On Court

• Started playing at age six after the local coach, John Dutton, invited him to join a tennis squad
• Took out the 12/u National Claycourt Championships in 2019
• Won first professional-level match at the Australian Pro Tour event in Canberra in February 2022
• Proudest moment so far is representing Australia at the 2022 Junior Davis Cup
• Won the 2022 Oceania Junior Championships
• Favourite surface to play on is grass after competing in the 2022 Wimbledon junior competition
• Names his coaches, Clint Letcher, Heath Denman and John Dutton as his biggest influences
• Named orange boy for the Australian Davis Cup team for the round-robin stage of the 2022 finals.
• Cracked ITF world junior top 25 in early 2023
• Trains at KDV Tennis Academy on the Gold Coast
• Advanced to the boys’ doubles semifinals at US Open 2023 alongside American Alexander Razeghi
• Was a boys’ singles quarterfinalist at Australian Open 2024
• Broke into the world’s top 10 in the ITF junior rankings in April 2024, becoming the first Australian since Rinky Hijikata five years earlier to achieve the feat

Off Court

• His mother, Loretta Harrop, was an Olympic silver medalist in triathlon and his father, Brad Jones, a QAFL Grogan medalist
• Has a younger sister, Emerson, who is also a top junior tennis player
• Hobbies include fishing and hanging out with family and friends
• Favourite food is mud crab
• Male Junior Athlete of the Year finalist at the 2022 and 2023 Australian Tennis Awards.

Year-end ranking history