Erin Hope Routliffe is a New Zealand professional tennis player who previously represented Canada.
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She is the daughter of Robert Routliffe and Catherine MacLennan. She was born while her parents were sailing across the world.
They stayed for four years before returning to Canada. She moved to Montreal in September 2011 to train at the National Training Centre and stayed until 2013.
She majored in public communications and played tennis for the University of Alabama from September 2013 until her graduation in May 2017.
Routliffe won the NCAA doubles championship with Maya Jansen in 2014 and 2015. On 21 January 2013, she got a career-high junior rank of No. 17.
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Her victory in the 2018 Hardee’s Pro Classic in Dothan, Alabama, propelled her into the top 200 in the doubles rankings for the first time, and her victory two weeks later in Charleston, South Carolina, sent her into the top 150.
On August 8, 2022, she achieved a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 29. Routliffe’s best result at a Grand Slam event came in 2023, when she won her first grand slam doubles trophy with Gabriela Dabrowski at the US Open.
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