2022 WTA Debutantes
Welcome to the tour: All of 2022's WTA debutantes
Junior No.1 Petra Marcinko and Bosnia-Herzegovina's Nefisa Berberovic were among the 10 players who competed in a Hologic WTA Tour main draw for the first time across Rabat and Strasbourg, taking the 2022 total to 21.
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UCLA alumna Robin Anderson, 27, earned an Australian Open wildcard after reaching the 2021 Midland 125 final and thus winning the USTA Wildcard Challenge. The American lost to Samantha Stosur in round one.
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Brenda Fruhvirtova, 14, received a qualifying wildcard to Guadalajara after winning two straight ITF W25s. In just her fifth pro event, the Czech upset Sara Errani en route to the main draw, where she fell to Sloane Stephens in round one.
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University of Oklahoma alumna Yuriko Miyazaki, 26, qualified for Lyon, where the Tokyo-born Briton held match point over Anna Bondar before falling in round one.
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Former junior No.9 Elvina Kalieva cut her WTA ranking from No.1212 to No.404 in 2021. The American, 18, received an Indian Wells wildcard, and took Ekaterina Alexandrova to a third-set tiebreak in round one.
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American Sophie Chang, 24, opened 2022 by winning her first ITF W25 title in Vero Beach, and went on to qualify for Charleston by beating Whitney Osuigwe and Louisa Chirico.
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Elina Avanesyan scored her first Top 100 win over Harriet Dart en route to the Bogota quarterfinals in her first WTA main draw. The 19-year-old had cut her ranking from No.720 to No.261 in 2021, and was up to No.146 following her tour-level debut.
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Fresh off her second ITF W25 title in Medellin, Dutchwoman Suzan Lamens qualified for Bogota and upset former champion Astra Sharma in round one for her first Top 100 win. The Dutchwoman debuted in the Top 200 as a result.
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Former junior No.9 and University of Georgia alumna Maria Lourdes Carle qualified for Bogota. The 22-year-old Argentine, noted for her wins over Elena Rybakina and Yulia Putintseva in the 2021 Billie Jean King Cup, fell to Tatjana Maria in round one.
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Yuliana Monroy, 23, scored her first WTA qualifying win at Bogota 2021 over Natalija Stevanovic and later that year reached her first ITF W15 final in Cancun. The Colombian received a wildcard to Bogota 2022, falling to Ekaterine Gorgodze in round one.
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Starting Stuttgart as a No.342-ranked qualifying wildcard, 20-year-old German Eva Lys made it to the main draw and upset Viktorija Golubic in a three-hour first round before falling to World No.1 Iga Swiatek.
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Nikola Bartunkova, 16, had won her first WTA qualifying match at Istanbul 2021, and the No.410-ranked Czech received a main draw wildcard one year later, falling to eventual champion Anastasia Potapova in round one.
Photo by WTA/Mathias Schulz
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Former World No.374 Julie Gervais had ended her career in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but the 30-year-old Frenchwoman came out of retirement in Strasbourg - and promptly qualified for her first WTA main draw.
Photo by Olivier Renaud/Internationaux de Strasbourg
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Israel's Lina Glushko, the younger sister of former World No.79 Julia, qualified for Strasbourg. The No.291-ranked 22-year-old fell to Kaja Juvan in round one.
Photo by Olivier Renaud/Internationaux de Strasbourg
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No.306-ranked Nefisa Berberovic became the first Bosnian in a WTA main draw since 2013 when she got into Strasbourg as a lucky loser, and the first to win a match since Mervana Jugic-Salkic at Hyderabad 2004 when she stunned Sloane Stephens in round one.
Photo by Olivier Renaud/Internationaux de Strasbourg
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Angelina Gabueva played her first WTA qualifying draw at Tashkent 2006; 16 years later, the No.594-ranked 33-year-old finally contested her first main draw in Strasbourg as a lucky loser, falling to Fiona Ferro in round one.
Photo by Olivier Renaud/Internationaux de Strasbourg
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Germany's Yana Morderger, 25, was a third lucky loser in Strasbourg playing her first WTA main draw. The World No.379 lost to Viktorija Golubic in the first round.
Photo by Olivier Renaud/Internationaux de Strasbourg
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No.249-ranked Frenchwoman Carole Monnet, 20, received a wildcard into Strasbourg, and led Elise Mertens by a break in the first round before falling in two tough sets.
Photo by Olivier Renaud/Internationaux de Strasbourg
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Ekaterina Reyngold, 21, had cut her ranking from No.1060 in July 2021 to No.333 in May 2022, and continued her rise by qualifying for Rabat.
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Two-time ITF titlist Irene Burillo Escorihuela, 24, gained direct entry into Rabat, where the No.251-ranked Spaniard fell to No.2 seed Ajla Tomljanovic in the first round.
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Lulu Sun, 21, was born in New Zealand to parents from Croatia and Hong Kong, raised in (and represents) Switzerland, and attended the University of Texas. The World No.276 received a Rabat wildcard, and fell to Arantxa Rus in round one.
Photo by Doug Walker/USTA
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