Fiona Crawley

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Fiona Crawley
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Crawley at the 2023 US Open
Country (sports)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Born (2002-02-07) February 7, 2002 (age 22) [1]
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Height5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
College North Carolina (2020–)
Prize money$110,426
Singles
Career record32–12 (72.7%)
Career titles2 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 371 (February 5, 2024)
Current rankingNo. 379 (March 18, 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
US Open 1R (2023)
Doubles
Career record7–4 (63.6%)
Career titles1 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 970 (November 6, 2023)
Current rankingNo. 1002 (March 18, 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
US Open 1R (2023)
Last updated on: March 23, 2024.

Fiona Maeve Crawley (born February 7, 2002) is an American tennis player who plays college tennis for the North Carolina Tar Heels. In 2023, she helped North Carolina win the NCAA Team Championships and won the NCAA doubles title with Carson Tanguilig. She won the ITA National Fall Championships with Elizabeth Scotty in 2021.

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Crawley has a career-high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of No. 371 in singles and No. 970 in doubles. She has won two singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour.

Early life and junior career

A native of San Antonio, Texas, Crawley took up tennis from age six to nine while living in Okinawa, Japan, where her father, Peter, was stationed as a member of the US Air Force. [2] [3] She comes from an athletic family: her father played soccer at Michigan State, and she used to train with her older siblings, Liam and Solène, who went on to play tennis at Trinity and Colorado State respectively. [2] [3] [4]

Crawley was the No. 1–ranked tennis player in Texas in her age group from the age of ten. [5] [6] She competed at national junior events while attending Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio. [2] [7] In 2017, she won the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Girls' 16s National Clay Court Championships and the USTA 18s National Winter Championships, [7] [8] and finished runner-up in the Orange Bowl's under-16 event. [6] [9] In 2018, after winning the Texas Slam's under-18 event and the USTA Billie Jean King Girls' 16s National Championships, [10] [11] she earned a wildcard into the US Open junior tournament, but lost in the first round. [12] [13] Crawley played at a handful of ITF World Tennis Tour events beginning in 2017. [12] She was considered the No. 1 recruit of the class of 2020. [2] [14]

College career

Crawley began playing college tennis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2020. [2] In her freshman year, she compiled a 30–1 singles record, helping North Carolina win the ACC Championships and earn the top seed at the 2021 NCAA Team Championships, where they reached the semifinals. [2]

As a sophomore in 2021–22, Crawley led Division I in singles wins with a 47–7 record, mostly playing in the No. 4 spot for North Carolina, and finished the season ranked No. 32 nationally. In doubles, she and teammate Elizabeth Scotty won the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Carolina Regionals and the ITA Fall National Championships in San Diego. [15] At the 2022 NCAA Championships, where top-seeded North Carolina again got to the team semifinals, an unseeded Crawley made a run to the semifinals of the individual competition. [2] [16] [17]

Crawley (right) and Carson Tanguilig won the 2023 NCAA Doubles Championship. Fiona Crawley UNC 2023-04-06 07 (cropped).jpg
Crawley (right) and Carson Tanguilig won the 2023 NCAA Doubles Championship.

In the fall of 2022, Crawley went undefeated in 17 matches at ITA tournaments, including the ITA National Fall Championships, [16] [18] attaining the No. 1 in singles for the first time on November 16, 2022. [19] North Carolina went undefeated in the 2023 regular season. [20] In forty-nine singles matches as a junior, her three losses were to Georgia's Lea Ma and NC State's Diana Shnaider (in the ACC final) and Amelia Rajecki (in the NCAA singles event's round of 16). [21] After playing mostly in the team's No. 1 spot, she swapped with No. 2 Reese Brantmeier for the 2023 NCAA Championships, where they avenged their only loss of the year—to rival North Carolina State in the ACC Championship—to win their first national team title. [22] [23] In doubles, Crawley and sophomore Carson Tanguilig were runners-up at the ITA National Fall Championships. [24] At the end of the season they won the NCAA Doubles Championship, beating teammates Scotty and Brantmeier in the final. [25] [26] She was named the ITA National Player of the Year and won the Honda Sports Award for tennis. [27] [28]

Crawley was selected to the USTA Collegiate Summer Team in mid-2023. [29] She previously made her WTA Tour debut in April 2023 at the Charleston Open, where she received a wildcard into the main draw. [30] [31] In June 2023, playing in her first ITF competition since July 2021, she reached the final of the W25 event in Wichita as a qualifier. [12] Though she lost there to two seed Stacey Fung, the result led to her debut in the WTA rankings at No. 786 in the week of July 3, 2023. [32] [33] The next month, she split two back-to-back W15 doubles finals in Lakewood, California, partnering college players Mary Stoiana of Texas A&M and North Carolina teammate Brantmeier. [12]

In August 2023, Crawley made her Grand Slam debut at the US Open. As a wildcard, she progressed through the singles qualifying tournament by saving two match points in the first round (against Réka Luca Jani) and prevailing in third-set tiebreaks in two of her three qualifying wins. [34] [35] [36] NCAA champions Crawley and Tanguilig were also awarded a wildcard into the doubles event. [37] Crawley did not collect her US$81,000 in prize money because of NCAA restrictions on college athletes, something she considered unfair in light of name, image, and likeness (NIL) rules. [38] [39] She won her first ITF singles title in October 2023 at the W25 event in Florence, South Carolina, beating former Duke player Chloe Beck in the final. [40] [41]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Legend
W25/35 tournaments (2–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Jun 2023ITF Wichita, Kansas, United StatesW25Hard Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Stacey Fung 3–6, 2–6
Win1–1Oct 2023ITF Florence, South Carolina, U.S.W25Hard Flag of the United States.svg Chloe Beck 7–5, 6–1
Win2–1Jan 2024ITF Arcadia, California, U.S.W35Hard Flag of the United States.svg Ashley Lahey 4–6, 6–2, 7–5

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Legend
W15 tournaments (1–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–1)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentScore
Win1–0Jul 2023ITF Lakewood, California, U.S.W15Hard Flag of the United States.svg Mary Stoiana Flag of the United States.svg Mary Lewis
Flag of the United States.svg Brandy Walker 		7–5, 6–7(3–7), [10–5]
Loss1–1Jul 2023ITF Lakewood, California, U.S.W15Hard Flag of the United States.svg Reese Brantmeier Flag of the United States.svg Savannah Broadus
Flag of Ukraine.svg Anita Sahdiieva 		3–6, 3–6

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