Belinda Woolcock (born 24 January 1995) is an Australian

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player. She has a career-high singles ranking of 290 by the

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(WTA), achieved on 18 November 2019, and a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 207, reached on 22 February 2021. Woolcock made her Grand Slam debut at the 2016 Australian Open, competing in the main draw of the doubles tournament with

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; however, they lost in the first round to Jessica Moore and

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. In 2017, Belinda and

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won the Australia Open Wildcard Playoff to win a main-draw wildcard for the 2018 Australian Open women's doubles event. She attended the

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where she graduated in 2017 with a bachelor's degree of Science in Sport Management. In her final year for the Florida Gators, her team won the NCAA National Championship whilst being honoured the Most Valuable Player of the tournament. Due to this great effort in her final year with the Florida Gators, Belinda was recognised for her achievements and named the 2017

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winner for Women's Tennis, signifying “the best of the best in collegiate athletics”.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner–ups)

Doubles: 10 (6 titles, 4 runner–ups)

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1995 births Living people Australian female tennis players Tennis players from Melbourne Florida Gators women's tennis players LGBT tennis players Australian LGBT sportspeople 21st-century LGBT people {{Australia-tennis-bio-stub