Welcome to the Tour: Ma, Grabher make WTA debuts in Tianjin, Linz

Forty-one players have made their WTA main draw debut this season so far. Find out more about them here.

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21-year-old Belgian Greet Minnen entered Hobart as the World No.346, but scored the first three Top 100 wins of her career in qualifying and reaching the quarterfinals on her WTA debut (Getty)
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Australia's Alison Bai was a surprise qualifier in Hobart, the World No.380 scoring a career-best win over Anastasia Potapova en route to making her main draw debut at the age of 28, where she fell to Alizé Cornet in the first round (Getty)
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Zoe Hives moved into the Top 150 following her run to the last 16 in Hiroshima (Getty)
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17-year-old Wimbledon junior champion Iga Swiatek turned heads at the Australian Open, coming through her first ever Slam qualifying campaign and winning her first round over Ana Bogdan (Getty)
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Former college tennis standout Astra Sharma announced herself in style at her home Slam, beating Vera Zvonareva en route to qualifying for the Australian Open and making the second round (Getty)
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2018 year-end junior World No.1 Clara Burel received a wildcard into the Australian Open, where she stretched No.23 seed Carla Suárez Navarro to 7-5, 6-2 in the first round (Getty)
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Two weeks after turning heads with a plucky Fed Cup loss to Johanna Konta, 21-year-old Anna Bondar received a wildcard into her home tournament in Budapest, where she pushed Sorana Cirstea to three sets in the first round (Hungarian Tennis/Peter Zador)
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2018 Roland Garros junior finalist Catherine McNally ended last year ranked World No.682, but has risen almost 500 spots in five months and scored four Top 100 wins in 2019 - including Kristyna Pliskova en route to qualifying for Indian Wells (Getty)
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Mari Osaka, the 22-year-old sister of Naomi who hit a career high of World No.280 last year and owns wins over Madison Brengle and CoCo Vandeweghe, received a wildcard into Miami (Getty)
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15-year old Roland Garros girls' champion Cori Gauff received a Miami wildcard - and became the youngest player since Madison Keys in 2009 to win a WTA main draw match, beating Catherine McNally in the first round (Jimmie48/WTA)
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University of Southern California graduate Giuliana Olmos had become the first Mexican to reach a WTA final in the Open Era at Monterrey 2018 in doubles, and made her singles debut via wildcard at Monterrey 2019 (Abierto GNP Seguros)
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17-year-old American Emma Navarro, the World No.565 (and junior World No.15), was given a wildcard into Charleston after winning the previous year's USTA Girls 18 National Clay Court Championships (Jimmie48/WTA)
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21-year-old Moldova-born Spaniard and former junior World No.4 Aliona Bolsova has played for both Oklahoma State University and Florida Atlantic University, and - ranked World No.147 - reached the second round of Charleston on her WTA debut (Jimmie48/WTA)
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20-year-old Ylena In-Albon, who broke the Top 200 after winning her first ITF W60 event in February, received a wildcard into her home event in Lugano (Samsung Open)
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Australian Open girls' champion Clara Tauson extended her winning streak to 17 by coming through Lugano qualifying, and the 16-year-old World No.413 stretched Evgeniya Rodina all the way before losing a first-round thriller 6-7(2), 6-2, 7-5 (Getty)
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18-year-old World No.779 Elisabetta Cocciaretto, a former junior World No.12, was one of two pre-qualifying winners who won a main draw wildcard to Rome (Getty)
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24-year-old Belgian World No.266 Marie Benoit came through qualifying in Strasbourg to make her main draw debut (AK Ladies Open/Rene Weiss)
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At the age of 30, Romania's Laura Ioana Paar is having a career-best season: on her WTA qualifying debut in Nurnberg, she saved two match points against Raluka Serban to make the main draw, where she also won a round (Nurnberger Versicherungscup)
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19-year-old German Jule Niemeier, a former junior World No.30, upset Destanee Aiava to qualify for Nurnberg (Nurnberger Versicherungscup)
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20-year-old Russian Liudmila Samsonova powered through Roland Garros qualifying to make her main draw debut, where she fell to No.23 seed Donna Vekic (Jimmie48/WTA)
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Frenchwoman Audrey Albié won the inaugural 'Race France' in domestic ITF events to capture a wildcard into Roland Garros (Getty)
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18-year-old Slovenian Kaja Juvan lost in a third-set tiebreak in the final round of Roland Garros qualifying - but got into the main draw with a few hours' notice after Petra Kvitova's withdrawal (Getty)
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Boasting a rare one-handed backhand that drew comparisons to Amélie Mauresmo, 16-year-old wildcard Diane Parry became the youngest Frenchwoman to win a match at Roland Garros in 14 years with her defeat of Vera Lapko (Getty)
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16-year-old junior World No.29 Selena Janicijevic was awarded a wildcard to Roland Garros (Getty)
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21-year-old Naiktha Bains, a British-born former Australian who began to play under the British flag in April, received a wildcard into Nottingham, losing to Caroline Garcia in the first round (Getty)
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21-year-old Scottish No.1 Maia Lumsden also received a wildcard into Nottingham, winning a round over Tara Moore before also falling to Caroline Garcia (Getty)
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Switzerland's Tess Sugnaux received a wildcard into Lausanne, losing in the first round to Jasmine Paolini (Sea Colony Tennis)
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Former Top 20 junior Varvara Gracheva has won three ITF W25 titles in 2019, and the 18-year-old Russian came through qualifying in Lausanne to make her WTA main draw debut (Tennis Club Caserta/Gennaro Buco)
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18-year-old Swiss wildcard Simona Waltert moved past No.1 seed Julia Goerges on her WTA debut in Lausanne when the German retired in the first round (Getty)
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At the age of 28, playing her 11th WTA-level qualifying event since 2010, late-blooming Italian Martina Di Giuseppe won through to her first main draw in Bucharest - and made it all the way to the semifinals in a fairytale run (BRD Bucharest Open)
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26-year-old Ekaterine Gorgodze, who captured three ITF titles in 2018 to crack the Top 150, became the first Georgian in a WTA main draw in Palermo since Sofia Shapatava at Tashkent 2016 (Palermo Ladies Open)
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22-year-old Italian Jessica Pieri came through qualifying to reach her first WTA main draw in Palermo (Palermo Ladies Open)
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Having won four ITF titles in 2019 to rocket from World No.890 to World No.310, 17-year-old Russian and former Top 20 junior Kamilla Rakhimova made her WTA debut via wildcard in Jurmala (Gravis Visuals)
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Katarzyna Kawa had lost in WTA qualifying on 12 prior occasions since 2010, but it was a lucky 13th for the 26-year-old Pole as she qualified for Jurmala - and then made it all the way to the final, losing to top seed Anastasija Sevastova (Gravis Visuals)
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17-year-old Hailey Baptiste grew up just five minutes away from the Washington venue - and made a stunning debut as a wildcard, ousting World No.17 Madison Keys in the first round (Mike Lawrence/Citi Open)
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17-year-old American Katie Volynets received a wildcard into the US Open after winning the USTA Billie Jean King 18s National Championships (Getty)
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21-year-old Mariam Bolkvadze qualified for the US Open and became the first Georgian to win a Grand Slam main draw match since 2012 (Getty)
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A wildcard into Zhengzhou qualifying ranked World No.650, 19-year-old Wang Meiling upset Liang En-Shuo en route to navigating through to her first WTA main draw on home soil (Zhengzhou Open)
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A former junior World No.3 and alumna of the University of Florida, 24-year-old Kazakh World No.402 Anna Danilina came through qualifying in Nanchang (Gravis Visuals)
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23-year-old Austrian Julia Grabher, fresh off her first ITF W60 final in Montreux, was awarded her first main draw wildcard into Linz (GEPA Pictures/Matthias Hauer)
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In 16 months since returning from injury unranked in April 2018, 20-year-old Ma Shuyue has rocketed to World No.224 after winning two ITF W25s and reaching the Anning 125K QFs, and made her WTA debut at home in Tianjin as a lucky loser (Tianjin Open)

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