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Francesca
Jones

GBR
24 yrs
5' 6'' (1.73m)
Current Ranking
126
Singles Titles
0
Won / Lost
17 / 7
Prize Money
$94,600
  • Coached by Lourdes Domingues Lino, Adam Thornton Brown, and Carlos Martinez
  • Part of the LTA’s Pro Scholarship Programme which provides support to highest potential British players aged 16-24. Also works with the LTA’s Chief Medical Officer Jo Larkin and LTA nutritionist Dan Ellis
  • Mother is Adele, father is Simon, both are financial advisors and live in Weybridge; brother Daniel and sister Chloe are five and three years older, respectvely
  • Grew up in Oxenhope, West Yorkshire, but moved to Barcelona to train at the Sanchez Casal Tennis Academy aged nine and at 16 moved to the nearby Ad-In Tennis Academy where she was based for two years and met her current coach
  • Born with a rare genetic condition: Ectrodactyly Ectodermal Dysplasia (EED) syndrome (missing one finger on each hand and three toes) which has required frequent surgeries over the years
  • Self-described as a perfectionist, determined, gritty and extremely competitive
  • Loves good food – favourite meals are a traditional paella cooked over a barbeque or Sunday Roast; has en eclectic taste in music – favorite album is Mothership by Led Zepplin; supports Manchester United; also interested in property and would like to attend university at Oxford or Cambridge once her tennis career is over

Plays

Right-Handed

Career High

123

Height

5' 6'' (1.73m)

Birthday

Sep 19, 2000 September 19, 2000

Birthplace

Bradford, Great Britain

Career Highlights

WTA 125
SINGLES
Finalist (1): 2024 - San Luis Potosi.

Career in Review

Highlights of 2024 were reaching quarterfinal at Nottingham and her first WTA 125 final at San Luis Potosi (l. Podoroska in F); also made semifinal at WTA 125 Ljubljana and played Wimbledon main draw for the second time in her career (l. Martic in 1r).

Additionally in 2024 earned her seventh career ITF title at W75 Grado.

Returned to the courts in 2023 playing the ITF circuit before reaching SF at Bogota (l. Maria) in her strongest result of the year.

Reached career-high ranking of No.149 on February 21, 2022, but did not play rest of 2022 season with injuries.

Made Grand Slam main-draw debut at Australian Open (as qualifier, l. Rogers in 1r) and Wimbledon (l. Gauff in 1r)

Won most recent of six career ITF Circuit titles in 2021 at W60 event in Biarritz

Best results in 2020 were QF run at WTA 125K Series event in Prague (l. eventual champion Kucova) and three SF showings on ITF Circuit

Won fourth and fifth ITF Circuit titles in 2019 and fell in qualifying at Wimbledon, Bucharest and Jurmala

Ended 2018 inside Top 400 for the first time; posted 37-18 record across the season, lifting two singles titles on ITF Circuit

Made WTA qualifying debut at 2018 Wimbledon

Lifted first ITF Circuit singles title at $15k ITF/Asunción-PAR in 2017; overall owns six singles titles at this level

Made professional debut on ITF Circuit in Italy in 2015

Contested girls' singles at Roland Garros (2017) and Wimbledon (2016-18) and achieved career-high ITF juniors ranking of 31 on May 1, 2017

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