Top 100 Debutantes 2022
Photos: The Top 100 breakthroughs of 2022
Viktoriya Tomova became the 11th player to crack the Top 100 for the first time in 2022 after reaching the Grodzisk Mazowiecki ITF W100 semifinals.
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China's Zheng Qinwen, 19, cracked the Top 100 on Jan. 31 after a stellar Australian swing in which she reached her first WTA semifinal at Melbourne Summer Set 1 and the second round of the Australian Open as a qualifier in her Grand Slam debut.
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On Feb. 28, former junior No.1 Diane Parry became the first Top 100 debutante with a one-handed backhand since Viktorija Golubic in 2016. The 19-year-old Frenchwoman ended 2021 by capturing her biggest title at the Montevideo 125.
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Another Frenchwoman, Harmony Tan, also hit the Top 100 on Feb. 28, a week after the 24-year-old scored her first Top 30 victory over Madison Keys in Guadalajara.
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Harriet Dart, 25, entered the Top 100 on Mar. 21 after the Briton upset Elina Svitolina and Kaia Kanepi to reach the last 16 of Indian Wells.
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23-year-old Italian Lucia Bronzetti had reached the quarterfinals of her first three WTA main draws in 2021, and made the last 16 of Miami on her WTA 1000 debut - lifting her into the Top 100 on Apr. 4.
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Former junior No.1 Dalma Galfi reached her first WTA semifinal at Budapest 2021, and the 23-year-old Hungarian hit the Top 100 on Apr. 4 after making the second round of Miami.
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Kamilla Rakhimova, 20, made her first WTA quarterfinal at Melbourne Summer Set 2 and her first semifinal in Bogota, cracking the Top 100 after the latter run on Apr. 11.
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After reaching her first WTA semifinal at Hamburg 2021, 22-year-old Jule Niemeier became the first German Top 100 debutante since Laura Siegemund in 2015 on May 9 after winning the Zagreb ITF W60.
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Having previously reached No.107 just before the Covid shutdown in Mar. 2020, China's Wang Xiyu cracked the Top 100 on Jun. 13 after the 21-year-old made her first WTA 125 final in Valencia.
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Linda Noskova, 17, took over from Coco Gauff as the youngest player in the Top 100 on Aug. 1 after her Prague semifinal run, in just her second tour-level main draw, lifted the Czech to No.94.
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