Julia Riera
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Born | [1] Pergamino, Argentina | 29 May 2002|||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Plays | Right (two-handed backhand) | |||||||||||||||||
Prize money | $598,902 | |||||||||||||||||
Singles | ||||||||||||||||||
Career record | 204–123 | |||||||||||||||||
Career titles | 7 ITF | |||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | No. 93 (20 May 2024) | |||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | No. 204 (19 May 2025) | |||||||||||||||||
Grand Slam singles results | ||||||||||||||||||
Australian Open | 1R (2025) | |||||||||||||||||
French Open | 1R (2024, 2025) | |||||||||||||||||
Wimbledon | 1R (2024) | |||||||||||||||||
US Open | Q2 (2023, 2024) | |||||||||||||||||
Doubles | ||||||||||||||||||
Career record | 73–76 | |||||||||||||||||
Career titles | 1 WTA Challenger, 3 ITF | |||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | No. 179 (25 December 2023) | |||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | No. 244 (19 May 2025) | |||||||||||||||||
Team competitions | ||||||||||||||||||
BJK Cup | 14–4 | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Last updated on: 19 May 2025. |
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
[edit]2022
[edit]In April 2022, Riera participated in the Billie Jean King Cup in Salinas, Ecuador, teaming up with Jazmin Ortenzi to be defeated by Brazilian players Carolina Alves and Beatriz Haddad Maia in a match lasting over three hours.[3][4]
2023: WTA Tour debut, first semifinal
[edit]Riera made her WTA Tour debut at the Morocco Open in Rabat.[5] In her first match, she defeated former top-ten player Kristina Mladenovic.[6] In the following round, she defeated third seed Mayar Sherif to reach her first WTA Tour quarterfinal.[7] She then defeated sixth seed Yulia Putintseva, reaching a WTA Tour-level semifinal on her tour debut.[8] However, she lost to Julia Grabher in three sets.[9]
In August, Riera competed in an ITF W80 tournament event in Brasília. In doubles , she partnered with Brazilian player Carolina Alves and won the title, defeating the British-Ukrainian duo Eden Silva and Valeriya Strakhova in the final.[10][11]

During the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Riera won the bronze medal in women's doubles, partnering with María Lourdes Carlé. [12]
Riera also won the singles bronze medal, defeating Rebecca Marino from Canada in the bronze-medal match by 3–6, 6–4, 6–1.[13]
Partnering again with María Lourdes Carlé, she was won the doubles title at the Montevideo Open, defeating Freya Christie and Yuliana Lizarazo in the final.[14]
2024: First WTA 500 win, top 100 & major debuts
[edit]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.[15][16]
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.[17]
After that, Riera played at the Wiesbaden Tennis Open and won the singles title, defeating Jule Niemeier in the final by 3–6, 6–3, 6–2.[18]
In May, she qualified into the 2024 French Open for her major main-draw debut, after facing Alexandra Eala in the last match of the qualifying rounds and winning in three sets.[19]
At the main draw's first round, Riera was overcome by Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu.[20]
In November, with the Argentine Billie Jean King Cup team, she went to São Paulo to face the Brazilian team. Partnering with Jazmín Ortenzi, she lost to Carolina Alves and Beatriz Haddad Maia in the decisive doubles match of the tie, in which Brazil secured a place in the 2025 Finals qualifiers.[21]
2025: Australian Open debut
[edit]In January, Riera qualified for the main draw of the singles competition of the Australian Open for the first time in her career and lost to Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia in a three set match on the first round. [22][23][24]
At the 2025 French Open Julia Riera among Lourdes Carlé and Paula Ormaechea successfully advanced from the qualifying rounds into the main draw of the women's singles. This marked the first time in 39 years that three Argentine women achieved this feat in the same edition of the tournament, matching the milestone last reached in 1986. [25]
Performance timelines
[edit]W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |
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
[edit]Current through the 2023 US Open.
Tournament | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | SR | W–L | |
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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
[edit]Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
[edit]Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Dec 2023 | Montevideo Open, Uruguay |
Clay | ![]() |
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7–6(5), 7–5 |
Loss | 1–1 | Jul 2024 | Båstad Open, Sweden |
Clay | ![]() |
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5–7, 3–6 |
ITF Circuit finals
[edit]Singles: 9 (7 titles, 2 runner-ups)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Oct 2021 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | W15 | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 5–7, 7–6(1) |
Win | 2–0 | Nov 2021 | ITF Antalya, Turkey | W15 | Clay | ![]() |
7–6(3), 6–1 |
Loss | 2–1 | Aug 2022 | ITF Koksijde, Belgium | W25 | Clay | ![]() |
5–7, 3–6 |
Win | 3–1 | Sep 2022 | ITF Trieste, Italy | W25 | Clay | ![]() |
6–1, 6–4 |
Loss | 3–2 | Jan 2023 | ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina | W25 | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 6–4, 5–7 |
Win | 4–2 | Apr 2023 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | W25 | Clay | ![]() |
6–2, 7–5 |
Win | 5–2 | Apr 2023 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | W25 | Clay | ![]() |
6–4, 4–6, 6–4 |
Win | 6–2 | Apr 2024 | Chiasso Open, Switzerland | W75 | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 7–6(2) |
Win | 7–2 | May 2024 | Wiesbaden Open, Germany | W100 | Clay | ![]() |
3–6, 6–3, 6–2 |
Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Loss | 0–1 | Sep 2022 | ITF Marbella, Spain | W25 | Clay | ![]() |
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4–6, 2–6 |
Loss | 0–2 | Mar 2023 | ITF Tucumán, Argentina | W25 | Clay | ![]() |
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3–6, 6–3, [11–13] |
Win | 1–2 | Mar 2023 | ITF Sopo, Colombia | W25 | Clay | ![]() |
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7–5, 6–4 |
Win | 2–2 | Aug 2023 | Aberto da República, Brazil | W80 | Hard | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–3 |
Win | 3–2 | Sep 2024 | ITF Pilar, Argentina | W50 | Clay | ![]() |
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6–4, 7–5 |
Loss | 3–3 | Mar 2025 | Vacaria Open, Brazil | W75 | Clay (i) | ![]() |
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5–7, 4–6 |
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Julia Riera". www.tennisexplorer.com.
- ^ "Victoria de Argentina en el debut de la Billie Jean King Cup". espndeportes.espn.com (in Spanish). 13 April 2022.
- ^ José Morgado (15 April 2022). "Brazil defeats Argentina in dramatic Billie Jean King Cup clash". bolamarela.com.br (in Portuguese). Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ^ Lance (14 April 2022). "Bia and Carol win doubles to secure Brazil victory in BJK Cup". esportes.r7.com (in Portuguese). Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ^ "Photos: The players contesting their first WTA main draw in 2023".
- ^ "Rabat: Riera takes out Mladenovic in WTA main-draw debut [Video]". WTA Tennis.
- ^ "Rabat: Riera upsets Sherif to make quarters on WTA debut [Video]". WTA Tennis.
- ^ "Morocco Open: Dream WTA debut continues for Riera". 25 May 2023.
- ^ "Bronzetti ousts Stephens in Rabat; will face Grabher in final".
- ^ "Tênis Integrado". cbt-tenis.com.br. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
- ^ "Carol Meligeni conquista maior título nas duplas em Brasília". www.lance.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 12 January 2025.
- ^ Rodrigo Gómez. "Argentina's Julia Riera Takes the Pan American Bronze Medal". santiago2023.org. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
- ^ "RIERA Y MONTEIRO COMPLETARON EL PODIO PANAMERICANO" (in Spanish). ITF. 29 October 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
- ^ "Zarazua outlasts top seed Parry to win WTA 125 Montevideo title". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Argentine Tennis Player Julia Riera Is Eliminated In The Brisbane Tournament" (in Spanish).
- ^ "Rankings Watch: Raducanu climbs more than 80 spots; Kostyuk makes leap". 22 April 2024.
- ^ "W100 Wiesbaden". www.itftennis.com.
- ^ Villanueva, Ralph Edwin (May 23, 2024). "Eala loses steam vs Argentine foe, falls short of French Open main draw". Philstar.com. Retrieved November 12, 2024.
- ^ "Julia Riera vs Irina-Camelia Begu". Tennis Majors. 26 May 2024. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
- ^ esportenewsmundo. "Bia Haddad e Carol Meligeni vencem na dupla decisiva e Brasil derrota a Argentina na Billie Jean King Cup". Terra (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 12 January 2025.
- ^ "Bia Haddad vira contra argentina e vence no sufoco na estreia do Australian Open 2025". ESPN.com (in Portuguese). 14 January 2025. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ Dorini, Felipe. "Bia Haddad vence a primeira no ano e avança no Australian Open". CNN Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ Priante, Felipe (14 January 2025). "Bia leva susto, busca virada e conquista a primeira vitória da temporada". TenisBrasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ "Três argentinas furam quali de Paris e repetem façanha de 39 anos". TenisBrasil (in Portuguese). 2024-05-24. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
External links
[edit]- Julia Riera at the Women's Tennis Association
- Julia Riera at the International Tennis Federation
- Julia Riera at the Billie Jean King Cup (archived former page)
- Julia Riera at ESPN.com
- Julia Riera at the Comité Olímpico Argentino (in Spanish)