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Emma Navarro

Emma Navarro (born May 18, 2001) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 8 by the WTA, achieved on September 9, 2024, and a doubles ranking of No. 93, achieved on August 12, 2024. Navarro has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, and reached a major semifinal at the 2024 US Open.

Navarro played college tennis at the University of Virginia and won the NCAA Singles Championship in 2021. She won her first WTA Tour title in 2024 at the 2024 Hobart International. In 2025, she was part of the United States squad that reached the Billie Jean King Cup final.

Navarro finished as the runner-up in the junior 2019 French Open singles draw, and won the junior 2019 French Open in doubles playing with Chloe Beck. They also finished as runners-up in the junior 2019 Australian Open.

Navarro made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2019 Charleston Open in South Carolina, after receiving a wildcard for the singles and doubles events.

Navarro was rated as the best tennis recruit in the nation and joined the Virginia Cavaliers in the fall of 2020 after having previously committed to Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. For her freshman year, she went 25–1 in singles and reached the No. 1 ranking in the country. She avenged her only loss of the season in the final of the 2021 NCAA singles championship, beating defending champion Estela Perez-Somarriba of the University of Miami. Navarro made it to the NCAA doubles semifinals partnering with Rosie Johanson. Navarro was named the ITA Rookie of the Year and was a finalist for the Honda Sports Award. With her NCAA win, she earned a wild card into the 2021 US Open main draw where she made her Grand Slam tournament debut.

Navarro went 26–2 in singles for her second-year, ending the year ranked No. 2 nationally, after losing to Abigail Rencheli of NC State in the round of 16 of the 2022 NCAA singles championship. She was again an All-American in singles and doubles and was a finalist for the Honda Sports Award. She left Virginia after her second season.

For her debut at the French Open as a wildcard, Navarro reached the second round defeating lucky loser, Erika Andreeva for her first win at a major. Navarro reached a WTA Tour semifinal for the first time in her career at the 2023 Bad Homburg Open in Bad Homburg, Germany as an alternate defeating Alizé Cornet and then Rebeka Masarova by retirement.

Navarro was runner-up at the Swedish Open, losing the final to Olga Danilović in three sets. She reached the top 50 at No. 49, following a first-round showing at the US Open, and another semifinal at the San Diego Open in San Diego on September 18. She became the third American to crack the top 50 in 2023, joining Alycia Parks and Peyton Stearns.

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