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Tyra Caterina Grant
Italian tennis player (born 2008) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tyra Caterina Grant (born March 12, 2008) is an Italian tennis player. She won the junior girls' doubles titles at the 2023 French Open, 2024 Australian Open and the 2024 Wimbledon Championships.
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Early life
Grant was born in Rome. Born and raised in Italy, Grant is the daughter of Cinzia Giovinco, an Italian tennis teacher and Tyra’s manager, and of American former basketball player Tyrone Grant, who relocated to Italy to play basketball.[2] She has both Italian and American citizenship.[1] She trained at the Piatti Tennis Center in Bordighera, before later moving to Orlando to train at the USTA National Campus.[3][4] Her younger brother, Tyson, is also a tennis player.[5] Her mother acts as her manager.[6]
She began her junior career representing the United States but switched at 17 years old to represent Italy in May 2025, just a few days before making her debut as the official ambassador of the 2025 Italian Open in her hometown, Rome, where she also received a wildcard from the organizers.[1]
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Career
Junior years
In December 2022, Grant partnered compatriot Iva Jovic to win the doubles title at the Orange Bowl in Plantation, Florida.[7] At the age of 15, she won the girls' doubles title at the 2023 French Open with compatriot Clervie Ngounoue, defeating top seeds Alina Korneeva and Sara Saito in the final.[8]
In 2024, she and Jovic won the girls' doubles title at the Australian Open.[9] At the French Open, they reached the girls' doubles final, but lost to Renáta Jamrichová and Tereza Valentová.[10] However, at Wimbledon, she and Jovic once again clinched the girls' doubles title, defeating Mika Stojsavljevic and Mingge Xu in the final.[11]
Professional
In 2024, she received a wildcard into the qualifying competition of the US Open.[12]
She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at her home-country Masters tournament, the 2025 Italian Open, where she lost to qualifier Antonia Ružić.[citation needed] -
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ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)
Doubles: 2 (2 titles)
Junior Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)
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