Clara Tauson

Clara Tauson was born in Copenhagen on 21 December 2002 and turned pro in 2019 off one of the best junior résumés Danish tennis has produced. At 13 she became the youngest winner of the Danish national championship, surpassing Caroline Wozniacki's record, then won the 2019 Australian Open girls' title and became the first Danish girl to top the junior world ranking. She trained at Justine Henin's academy in Belgium from 2019 to 2022, and the Wozniacki comparison never fit — Tauson is the opposite archetype.

She's a 6-foot power baseliner who plays to end points. She produces a high volume of winners off both wings and overpowers opponents, backs it with a reliable serve, and her biggest on-court weakness is her movement. The serve has trended up — she's serving 6.1 aces per match over the last 52 weeks, up from a career average of 4.7. Her self-described style is aggressive, looking to finish at net when the opening comes.

The arc bent the wrong way before it bent right. In 2021, her first senior year, Tauson won her first two WTA titles at Lyon and Luxembourg and broke into the top 50, then her 2022 and 2023 seasons were marred by injuries. The reset came in 2025: a title in Auckland, then a run to her first WTA 1000 final at the Dubai Championships, where she upset Aryna Sabalenka in straight sets for her first win over a world No. 1, beat Linda Noskova and Karolina Muchova, then lost the final to Mirra Andreeva. A Wimbledon fourth round followed, including a win over Elena Rybakina. In 2025 she played every major for the first time, finishing at a career-high year-end No. 12.

Now ranked 24, the current beat is consolidation — staying healthy and converting top-tier wins into deep weeks across the 2026 swing.