Jodie Anna Burrage (born 28 May 1999) is a British tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 84, achieved on 4 March 2024, and a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 147, set on 15 January 2024. Burrage has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour. She has also won one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour along with five titles in singles and five in doubles on the ITF Circuit.
Burrage made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2020 Linz Open, after having received a wildcard into the doubles tournament, partnering Sabine Lisicki.[4]
In January 2021, she made her WTA Tour main-draw debut in singles at the Abu Dhabi Open as a lucky loser. In June, she had her main-draw Grand Slam debut, after being given a wildcard to the 2021 Wimbledon Championships.[5][6]
2022: First top-5 win, top 150 debut
At the Eastbourne International, she defeated top seed and world No. 4, Paula Badosa.[7][8][9] As a result, she made her top 150 debut in the WTA singles rankings.[10] On 26 September, she reached a career-high ranking of No. 137.
2023: Maiden tour singles final and doubles title, major wins & top 100
At the Nottingham Open, she reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal defeating third seed Magda Linette.[11] She then defeated another Polish player, Magdalena Fręch, to reach a WTA Tour semifinal for the first time in her career.[12] Finally, she defeated Alizé Cornet to set up an all-British final with Katie Boulter, the first since 1977.[13][14]
At Wimbledon, she recorded her first major win defeating Caty McNally, before losing in round two to Daria Kasatkina, in straight sets. As a result, she reached the top 100 in the rankings for the first time.
After Wimbledon, Burrage struggled for consistency. After a quarterfinal appearance at a $100k event in Spain, she won a round in the Poland Open against Ankita Raina, but lost in straight sets against Lucrezia Stefanini.
She lost in the first round of the Canadian Open to world No. 139, Marina Bassols Ribera, before a quarterfinal showing in the Stanford WTA Challenger level event, beating Diana Shnaider and Kayla Day, before a narrow three-set loss to Moyuka Uchijima. At the Chicago Women's Open, she again fell in the first round, to world No. 782 Quinn Gleason.
Burrage achieved her first main-draw win at the US Open, beating world No. 38, Anna Blinkova, 6–3, 6–4 in the first round, before falling in straight sets to world No. 2, Aryna Sabalenka.
Burrage made her debut for Great Britain's Billie Jean King Cup team in November 2023 in a play off tie with Sweden held indoors at the Copper Box Arena in London. Playing world No. 372, Kajsa Rinaldo Persson in the opening match of the contest, she raced into a 4–0 lead in the first set only to lose 12 of the next 13 games to go down to a 4–6, 1–6 defeat.[16] She was replaced by Harriet Dart for day two of the tie which Great Britain won 3–1.[17]
2024: Australian Open main-draw debut, WTA 500 quarterfinal and injury woe
Burrage underwent surgery having suffered an injury to her left wrist while practicing prior to her defeat in the first round of qualifying at the San Diego Open.[20] After recovering from the surgery, Burrage was set to return to action at the French Open in May for what would have been her first main draw appearance at the clay-court event, but she was forced to pull out just days before the tournament began when she injured her ankle in practice.[21]
Performance timelines
Key
W
F
SF
QF
#R
RR
Q#
P#
DNQ
A
Z#
PO
G
S
B
NMS
NTI
P
NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
^The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open since 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009 to 2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The Premier 5 tournaments were reclassified as WTA 1000 tournaments in 2021.
^2017: WTA ranking–587, 2018: WTA ranking–411, 2019: WTA ranking–287, 2020: WTA ranking–260.