Julia Riera (born 29 May 2002) is an Argentine tennis player. Riera has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of No. 93, achieved on 20 May 2024. She also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 179 which she reached December 2023.

She has won one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as seven singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Riera competes for Argentina in the Billie Jean King Cup, where she has a win/loss record of 14–4.[2]

Career

2023: WTA Tour debut, first semifinal

Riera made her WTA Tour debut at the Morocco Open in Rabat.[3] In her first match, she defeated former top-ten player Kristina Mladenovic.[4] In the following round, she defeated third seed Mayar Sherif to reach her first WTA Tour quarterfinal.[5] She then defeated sixth seed Yulia Putintseva, reaching a WTA Tour-level semifinal on her tour debut.[6] However, she lost to Julia Grabher in three sets.[7]

Partnering María Lourdes Carlé, she was won the doubles title at the Montevideo Open, defeating Freya Christie and Yuliana Lizarazo in the final.[8]

2024: First WTA 500 win, top 100 & major debuts

In January, Riera qualified for the 2024 Brisbane International, after defeating both Priscilla Hon and Mai Hontama in three sets, respectively. In the first round, she defeated Viktoriya Tomova in straight sets, notching both her first WTA 500 main-draw win as well as her first WTA Tour-level victory on hardcourts. In the following round, Riera defeated seventh seed and world No. 21, Ekaterina Alexandrova, to book a spot in the round of 16. She lost to Linda Nosková, after pushing her to three sets.[9][10]

Following her lifting the biggest singles trophy of her career at the W75 in Chiasso, she reached the top 100 in the rankings at No. 94, on 22 April 2024.[11]

In May, she qualified into the 2024 French Open for her major main-draw debut.

Performance timelines

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, Billie Jean King Cup, United Cup, Hopman Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Singles

Current through the 2023 US Open.

Tournament 2022 2023 2024 SR W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A Q3 0 / 0 0–0
French Open A A 1R 0 / 0 0–1
Wimbledon A Q2 1R 0 / 0 0–1
US Open A Q2 Q2 0 / 0 0–0
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–2 0 / 0 0–2
National representation
Billie Jean King Cup[a] PO PO 0 / 0 5–0
Career statistics
Tournaments 0 2 Career total: 2
Overall win–loss 0–0 9–2 0 / 2 9–2
Year-end ranking[b] 260 158 $151,546

WTA Challenger finals

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

Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Dec 2023 Montevideo Open,
Uruguay 		Clay Argentina María Lourdes Carlé United Kingdom Freya Christie
Colombia Yuliana Lizarazo 		7–6(5), 7–5
Loss 1–1 Jul 2024 Båstad Open,
Sweden 		Clay Argentina María Lourdes Carlé Thailand Peangtarn Plipuech
Chinese Taipei Tsao Chia-yi 		5–7, 3–6

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 9 (7 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments (1–0)
$60,000 tournaments (1–0)
$25,000 tournaments (3–2)
$15,000 tournaments (2–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (7–2)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Oct 2021 ITF Antalya, Turkey W15 Clay Spain Rosa Vicens Mas 6–4, 5–7, 7–6(1)
Win 2–0 Nov 2021 ITF Antalya, Turkey W15 Clay China Tian Fangran 7–6(3), 6–1
Loss 2–1 Aug 2022 ITF Koksijde, Belgium W25 Clay Belgium Marie Benoît 5–7, 3–6
Win 3–1 Sep 2022 ITF Trieste, Italy W25 Clay Romania Oana Georgeta Simion 6–1, 6–4
Loss 3–2 Jan 2023 ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina W25 Clay Italy Nuria Brancaccio 4–6, 6–4, 5–7
Win 4–2 Apr 2023 ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador W25 Clay United Kingdom Francesca Jones 6–2, 7–5
Win 5–2 Apr 2023 ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador W25 Clay Argentina Solana Sierra 6–4, 4–6, 6–4
Win 6–2 Apr 2024 Chiasso Open, Switzerland W75 Clay Hungary Anna Bondár 6–3, 7–6(2)
Win 7–2 May 2024 Wiesbaden Open, Germany W100 Clay Germany Jule Niemeier 3–6, 6–3, 6–2

Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Legend
W80 tournaments (1–0)
W40/50 tournaments (1–0)
W25 tournaments (1–2)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (2–2)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Sep 2022 ITF Marbella, Spain W25 Clay Chile Daniela Seguel Spain Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro
Spain Leyre Romero Gormaz 		4–6, 2–6
Loss 0–2 Mar 2023 ITF Tucumán, Argentina W25 Clay Argentina Guillermina Naya Ukraine Valeriya Strakhova
Latvia Daniela Vismane 		3–6, 6–3, [11–13]
Win 1–2 Mar 2023 ITF Sopo, Colombia W25 Clay Argentina Guillermina Naya United States Victoria Hu
Argentina Melany Krywoj 		7–5, 6–4
Win 2–2 Aug 2023 Aberto da República, Brazil W80 Hard Brazil Carolina Alves United Kingdom Eden Silva
Ukraine Valeriya Strakhova 		6–2, 6–3
Win 3–2 Sep 2024 ITF Pilar, Argentina W50 Clay Brazil Carolina Alves Italy Nicole Fossa Huergo
Kazakhstan Zhibek Kulambayeva 		6–4, 7–5

Notes

  1. ^ Formerly known as Fed Cup until 2020.
  2. ^ 2019: WTA ranking–1108, 2020: WTA ranking–1201, 2021: WTA ranking–654.

References

  1. ^ "Julia Riera". www.tennisexplorer.com.
  2. ^ "Victoria de Argentina en el debut de la Billie Jean King Cup". espndeportes.espn.com (in Spanish). 13 April 2022.
  3. ^ "Photos: The players contesting their first WTA main draw in 2023".
  4. ^ "Rabat: Riera takes out Mladenovic in WTA main-draw debut [Video]". WTA Tennis.
  5. ^ "Rabat: Riera upsets Sherif to make quarters on WTA debut [Video]". WTA Tennis.
  6. ^ "Morocco Open: Dream WTA debut continues for Riera". 25 May 2023.
  7. ^ "Bronzetti ousts Stephens in Rabat; will face Grabher in final".
  8. ^ "Zarazua outlasts top seed Parry to win WTA 125 Montevideo title". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
  9. ^ "Julia Riera strikes in Brisbane: she eliminated the 21st in the world, achieved the best victory of her career and got closer to the Top 100" (in Spanish). 3 January 2024.
  10. ^ "Argentine Tennis Player Julia Riera Is Eliminated In The Brisbane Tournament" (in Spanish).
  11. ^ "Rankings Watch: Raducanu climbs more than 80 spots; Kostyuk makes leap". 22 April 2024.
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