At the start of the 2025 Australian Open, just one teenager sat in the Top 100. Following this year’s edition, three are in the Top 20 alone – Mirra Andreeva, Victoria Mboko, and Iva Jovic
The surge of the WTA’s teen titans truly began last year and has since spilled over into the early weeks of 2026.
Teenagers were a combined 7-1 in tour finals in 2025, headlined by Andreeva’s back-to-back WTA 1000 wins in Dubai and Indian Wells, then Mboko’s maiden WTA title at the National Bank Open in Montreal. So, what better way to have kicked off the fresh season than with a final between the two in Adelaide.
Andreeva won the battle between the tour’s highest-ranked teens, securing her fourth WTA title and first at the 500…