Maya Joint: An Aussie Tennis Star To Watch
- Lorenzo Di-Mauro Hayes
- 14 hours ago
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A star was born at Eastbourne in 2025. A star that is likely to glow every brighter in the coming months. Maya Joint won her second WTA tour event in two months with a tiebreak last set win. Maya is the daughter of professional squash player Michael Joint and was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. However, she has chosen to represent Australia and relocated to Brisbane to train at Tennis Australia's national academy.

Joint made her Grand Slam singles debut at the 2024 US Open. She was ranked world number 136, the highest of any 18-year-old. She won her first round match against Laura Siegemund before losing to the 14th seed Madison Keys.
Joint turned professional going into the 2025 Australian Open. Since then she has taken a few records off Ash Barty. Her first round win at the Madrid Open in April, five days before her 19th birthday made her the youngest Australian to win a match at WTA 1000 tournament. In May she claimed her first WTA tour event in Morocco on clay. Joint defeated Jaqueline Cristian in straight sets in the final. She became the first Australian to win a WTA tour since Barty won 2022 Australian Open. Joint and partner Oksana Kalashnikova won the doubles at the same tournament. After the Morocco Open, Joint was up to a new career high ranking of world number 53.

After losing at the French Open in the first round, her Wimbledon preparation tournament occurred at Eastbourne. Joint defeated Ons Jabeur, seventh seed Emma Raducanu, Anna Blinkova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to reach the final against Alexandra Eala. Joint won the first set 6-4 before Eala battled back winning the second 6-1. A tiebreak was needed in the last set. Joint saved four match points and won the tiebreaker 13-11.
Eastbourne is the main warm-up tournament before Wimbledon and has a strong honour roll. The women's singles event has been won by the likes of Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Caroline Wozniacki, Keys, Belinda Bencic, KarolÃna PlÃÅ¡ková and Jeļena Ostapenko.

Joint has been slowing building over the last year. She currently sits at a career high of world number 41 and will likely be higher when the tennis world descends on Melbourne in January 2026. She hasn't made a run at a Grand Slam yet, but usually players need a few test runs before that happens. Joint's tournament wins in Morocco and England shows she has the talent to be the next big thing in Australian tennis.