Jaimee Fourlis


Jaimee Fourlis is a professional Australian tennis player of Greek descent. She grew up in Melbourne and attended Northcote High School. Her family origins are from Agrinio, Greece.
On the junior tour, Fourlis has a career high combined ranking of 38, achieved in February 2016. She reached the semifinals of the 2016 Australian Open girls' doubles event, partnering Maddison Inglis.
Fourlis has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 189, achieved on 24 September 2018, and a career-high doubles ranking of 138, achieved on 2 March 2020. She has won three ITF singles titles and three ITF doubles title.
Fourlis made her Grand Slam main-draw debut after winning the Wildcard Playoff defeating Abbie Myers in the final, granting her a wild card into the 2017 Australian Open women's singles event.

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, Fourlis qualified for the Melbourne ITF tournament and made the semifinal. She played two more ITF tournaments in Croatia for the year.
In 2016, Fourlis commenced the year at the Perth $25,000, 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 wild card 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, Dunakeszi before winning an Australian wild-card play off 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 an 2018 Australian Open main-draw wild card.

2018: Top 200

Fourlis was given a wild card 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. Fourlis ended the year with a singles ranking of 202.

Grand Slam performance timeline

Singles

ITF finals

Singles: 3 (3 titles)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0Feb 2016ITF Perth, Australia15,000Hard Jang Su-jeong6–4, 2–6, 7–6
Win2–0Apr 2018ITF Canberra, Australia15,000Clay Ellen Perez6–3, 6–2
Win3–0Apr 2018ITF Pula, Italy15,000Clay Anastasia Grymalska6–4, 4–6, 6–0

Doubles: 9 (3 titles, 6 runners–up)


ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1May 2018ITF Caserta, Italy25,000Clay Ellen Perez Pei-hsuan Chen
Fang-hsien Wu		6–7, 3–6
Win1–1Mar 2019ITF Canberra, Australia25,000Clay Alison Bai Naiktha Bains
Tereza Mihalíková		6–2, 6–2
Loss1–2Apr 2019ITF Chiasso, Switzerland25,000Clay Sharon Fichman Cristina Bucșa
Marta Kostyuk		1–6, 6–3,
Loss1–3May 2019ITF Wiesbaden, Germany60,000Clay Kathinka von Deichmann Anna Blinkova
Yanina Wickmayer		3–6, 6–4,
Loss1–4Sep 2019ITF Darwin, Australia60,000Hard Alison Bai Destanee Aiava
Lizette Cabrera		4–6, 6–2,
Loss1–5Oct 2019ITF Macon, United States80,000Hard Valentini Grammatikopoulou Usue Maitane Arconada
Caroline Dolehide		7–6, 2–6,
Win2–5Jan 2020ITF Canberra, Australia25,000Hard Alison Bai Anna Bondár
Pemra Özgen		5–7, 6–4,
Win3–5Feb 2020ITF Launceston, Australia25,000Hard Alison Bai Alicia Smith
Abigail Tere-Apisah		7–6, 6–3
Loss3–6Feb 2020ITF Perth, Australia25,000Hard Erin Routliffe Kanako Morisaki
Erika Sema		5–7, 4–6

Notes
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.
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