100 Club: 2019's debutantes in the Top 100 of the WTA singles rankings
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Bianca Andreescu (Canada) made the Top 100 on January 28, after winning the WTA 125K Series event at Newport Beach. She went on to win titles at Indian Wells, Toronto, and the US Open, ending the year as World No.5 and WTA Newcomer of the Year.
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Veronika Kudermetova (Russia) made her Grand Slam main-draw debut at the Australian Open, helping her crack the Top 100 on February 4. She made three WTA semifinals and five WTA quarterfinals in 2019, finishing the year inside the Top 40.
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Jessica Pegula (U.S.) made the Top 100 on February 4, following back-to-back finals at the WTA 125K Series event at Newport Beach and the Midland Challenger. She went on to claim her first-ever WTA singles title in August at the Citi Open.
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Zhu Lin (China) broke into the Top 100 on February 25, after upsetting the previous week’s Doha champion Elise Mertens in Dubai. Zhu ended the 2019 season on a 10-match winning streak, earning Challenger titles in Liuzhou and Shenzhen.
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Ivana Jorovic (Serbia) won 16 of her first 20 singles matches of the season to make her first appearance in the Top 100 on March 18. Jorovic picked up her maiden Grand Slam match-win later in the year at Wimbledon.
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Iga Swiatek (Poland) cracked the Top 100 on April 15, right after making her first WTA singles final in Lugano at just 17 years old. Swiatek would go on to reach the fourth round of the main draw at Roland Garros the day after she turned 18.
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Astra Sharma (Australia) broke the Top 100 on April 22, one week after making her first WTA singles final in Bogota. Sharma played the main draw at all four Grand Slam events for the first time in 2019, winning a round at the Australian Open.
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Jil Teichmann (Switzerland) made her Top 100 debut on May 6, the day after she won the first WTA singles title of her career in Prague. She would go on to earn her second clay-court WTA singles title two months later in Palermo.
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Karolina Muchova (Czech Rep.) made her Top 100 debut on May 6, after reaching her first WTA singles final in Prague. She went on to make the Wimbledon quarterfinals, win her first WTA singles title in Seoul, and end the year ranked World No.21.
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Aliona Bolsova (Spain) reached the fourth round of Roland Garros as a qualifier in her Grand Slam main-draw debut, claiming a spot in the Top 100 on June 10. Later in 2019, she upset Barbora Strycova to reach the second round of the US Open.
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Marie Bouzkova (Czech Rep.) made her Top 100 debut on July 22, following a second-round showing at Wimbledon and a Challenger title in Kazakhstan. Her rise continued when a semifinal showing at the Rogers Cup propelled her into the Top 60.
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Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) broke the Top 100 on July 22, one day after she won her first WTA singles title in Bucharest. The 20-year-old went on to reach another WTA singles final in Nanchang, and ended the season ranked inside the Top 40.
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Paula Badosa (Spain) cracked the Top 100 for the first time on August 5, helped along by a semifinal run in Palermo. She went on to reach the quarterfinals in Seoul, and made her main-draw debut at three of the four Grand Slam events during 2019.
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Kristie Ahn (U.S.) notched her first-ever wins in a Grand Slam main draw at the US Open, making the fourth round and clinching her Top 100 debut on September 9 in the process. Ahn also reached quarterfinals at San Jose and Seoul in 2019.
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Nina Stojanovic (Serbia) claimed a spot in the Top 100 for the first time on September 23, after making the Nanchang semifinals and Guangzhou quarterfinals in consecutive weeks. She also won three Challenger titles in the second half of 2019.
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Anna Kalinskaya (Russia) made her Top 100 debut on September 30, after a quarterfinal run in Tashkent. Her strong second half of 2019 included her first Top 10 victory, over Sloane Stephens at the US Open, and a maiden WTA semifinal in Washington.
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Coco Gauff (U.S.) capped off her sensational season by winning the Linz title as a lucky loser to break the Top 100 on October 14. She had already notched breakthrough runs to the fourth round of Wimbledon and the third round of the US Open.
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