Harriet Dart (born 28 July 1996) is a British professional tennis player.
Dart entered the WTA top 100 for the first time in March 2022 and achieved her career-high singles ranking of 84 on 25 July 2022. She also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 91, achieved on 19 June 2023. She reached the final of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles with Joe Salisbury.
Dart began playing at ITF events where she beat Freya Christie, Laura Pigossi, Nastja Kolar, Conny Perrin before she reached the final of an ITF event in Germany and beat Karolína Muchová to win her first 2018 title. She reached another final in Japan but lost to Veronika Kudermetova. In Eastbourne, she won against Kristýna Plíšková before losing to then-top 10, Anastasija Sevastova. In Wimbledon, she lost her first match against former world No. 1, Karolina Plíšková, although taking a set off Plíšková and forcing a tiebreak in the first set. At an ITF event in Norway, she won another title; Paula Badosa retired in the final.
2019: Wimbledon 3rd round, Australian and US Open debuts[edit]
2023: Back to back quarterfinals and national team success[edit]
In June 2023, Dart reached successive WTA Tour quarterfinals with runs to the last eight at the grass-court events in Nottingham, where she lost to eventual champion Katie Boulter,[11] and Birmingham, when it was Anastasia Potapova who ended her challenge.[12] However, she could not continue her good form on the lawns of Wimbledon later that month as she went out in the first round of her home Grand Slam losing 7–6, 0–6, 4–6 to Diane Parry.[13] In November 2023, Dart secured the winning point for Great Britain in their 3–1 Billie Jean King Cup play-off victory against Sweden at the Copper Box Arena in London with a 7–5, 6–2 win over Caijsa Hennemann, after being brought into the team as a late replacement for Jodie Burrage.[14]
In April, Dart was selected to play for Great Britain against France in 2024 Billie Jean King Cup qualifying round,[16] but was not required to play as Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter won the three matches required to qualify for the finals.[17] Dart then won two rounds in qualifying for the Madrid Open to reach the main draw. [18]
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.[19]
^Edition is split into the two years due to COVID-19.
^The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open since 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009 to 2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The Premier 5 tournaments were reclassified as WTA 1000 tournaments in 2021.
^2012: WTA ranking–942, 2013: WTA ranking–1019, 2014: WTA ranking–532.