Ellen Perez

Australia

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The depth is getting a lot stronger. And we definitely have a very young team – I think there's a lot of room to grow.

Ellen Perez, 8 Apr 2025

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Won the 2012 Gallipoli Youth Cup
Won the doubles and singles events at the 2011 ACT Open, 2012 Griffith University AMT and the 2012 Plexipave Queensland Open
Semifinalist at the 2012 Oceania Closed Junior Championships in Fiji and won the doubles event
In 2016, won the women’s wildcard playoff for a berth in the US Open main draw
Cracked the WTA singles top 200 in October 2018; reached five Pro Tour singles finals that season
Won seven ITF doubles titles in 2018, cracking the WTA doubles top 100 in June 2018
Qualified at a Grand Slam for the first time at Wimbledon 2021, defeating three higher-ranked opponents to earn main draw spot
Represented Australia at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Made Billie Jean King Cup debut at the 2021 Finals in Prague
Enjoyed a magnificent year in doubles in 2022, reaching the Wimbledon quarterfinals and US Open semifinals, plus WTA 1000 finals in Canada and Cincinnati, with Nicole Melichar-Martinez
Made her top-10 debut in doubles in June 2023
Became first Australian in 15 years to contest a doubles final at the WTA Finals in 2023
Had a successful 2024 on tour again partnering with Melichar-Martinez, winning doubles finals in Bad Homburg and San Diego, finishing as runner-up in Dubai, Ningbo and Linz, and making the US Open quarterfinals
Again competed at the WTA Finals in doubles with Melichar-Martinez in 2024, reaching the semifinals
Lifted the 2025 doubles trophy in Abu Dhabi with Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko without dropping a set all tournament, made the final in Bad Homburg and semifinals in Rome and Cincinnati.

Says if she wasn’t playing tennis she would be a soccer player
Tennis heroes are Rafael Nadal and Justin Henin but her ideal mixed doubles partner would be Bob Bryan.

Born	10 October 1995
Birthplace	Shellharbour, Australia
Height	168cm
Plays	Left-handed

Doubles titles

2025: Abu Dhabi (w/ Jelena Ostapenko)
2024: Bad Homburg (w/ Nicole Melichar-Martinez), San Diego (w/ Nicole Melichar-Martinez), Catalonia W125 (w/ Nicole Melichar-Martinez)
2023: Catalonia W125 (w/ Storm Hunter)
2022: Cleveland (w/ Nicole Melichar-Martinez), Rosmalen (w/ Tamara Zidansek)
2021: Tenerife (w/ Ulrikke Eikeri), Guadalajara (w/ Astra Sharma)
2019: Strasbourg (w/ Daria Saville), Houston W125 (w/ Luisa Stefani)

Doubles finals

2025: Bad Homburg (w/ Lyudmyla Kichenok)
2024: Dubai (w/ Nicole Melichar-Martinez), Linz (w/ Nicole Melichar-Martinez), Ningbo (w/ Melichar-Martinez)
2023: WTA Finals (w/ Nicole Melichar-Martinez), Cleveland (w/ Nicole Melichar-Martinez), Cincinnati (w/ Nicole Melichar-Martinez), Eastbourne (w/ Nicole Melichar-Martinez), Austin (w/ Nicole Melichar-Martinez)
2022: Tokyo (w/ Nicole Melichar-Martinez), Cincinnati (w/ Nicole Melichar-Martinez), Toronto (w/ Nicole Melichar-Martinez)
2021: Birmingham (w/ Ons Jabeur), Charleston (w/ Storm Hunter)
2020: Istanbul (w/ Storm Hunter), Hua Hin (w/ Barbara Haas)
2019: Nottingham (w/ Arina Rodionova)