Francesca Jones (born 19 September 2000) is a British
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player.
Jones has a career-high singles ranking of 149 by the
Women's Tennis Association
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(WTA).
She had a career-high ITF juniors ranking of 31, achieved on 1 May 2017.
She was born with a thumb and three fingers on each hand, and with only seven toes, as a result of a rare genetic condition,
Ectrodactyly Ectodermal Dysplasia (EED).
Australian Open qualifying: Britain's Francesca Jones on proving doubters wrong
Russell Fuller, BBC Sport
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, 8 January 2021
Jones, not related to former Wimbledon champion Ann Jones, started playing tennis at the age of five, after being enrolled at a tennis camp.
Grand Slam singles performance timeline
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 10 (6 titles, 4 runner–ups)
Doubles: 1 (runner–up)
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2000 births
Living people
English female tennis players
Sportspeople from Leeds
Sportspeople from Bradford
Sportspeople with disabilities
People educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School
British female tennis players