Julia Riera

Early years

She began playing tennis at the age of seven at Gimnasia y Esgrima de Pergamino. At the age of nine, she moved to Viajantes de Pergamino, where she started being coached by Emilio Palena.

In 2016, she began traveling regularly to the CeNARD, and finished the year competing in the under-14 category at the Orange Bowl.

In 2017 and 2018, she represented Vélez Sarsfield in the interclub competitions organized by the AAT.

In 2019, she began representing River Plate in the interclub championships and, with a 5–1 record, reached the final.^[3]

2021

She won her first two professional titles in Antalya, Turkey, capturing two W15 titles in consecutive weeks.^[4]

2022

In April 2022, Riera participated in the Billie Jean King Cup in Salinas, Ecuador, teaming up with Jazmin Ortenzi to be defeated by Brazilian players Carolina Alves and Beatriz Haddad Maia in a match lasting over three hours.^[5][6]

2023: WTA Tour debut, first semifinal

Riera made her WTA Tour debut at the Morocco Open in Rabat.^[7] In her first match, she defeated former top-ten player Kristina Mladenovic.^[8] In the following round, she defeated third seed Mayar Sherif to reach her first WTA Tour quarterfinal.^[9] She then defeated sixth seed Yulia Putintseva, reaching a WTA Tour-level semifinal on her tour debut.^[10] However, she lost to Julia Grabher in three sets.^[11]

In August, Riera competed in an ITF W80 tournament event in Brasília. In doubles, she partnered with Brazilian player Carolina Alves and won the title, defeating the British-Ukrainian duo Eden Silva and Valeriya Strakhova in the final.^[12][13]

During the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Riera won the bronze medal in women's doubles, partnering with María Lourdes Carlé. ^[14]

Riera also won the singles bronze medal, defeating Rebecca Marino from Canada in the bronze-medal match by 3–6, 6–4, 6–1.^[15]

Partnering again with María Lourdes Carlé, she won the doubles title at the Montevideo Open, defeating Freya Christie and Yuliana Lizarazo in the final.^[16]

2024: First WTA 500 win, top 100 & major debuts

In January, Riera qualified for the 2024 Brisbane International, after defeating both Priscilla Hon and Mai Hontama in three sets, respectively. In the first round, she defeated Viktoriya Tomova in straight sets, notching both her first WTA 500 main-draw win as well as her first WTA Tour-level victory on hardcourts. In the following round, Riera defeated seventh seed and world No. 21, Ekaterina Alexandrova, to book a spot in the round of 16. She lost to Linda Nosková, after pushing her to three sets.^[17][18]

Following her lifting the biggest singles trophy of her career at the W75 in Chiasso, she reached the top 100 in the rankings at No. 94, on 22 April 2024.^[19]

After that, Riera played at the Wiesbaden Tennis Open and won the singles title, defeating Jule Niemeier in the final by 3–6, 6–3, 6–2.^[20]

In May, she qualified into the 2024 French Open for her major main-draw debut, after facing Alexandra Eala in the last match of the qualifying rounds and winning in three sets.^[21]

At the main draw's first round, Riera was overcome by Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu.^[22]

In November, with the Argentine Billie Jean King Cup team, she went to São Paulo to face the Brazilian team. Partnering with Jazmín Ortenzi, she lost to Carolina Alves and Beatriz Haddad Maia in the decisive doubles match of the tie, in which Brazil secured a place in the 2025 Finals qualifiers.^[23]

2025: Australian Open debut

In January, Riera qualified for the main draw of the singles competition of the Australian Open for the first time in her career and lost to Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia in a three-set match on the first round. ^[24][25][26]

At the 2025 Copa Colsanitas, in Bogota, Colombia, Riera was a semifinalist, losing in straight sets to Camila Osorio.^[27]

In her first round match, Riera was leading British player Francesca Jones 5–3 in the third set when the match ended dramatically, after Jones collapsed due to the effects of playing at high altitude without acclimatisation. Riera assisted medics as her opponent was lifted into a wheelchair and taken off the court.^[28]

At the 2025 French Open, Riera, along with Lourdes Carlé and Paula Ormaechea successfully advanced from the qualifying rounds into the main draw of the women's singles. This marked the first time in 39 years that three Argentine women achieved this feat in the same edition of the tournament, matching the milestone last reached in 1986. ^[29]

In September, Riera played at the first edition of the SP Open, a WTA 250 held in São Paulo, Brazil. She advanced to the second round of the singles draw, but was defeated in straight sets by Alexandra Eala.^[30]

In December, Riera took part in the first edition of the exhibition tournament “Road to Australia” in Buenos Aires. She was crowned women's champion after defeating Jazmín Ortenzi in the final, 6–4 6–3.^[31]

Singles

Current through the 2023 US Open.

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

More information Result, W–L ...

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Dec 2023	Montevideo Open, Uruguay	Clay	María Lourdes Carlé	Freya Christie Yuliana Lizarazo	7–6(5), 7–5
Loss	1–1	Jul 2024	Båstad Open, Sweden	Clay	María Lourdes Carlé	Peangtarn Plipuech Tsao Chia-yi	5–7, 3–6

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Singles: 11 (7 titles, 4 runner-ups)

More information Result, W–L ...

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Oct 2021	ITF Antalya, Turkey	W15	Clay	Rosa Vicens Mas	6–4, 5–7, 7–6(1)
Win	2–0	Nov 2021	ITF Antalya, Turkey	W15	Clay	Tian Fangran	7–6(3), 6–1
Loss	2–1	Aug 2022	ITF Koksijde, Belgium	W25	Clay	Marie Benoît	5–7, 3–6
Win	3–1	Sep 2022	ITF Trieste, Italy	W25	Clay	Oana Georgeta Simion	6–1, 6–4
Loss	3–2	Jan 2023	ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina	W25	Clay	Nuria Brancaccio	4–6, 6–4, 5–7
Win	4–2	Apr 2023	ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador	W25	Clay	Francesca Jones	6–2, 7–5
Win	5–2	Apr 2023	ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador	W25	Clay	Solana Sierra	6–4, 4–6, 6–4
Win	6–2	Apr 2024	Chiasso Open, Switzerland	W75	Clay	Anna Bondár	6–3, 7–6(2)
Win	7–2	May 2024	Wiesbaden Open, Germany	W100	Clay	Jule Niemeier	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
Loss	7–3	May 2026	ITF Boca Raton, United States	W35	Clay	Amelia Honer	5–7, 7–5, 5–7
Loss	7–4	May 2026	ITF Indian Harbour Beach, United States	W100	Clay	Kristina Liutova	1–6, 7–6(4), 3–6

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Doubles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runner-ups)

More information Result, W–L ...

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2022	ITF Marbella, Spain	W25	Clay	Daniela Seguel	Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro Leyre Romero Gormaz	4–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2	Mar 2023	ITF Tucumán, Argentina	W25	Clay	Guillermina Naya	Valeriya Strakhova Daniela Vismane	3–6, 6–3, [11–13]
Win	1–2	Mar 2023	ITF Sopo, Colombia	W25	Clay	Guillermina Naya	Victoria Hu Melany Krywoj	7–5, 6–4
Win	2–2	Aug 2023	Aberto da República, Brazil	W80	Hard	Carolina Alves	Eden Silva Valeriya Strakhova	6–2, 6–3
Win	3–2	Sep 2024	ITF Pilar, Argentina	W50	Clay	Carolina Alves	Nicole Fossa Huergo Zhibek Kulambayeva	6–4, 7–5
Loss	3–3	Mar 2025	Vacaria Open, Brazil	W75	Clay (i)	Despina Papamichail	Robin Anderson Alicia Herrero Liñana	5–7, 4–6
Win	4–3	Jul 2025	ITF Pergamino, Argentina	W35	Clay	Martina Capurro Taborda	Luisina Giovannini Marian Gómez Pezuela Cano	6–4, 6–2

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