# Maya Joint

Maya Joint (born 16 April 2006) is an American-born Australian tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of No. 80, achieved on 17 March 2025 and a best doubles ranking of No. 161, achieved on 17 February 2025.
Joint has a career-high ITF juniors ranking of No. 20, achieved on 29 January 2024.

## Early life

Joint was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan to an Australian father, professional squash player Michael Joint, and a German mother. In early 2023, at 16 years of age, she made the decision to start representing her father's country of Australia and relocated to Brisbane to begin training at Tennis Australia's National Academy with the likes of junior world no.1 Emerson Jones.

## College career

On 8 November 2023, Joint committed to the Texas Longhorns tennis team starting from the 2024/25 season. However, on 26 December 2024, Joint announced she would turn professional and forego her college tennis opportunity.

## Professional career

Joint won her first ITF Circuit title at the 2023 Gold Coast Tennis International in the doubles draw, partnering Roisin Gilheany.

### 2024: Grand Slam debut and first win

She made her Grand Slam debut at the 2024 Australian Open, in mixed doubles with Dane Sweeny as a wildcard pair.
In July, was runner-up at the WTA 125 Polish Open, defeating Maja Chwalińska before losing in the final to Alycia Parks.
Ranked as the highest 18 years old at No. 136, she made her Grand Slam singles debut at the 2024 US Open after qualifying and recorded her first Grand Slam and also WTA Tour win over Laura Siegemund. She lost in the second round to 14th seed Madison Keys in straight sets.

### 2025: Turned Pro, First WTA semifinal, top 100

Having announced her decision to turn professional, Joint began the 2025 season with a victory over fellow Australian Maddison Inglis at the Brisbane International, before falling to 10th seed Victoria Azarenka in three sets in the second round. The following week, she reached her first WTA semifinal at the Hobart International by defeating Olga Danilović and then fourth seed Magda Linette for her maiden win against a top-50 ranked player, before overcoming wildcard entrant Sofia Kenin in the quarterfinals. She lost in the last four to second seed Elise Mertens. Joint was given a wildcard entry into the main draw at the Australian Open, but lost to seventh seed Jessica Pegula in the first round.
Partnering Taylah Preston, Joint won her first WTA 125 doubles title at the 2025 Cancún Open, defeating Aliona Bolsova and Yvonne Cavallé Reimers in the final. Joint qualified for the main-draw at the Mérida Open and defeated Julia Grabher. As a result, Joint reached the top 100 in the singles rankings for the first time in her career, becoming only the second teenager in the top 100, at the age of 18 (and second youngest after Mirra Andreeva). She defeated world No. 20 and fifth seed Donna Vekić conceding only three games, to make it through to her first WTA 500 quarterfinal. As a result she rose into the top 85 in the rankings. Joint won the first set of her last eight encounter against Elina Avanesyan but ultimately lost the match, being bagelled in the deciding set.
In March, Joint qualified for the WTA 1000 tournament at Indian Wells. She lost to Sorana Cîrstea in the first round.

## Grand Slam performance timelines

Key :
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |

### Singles

Current through the 2025 BNP Paribas Open.
| Tournament | 2024 | 2025 | SR | W–L | Win% |
| Grand Slam tournaments ||||||
| Australian Open | Q3 | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| French Open | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Wimbledon | Q2 | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| US Open | 2R | | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% |
| Win–loss | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0 / 2 | 1–2 | 33% |
| WTA 1000 tournaments ||||||
| Qatar Open | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Dubai | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Indian Wells Open | A | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Miami Open | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Madrid Open | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Italian Open | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Canadian Open | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Cincinnati Open | A | | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Career statistics ||||||
| Tournament | 2 | 6 | Career Total: 8 | Career Total: 8 | Career Total: 8 |
| Overall W–L | 1–2 | 7–6 | 0 / 8 | 7–8 | 47% |
| Year-end ranking | 119 | | $468,527 | $468,527 | $468,527 |

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

| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Jul 2024 | Polish Open, Poland | Hard | Alycia Parks | 6–4, 3–6, 3–6 |

### Doubles: 1 (1 titles)

| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Feb 2025 | Cancún Tennis Open, Mexico | Hard | Taylah Preston | Aliona Bolsova Yvonne Cavallé Reimers | 6–4, 6–3 |

## ITF Circuit finals
### Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

* Legend
* W100 tournaments (0–1)
* W75 tournaments (1–0)
* W35 tournaments (1–0)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (2–0)
* Clay (0–1)
* Grass (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Feb 2024 | Burnie International, Australia | W75 | Hard | Aoi Ito | 1–6, 6–1, 7–5 |
| Win | 2–0 | Mar 2024 | ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | W35 | Hard | Gao Xinyu | 6–4, 2–6, 6–1 |
| Loss | 2–1 | May 2024 | Bonita Springs Championship, US | W100 | Clay | Lulu Sun | 1–6, 3–6 |

### Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

* Legend
* W60 tournaments (1–0)
* W40/W50 tournaments (0–1)
* W25 tournaments (0–1)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (1–1)
* Clay (0–1)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Feb 2023 | ITF Toronto, Canada | W25 | Hard (i) | Mia Yamakita | Ulrikke Eikeri Fanny Stollár | 6–7$^{(6)}$, 0–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Nov 2023 | Gold Coast International, Australia | W60 | Hard | Roisin Gilheany | Melisa Ercan Alicia Smith | 7–6$^{(3)}$, 6–1 |
| Loss | 1–2 | May 2024 | ITF Otočec, Slovenia | W50 | Clay | Rasheeda McAdoo | Ekaterine Gorgodze Valeriya Strakhova | 6–3, 4–6, [5–10] |