Ajla Tomljanović

Ajla Tomljanović is a Croatian-Australian professional tennis player, born in Zagreb on 7 May 1993 to a father who played handball professionally and a Bosniak mother. She began playing at six and moved to Florida for higher-level training at 13. As a junior she won the 2009 Australian Open girls' doubles title with Christina McHale and reached a combined junior ranking of world No. 4. Before 2014 she played for Croatia; she began competing for Australia at the 2014 US Open after obtaining permanent residency and became an Australian citizen in January 2018. On 3 April 2023 she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 32, and she peaked at No. 47 in doubles in January 2015. She has won four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, and took WTA 125 titles in Florianopolis in November 2023 and in Hong Kong in October 2024.