Erin Routliffe

She became the first New Zealand woman to win the tournament and only the second one to win a major title in the Open Era, after Judy Connor won the women's doubles title at the 1979 Australian Open.

Erin Hope Routliffe (born 11 April 1995) is a New Zealand professional tennis player who previously represented Canada.

She reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 6 on 29 January 2024.

In October 2010, Routliffe won the doubles title at the G4 in Burlington, Ontario.

She won her first junior singles title at the same tournament a year later.

She made the move to Montreal in September 2011 to train at the National Training Centre and stayed there until 2013.

In October 2011, she reached the quarterfinals in both singles and doubles at the $50k Saguenay Challenger, with a win over Alizé Lim in the second round.

She reached her second straight $50k doubles quarterfinal in Toronto the next week.

In April, Routliffe won the singles and doubles titles at the G2 in Cap-d'Ail.

Later that month she made the doubles final of the G1 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer.

She lost in the first round in singles at the junior French Open and Wimbledon, but reached the quarterfinals in doubles at Wimbledon.

In August, she was awarded a wildcard in the qualifying draw at the Rogers Cup and made it to the second round.

She made the doubles final of the G1 in Repentigny, Quebec in September.

She was defeated in the first round in singles of the junior US Open, but reached the quarterfinals in doubles.

She won the doubles title at the GB1 in Tulsa, Oklahoma with Carol Zhao, defeating Charlotte Petrick and Denise Starr in the final.

Routliffe also reached two doubles quarterfinals in October: at the $50k Challengers in Saguenay and Toronto.

Routliffe lost in the first round in singles of the junior Australian Open, but made the quarterfinals in doubles for her third straight Grand Slam.

In February, she reached her first professional doubles final at the $25k tournament in Launceston, Tasmania.

She was defeated in the first round in singles and the second round in doubles at the junior French Open.

At the beginning of July, Routliffe made it to the semifinals in doubles at the $50k Cooper Challenger.

In August, she won the gold medal in singles at the Canada Summer Games in Sherbrooke.

In July, Routliffe and partner Carol Zhao made it to the semifinals at the $25k Challenger de Gatineau.

At the $25k in Granby a week later, she and Zhao reached the third doubles final of her career.

They were supposed to face Hiroko Kuwata and Riko Sawayanagi for the title, but had to withdraw because of an injury.

In July, Routliffe reached the doubles final in Granby (now a $50k event) for the second straight year, this time with Laura Robson, but they were defeated in straight sets by Australians Jessica Moore and Storm Sanders.

The following month, Routliffe and partner Maya Jansen won the US Open National Playoffs in doubles, and were awarded a wildcard for the main draw.

They were defeated in the first round by Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears.

She studied at the University of Alabama, and she was part of its tennis team from September 2013 until her graduation in May 2017, majoring in public relations.

She had a career-high junior rank of No. 17 achieved on 21 January 2013.

Routliffe is a two-time NCAA doubles champion with Maya Jansen for the 2014 and 2015 seasons.

Partnered with Gabriela Dabrowski, Routliffe won her first Grand Slam doubles title at the 2023 US Open, her best result at a major event.

Routliffe advanced to her first professional singles final in July 2016, at the $25k in Winnipeg, where she was defeated by fellow qualifier Francesca Di Lorenzo in straight sets.

In early October, she won her first professional doubles title, partnering Andie Daniell, at Charleston, South Carolina.

In June, the ITF agreed to allow Routliffe to change her representational nationality to the country of her birth.

Her win in the 2018 Hardee's Pro Classic in Dothan, Alabama allowed her to break into the top 200 in the doubles rankings for the first time, while her win two weeks later in Charleston, South Carolina pushed her into the top 150.

Her runner-up finish in Washington in 2018, took her into the top 100.

Her first WTA doubles title came three years later at the 32nd Palermo Ladies Open in July 2021.

Routliffe was born in New Zealand while her parents, Robert Routliffe and Catherine MacLennan, were on an around-the-world sailing adventure.

They stayed there four years before returning to Canada.

She has two sisters, Tara and Tess, the latter being an international paraswimmer.