As with the boys\u2019 rankings, the ITF junior girls\u2019 rankings will be updated in the first week of January 2026, at which point all players born before 2008 \u2013 who become ineligible to compete \u2013 will be removed from the lists.<\/p>\n
This will see the rankings of players on the AO 2026 entry lists adjusted up, as well as the direct-entry cut-off, which for the girls\u2019 field is expected to be an impressive No.63.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Australian Open junior championships are a strong indicator of future professional success.<\/p>\n
HONOUR ROLLS: Boys\u2019 singles<\/a> | Girls\u2019 singles<\/a><\/p>\n This century alone, notable former champions include Andy Roddick (2000), Jelena Jankovic (2001), Marcos Baghdatis (2003), Gael Monfils (2004), Victoria Azarenka (2005), Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (2006-07), Karolina Pliskova (2010), Nick Kyrgios (2013) and Alexander Zverev (2014).<\/p>\n More recently, players like Sebastian Korda, Lorenzo Musetti, Clara Tauson, Leylah Fernandez, Jakub Mensik, Mirra Andreeva and Learner Tien have either won the title or reached the final, before going on to make a big impact at professional level.\u00a0<\/p>\n Evonne Goolagong, Chris O\u2019Neil, Stefan Edberg and Azarenka remain the only players to have collected both the AO junior and senior titles in the Open era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As with the boys\u2019 rankings, the ITF junior girls\u2019 rankings will be updated in the first week of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-365041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}