Jaimee Fourlis

Jaimee Fourlis

Fourlis at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Australia
Residence	Melbourne, Australia
Born	(1999-09-17) 17 September 1999 Melbourne
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 344,338
Singles
Career record	109–88
Career titles	3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 189 (24 September 2018)
Current ranking	No. 298 (30 August 2021)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2017)
French Open	1R (2017)
Wimbledon	Q1 (2018)
US Open	Q3 (2018, 2019)
Doubles
Career record	43–36
Career titles	3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 138 (2 March 2020)
Current ranking	No. 163 (8 February 2021)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2020)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	F (2022)
Last updated on: 30 August 2021.

Jaimee Fourlis (born 17 September 1999) is a professional Australian tennis player of Greek descent. She grew up in Melbourne and attended Northcote High School. Her family comes from Agrinio and Thessaloniki, Greece. Her Greek Orthodox name is Dimitra.

On the ITF Junior Circuit, Fourlis has a career-high combined ranking of 38, achieved in February 2016. She reached the girls' doubles semifinals of the 2016 Australian Open, partnering with Maddison Inglis.

She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 189, achieved on 24 September 2018, and a highest doubles ranking of 138, reached on 2 March 2020. She has won three ITF singles titles and three ITF doubles titles.

Fourlis made her Grand Slam main-draw debut, after winning the Wildcard Playoff defeating Abbie Myers in the final, granting her a wildcard into the 2017 Australian Open singles tournament.

Career

2014–2016: The beginnings

Fourlis made her ITF debut in Glen Iris in March 2014. Her first win came in October 2014 in Cairns when her opponent Carolin Daniels retired while 0–3 down.

In March 2015, she qualified for the Melbourne ITF event and made the semifinal. She played two more ITF tournaments in Croatia for the year.

In 2016, Fourlis commenced the year at the Perth $25k where she qualified en route to winning her first title. She played a number of events across Australia and Great Britain, with limited success. She ended the 2016 season with a ranking of 427.

2017: Grand Slam debut

Fourlis was given a wildcard into the Hobart International where she lost to Kirsten Flipkens in the opening round. She made her Grand Slam debut at the Australian Open, after winning the Wildcard Playoff. She defeated Anna Tatishvili before losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the second round. In February and March, Fourlis competed on the Australian ITF Circuit, reaching the quarterfinals in Launceston. In May, she competed in Wiesbaden, before winning an Australian wildcard playoff into the French Open, losing to former world No. 1, Caroline Wozniacki, in three sets. After the French Open, Fourlis took three months off to focus on her Year 12 studies, returning to the Australian ITF Circuit in September, where she reached the quarterfinals in both Penrith and Brisbane. In December, Fourlis won the Under-18 Australian Championships and a 2018 Australian Open main-draw wildcard.

2018: Top 200

Fourlis was given a wildcard into the Hobart International where she defeated Nina Stojanović, before losing to Heather Watson in round two. At the Australian Open, she lost to Olivia Rogowska in the first round. In April, Fourlis won her second and third ITF titles. In June, her ranking peaked inside the world's top 200. She ended 2018 with a singles ranking of 202.

2019-2020

In January 2019, Fourlis lost in the first round of qualifying for the Australian Open. She spent the next months of 2019 on the ITF tour with her best result being a semi-final result in Rome in May 2019, Barcelona in June 2019.

In July 2019, she qualified for WTA events in Bucharest and Palermo.

In August 2019, Fourlis reached the final round of 2019 US Open – Women's Singles Qualifying. She ended 2019 with a singles ranking of 248.

Following a first round loss in Perth IFT in March 2021, she underwent shoulder surgery.

2021: Return from surgery

In August 2021, Fourlis won her fourth ITF tournament. It was her first after returning to tour in June 2021 following a shoulder reconstruction in March 2020. It was her first singles title in three years. Fourlis lost in the first round of the 2021 US Open - Women's Singles Qualifying.

2022

In January, Fourlis reached the second round of the 2022 Australian Open – Women's Singles Qualifying.

Grand Slam performance timelines

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

P#

DNQ

A

Z#

PO

G

S

B

NMS

NTI

P

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (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.

Singles

Tournament	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	W–L
Australian Open	A	2R	1R	Q1	Q1	A	Q2	1–2
French Open	A	1R	A	A	A	A		0–1
Wimbledon	A	A	Q1	A	NH	A		0–0
US Open	A	A	Q3	Q3	A	Q1		0–0
Win–Loss	0–0	1–2	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–3
Career statistics
Year-end ranking	424	327	202	248	278

Grand Slam tournament finals

Mixed doubles: 1 pending

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Pending	2022	Australian Open	Hard	Jason Kubler	Kristina Mladenovic Ivan Dodig

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 4 (4 titles)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $80,000 tournaments $60,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (2–0) Clay (2–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Feb 2016	ITF Perth, Australia	15,000	Hard	Jang Su-jeong	6–4, 2–6, 7–6(7–1)
Win	2–0	Apr 2018	ITF Canberra, Australia	15,000	Clay	Ellen Perez	6–3, 6–2
Win	3–0	Apr 2018	ITF Pula, Italy	15,000	Clay	Anastasia Grymalska	6–4, 4–6, 6–0
Win	4–0	Aug 2021	ITF Ourense, Spain	25,000	Clay	Fanny Stollár	7–6(7–3), 6–3

Doubles: 10 (3 titles, 7 runner–ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $80,000 tournaments (0–1) $60,000 tournaments (0–3) $25,000 tournaments (3–3) $15,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (2–3) Clay (1–4) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	May 2018	ITF Caserta, Italy	25,000	Clay	Ellen Perez	Chen Pei-hsuan Wu Fang-hsien	6–7(6–8), 3–6
Win	1–1	Mar 2019	ITF Canberra, Australia	25,000	Clay	Alison Bai	Naiktha Bains Tereza Mihalíková	6–2, 6–2
Loss	1–2	Apr 2019	ITF Chiasso, Switzerland	25,000	Clay	Sharon Fichman	Cristina Bucșa Marta Kostyuk	1–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Loss	1–3	May 2019	ITF Wiesbaden, Germany	60,000	Clay	Kathinka von Deichmann	Anna Blinkova Yanina Wickmayer	3–6, 6–4, [3–10]
Loss	1–4	Sep 2019	ITF Darwin, Australia	60,000	Hard	Alison Bai	Destanee Aiava Lizette Cabrera	4–6, 6–2, [3–10]
Loss	1–5	Oct 2019	ITF Macon, United States	80,000	Hard	Valentini Grammatikopoulou	Usue Maitane Arconada Caroline Dolehide	7–6(7–2), 2–6, [8–10]
Win	2–5	Jan 2020	ITF Canberra, Australia[a]	25,000	Hard	Alison Bai	Anna Bondár Pemra Özgen	5–7, 6–4, [10–8]
Win	3–5	Feb 2020	ITF Launceston, Australia	25,000	Hard	Alison Bai	Alicia Smith Abigail Tere-Apisah	7–6(7–4), 6–3
Loss	3–6	Feb 2020	ITF Perth, Australia	25,000	Hard	Erin Routliffe	Kanako Morisaki Erika Sema	5–7, 4–6
Loss	3–7	Aug 2021	ITF Versmold, Germany	60,000	Clay	Mirjam Björklund	Anna Danilina Valeriya Strakhova	6–4, 5–7, [4–10]

Notes

• ^a Tournament was moved from Canberra to Bendigo due to the smoke affecting Canberra from the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season.

Playing style

Fourlis is an offensive baseliner and has a powerful forehand which she uses to try to dictate play from the back of the court. Her backhand and serve are reliable. She covers the court well. When she plays, she looks to use her forehand to finish off points.

External links

• Jaimee Fourlis at the Women's Tennis Association
• Jaimee Fourlis at the International Tennis Federation
• Jaimee Fourlis at Tennis Australia