Julia Grabher
Julia Grabher (born 2 July 1996) is an Austrian professional tennis player.[1] On 29 May 2023, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 61. On 29 August 2016, she peaked at No. 387 in the doubles rankings. She is the current No. 1 Austrian female player.
![]() Grabher at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships | |
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Born | Dornbirn, Austria | 2 July 1996
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Coach | Matthew Hair |
Prize money | $904,392 |
Singles | |
Career record | 336–217 (60.8%) |
Career titles | 1 WTA 125, 12 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 54 (26 June 2023) |
Current ranking | No. 73 (11 September 2023) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | 1R (2023) |
French Open | 2R (2023) |
Wimbledon | 1R (2023) |
US Open | Q2 (2021) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 64–43 (59.8%) |
Career titles | 8 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 387 (29 August 2016) |
Current ranking | No. 843 (11 September 2023) |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Wimbledon | 1R (2023) |
Team competitions | |
Fed Cup | 8–20 (28.6%) |
Last updated on: 11 September 2023. |
Grabher has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, along with eleven singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Playing for the Austria Fed Cup team, Grabher has a win–loss record of 6–11 in singles and 2–9 in doubles (overall 8–20).
Professional career
2019–20: WTA Tour debut
In October, Grabher was given a wildcard for the main draw of the 2019 Ladies Linz. She lost in the first round to Slovak player Viktória Kužmová, in straight sets.[2]
Grabher failed in qualifying for the main draw of the 2020 Australian Open.[3]
2022: First WTA 125 title and top 100 debut
In September, Grabher won her maiden title at a WTA 125 event when she defeated Italian player Nuria Brancaccio in Bari, Italy, in straight sets.[4] As a result, she reached the top 100, at No. 97 on 12 September 2022. Only three weeks later, as the top seed, she would beat Aliona Bolsova and win the final of the $60k Open de San Sebastián in Spain, her third ITF Circuit title for 2022.
2023: Major, WTA 1000 & first wins, maiden WTA final, top 60
Grabher made her Grand Slam debut, at the 2023 Australian Open.[5]
She then made her WTA 1000 debut at the Dubai Championships after qualifying. Also on her debut, she entered the WTA 1000 2023 Miami Open main draw as a lucky loser directly into the second round replacing top seed Iga Świątek.
She also entered the main draw at the WTA 500 Charleston Open, replacing Jeļena Ostapenko, and reached the third round defeating tenth seed Zhang Shuai, her first top-30 win, and qualifier Sachia Vickery. As a result, she moved to a new career-high ranking into the top 80 in the singles rankings.
At the Madrid Open, she won her first WTA 1000-level match as a lucky loser, defeating another lucky loser, Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova. At the Italian Open, she went one step further to reach the third round of a WTA 1000 event for the first time in her career, defeating wildcard Nuria Brancaccio and upsetting 26th seed Jil Teichmann.[6][7] As a result, she moved 15 positions up in the rankings, to a new career high of world No. 74, on 22 May 2023.[8]
She reached her maiden WTA Tour final at the Morocco Open in Rabat, after a retirement from top seed Martina Trevisan in the quarterfinals and a three set win over Julia Riera in the semifinals.[9] However, she lost the final to Lucia Bronzetti, in three sets.[10]
She won her first match at the 2023 French Open defeating Arantxa Rus before losing to sixth seed Coco Gauff.[11]
Grabher became the first Austrian winning a title at the $100,000 prize money level tournament, the W100Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain. [12]
Performance timeline
W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup, Hopman Cup, United Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.[1][13]
Singles
Current through the 2023 Cleveland Open.
Tournament | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | SR | W–L | Win% |
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Grand Slam tournaments | ||||||||||||
Australian Open | A | A | A | A | A | Q1 | Q1 | Q3 | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
French Open | A | A | A | Q2 | A | Q2 | Q3 | Q2 | 2R | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% |
Wimbledon | A | A | A | A | A | NH | Q2 | Q1 | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
US Open | A | A | A | A | Q1 | A | Q2 | Q1 | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 0 / 3 | 1–3 | 25% |
National representation | ||||||||||||
Billie Jean King Cup[lower-alpha 1] | Z1 | POZ2 | Z1 | Z1 | POZ2 | Z1[lower-alpha 2] | PO | QR | 0 / 0 | 6–11 | 35% | |
WTA 1000 | ||||||||||||
Dubai / Qatar Open[lower-alpha 3] | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
Indian Wells Open | A | A | A | A | A | NH | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
Miami Open | A | A | A | A | A | NH | A | A | 2R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
Madrid Open | A | A | A | A | A | NH | A | A | 2R | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% |
Italian Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 3R | 0 / 1 | 2–1 | 67% |
Canadian Open | A | A | A | A | A | NH | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
Cincinnati Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
Guadalajara Open | NH | Q1 | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | ||||||
Wuhan Open | A | A | A | A | A | NH | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |||
China Open | A | A | A | A | A | NH | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |||
Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–4 | 0 / 4 | 3–4 | 43% |
Career statistics | ||||||||||||
Tournament | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | SR | W–L | Win% |
Tournaments | 0[lower-alpha 4] | 0[lower-alpha 4] | 0[lower-alpha 4] | 0[lower-alpha 4] | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 16 | Career total: 23 | ||
Titles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Career total: 0 | ||
Finals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Career total: 1 | ||
Overall win-loss | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 0–3 | 6–4 | 13–18 | 0 / 23 | 22–34 | 39% |
Year–end ranking[lower-alpha 5] | 572 | 308 | 261 | 247 | 231 | 226 | 192 | 84 | $904,392 |
WTA Tour finals
Singles: 1 (runner-up)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Loss | 0–1 | May 2023 | Rabat Grand Prix, Morocco | WTA 250 | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 7–5, 5–7 |
WTA Challenger finals
Singles: 1 (title)
Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Sep 2022 | WTA 125 Bari, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 6–2 |
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 25 (12 titles, 13 runner–ups)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Loss | 0–1 | Nov 2014 | ITF Heraklion, Greece | 10,000 | Hard | ![]() |
3–6, 0–6 |
Win | 1–1 | Aug 2015 | ITF Vienna, Austria | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 3–6, 6–1 |
Loss | 1–2 | Aug 2015 | ITF Graz, Austria | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–1, 1–6, 2–6 |
Win | 2–2 | Aug 2015 | ITF Pörtschach, Austria | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
7–6(7–5), 6–1 |
Loss | 2–3 | Nov 2015 | ITF Casablanca, Morocco | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–7(0–7), 3–6 |
Win | 3–3 | Mar 2016 | ITF Hammamet, Tunisia | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 6–3 |
Loss | 3–4 | Mar 2016 | ITF Hammamet, Tunisia | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 4–6 |
Loss | 3–5 | Apr 2016 | ITF Hammamet, Tunisia | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 1–6 |
Loss | 3–6 | Aug 2016 | ITF Leipzig, Germany | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–7(4–7), 6–3, 5–7 |
Loss | 3–7 | Jan 2017 | ITF Hammamet, Tunisia | 15,000 | Clay | ![]() |
2–6, 2–6 |
Win | 4–7 | Feb 2017 | ITF Hammamet, Tunisia | 15,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–7(5–7), 6–2, 6–2 |
Loss | 4–8 | Mar 2017 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | 15,000 | Clay | ![]() |
3–6, 2–6 |
Win | 5–8 | May 2017 | ITF Rome, Italy | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
7–5, 6–0 |
Loss | 5–9 | Oct 2017 | ITF Pula, Italy | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 1–6 |
Loss | 5–10 | Jan 2018 | ITF Orlando, United States | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
2–6, 6–3, 5–7 |
Win | 6–10 | Mar 2018 | ITF São Paulo, Brazil | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 3–6, 6–2 |
Loss | 6–11 | Aug 2018 | ITF Leipzig, Germany | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
3–6, 2–6 |
Loss | 6–12 | Mar 2019 | ITF Campinas, Brazil | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
2–6, 6–3, 3–6 |
Win | 7–12 | Jun 2019 | ITF Klosters, Switzerland | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–1, 6–3 |
Loss | 7–13 | Sep 2019 | Montreux Ladies Open, Switzerland | 60,000 | Clay | ![]() |
2–6, 3–6 |
Win | 8–13 | Apr 2021 | Bellinzona Ladies Open, Switzerland | 60,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 6–3 |
Win | 9–13 | Feb 2022 | ITF Porto, Portugal | 25,000 | Hard (i) | ![]() |
6–3, 6–7(2–7), 7–5 |
Win | 10–13 | Aug 2022 | ITF San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Spain | 60,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 6–3 |
Win | 11–13 | Oct 2022 | Open de San Sebastián, Spain | 60,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 7–6(7–3) |
Win | 12–13 | Aug 2023 | ITF Maspalomas Gran Canaria, Spain | 100,000 | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 6–4 |
Doubles: 11 (8 titles, 3 runner–ups)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Aug 2015 | ITF Pörtschach, Austria | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–1 |
Win | 2–0 | Dec 2015 | ITF Cairo, Egypt | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–4 |
Loss | 2–1 | Jan 2016 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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6–7(5–7), 6–3, [6–10] |
Win | 3–1 | Jan 2016 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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1–6, 6–4, [11–9] |
Win | 4–1 | Feb 2016 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–4 |
Win | 5–1 | Mar 2016 | ITF Hammamet, Tunisia | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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7–5, 6–0 |
Win | 6–1 | Mar 2016 | ITF Hammamet, Tunisia | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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7–5, 1–6, [13–11] |
Win | 7–1 | Mar 2016 | ITF Hammamet, Tunisia | 10,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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6–1, 6–3 |
Loss | 7–2 | Jan 2017 | ITF Hammamet, Tunisia | 15,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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4–6, 4–6 |
Loss | 7–3 | Sep 2017 | ITF Bagnatica, Italy | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–4, [6–10] |
Win | 8–3 | May 2019 | ITF Caserta, Italy | 25,000 | Clay | ![]() |
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6–3, 6–4 |
Notes
- Formerly known as Fed Cup until 2020.
- Edition is split into the two years due to COVID-19.
- The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Open since 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009 to 2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The Premier 5 tournaments were reclassified as WTA 1000 tournaments in 2021.
- During the season, she did not play in the main draw of any tour-level tournaments. However, she played at the Billie Jean King Cup, which is not counted as a played tournament but matches counted.
- 2014: WTA ranking–952.
References
- "Julia Grabher | Player Stats & More – WTA Official". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
- "WTA Linz: German Joy Day, Julia Grabher fails", tennisnet.com, 7 October 2010
- "Bogdan, Bouchard move on in Australian Open qualifying", WTA, 14 January 2020
- "Grabher defeats Brancaccio to claim first WTA 125 title in Bari".
- "AO2023's Grand Slam debuts: Brenda Fruhvirtova, Lys, Shnaider and more".
- "Rome: Grabher bests Teichmann, makes first WTA 1000 third round". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
- "WTA Rome: Julia Grabher fights in round three!". tennisnet.com. 12 May 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
- "Rankings Watch: Rybakina hits Top 5 for first time; Zheng makes Top 20 debut". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
- "Rabat Grand Prix: Lucia Bronzetti, Julia Grabher seek maiden trophy in Morocco!". Tennis World USA. 27 May 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
- "Bronzetti outlasts Grabher in Rabat; wins first WTA title". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
- "French Open 2023". eurosport.co.uk. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
- "Grabher makes history for Austria with ITF W100 win in Gran Canaria". itftennis.com.
- "Julia Grabher [AUT] | Australian Open". ausopen.com.