Jil Teichmann is a Spanish-born Swiss professional tennis player who was born on July 15, 1997, in Barcelona, Spain. After trying her hand at numerous sports during her youth, she opted to continue with tennis right up until the professional level.
Her junior career was full of success, with the Swiss player making it as high as world number 3 as well as deep in the junior Grand Slams. Before long, she was eager to try her luck on the WTA Tour, with her debut coming at the 2016 edition of the Strasbourg Open.
This was where she also recorded her first win on Tour, beating Kurumi Nara in the first round. Just two years after gaining more and more experience at the WTA level, she was ready for the step up to the Grand Slams.
Her big break came at the 2018 US Open where, after coming through three rounds of qualifying, she got her first win at a major against Dalila Jakupovic. In straight sets. The culmination of all her years of hard graft was still yet to come, with Teichmann’s 2019 being one to remember.
After coming through the qualifiers at the Prague Open, the Swiss went on to claim the trophy for what was her first tour-level title, beating Karolina Muchova in the final. Newly into the Top 100, she won her second title in quick succession, claiming the Palermo Open just a matter of weeks later.
In 2021, she reached new territory too, with the Cincinnati Open being her first WTA 1000 final. Keen to make this good run of form last, she managed to ride the wave into 2022. At that season’s French Open, she achieved her career-best performance at a Grand Slam by reaching the fourth round in Paris, beating players of the caliber of Victoria Azarenka.
Soon after this stellar run, she found herself at the peak of her ranking position, at world number 21. She was not able to maintain this in the following years, but more WTA titles will certainly be on her bucket list in the following seasons.
