Fiona Crawley

A native of San Antonio, Texas, Crawley took up tennis from age six to nine while living in Okinawa, Japan, where her father, Peter, was stationed as a member of the US Air Force.[3][4] She comes from an athletic family: her father played soccer at Michigan State, and she used to train with her older siblings, Liam and Solène, who went on to play tennis at Trinity and Colorado State respectively.[3][4][5]

Once described as a "tennis prodigy", Crawley was the No. 1–ranked tennis player in Texas in her age group from the age of ten.[6][7] While attending Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio,[3] she found success at various national junior events.[8] In 2017, she won the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Girls' 16s National Clay Court Championships and the USTA 18s National Winter Championships,[8][9] and finished runner-up in the Orange Bowl's under-16 event.[7][10] In 2018, after winning the Texas Slam's under-18 event and the USTA Billie Jean King Girls' 16s National Championships,[11][12] she earned a wildcard into the US Open junior draw, but lost in the first round.[13][14] In the ITF Junior Rankings, Crawley peaked at No. 294 on December 14, 2020.[13] Nationally, she was considered the No. 1 tennis recruit of the class of 2020.[3][15]

In 2020, Crawley began playing college tennis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is majoring in English and comparative literature.[3] In her first year, she compiled a 30–1 singles record, helping North Carolina win the ACC Championships and be for the first time top-seeded going into the 2021 NCAA Team Championships, where they reached the semifinals.[3] As a sophomore in 2021–22, Crawley led Division I in singles wins with a 47–7 record, mostly playing in the four spot for North Carolina, and finished the season at No. 32 in the D-1 rankings; additionally, she and teammate Elizabeth Scotty were ranked No. 1 in doubles at one point midseason. At the 2022 NCAA Championships, where North Carolina still had the top seed and again got to the team semifinals, an unseeded Crawley made a run to the semifinals of the individual bracket.[3][16][17] In the fall of 2022–23, while going undefeated 17–0 in tournament play,[16][18] Crawley attained D-1 tennis's No. 1 singles ranking for the first time on November 16, 2022.[19]

Crawley has played scantly at professional-level events, leading to a career-high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of 1069 from March 9, 2020.[13] She made her WTA Tour debut at the 2023 Charleston Open, where she received a wildcard into the main singles draw.[20]

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