Julia Grabher

Julia Grabher

Grabher at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Austria
Born	(1996-07-02) 2 July 1996 (age 27) Dornbirn, Austria
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. 104 (12 February 2024)
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. 888 (12 February 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2023)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	8–20 (28.6%)
Last updated on: 14 February 2024.

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 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 Challenger 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 Tour 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 French Open defeating Arantxa Rus, before losing to sixth seed Coco Gauff. ^[11] In August, Grabher became the first Austrian winning a title at a $100,000 prize money level tournament, the ITF Maspalomas in Gran Canaria, Spain. ^[12]

Performance timeline

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

DNQ

A

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

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%
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
	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)

Legend Grand Slam WTA 1000 WTA 500 WTA 250 (0–1)

Finals by surface Hard (0–0) Grass (0–0) Clay (0–1) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	May 2023	Rabat Grand Prix, Morocco	WTA 250	Clay	Lucia Bronzetti	4–6, 7–5, 5–7

WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 1 (title)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Sep 2022	Bari Open, Italy	Clay	Nuria Brancaccio	6–4, 6–2

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 25 (12 titles, 13 runner–ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments (1–0) $60,000 tournaments (3–1) $25,000 tournaments (4–5) $10/15,000 tournaments (4–7)

Finals by surface Hard (1–1) Clay (11–12)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Nov 2014	ITF Heraklion, Greece	10,000	Hard	Dalma Gálfi	3–6, 0–6
Win	1–1	Aug 2015	ITF Vienna, Austria	10,000	Clay	Katharina Gerlach	6–3, 3–6, 6–1
Loss	1–2	Aug 2015	ITF Graz, Austria	10,000	Clay	Barbara Haas	6–1, 1–6, 2–6
Win	2–2	Aug 2015	ITF Pörtschach, Austria	10,000	Clay	Marie Bouzková	7–6(7–5), 6–1
Loss	2–3	Nov 2015	ITF Casablanca, Morocco	10,000	Clay	Corinna Dentoni	6–7(0–7), 3–6
Win	3–3	Mar 2016	ITF Hammamet, Tunisia	10,000	Clay	Vanda Lukács	6–3, 6–3
Loss	3–4	Mar 2016	ITF Hammamet, Tunisia	10,000	Clay	Isabella Shinikova	4–6, 4–6
Loss	3–5	Apr 2016	ITF Hammamet, Tunisia	10,000	Clay	Elena Gabriela Ruse	4–6, 1–6
Loss	3–6	Aug 2016	ITF Leipzig, Germany	25,000	Clay	Olesya Pervushina	6–7(4–7), 6–3, 5–7
Loss	3–7	Jan 2017	ITF Hammamet, Tunisia	15,000	Clay	María Teresa Torró Flor	2–6, 2–6
Win	4–7	Feb 2017	ITF Hammamet, Tunisia	15,000	Clay	Laura Pigossi	6–7(5–7), 6–2, 6–2
Loss	4–8	Mar 2017	ITF Antalya, Turkey	15,000	Clay	Olga Danilović	3–6, 2–6
Win	5–8	May 2017	ITF Rome, Italy	25,000	Clay	Tereza Mrdeža	7–5, 6–0
Loss	5–9	Oct 2017	ITF Pula, Italy	25,000	Clay	Jessica Pieri	4–6, 1–6
Loss	5–10	Jan 2018	ITF Orlando, United States	25,000	Clay	Anhelina Kalinina	2–6, 6–3, 5–7
Win	6–10	Mar 2018	ITF São Paulo, Brazil	25,000	Clay	Tamara Zidanšek	6–4, 3–6, 6–2
Loss	6–11	Aug 2018	ITF Leipzig, Germany	25,000	Clay	Varvara Flink	3–6, 2–6
Loss	6–12	Mar 2019	ITF Campinas, Brazil	25,000	Clay	Danka Kovinić	2–6, 6–3, 3–6
Win	7–12	Jun 2019	ITF Klosters, Switzerland	25,000	Clay	Nathaly Kurata	6–1, 6–3
Loss	7–13	Sep 2019	Montreux Ladies Open, Switzerland	60,000	Clay	Olga Danilović	2–6, 3–6
Win	8–13	Apr 2021	Bellinzona Ladies Open, Switzerland	60,000	Clay	Lucia Bronzetti	6–2, 6–3
Win	9–13	Feb 2022	ITF Porto, Portugal	25,000	Hard (i)	Maja Chwalińska	6–3, 6–7(2–7), 7–5
Win	10–13	Aug 2022	ITF San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Spain	60,000	Clay	Nadia Podoroska	6–4, 6–3
Win	11–13	Oct 2022	ITF San Sebastián, Spain	60,000	Clay	Aliona Bolsova	6–3, 7–6(7–3)
Win	12–13	Aug 2023	ITF Maspalomas, Spain	100,000	Clay	Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro	6–4, 6–4

Doubles: 11 (8 titles, 3 runner–ups)

Legend $25,000 tournaments (1–1) $10/15,000 tournaments (7–2)

Finals by surface Clay (8–3)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Aug 2015	ITF Pörtschach, Austria	10,000	Clay	Mira Antonitsch	Iva Primorac Janina Toljan	6–2, 6–1
Win	2–0	Dec 2015	ITF Cairo, Egypt	10,000	Clay	Ana Bianca Mihăilă	Anna Morgina Patrycja Polańska	6–2, 6–4
Loss	2–1	Jan 2016	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Anna Slováková	Nastja Kolar Jasmina Tinjić	6–7(5–7), 6–3, [6–10]
Win	3–1	Jan 2016	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Ágnes Bukta	Ekaterine Gorgodze Sofia Kvatsabaia	1–6, 6–4, [11–9]
Win	4–1	Feb 2016	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Clay	Ágnes Bukta	Daiana Negreanu Kyra Shroff	6–3, 6–4
Win	5–1	Mar 2016	ITF Hammamet, Tunisia	10,000	Clay	Isabella Shinikova	Yuliya Kalabina Polina Monova	7–5, 6–0
Win	6–1	Mar 2016	ITF Hammamet, Tunisia	10,000	Clay	Naomi Totka	Lina Gjorcheska Isabella Shinikova	7–5, 1–6, [13–11]
Win	7–1	Mar 2016	ITF Hammamet, Tunisia	10,000	Clay	Isabelle Wallace	Claudia Giovine Snehadevi Reddy	6–1, 6–3
Loss	7–2	Jan 2017	ITF Hammamet, Tunisia	15,000	Clay	Joséphine Boualem	Chloé Paquet María Teresa Torró Flor	4–6, 4–6
Loss	7–3	Sep 2017	ITF Bagnatica, Italy	25,000	Clay	Melanie Stokke	Deborah Chiesa Martina Colmegna	3–6, 6–4, [6–10]
Win	8–3	May 2019	ITF Caserta, Italy	25,000	Clay	Lizette Cabrera	Elena Bogdan Vivien Juhaszová	6–3, 6–4

Notes

1. Formerly known as Fed Cup until 2020.
2. Edition is split into the two years due to COVID-19.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 2014: WTA ranking–952.

References

1. "Julia Grabher | Player Stats & More – WTA Official". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
2. "WTA Linz: German Joy Day, Julia Grabher fails", tennisnet.com, 7 October 2010
3. "Bogdan, Bouchard move on in Australian Open qualifying", WTA , 14 January 2020
4. "Grabher defeats Brancaccio to claim first WTA 125 title in Bari".
5. "AO2023's Grand Slam debuts: Brenda Fruhvirtova, Lys, Shnaider and more".
6. "Rome: Grabher bests Teichmann, makes first WTA 1000 third round". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
7. "WTA Rome: Julia Grabher fights in round three!". tennisnet.com. 12 May 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
8. "Rankings Watch: Rybakina hits Top 5 for first time; Zheng makes Top 20 debut". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
9. "Rabat Grand Prix: Lucia Bronzetti, Julia Grabher seek maiden trophy in Morocco!". Tennis World USA. 27 May 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
10. "Bronzetti outlasts Grabher in Rabat; wins first WTA title". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
11. "French Open 2023". eurosport.co.uk. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
12. "Grabher makes history for Austria with ITF W100 win in Gran Canaria". itftennis.com.
13. "Julia Grabher [AUT]| Australian Open". ausopen.com.

External links

• Julia Grabher at the Women's Tennis Association
• Julia Grabher at the International Tennis Federation
• Julia Grabher at the Billie Jean King Cup