Player profile
Clara Burel turned junior promise into repeated major runs
Clara Burel finished 2018 as the junior world No. 1 after reaching the girls' singles finals at the Australian Open and US Open. Her senior career then developed around resilient tournament runs: she reached tour finals in Lausanne in 2021 and 2023, won the Angers WTA 125 in 2023 and recorded her first Top 10 victory over Jessica Pegula at the 2024 Australian Open. That upset was not isolated from her hard-court progress. Burel had already beaten Top 25 opponents Elena Rybakina and Karolina Pliskova in consecutive US Open editions, evidence that her compact baseline game can absorb and redirect elite pace.
Profile facts: US Open Tennis Championships player page ↗