Sam Stosur is excited about the future of Australian women's tennis, with a group of young talent making waves on the international scene. Players like Maya Joint, Talia Gibson, Taylah Preston, and Emerson Jones are all ranked within the top 120 and showing promise for years to come.
Sam Stosur cannot remember the last time Australian tennis had such an impressive group of women emerging together. The 2011 US Open champion is Australia’s Billie Jean King Cup captain these days, so she has extra motivation to help usher through the next wave of talent – and loves what she sees.Maya Joint, 18, Talia Gibson, 20, Taylah Preston, 19, and world junior No.1 Emerson Jones, 16, are on the frontline not only for the future but quite possibly the present.
Loading“Everyone always said if one can break through, then the rest will start to actually believe it,” Stosur told this masthead. “I think having the likes of Kim do so well – beating a top-10 player, then backing it up the next day against the No.35-ranked player – can inspire everyone else to try and get that bit more out of themselves. “It’s exciting, and there are four or five of them ranked between 100 and 120 or so as well … so they’re right there with the best.”Joint and West Australians Gibson and Preston spent time living together last year near Tennis Australia’s national academy in Brisbane, while Jones – the daughter of world champion triathlete Loretta Harrop – is from the Gold Coast. Jones, a dual junior grand slam finalist in 2024, trounced China’s top-40 player Wang Xinyu 6-4, 6-0 in Adelaide this week“We all watch each other’s matches, and I’m on TNNS Live multiple times a day seeing how everyone is going. It’s such a nice group of girls to be with, and I love all of them.”Michigan-born Joint, whose father Michael grew up in Melbourne, switched tennis allegiances from the United States to Australia about 20 months ago. Michael was a professional squash player and now coaches at Detroit Athletic Club, but the family reached out to TA early in 2023 after becoming frustrated at Joint’s lack of developmental opportunities with the US federation.winning a round at the US Open , before pushing Victoria Azarenka to three sets in the second round at Brisbane last wee
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