# Francesca Jones (tennis)

Francesca Jones (born 19 September 2000) is a British professional tennis player.
Jones has a career-high singles ranking of No. 123 by the WTA. She had a career-high ITF juniors ranking of world No. 31, achieved on 1 May 2017.

## Career
### 2021: WTA Grand Slam and debuts

At 20 years of age, Jones made her Grand Slam tournament debut at the Australian Open after coming through qualifying, losing in the first round to Shelby Rogers. She also made her WTA Tour debut a couple week earlier, at the Yarra Valley Classic, falling in the first round to 14th seed Nadia Podoroska.

### 2023: First WTA semifinal

Using her protected ranking, Jones reached her first WTA semifinal defeating third seed Nuria Parrizas-Diaz, Carol Zhao, and sixth seed Laura Pigossi at the Copa Colsanitas in Bogota, Colombia, before losing to second seed and eventual champion Tatjana Maria.

### 2024: First WTA 125 final, Wimbledon wildcard

Wins over Yulia Starodubtseva, Anna Bondár, Robin Montgomery and Julia Riera saw Jones reach her first WTA 125 final at the San Luis Open, which she lost to Nadia Podoroska in straight sets. As a result she moved more than 50 positions back up in the rankings to No. 214 on 1 April.
Ranked No. 249, she reached her second career quarterfinal and first on grass as a wildcard, at the Nottingham Open defeating eighth seed Caroline Dolehide and Ashlyn Krueger. She withdrew before taking the court for her quarterfinal match against Emma Raducanu due to a shoulder injury.
Jones received a wildcard entry for Wimbledon, losing in three sets to Petra Martić in the first round.
At the WTA 125 Zavarovalnica Sava Ljubljana, she overcame top seed Chloé Paquet, Petra Marčinko and Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva to make it through to the semifinals, where her run was ended by eventual champion Jil Teichmann.

### 2025: Cancún semifinal

Jones qualified for the Transylvania Open, but lost in the first round to fifth seed Kateřina Siniaková in three sets. The following week, she reached the semifinals at the WTA 125 Cancún Tennis Open, with wins over Aliona Bolsova, Sachia Vickery and Iryna Shymanovich, before losing to eventual champion Emiliana Arango. Remaining in Mexico the next week, Jones qualified for the Mérida Open and overcame Mayar Sherif in the first round. She retired during the third set of her next match against fellow qualifier Emiliana Arango.

## Personal life

She was born with a thumb and three fingers on each hand, and with only seven toes, as a result of a rare genetic condition, Ectrodactyly Ectodermal Dysplasia (EED).

## Performance timeline

Key :
| 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, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup, and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

### Singles

Current through the 2024 French Open.
| Tournament | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | SR | W–L | Win% |
| Grand Slam tournaments ||||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | A | A | 1R | Q1 | A | Q2 | Q2 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| French Open | A | A | A | Q1 | A | Q2 | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Wimbledon | Q1 | Q1 | NH | 1R | A | A | 1R | | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| US Open | A | A | A | Q2 | A | A | Q2 | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | | 0 / 3 | 0–3 | 0% |
| Career statistics ||||||||||||
| Tournaments | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | | | Career total: 7 | Career total: 7 | Career total: 7 |
| Overall win-loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–6 | 0–0 | 3–1 | | | 0 / 7 | 4–7 | 36% |

## WTA Challenger finals
### Singles: 1 (runner-up)

| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Mar 2024 | San Luis Potosí Open, Mexico | Clay | Nadia Podoroska | 1–6, 2–6 |

## ITF Circuit finals
### Singles: 13 (7 titles, 6 runner–ups)

* Legend
* W60/75 tournaments (2–1)
* W25/35 tournaments (2–3)
* W15 tournaments (3–2)
* Finals by surface
* Clay (7–6)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Sep 2017 | ITF Hammamet, Tunisia | W15 | Clay | Emily Arbuthnott | 6–3, 5–7, 4–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Nov 2017 | ITF Asunción, Paraguay | W15 | Clay | Fernanda Brito | 6–3, 7–6$^{(0)}$ |
| Win | 2–1 | Apr 2018 | ITF Villa Dolores, Argentina | W15 | Clay | Victoria Bosio | 4–6, 6–4, 6–2 |
| Loss | 2–2 | Jul 2018 | ITF Vienna, Austria | W15 | Clay | Marta Leśniak | 0–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 3–2 | Jul 2018 | Tampere Open, Finland | W15 | Clay | Bojana Marinković | 6–2, 7–6$^{(2)}$ |
| Win | 4–2 | Jun 2019 | ITF Minsk, Belarus | W25 | Clay | Stephanie Wagner | 6–3, 1–6, 6–2 |
| Win | 5–2 | Jun 2019 | ITF Minsk, Belarus | W25 | Clay | Jaqueline Cristian | 7–6$^{(6)}$, 4–6, 6–1 |
| Loss | 5–3 | Apr 2021 | ITF Villa Maria, Argentina | W25 | Clay | Beatriz Haddad Maia | 7–5, 4–6, 2–6 |
| Win | 6–3 | Jul 2021 | Open de Biarritz, France | W60 | Clay | Oksana Selekhmeteva | 6–4, 7–6$^{(4)}$ |
| Loss | 6–4 | Sep 2021 | Montreux Ladies Open, Switzerland | W60 | Clay | Beatriz Haddad Maia | 4–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 6–5 | Apr 2023 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | W25 | Clay | Julia Riera | 2–6, 5–7 |
| Loss | 6–6 | Feb 2024 | ITF Hammamet, Tunisia | W35 | Clay | Lucija Ćirić Bagarić | 1–2 ret. |
| Win | 7–6 | May 2024 | ITF Grado, Italy | W75 | Clay | Kathinka von Deichmann | 6–1, 7–5 |

### Doubles: 1 (runner–up)

* Legend
* W10 tournaments (0–1)
* Finals by surface
* Clay (0–1)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | May 2016 | ITF Hammamet, Tunisia | W10 | Clay | Emmanuelle Girard | Natalija Kostić Ganna Poznikhirenko | 4–6, 4–6 |