Katrina Scott (born 11 June 2004) is an American

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player.

Career

Junior career

Brought up in

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, in 2019 and already 5'11 as a 15 year old, Scott reached the quarterfinals as a wildcard at the junior 2019 US Open, losing in three sets to

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, and, as a qualifier, the round of 16 of Wimbledon where she lost in three sets to

Emma Navarro Emma Navarro (born May 18, 2001) is an American tennis player. Navarro has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 145, achieved on 22 August 2022. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 318, achieved ...

. In September 2019, Scott with

Robin Montgomery Robin Montgomery (; born September 5, 2004) is an American tennis player. She has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 165, achieved on 7 March 2022. She has won two singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. A product of the Junior Te ...

and Connie Ma won the Junior Federation Cup, United States' third consecutive win. Scott and Montgomery following in the immediate footsteps of the likes of

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and

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who were part of triumphant teams in the previous years.

Senior career

Scott made her senior Grand Slam debut at the 2020 US Open at the

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as a wildcard. She defeated

Natalia Vikhlyantseva Natalia Konstantinovna Vikhlyantseva ( Russian: Наталья Константиновна Вихлянцева; born 16 February 1997) is a Russian tennis player. Her favourite court surface is grass. Vikhlyantseva has career-high rankings of ...

in straight sets to win her first-round match, and took a set off

, before losing in round two. Scott got a wildcard into the main draw of the

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, but lost in straight sets to

Sorana Cîrstea Sorana Mihaela Cîrstea (; born 7 April 1990) is a Romanian professional tennis player. In singles, she achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 21 on 12 August 2013. In doubles, her career-high ranking is No. 35, which she reached on 9 March ...

in exactly one hour.

Grand Slam singles performance

ITF finals

Singles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

References

External links

* * American female tennis players Living people 2004 births Place of birth missing (living people) People from Woodland Hills, Los Angeles American people of Iranian descent African-American sportswomen Tennis players from Los Angeles 21st-century African-American sportspeople 21st-century African-American women {{US-tennis-bio-stub