Clara Tauson

Clara Tauson (born 21 December 2002) is a Danish professional tennis player.

In 2011, she won the U9 tournament at the Zealand championships and the club championship for the U10.

As a junior, she played amateur tournaments from 2013 till 2019 and started mixing this with prize money tournaments in 2017.

Clara Tauson started playing junior tournaments in 2013 age 10.

She debuted on the Tennis Europe junior tour on 26 August 2013.

In 2014, she became triple Danish U12 champion, winning girls' singles, girls' doubles and mixed doubles with Holger Rune.

Her first tournament victory came in 2015.

In 2016, at age 13, she became the youngest Danish champion in tennis (Caroline Wozniacki held the previous record when she won at age 14).

Her career-high rankings are world No. 33 in singles and No. 432 in doubles, reached in February 2022.

Up to date, she has won two career titles both on hardcourt indoors.

In February 2016, Tauson debuted on the ITF Junior Circuit, the premier level for worldwide competition among U18 tennis players.

During the year she reached five finals, winning one.

In girls' doubles she reached four finals, winning one.

In August 2016, aged 13, she won the Danish Tennis Championship, beating Hannah Viller Møller in the final, and breaking the record of Caroline Wozniacki, who won it aged 14.

She was awarded Danish Junior Tennis Player of the Year for 2016 for her overall performance.

Her family financed her until 2017 when she started playing professional tournaments.

In 2017, Tauson made her debut for the Denmark Fed Cup team.

She lost her doubles but Denmark won the match.

At the European Youth Olympic Festival in July, she won the tennis tournament as the top seed.

In September she made her Grand Slam debut at the junior competition of US Open but did not make it to the main draw.

The same month, she debuted on the professional ITF Women's Circuit.

In October, she entered the WTA world-rankings when she reached her first ITF final.

Her best amateur result was girls' 2019 Australian Open winner.

The same year, she became the first Danish girl to top the junior world ranking.

On the professional ITF Circuit, she has won eleven titles, the first at age 14.

Her WTA Tour debut came in April 2019 and her debut in a senior level major came at the 2020 French Open.

She ended her junior years in top 200 in the WTA rankings.

In 2021, her first year as a senior, she won her two first WTA singles titles at the Lyon Open and at Luxembourg Open on top of one Challenger and two ITF tournament wins.

At the same time she broke into top 50 on the WTA rankings.

Her 2022 season was marred by injuries, however, she managed to pass her first million US$ in prize money.

She has also represented Denmark in Fed Cup with a win–loss record of 10–5 (as of March 2024).

From 2019 till 2022, she attended Justine Henin's tennis academy in Belgium.

Former tennis player Michael Tauson is her uncle.

Clara's talent for tennis was discovered when she was six years old.

At ten, she left her local school to attend one that would allow her to focus on tennis.

In the beginning, she was often compared to Caroline Wozniacki, Denmark's best player at the time.

She did not find herself to be the same kind of player as Wozniacki, whom she saw as more of a baseline player.

In 2019, she became a full-time professional.

She focuses on singles but has also played doubles tournaments and Fed Cup.

Tauson started playing tennis at age six.