1. Storm Hunter is an Australian professional tennis player.
44 Facts About Storm Hunter
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Storm Hunter reached world No 1 in doubles on 6 November 2023, becoming the third Australian woman to hold the top spot.
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Storm Hunter has a career-high singles ranking of world No 119 on 18 October 2021.
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Storm Hunter has won eight doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as three singles titles and twenty-one doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
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Storm Hunter debuted on the ITF Junior Circuit in December 2007, and on the senior circuit in November 2008.
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Storm Hunter won her first professional tournament in February 2013.
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Storm Hunter represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics, which due to the COVID-19 pandemic were held in 2021, reaching the quarterfinals in the women's doubles competition.
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Storm Hunter was born in Rockhampton, where she began playing tennis at the age of six after watching the Australian Open on television.
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Storm Hunter's father signed her up with a local tennis club where she was coached by Robert Beak.
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Storm Hunter continued playing tennis and returned to Queensland the following year to represent Western Australia in the Bruce Cup in Mackay in August 2006 and to compete in the Head Queensland State Age Championships in Rockhampton in September 2006.
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Storm Hunter graduated from the School of Isolated and Distance Education in Western Australia in 2011, after which she received a Melbourne-based tennis scholarship.
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In 2013, Storm Hunter began attending the University of Canberra where she studied a Bachelor of Science in Psychology degree.
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Storm Hunter stunned Eugenie Bouchard in the first round in two tiebreak sets, but lost in the second round against Misaki Doi.
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Storm Hunter then received a wildcard into qualifying at the Australian Open where she lost in the first round against Yuliya Beygelzimer.
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Storm Hunter won through both, the qualifying and main draws, without dropping a set.
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Storm Hunter achieved the rare feat of defeating the top seeds in both the qualifying draw and the main draw en route to victory.
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Storm Hunter reached the top 500 in the WTA rankings for the first time after the tournament win.
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Storm Hunter began the season at the Brisbane International, having received a wildcard into qualifying.
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Storm Hunter opened with a three-set win over Irina-Camelia Begu.
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Storm Hunter played Camila Giorgi in round one, losing on her major singles debut, in three sets.
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Storm Hunter lost in the first round of women's and mixed doubles.
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Storm Hunter was then given a wildcard for the Australian Open, but lost at the first stage again, this time to world No 46, Klara Koukalova, in straight sets.
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Storm Hunter lost to Vania King in the first round.
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Storm Hunter attempted to qualify for the Hobart International and Australian Open, losing in the first round.
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Storm Hunter made two further WTA tournament finals that year.
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Storm Hunter played four doubles tournaments in 2018, losing all four in the first round.
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Storm Hunter returned to singles competition in October 2019, after almost a two-year absence.
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Storm Hunter won the Playford International in her second tournament back.
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Storm Hunter won her second WTA doubles title at the 2020 Thailand Open.
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Storm Hunter made the semifinals in mixed doubles at the Australian Open with Marc Polmans.
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In March, Storm Hunter entered the WTA top 200 for the first time at No 199 on 1 March 2021.
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Storm Hunter received a wildcard for her debut at the WTA 1000 level at the 2021 Miami Open and recorded her first win against qualifier Elisabetta Cocciaretto.
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Storm Hunter reached the semifinals in doubles at the same event.
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At the Tokyo Olympics, Storm Hunter partnered Ashleigh Barty in the ladies' doubles and they reached the quarterfinals.
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Storm Hunter recorded the biggest win of her singles career, beating world No 18, Belgian Elise Mertens, in her BJK Cup debut.
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Storm Hunter then defeated Belarusian Yuliya Hatouka promoting Australia to the semifinals where she lost to Swiss Jil Teichmann.
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In January 2022, Storm Hunter won her third and the biggest WTA Tour title, at the Adelaide International, alongside Ashleigh Barty.
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Storm Hunter reached back-to-back quarterfinals at the Australian Open with new partner Elise Mertens but fell to Marta Kostyuk and Elena-Gabriela Ruse.
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At the Italian Open, Storm Hunter won her second WTA 1000 title partnering with Mertens.
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Storm Hunter won her second WTA 1000 title with Mertens at the Guadalajara Open and third at this level, defeating Erin Routliffe and Gabriela Dabrowski.
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Storm Hunter reached world No 2 in the doubles rankings on 25 September 2023.
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Storm Hunter lost to second seed and eventual finalist Maria Sakkari.
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Storm Hunter's performance ensured the deepest an Australian qualifier has progressed in an Australian Open women's singles draw in 39 years.
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On 14 February 2025, Storm Hunter announced she would return to the WTA Tour at the ATX Open in Austin, Texas, later that month, playing in the doubles event alongside Caroline Dolehide.