Gabriella Taylor

Juniors

At the 2012 'British Junior National Championships' Taylor became 14 & Under Girls Singles winner beating Katie Swan in the final 7–6(7)6–3.^[4] Later in the year she was runner-up at the world's most prestigious junior tournament Junior Orange Bowl losing to Maia Lumsden 6–3 7–5,^[5] both players having been semi-finalists in that year's European equivalent the Petits As. The following year the two players teamed up to become under-16 British National Junior Champions in the Doubles competition.^[6]

Taylor, Katie Swan, Freya Christie and Maia Lumsden were members of the 2014 GB team, coached by Judy Murray, that triumphed in the Maureen Connolly Challenge Trophy, an annual Under-18s competition against the USA.^[7][8]

2015

In November Taylor won her first Futures(ITF) title in South Africa, unseeded she came from a set down to upset top seeded Naomi Totka of Hungary 4–6 6–2 6–1.^[9]

2016 – Wimbledon Juniors 'poisoning' incident and recovery

In 2016, Taylor achieved her best juniors grand slam result in her sole junior grand slam appearance at Wimbledon. She reached the quarterfinals^[10] before having to retire in a match against Kayla Day.^[11] Taylor contracted a bacterial infection called leptospirosis, which would keep her from playing tennis for a month. Initially she was thought to have been poisoned while her bag was left unoccupied, however, medical experts declared this to be highly unlikely.^{[12][13][14][15][16][17]} Police later concluded that there was no evidence of deliberate poisoning.^[18]

Taylor recovered sufficiently to reach three consecutive ITF finals at Heraklion, Greece in October and November although failing to win any.^[19]

2017

In May, as sixth seed, she won her first 25k ITF tournament, beating third seed Danielle Lao 6–2 6–2 in the final.^[20] Wimbledon granted wild card entries to her^[21] in both the singles and the doubles (partnering Freya Christie) qualifying draws, losing both in the first round.^[22] In November she began working with coaches Xavier Budo and David Sunyer, which she credits with changing her mindset, leading to her most successful period to date.^[23]

2018

After three ITF title wins in February^[24] and March, Taylor broke into the top 200 rankings for the first time.^[25] She was subsequently chosen to represent Great Britain in the Fed Cup team alongside Johanna Konta, Heather Watson and Anna Smith for the World Group II play-off tie in Japan,^[23] however she did not play in any of the matches.^[26]

Taylor made her WTA main draw debut at the 2018 Nottingham Open. As a wild card entry, she lost in the first round to the defending champion Donna Vekić in three sets.^[27]

Singles: (6–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	21 November 2015	$10,000	Stellenbosch, South Africa	Clay	Naomi Totka	4–6, 6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	1.	29 October 2016	$10,000	Heraklion, Greece	Hard	Valeria Savinykh	2–6, 1–4 ret
Runner-up	2.	5 November 2016	$10,000	Heraklion, Greece	Hard	Ioana Pietroiu	3–6, 6–2, 2–6
Runner-up	3.	12 November 2016	$10,000	Heraklion, Greece	Hard	Raluca Serban	4–6, 5–7
Winner	2.	14 May 2017	$25,000	Changwon, South Korea	Hard	Danielle Lao	6–2 6–2
Winner	3.	23 December 2017	$25,000	Navi Mumbai, India	Hard	Diāna Marcinkēviča	4–6 7–6(9–7) 6–3
Winner	4.	11 February 2018	$25,000	Launceston, Australia	Hard	Asia Muhammad	6–3, 6–4
Winner	5.	25 February 2018	$25,000	Perth, Australia	Hard	Myrtille Georges	6–2 7–5
Winner	6.	11 March 2018	$25,000	Mildura, Australia	Grass	Shérazad Reix	6–0, 6–3

Doubles: (2–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	13 May 2016	$10,000	Monzon, Spain	Hard	Alice Bacquié	Estrella Cabeza Candela Cristina Sánchez-Quintanar	6–1, 6–1
Runner-up	1.	20 July 2017	$15,000	Don Benito, Spain	Carpet	Mia Eklund	Maria Masini Olga Parres Azcoitia	3–6, 3–6
Winner	2.	9 March 2018	$25,000	Mildura, Australia	Grass	Katy Dunne	Alexandra Bozovic Olivia Tjandramulia	5–7, 7–6(7–4), [10–5]