Riera cracks Top 100 after biggest win yet at W75 Chiasso
Julia Riera broke into the Top 100 for the first time this week after winning the biggest title of her career on the ITF World Tennis Tour at W75 Chiasso.
The 21-year-old Argentine, who ranked outside the world’s top 250 this time last year, took another purposeful stride in her tennis journey after seeing off Anna Bondar 6-3 7-6(2) in the final of the Swiss clay court event.
Riera’s triumph was her first since winning back-to-back titles in Ecuador 12 months ago, but comes on the back of fine 12-month spell in which she reached her first tour-level semi-final on her WTA debut in Rabat last May and made her Grand Slam qualifying debuts at Wimbledon, the US Open and the Australian Open.
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Riera’s surge into the top 100 has come a little too late for a direct entry spot into Roland Garros, with the main draw entry list announced last week, but she will have high hopes of navigating her way into the main draw via qualifying on her favoured surface.
All six of Riera's ITF singles titles have come on clay, while her triumph this weekend was her first above ITF W25 level.
Riera was joined in winning an ITF W75 title this week by Slovenia’s Veronika Erjavec, who won the joint-biggest title of her career at W75 Koper on home clay at W75 Koper.
Erjavec, 24, didn’t drop a set all week and overcame Polona Hercog 6-4 6-3 in the title match to secure her fifth ITF singles crown, and first of 2024.
Ukrainian Daria Snigur also won her first title of the year – and ninth career title on the ITF World Tennis Tour - at W50+H Calvi, while Thai teen Lanlana Tararudee climbed to a career-high No. 226 in the WTA rankings after pocketing the sixth ITF singles crown of her career at W50 Shenzhen.
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