Maya Joint

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. 78, achieved on 7 April 2025 and a best doubles ranking of No. 152, achieved on 21 April 2025.[2]

Joint has a career-high ITF juniors 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]

Professional career

Joint won her first ITF Circuit title at the 2023 Gold Coast Tennis International in the doubles draw, partnering Roisin Gilheany.[9]

2024: Grand Slam debut and first win

She made her Grand Slam debut at the 2024 Australian Open, in mixed doubles with Dane Sweeny as a wildcard pair.[10]

In July, was runner-up at the WTA 125 Polish Open, defeating Maja Chwalińska[11] before losing in the final to Alycia Parks.[12]

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 semifinal, Billie Jean King Cup debut, top 100

Having announced her decision to turn professional,[8] Joint began the 2025 season with a victory over fellow Australian Maddison Inglis at the Brisbane International,[17] before falling to 10th seed Victoria Azarenka in three sets in the second round.[18] The following week, she reached her first WTA semifinal at the Hobart International by defeating Olga Danilović[19] and then fourth seed Magda Linette for her maiden win against a top-50 ranked player,[20] before overcoming wildcard entrant Sofia Kenin in the quarterfinals.[21] She lost in the last four to second seed Elise Mertens.[22] Joint was given a wildcard entry into the main draw at the Australian Open, but lost to seventh seed Jessica Pegula in the first round.[23]

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 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] She defeated world No. 20 and fifth seed Donna Vekić, conceding only three games, to make it through to her first WTA 500 quarterfinal.[28][29][30] Joint won the first set of her last eight encounter against Elina Avanesyan but ultimately lost the match, being bagelled in the deciding set.[31] Despite the defeat she rose into the top 85 in the rankings.[32]

In March, Joint qualified for the WTA 1000 tournament at Indian Wells.[33] She lost to Sorana Cîrstea in the first round.[34]

Joint made her debut for the Australia Billie Jean King Cup team against Kazakhstan in the 2025 qualifying round held in Brisbane in April, losing to Yulia Putintseva in the opening singles match.[35] She then defeated Yuliana Monroy as Australia beat Colombia, although it was not enough to see them progress to the finals.[36]

After qualifying for the Madrid Open, Joint overcame wildcard entrant Carlota Martínez Círez to secure her first WTA Tour main draw clay-court win.[37] 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.[38][39] Joint lost to 11th seed Emma Navarro in the second round.[40] She qualified for the Italian Open, but lost to Emma Raducanu in the first round.[41]

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

Current through the 2025 Miami Open.

Tournament 2024 2025 SR W–L Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open Q3 1R 0 / 1 0–1 0%
French Open A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Wimbledon Q2 0 / 0 0–0  – 
US Open 2R 0 / 1 1–1 50%
Win–loss 1–1 0–1 0 / 2 1–2 33%
WTA 1000 tournaments
Qatar Open[a] A A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Dubai[a] A A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Indian Wells Open A 1R 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Miami Open A Q2 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Madrid Open A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Italian Open A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Canadian Open A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Cincinnati Open A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Win–loss 0–0 0–1 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Career statistics
Tournament 2 6 Career Total: 8
Overall W–L 1–2 7–6 0 / 8 7–8 47%
Year-end ranking 119 $468,527

WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Jul 2024 Polish Open, Poland Hard United States Alycia Parks 6–4, 3–6, 3–6

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

Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Feb 2025 Cancún Tennis Open, Mexico Hard Australia Taylah Preston Spain Aliona Bolsova
Spain Yvonne Cavallé Reimers 		6–4, 6–3
Loss 1–1 Mar 2025 Puerto Vallarta Open, Mexico Hard Japan Ena Shibahara United States Hanna Chang
United States Christina McHale 		6–2, 2–6, [7–10]

ITF Circuit finals

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

Legend
W100 tournaments (0–1)
W75 tournaments (1–0)
W35 tournaments (1–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–0)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Feb 2024 Burnie International, Australia W75 Hard Japan Aoi Ito 1–6, 6–1, 7–5
Win 2–0 Mar 2024 ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic W35 Hard China Gao Xinyu 6–4, 2–6, 6–1
Loss 2–1 May 2024 Bonita Springs Championship, US W100 Clay New Zealand Lulu Sun 1–6, 3–6

Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

Legend
W60 tournaments (1–0)
W40/W50 tournaments (0–1)
W25 tournaments (0–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–1)
Clay (0–1)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Feb 2023 ITF Toronto, Canada W25 Hard (i) United States Mia Yamakita Norway Ulrikke Eikeri
Hungary Fanny Stollár 		6–7(6), 0–6
Win 1–1 Nov 2023 Gold Coast International, Australia W60 Hard Australia Roisin Gilheany Australia Melisa Ercan
Australia Alicia Smith 		7–6(3), 6–1
Loss 1–2 May 2024 ITF Otočec, Slovenia W50 Clay United States Rasheeda McAdoo Georgia (country) Ekaterine Gorgodze
Ukraine Valeriya Strakhova 		6–3, 4–6, [5–10]

Notes

  1. ^ a b The 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.

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