Maya Joint (born 16 April 2006) is an American-born Australian professional tennis player.
She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of No. 53 and a doubles ranking of No. 107, both achieved on 26 May 2025.[2]
On the ITF Jr. Circuit, Joint had a combined ranking of No. 20, achieved on 29 January 2024.[3]
Early life
Joint was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan to an Australian father, professional squash player Michael Joint,[4] and a German mother.[5] In early 2023, at 16 years of age, she made the decision to start representing her father's country of Australia and relocated to Brisbane to begin training at Tennis Australia's National Academy with the likes of junior world no.1 Emerson Jones.[6]
College career
On 8 November 2023, Joint committed to the Texas Longhorns tennis team starting from the 2024/25 season.[7] However, on 26 December 2024, Joint announced she would turn professional and forego her college tennis opportunity.[8]
Ranked as the highest 18 years old at No. 136, she made her Grand Slam singles debut at the 2024 US Open after qualifying[13][14] and recorded her first Grand Slam and also WTA Tour win over Laura Siegemund.[15] She lost in the second round to 14th seed Madison Keys in straight sets.[16]
2025: First WTA title, Billie Jean King Cup debut, top 60
Partnering Taylah Preston, Joint won her first WTA 125 doubles title at the 2025 Cancún Open, defeating Aliona Bolsova and Yvonne Cavallé Reimers in the final.[24]
Joint qualified for the main-draw at the Mérida Open[25] and defeated Julia Grabher. As a result, Joint reached the top 100 in the singles rankings on 3 March 2025, for the first time in her career, becoming only the second teenager in the top 100, at the age of 18 (and second youngest after Mirra Andreeva).[26][27][28] She defeated world No. 20 and fifth seed Donna Vekić, conceding only three games, to make it through to her first WTA 500 quarterfinal.[29][30][31] Joint won the first set of her last eight encounter against Elina Avanesyan but ultimately lost the match, being bagelled in the deciding set.[32] Despite the defeat she rose into the top 85 in the rankings.[33]
After qualifying for the Madrid Open, Joint overcame wildcard entrant Carlota Martínez Círez to secure her first WTA Tour main draw clay-court win.[38] Aged 19 years and five days at the time, the victory also made her the youngest Australian to win a WTA 1000 match, breaking the previous record of 20 years and 330 days set by Ashleigh Barty at the 2017 Miami Open.[39][40] Joint lost to 11th seed Emma Navarro in the second round.[41] She qualified for the Italian Open, but lost to Emma Raducanu in the first round.[42]
(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.
^ abThe first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open since 2009 until 2024. 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.