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#112
Kayla Day
677WTA Pts
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Day's near-misses pile up: 1-3 with three straight set-stealing losses
The Drop Shot AI ·
A 1-3 start to 2026 hides how close the margins have run for Kayla Day, now at WTA No. 137. The lone win came over Francesca Jones in the Indian Wells opener; from there she ran into seeded walls and lost three in a row, twice taking a set off a higher-ranked opponent before fading. The most telling was pushing Iga Swiatek to a second-set tiebreak after a 6-0 bagel, then the first-set tiebreak grabbed off Madison Keys at Wimbledon before dropping the next two. The level is there; closing it out hasn't been.
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2026 Season
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Ranking · Last 6 Months
Currently ranked No. 112. Across 2023–2026: a high of No. 84 and a low of No. 516 over 343 ranking updates.
Year-end ranking: 2023 — No. 87 · 2024 — No. 241 · 2025 — No. 259 · 2026 — No. 112 (current)
About Kayla Day
Junior No. 1, two torn hips, and the long way back to a main draw
The Drop Shot AI ·
Day came out of Santa Barbara with the deepest junior résumé of her American class: the 2016 US Open girls' title over Viktoria Kuzmova, a Wimbledon junior semifinal that same summer, and the year-end ITF No. 1 junior ranking, all before she turned pro in 2017. The senior tour has been a longer negotiation. She owns ten ITF titles and no WTA trophy.
The 1.73m left-hander plays a returner's game behind a two-handed backhand, and the career rates say so flatly, with 40.3 percent of return points won against a 60.1 percent hold rate. Her winners-to-unforced ratio sits at 0.62, so the pattern is extension rather than termination: the lefty serve opens the deuce court and the point gets built from there.
The gap between the two résumés was medical. Day told Roland-Garros in 2023 that she had fractured a foot and torn the labrums in both hips, and the tours shut down about the time she got healthy, leaving six years between Slam main draws. She qualified at the 2023 French Open, beat Kristina Mladenovic and then 20th-ranked Madison Keys 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 for a first top-20 win and a first major third round before Anna Karolina Schmiedlova stopped it. Her career high of No. 84 came on April 1, 2024.
As of September 2026 Day is WTA No. 117, 225 places better than a year ago and 33 shy of that peak. The 26-year-old is 2-5 at tour level this season, both wins opening main-draw runs: past Francesca Jones at Indian Wells before Iga Swiatek, and past Diane Parry from a set down in Montreal before Coco Gauff. At Wimbledon she took the opener off Keys in a first main draw there, leaving them .
Frequently asked questions
What is Kayla Day's WTA ranking?
Kayla Day's latest available published WTA singles ranking is No. 112 as of Oct 6, 2026 with 677 WTA Points.
What is Kayla Day's win-loss record in 2026?
Kayla Day has a 3–6 win-loss record in 2026 across the Grand Slam, Masters/1000, 500 and 250 events covered by The Drop Shot.
What is Kayla Day's latest recorded result in 2026?
Kayla Day lost to Liudmila Samsonova 6(4)-7(7) 6-2 6(5)-7(7) in the round of 16 at the Guadalajara Open on Sep 17, 2026. This is the latest result available in the 2026 records.
What is Kayla Day's recorded head-to-head against Madison Keys?
Across 2 recorded meetings, the head-to-head is level at 1–1. Coverage reflects the matches available on The Drop Shot.
Attributes
Independent rolling tour snapshot · events starting Oct 7, 2024–Oct 6, 2026All surfaces · Slam / Masters / 500 / 250 · 70/30 when both windows qualifyUpdating snapshot…
Recent Matches
- R16Lvs Liudmila Samsonova6(4)-7(7) 6-2 6(5)-7(7)
- R32Wvs Elvina Kalieva6(9)-7(11) 4-6
- R128Lvs Shuai Zhang2-6 6-2 6-2
- R64Lvs Coco Gauff2-6 5-7
- R128Wvs Diane Parry6-3 3-6 5-7
Top Rivals
| Opponent | Last meeting | H2H |
|---|---|---|
| WIMJun '26 | 1-1 | |
| IWMar '26 | 1-0 | |
| CINAug '26 | 0-1 | |
| IWMar '26 | 0-1 | |
| CANAug '26 | 1-0 |
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