Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro

Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro (born 24 September 2002) is a Spanish professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of world No. 52 in singles by the WTA achieved on 28 October 2024, and No. 201 in doubles, attained on 9 January 2023.

Bouzas Maneiro has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as eleven singles titles and four doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Early life

Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro was born in Vilagarcía de Arousa to father Juan Jesús and mother Gloria. She began playing tennis at the age of five at the Club de Tenis O Rial in her hometown. At the age of 13, she moved to Alicante to train at the Ferrer Tennis Academy. In 2022, she moved to Madrid to train under Javier Martí, the former coach of Paula Badosa. In September 2023, she hired Roberto Ortega Olmedo as her coach.

Career

2020–2021: ITF Circuit titles

In December 2020, Bouzas Maneiro reached her first professional singles final at the $15k Torneo Internacional de Tenis Ciudad Raqueta in Madrid, but was defeated by Conny Perrin. The following month, in January 2021, she won her maiden singles title at the $15k event in Cairo, defeating Chantal Škamlová in the final. In March 2021, she reached the final of the $15k Internationaux de Tennis Féminin in Gonesse, but lost to Marine Partaud. At the $15k Open du Havre in Le Havre, she reached the quarterfinals, eventually losing to Léolia Jeanjean. In June 2021, she won another title at the $15k event in Heraklion and reached the final of the $25k Ciudad Raqueta event in Madrid.

2022–2023: Major and United Cup debuts

In February 2022, she won the $15k event in Villena, defeating Ashley Lahey in the final. A month later, she won her second title of the year at the $15k Vilas Academy Calvià Open in Palma Nova. In May, she reached the final of the $25k event in Platja d'Aro, but lost to compatriot Guiomar Maristany. At the end of June, she won the bronze medal in singles and a gold medal in doubles at the Mediterranean Games. Partnering Maristany, they defeated the Maltese pair of Francesca Curmi and Elaine Genovese to clinch the medal.

In 2023, she competed for Spain as a substitute at the United Cup, and was victorious on her debut over Olivia Gadecki. She made her major debut at the Wimbledon Championships by qualifying for the main draw.

2024: WTA 125 title and top 10 win, two major third rounds

In March, she won her maiden WTA 125 title at the Antalya Challenger. The following month, she reached the final of the Zaragoza Open, but lost to Moyuka Uchijima. She subsequently made her WTA top 100 debut on 15 April 2024, reaching a new career-high ranking of world No. 90. She made her WTA 1000 main-draw debut, after qualifying for the Madrid Open where she defeated compatriot Paula Badosa in the first round for her first win at this level.

At Wimbledon, Bouzas Maneiro reached the third round of a major for the first time in her career, after upsetting defending champion Markéta Vondroušová in straight sets, her first top 10 win, and defeating compatriot Cristina Bucșa. Her victory over Vondroušová marked the first time since 1994 that the defending women's Wimbledon champion was eliminated in the first round. She exited the tournament after retiring due to a back injury while trailing in her round three match against eventual champion Barbora Krejčíková.

She also made her debut at the Cincinnati Open when she defeated fellow lucky loser Lucia Bronzetti before losing to Elina Svitolina.

Bouzas Maneiro reached another major third round at the US Open with wins over Petra Martić and 31st seed Katie Boulter. Her run was ended by sixth seed Jessica Pegula.

Wins over qualifier Jana Fett and wildcard Shi Han saw her make it through to the quarterfinals at the Guangzhou Open, where she lost to qualifier Caroline Dolehide.

2025: Rouen and Rabat quarterfinals

At the Australian Open, Bouzas defeated Sonay Kartal to set up a second round meeting with world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka which she lost in straight sets.

In April at the Rouen Open, she overcame Maria Sakkari, and Varvara Gracheva, before losing in the quarterfinals to top seed and eventual champion, Elina Svitolina.

The following month, Bouzas made it through to the quarterfinals at the Morocco Open in Rabat with wins over Julia Grabher and qualifier Sada Nahimana. She lost in the last eight to Ajla Tomljanović.

Performance timeline

''Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup, Hopman Cup, United Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.''

Singles

''Current through the 2025 French Open.''

WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 1 (title)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 19 (11 titles, 8 runner-ups)

Doubles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runner-ups)

National representation

Multi-sports event

Bouzas Maneiro made her debut representing Spain in multi-sports event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games where she won the singles bronze and the women's doubles gold medal.

Singles: 1 (bronze medal)

Doubles: 1 (gold medal)

Top 10 wins

She has a 2–4 () record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

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2002 births
Living people
Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain
Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis
Spanish female tennis players
Sportspeople from Vilagarcía de Arousa
21st-century Spanish sportswomen