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2023 Top 100 Debuts May 22, 2023

Photos: The Top 100 breakthroughs of 2023

Monterrey quarterfinalist Caroline Dolehide has become the seventh player to crack the Top 100 for the first time in 2023, nearly five years after reaching her previous career high of No.102.

01 /07
Spain's Rebeka Masarova, 23, was the first new Top 100 entrant of 2023 on Jan. 9 after she reached her first WTA final in Auckland via victories over Sloane Stephens and Karolina Muchova.

Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images

02 /07
A second Spaniard debuted the following week on Jan. 16. Cristina Bucsa, 25, marked the milestone with a career-best Grand Slam third-round run at the Australian Open as a qualifier.

Photo by Jimmie48/WTA

03 /07
Katie Volynets, 21, qualified for the Australian Open and reached the third round of a major for the first time via a maiden Top 10 win over Veronika Kudermetova. The American was boosted into the Top 100 on Jan. 20.

Photo by William West/AFP/Getty Images

04 /07
Diana Shnaider, 18, also debuted on Jan. 30 after qualifying for her first tour-level main draw at the Australian Open, taking Maria Sakkari to three sets in Round 2. Shnaider had been unranked 15 months previously, and outside the Top 200 last October.

Photo by Jimmie48/WTA

05 /07
Just 10 months after turning pro and playing her fifth WTA main draw, 2022 NCAA champion Peyton Stearns reached her first final in Bogota. The American entered the Top 100 on Apr. 10 as a result, having been ranked No.383 one year previously.

Photo by Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images

06 /07
University of Virginia alumna Emma Navarro, the 2021 NCAA champion, broke the Top 100 on May 8. The American, 21, had compiled a 12-match winning streak encompassing ITF titles in Charleston and Charlottesville, then the Saint-Malo 125 quarterfinals.

Photo by Patrick Boren/L'Open 35 de Saint-Malo

07 /07
Caroline Dolehide first hit No.102 in July 2018, but in February 2023 was ranked No.206. The American, 24, then made the Monterrey quarterfinals, Charleston third round and cracked the Top 100 on May 22 after winning the Naples ITF W60 event.

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images

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