2021 WTA Debutantes
Welcome to the Tour: All of 2021's WTA debutantes
2020 Australian Open junior champion Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva, 15, became the 18th player to make her WTA main draw debut in 2021 - and the first ever from her home country of Andorra - after receiving a Madrid wildcard.
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Russian World No.290 Anastasia Gasanova, 21, saved a match point against Ena Shibahara to qualify for Abu Dhabi, where she upset Karolina Pliskova to make the third round of the main draw.
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Italian World No.317 and University of Texas alumna Bianca Turati, 23, also qualified for Abu Dhabi and made the second round by beating Yaroslava Shvedova.
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Another Italian, World No.394 Lucrezia Stefanini, also qualified for Abu Dhabi after saving three match points against Irina Fetecau. The 22-year-old lost to Elena Rybakina in round one.
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Despina Papamichail made the Abu Dhabi main draw as a lucky loser, and the 27-year-old Greek pushed Karolina Pliskova to a 6-2, 7-6(4) scoreline in round one.
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World No.263 Jodie Burrage was another lucky loser in Abu Dhabi. The Briton, 21, stretched compatriot Heather Watson all the way in a 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 first-round loss.
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After coming through Australian Open qualifying, 20-year-old Briton Francesca Jones made her WTA debut at the Gippsland Trophy, falling in round one to Nadia Podoroska.
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Unranked Australian wildcard Olivia Gadecki took Bernarda Pera to three sets in round one of the Gippsland Trophy. Three weeks later, the 18-year-old stunned Sofia Kenin in the Phillip Island Trophy.
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Australian World No.566 Gabriella Da Silva Fick, 20, made the Phillip Island Trophy draw as a lucky loser, and upset Aliaksandra Sasnovich to make the third round.
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28-year-old Russian World No.406 Daria Mishina was given a wildcard to St. Petersburg, where she lost in three sets to compatriot Kamilla Rakhimova in the first round.
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Doubles World No.24 Desirae Krawczyk competed in singles for the first time since 2017, and the first time at WTA level, at the Volvo Car Open. The American beat Kateryna Bondarenko to qualify for the main draw, where she fell in the first round.
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Texas Tech alumna Gabriela Talaba, a left-hander with a one-handed backhand, also qualified for the Volvo Car Open with a win over Wang Xinyu. The Romanian, 25, lost to Danka Kovinic in round one.
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With three ITF W25 trophies under her belt in 2021 already, late-blooming Spaniard Nuria Parrizas Diaz qualified for her first WTA main draw in Bogota at the age of 29 - and made the quarterfinals with an upset of Arantxa Rus.
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Moldova-born Spaniard Cristina Bucsa, 23, had played her first WTA-level qualifying event at Wimbledon 2019, and made her main draw debut in Bogota. The World No.164 lost in round one to Nuria Parrizas Diaz.
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Colombia's Jessica Plazas had been a qualifying wildcard in Bogota in 2017-19. The 19-year-old World No.982 received her first main draw wildcard in 2021, losing to Lara Arruabarrena in round one.
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Alycia Parks played the first two WTA qualifying events of her career in Charleston, and made the main draw of the second tournament - where the 20-year-old American scored her first WTA win over Grace Min.
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World No.928 Nastasja Schunk, 17, was one of two German teenage qualifying wildcards who won through to the Stuttgart main draw. Schunk beat Daniela Seguel and Noma Noha Akugue before falling 6-4, 6-2 to Belinda Bencic.
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The unranked Julia Middendorf, 18, joined Schunk by upsetting Jana Fett and Tamara Korpatsch in Stuttgart qualifying, before losing to Anett Kontaveit in the main draw.
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