.[51][52] Three days later, she made her main-draw debut at Wimbledon,[53] losing to 19th seed Liudmila Samsonova in the first round.[54]
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| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
Singles
Current through the 2025 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem – Singles.
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WTA Tour finals
Singles: 2 (2 titles)
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
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WTA Challenger finals
Singles: 1 (runner-up)
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
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ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)
Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)
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Notes
- The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open since 2009 until 2024. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009 to 2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The Premier 5 tournaments were reclassified as WTA 1000 tournaments in 2021.
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