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Francesca Jones (tennis)

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Francesca Jones
Jones at the 2023 French Open
Country (sports) United Kingdom
Born (2000-09-19) 19 September 2000 (age 24)
Bradford, England
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
PlaysRight (two-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS$836,055
Singles
Career record239–128
Career titles2 WTA 125, 8 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 84 (28 July 2025)
Current rankingNo. 84 (28 July 2025)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open1R (2021)
French OpenQ3 (2025)
Wimbledon1R (2021, 2024, 2025)
US OpenQ2 (2021, 2024)
Doubles
Career record10–6
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 541 (22 February 2021)
Last updated on: 28 July 2025.

Francesca Jones (born 19 September 2000) is a British professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 84 by the WTA achieved on 28 July 2025.[1] Jones has won two WTA 125 titles and eight titles on the ITF circuit, breaking into the top 100 after winning 2025 Palermo Ladies Open in Italy. She had a career-high ITF juniors ranking of world No. 31, achieved on 1 May 2017.[2]

Career

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2021: WTA Tour and major debuts

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At 20 years of age, Jones made her Grand Slam tournament debut at the Australian Open, after coming through qualifying,[3] losing in the first round to Shelby Rogers.[4] She also made her WTA Tour debut a couple week earlier, at the Yarra Valley Classic, falling in the first round to 14th seed Nadia Podoroska.[5]

2023: First WTA Tour semifinal

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Using her protected ranking, Jones reached her first tour semifinal defeating third seed Nuria Parrizas-Diaz,[6] Carol Zhao,[7] and sixth seed Laura Pigossi[8] at the Copa Colsanitas in Bogotá, Colombia, before losing to second seed and eventual champion, Tatjana Maria.[9]

2024: First WTA 125 final, Wimbledon wildcard

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Wins over Yulia Starodubtseva,[10] Anna Bondár,[11] Robin Montgomery[12] and Julia Riera[13] saw Jones reach her first WTA 125 final at the San Luis Open, which she lost to Nadia Podoroska in straight sets.[14] As a result she moved more than 50 positions back up in the rankings to No. 214 on 1 April.[citation needed]

Ranked No. 249, she reached her second career quarterfinal and first on grass as a wildcard entrant, at the Nottingham Open defeating eighth seed Caroline Dolehide[15] and Ashlyn Krueger.[16] She withdrew, before taking the court for her quarterfinal match against Emma Raducanu due to a shoulder injury.[17]

Jones received a wildcard entry for Wimbledon,[18] losing in three sets to Petra Martić in the first round.[19]

At the WTA 125 Zavarovalnica Sava Ljubljana, she overcame top seed Chloé Paquet,[20] Petra Marčinko[21] and Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva[22] to make it through to the semifinals, where her run was ended by eventual champion Jil Teichmann.[23]

2025: First WTA 125 title, WTA 1000 debut, top 100

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Jones qualified for the Transylvania Open, but lost in the first round to fifth seed Kateřina Siniaková in three sets.[24] The following week, she reached the semifinals at the WTA 125 Cancún Tennis Open, with wins over Aliona Bolsova, Sachia Vickery and Iryna Shymanovich, before losing to eventual champion Emiliana Arango.[25] Remaining in Mexico the next week, Jones qualified for the Mérida Open and overcame Mayar Sherif in the first round.[26] She retired during the third set of her next match against fellow qualifier Emiliana Arango.[27]

In March, Jones won the W75 Vacaria Open in Brazil defeating Léolia Jeanjean in the final.[28][29] At the Copa Colsanitas in Colombia in the first week of April, she collapsed while serving in the third set of her first round match against Julia Riera and was taken off court in a wheelchair.[30] Jones qualified to make her WTA 1000 main draw debut at the Madrid Open,[31] losing to Dayana Yastremska in the first round.[32]

Wins over Lea Bošković and Mai Hontama saw her reach the final qualifying round at the French Open, where her run was ended by Anastasiia Sobolieva.[33]

Moving onto the grass-court season, Jones entered the Nottingham Open as a wildcard and defeated Harriet Dart in the first round,[34] before losing to seventh seed Linda Nosková in her next match.[35] The following week at the Eastbourne Open, she again entered the main-draw thanks to a wildcard and defeated qualifier Greet Minnen to reach the second round,[36] where she lost to Dayana Yastremska.[37] She was awarded a wildcard into the main-draw debut at Wimbledon,[38] but lost to Yuliia Starodubtseva in the first round.[39]

Back on clay-courts later in July, Jones won her first WTA 125 title at Contrexéville, defeating Elsa Jacquemot in the final.[40][41] As a result she reached a new career-high ranking of world No. 104 on 14 July 2025.[42] Two weeks later, Jones claimed her second WTA 125 title at the Palermo Ladies Open, going the entire tournament without dropping a set and defeating Anouk Koevermans in the final, a result which saw her enter the world's top-100 for the first time at No. 84 on 28 July 2025.[43][44][45]

Personal life

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She was born with a thumb and three fingers on each hand, and with only seven toes, as a result of a rare genetic condition, Ectrodactyly Ectodermal Dysplasia (EED).[46][47]

Performance timeline

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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.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup, and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Singles

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Current through the 2024 French Open.

Tournament 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 SR W–L Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A A 1R Q1 A Q2 Q2 0 / 1 0–1 0%
French Open A A A Q1 A Q2 A Q3 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Wimbledon Q1 Q1 NH 1R A A 1R 0 / 2 0–2 0%
US Open A A A Q2 A A Q2 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–2 0–0 0–0 0–1 0 / 3 0–3 0%
Career statistics
Tournaments 0 0 0 6 0 1 3 Career total: 10
Overall win-loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–6 0–0 3–1 3–2 0 / 10 7–9 44%

WTA Challenger finals

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Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

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Result W–L Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Mar 2024 San Luis Open, Mexico Clay Argentina Nadia Podoroska 1–6, 2–6
Win 1–1 Jul 2025 Grand Est Open 88, France Clay France Elsa Jacquemot 6–4, 7–6(7–2)

ITF Circuit finals

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Singles: 15 (9 titles, 6 runner–ups)

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Legend
W60/75 tournaments (4–1)
W25/35 tournaments (2–3)
W15 tournaments (3–2)
Finals by surface
Clay (9–6)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Sep 2017 ITF Hammamet, Tunisia W15 Clay United Kingdom Emily Arbuthnott 6–3, 5–7, 4–6
Win 1–1 Nov 2017 ITF Asunción, Paraguay W15 Clay Chile Fernanda Brito 6–3, 7–6(0)
Win 2–1 Apr 2018 ITF Villa Dolores, Argentina W15 Clay Argentina Victoria Bosio 4–6, 6–4, 6–2
Loss 2–2 Jul 2018 ITF Vienna, Austria W15 Clay Poland Marta Leśniak 0–6, 3–6
Win 3–2 Jul 2018 Tampere Open, Finland W15 Clay Serbia Bojana Marinković 6–2, 7–6(2)
Win 4–2 Jun 2019 ITF Minsk, Belarus W25 Clay Germany Stephanie Wagner 6–3, 1–6, 6–2
Win 5–2 Jun 2019 ITF Minsk, Belarus W25 Clay Romania Jaqueline Cristian 7–6(6), 4–6, 6–1
Loss 5–3 Apr 2021 ITF Villa Maria, Argentina W25 Clay Brazil Beatriz Haddad Maia 7–5, 4–6, 2–6
Win 6–3 Jul 2021 Open de Biarritz, France W60 Clay Russia Oksana Selekhmeteva 6–4, 7–6(4)
Loss 6–4 Sep 2021 Montreux Ladies Open, Switzerland W60 Clay Brazil Beatriz Haddad Maia 4–6, 3–6
Loss 6–5 Apr 2023 ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador W25 Clay Argentina Julia Riera 2–6, 5–7
Loss 6–6 Feb 2024 ITF Hammamet, Tunisia W35 Clay Croatia Lucija Ćirić Bagarić 1–2 ret.
Win 7–6 May 2024 Città di Grado Tennis Cup, Italy W75 Clay Liechtenstein Kathinka von Deichmann 6–1, 7–5
Win 8–6 Mar 2025 Vacaria Open, Brazil W75 Clay France Léolia Jeanjean 1–6, 6–4, 6–1
Win 9–6 May 2025 Prague Open, Czechia W75 Clay Japan Ena Shibahara 6–3, 6–4

Doubles: 1 (runner–up)

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Legend
W10 tournaments (0–1)
Finals by surface
Clay (0–1)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 May 2016 ITF Hammamet, Tunisia W10 Clay France Emmanuelle Girard Serbia Natalija Kostić
Ukraine Ganna Poznikhirenko 		4–6, 4–6

References

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