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- 2024 US Open – Women's singles
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- 2024 French Open – Women's singles
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- 2023 Wimbledon Championships
- 2023 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem – Singles
- 2024 US Open (tennis)
Julia Grabher (born 2 July 1996) is an Austrian professional tennis player. On 26 June 2023, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 56. On 29 August 2016, she peaked at No. 387 in the doubles rankings.
Grabher has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, along with 13 singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
Playing for the Austria Fed Cup team, Grabher has a win–loss record of 6–14 in singles and 2–9 in doubles (overall 8–23), as of November 2024.
Professional career
= 2019–22: WTA Tour debut, first Challenger title
=Grabher was given a wildcard for the main draw of the 2019 Ladies Linz but lost in the first round to Slovak player Viktória Kužmová, in straight sets.
In September 2022, she won her first title at a WTA 125 event when she defeated Nuria Brancaccio in the final of the Bari Open, in straight sets. As a result, she reached the top 100, at No. 97 on 12 September 2022. Three weeks later, as the top seed, she would beat Aliona Bolsova and win the final of the $60k Open de San Sebastián, her third ITF Circuit title in 2022.
= 2023: Maiden WTA Tour final, Grand Slam tournament debut
=Grabher made her Grand Slam tournament debut, at the Australian Open, losing to 16th seed Anett Kontaveit in the first round.
She then qualified to make her WTA 1000 debut at the Dubai Championships but again lost in the first round, this time to Leylah Fernandez.
At the WTA 500 Charleston Open, Grabher reached the third round, defeating 10th seed Zhang Shuai, her first top-30 win, and qualifier Sachia Vickery, before losing to seventh seed Ekaterina Alexandrova.
Entering as a lucky loser at the Madrid Open, she won her first WTA 1000-level match, defeating another lucky loser, Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova, but lost in the second round to top seed Iga Świątek.
At the Italian Open, she went one step further to reach the third round of a WTA 1000 event for the first time in her career, defeating wildcard Nuria Brancaccio and upsetting 26th seed Jil Teichmann, before losing to eighth seed Daria Kasatkina. As a result, she moved 15 positions up in the rankings, to a new career high of world No. 74, on 22 May.
Grabher reached her maiden WTA Tour final at the Morocco Open in Rabat, after a three set win over Julia Riera in the semifinals. However, she lost the final to Lucia Bronzetti, also in three sets.
She won her first match at the French Open defeating Arantxa Rus, before losing to sixth seed Coco Gauff.
Making her main-draw debut at Wimbledon, Grabher lost to Danielle Collins in the first round.
Seeded fifth, she reached the second round at the Hamburg European Open with a three-set win over Miriam Bulgaru, before losing to Diana Shnaider.
In August, Grabher became the first Austrian to win a title at a $100k tournament, at the ITF Maspalomas in Gran Canaria, Spain, defeating Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro in the final and climbing to world No.54 as a result.
A win over qualifier Wang Xiyu saw her reach the second round at the Tennis in the Land event where she lost to Zhu Lin.
Grabher suffered a wrist injury shortly before the US Open and was forced to end her season early.
= 2024: Comeback from injury
=Six months after having surgery on her wrist, Grabher made her comeback to competitive action at the Antalya Challenger, losing in the first round to Noma Noha Akugue in three sets. Using her protected ranking, she entered the US Open, but lost in the first round to qualifier Elena-Gabriela Ruse.
Performance timeline
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup, Hopman Cup, United Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.
= Singles
=Current through the 2023 Cleveland Open.
WTA Tour finals
= Singles: 1 (runner-up)
=WTA Challenger finals
= Singles: 1 (title)
=ITF Circuit finals
= Singles: 26 (13 titles, 13 runner–ups)
== Doubles: 12 (8 titles, 4 runner–ups)
=Notes
References
External links
Julia Grabher at the Women's Tennis Association
Julia Grabher at the International Tennis Federation
Julia Grabher at the Billie Jean King Cup