Erin Routliffe

2010–11

In October 2010, Routliffe won the doubles title at the G4 in Burlington.^[4] She won her first junior singles title at the same tournament a year later.^[5] In October 2011, she reached the quarterfinals in both singles and doubles at the ITF $50,000 in Saguenay, with a win over then world No. 229 Alizé Lim in the second round.^[6] She reached her second straight 50K doubles quarterfinals in Toronto the next week.^[7]

2012

In April 2012 Routliffe won the singles and doubles titles at the G2 in Cap-d'Ail.^[8] Later that month she made the doubles final of the G1 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer.^[9] She lost in the first round in singles at the junior French Open and Wimbledon, but reached the quarterfinals in doubles at Wimbledon. In August, she was awarded a wildcard in the qualifying draw at the Rogers Cup and made it to the second round.^[10] She made the doubles final of the G1 in Repentigny in September.^[11] She was defeated in the first round in singles of the junior US Open, but reached the quarterfinals in doubles. She won the doubles title at the GB1 in Tulsa alongside compatriot Carol Zhao, overcoming Charlotte Petrick and Denise Starr in the final.^[12] Routliffe also reached two doubles quarterfinals in October, at the ITF 50,000 tournaments in Saguenay and Toronto.^[13]

2013

Routliffe lost in the first round in singles of the junior Australian Open, but made the quarterfinals in doubles for her third straight Grand Slam. In February she reached her first professional doubles final, at the ITF $25,000 tournament in Launceston.^[14] She was defeated in the first round in singles and the second round in doubles at the junior French Open. At the beginning of July, Routliffe made it to the semifinals in doubles at the ITF 50K Cooper Challenger.^[15] In August she won the gold medal in singles at the Canada Summer Games in Sherbrooke.^[16]

2014

In July 2014, Routliffe and partner Carol Zhao made it to the doubles semifinals at the $25,000 ITF tournament in Gatineau.^[17] At the ITF 25K in Granby a week later, she and Zhao reached the third professional doubles final of her career. They were supposed to face Hiroko Kuwata and Riko Sawayanagi for the title, but had to withdraw because of an injury.^[18]

2015

In July Routliffe reached the doubles final in Granby (now a $50,000 tournament) for the second straight year, this time with Laura Robson, but they were defeated in straight sets by Australians Jessica Moore and Storm Sanders.^[19] The following month Routliffe and partner Maya Jansen won the US Open National Playoffs in doubles, and were awarded a wildcard for the main draw.^[20] They were defeated in the first round by sixth seeds Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears.^[21]

2016

Routliffe advanced to her first professional singles final in July 2016, at the ITF 25K in Winnipeg, where she was defeated by fellow qualifier Francesca Di Lorenzo in straight sets.^[22] In early October she won her first professional doubles title, partnering Andie Daniell, at the ITF 10K in Charleston.^[23]

2017

In June 2017, after a lengthy process, the ITF agreed to allow Routliffe to change her representational nationality to the country of her birth. Routliffe played her first Fed Cup ties for New Zealand against Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in July, dropping only one game in her winning debut over Guljan Muhammetkuliyeva.^[1] In October, this time with Di Lorenzo as her partner, she won through to the doubles final at the ITF 60K in Saguenay, Canada, but they had to withdraw following an injury to Di Lorenzo.^[24] The next week at the ITF 60K in Toronto, she won her second doubles title, defeating Ysaline Bonaventure and Victoria Rodríguez, partnering Alexa Guarachi for just the second time.^[25] In December, she reached the doubles final with Maya Jansen at the ITF 15K in Solapur, India.^[26]

2018

In January, with compatriot Jade Lewis, Routliffe won her third and fourth doubles titles, in consecutive weeks at ITF tournaments in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.^[27][28] A week later, she collected her third successive title at the same venue, this time in singles over Nadja Gilchrist.^[29]

Routliffe then joined the New Zealand team in Bahrain for their Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Group II playoffs. Rested for the first day's tie against Lebanon, Routliffe had her first match the following day when New Zealand met top seeds Uzbekistan. Playing for the second time against their top player, Sabina Sharipova (she had played her in the 2017 Fed Cup tie as well), Routliffe fought well in the first set but tired in the second, losing 7-5, 6-1. Losing all three rubbers, New Zealand nevertheless finished second in the group, and moved through to the 5th-8th place play-offs against Pakistan the following day, where Routliffe beat Ushna Sohail, 6-3, 6-1. The tie was won 3-0, New Zealand therefore finishing 5th equal with the Philippines.

In Irapuato, Mexico, Routliffe won her third ITF doubles title for the year when she teamed up with Alexa Guarachi again.^[30] It was also the third final in a row where she had been in a team which defeated the top seeds. They followed that with a loss in the semi-finals at Jackson, Mississippi, but won another title together a week after that, in Pelham, Alabama,^[31] and continued the great run of form by collecting their third title in four weeks, this time in Dothan. The latter event, being an $80,000 tournament, was the biggest win for both players.^[32] They lost in a marathon match tie-break, 20-18, in the quarter-finals of the next tournament in the $80,000 series, at Charlottesville, Virginia, but then prevailed again in the last of the three events, at Charleston, South Carolina, where they beat Louisa Chirico and Allie Kiick in a match tie-break in the final.^[33]

Routliffe then went to South Korea to start a series of tournaments in Asia. With a new partner in Victoria Rodríguez, as Guarachi stayed at home, she lost in the semi-finals of the first event in Incheon. Moving on to Thailand, the pair took out the title at the first tournament they played in Hua Hin,^[34] and completed the tournament double by winning again a week later.^[35] It was Routliffe's eighth doubles title for the year.

Routliffe and Guarachi took a chance that they would be able to qualify for Wimbledon, and became the last team entered. They had straight sets wins over Priscilla Hon and Arantxa Rus, and Anna Kalinskaya and Viktoria Kuzmova, in the qualifying matches, before taking the eventual champions, Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková, to a third set in the first round of the main draw, the score being 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 to the young Czechs.

From there Routliffe returned to Canada and, because Guarachi had remained in Europe, she teamed up again with Victoria Rodriguez for an ITF tournament in Gatineau, Quebec. Entering the event as top seeds, they were surprising beaten in their quarter-final. Teaming up again with Guarachi as fourth seeds at the Citi Open in Washington, her very first WTA event, they made it all the way to the final, where they lost in straight sets to third seeds Han Xinyun and Darija Jurak. Returning to Canada with Guarachi, they were beaten in a big upset by Carson Branstine and Rebecca Marino in the first round of an ITF tournament in Vancouver.

Routliffe followed that with a month-long training block in New Zealand before heading to Cairns for the first of a series of ITF tournaments in Australia. Beaten in singles qualifying, she and first-time partner Astra Sharma were second seeds in the doubles, and performed right up to that ranking. They met the top seeds Naiktha Bains and Xu Shi-lin in the final and, after a poor first set, couldn't convert either of their set points in the second set tie-break, eventually losing 6-1, 7-6 (7).

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2018	Citi Open, United States	International	Hard	Alexa Guarachi	Han Xinyun Darija Jurak	3–6, 2–6

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

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Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	11 July 2016	Winnipeg, Canada	Hard	Francesca Di Lorenzo	4–6, 1–6
Win	1.	4 February 2018	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Nadja Gilchrist	6–3, 7–5

Doubles: 18 (11 titles, 7 runners-up)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.	4 February 2013	Launceston, Australia	Hard	Allie Kiick	Ksenia Lykina Emily Webley-Smith	5–7, 3–6
Loss	2.	17 May 2013	Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy	Clay	Carol Zhao	Martina Caregaro Anna Floris	2–6, 7–5, [7–10]
Loss	3.	20 July 2014	Granby, Canada	Hard	Carol Zhao	Hiroko Kuwata Riko Sawayanagi	Walkover
Loss	4.	20 July 2015	Granby, Canada	Hard	Laura Robson	Jessica Moore Storm Sanders	5–7, 2–6
Win	1.	1 October 2016	Charleston, United States	Clay	Andie Daniell	Quinn Gleason Whitney Kay	6–4, 6–2
Loss	5.	25 October 2017	Saguenay, Canada	Hard (i)	Francesca Di Lorenzo	Bianca Andreescu Carol Zhao	Walkover
Win	2.	5 November 2017	Toronto, Canada	Hard (i)	Alexa Guarachi	Ysaline Bonaventure Victoria Rodríguez	7–6(7–4), 3–6, [10–4]
Loss	6.	10 December 2017	Solapur, India	Hard	Maya Jansen	Hsu Ching-wen Pranjala Yadlapalli	5–7, 6–1, [6–10]
Win	3.	20 January 2018	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Jade Lewis	Anastasia Potapova Ekaterina Yashina	0–6, 7–5, [10–6]
Win	4.	27 January 2018	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Jade Lewis	Berfu Cengiz Jasmina Tinjic	6–1, 5–7, [12–10]
Win	5.	17 March 2018	Irapuato, Mexico	Hard	Alexa Guarachi	Desirae Krawczyk Giuliana Olmos	4–6, 6–2, [10–6]
Win	6.	13 April 2018	Pelham, United States	Clay	Alexa Guarachi	Maria Mateas María José Portillo Ramírez	6–1, 6–2
Win	7.	21 April 2018	Dothan, United States	Clay	Alexa Guarachi	Sofia Kenin Jamie Loeb	6–4, 2–6, [11–9]
Win	8.	5 May 2018	Charleston, United States	Clay	Alexa Guarachi	Louisa Chirico Allie Kiick	6–1, 3–6, [10–5]
Win	9.	2 June 2018	Hua Hin, Thailand	Hard	Victoria Rodriguez	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai Peangtarn Plipuech	7–5, 3–6, [10–6]
Win	10.	9 June 2018	Hua Hin, Thailand	Hard	Victoria Rodriguez	Mana Ayukawa Nina Stadler	6–4, 6–4
Loss	7.	21 September 2018	Cairns, Australia	Hard	Astra Sharma	Naiktha Bains Xu Shi-lin	1–6, 6–7(7–9)
Win		12,14 October 2018 1	Toowoomba, Australia	Hard	Freya Christie	Samantha Harris Astra Sharma	7–5, 6–4

Note 1: rain stopped play on 12 October with the score at 1-3 in the first set, and also prevented play the following day. The match was completed on 14 October.