Country (sports) | Canada |
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Residence | Montreal, Quebec, Canada[1] |
Born | [2] Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | January 12, 2004
Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
College | Texas A&M (2023–) |
Singles | |
Highest ranking | No. 841 (September 11, 2023) |
Current ranking | No. 1,133 (May 6, 2024) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open Junior | 2R (2022) |
French Open Junior | 1R (2022) |
Wimbledon Junior | 2R (2022) |
US Open Junior | 3R (2022) |
Doubles | |
Career titles | 1 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 598 (November 27, 2023) |
Current ranking | No. 641 (May 6, 2024) |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Australian Open Junior | 2R (2022) |
French Open Junior | 2R (2022) |
US Open Junior | QF (2022) |
Last updated on: May 6, 2024. |
Mia Kupres (born January 12, 2004) is a Canadian tennis player. She plays college tennis for the Texas A&M Aggies.
She has won one doubles title on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour.
Kupres was born in Edmonton, Canada, in 2004.[3] Her parents emigrated from Serbia in 1998.[4] She took up tennis at age six and trained at the Saville Community Sports Centre.[1][5] At age 15, she moved to Montreal to practice at the National Training Centre.[6]
Kupres won the Outdoor Junior National Championships in singles at the under-14 and under-18 levels.[7][8] She competed on the ITF Junior Circuit from 2017 to 2022, winning two singles titles and two doubles titles, and reached a peak ranking of No. 33.[9] She was one of the top prospects of her age in Canada and signed a letter of intent to play at Texas A&M University in 2021.[10] She played all of the junior Grand Slam tournaments in 2022, reaching the third round in singles and doubles at the US Open.[9]
Kupres began playing for the Texas A&M Aggies in the spring of 2023.[3] She went 19–4 in singles mostly at court three and four, which led the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in dual match singles wins.[3] She began her doubles partnership with Mary Stoiana in March.[11] She clinched the win over No. 4 Georgia to help the No. 2 Aggies go undefeated in conference play that season.[12][13] She was a record five-time SEC Freshman of the Week and named to the All-SEC second team and SEC All-Freshman team.[3]
Kupres and Stoiana were nationally ranked as high as No. 3 in doubles during the 2024 season.[14][15]
Kupres made her debut on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour in doubles at the W25 event in Gatineau, Quebec, in July 2019.[16] She qualified for the singles main draw for the first time at the W15 event in Prokuplje, Serbia, in July 2021.[16] She won her first ITF doubles title at the W15 event in Oberpullendorf, Austria, in December 2022.[16]
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Dec 2022 | ITF Oberpullendorf, Austria | 15,000 | Hard (i) | Ksenia Laskutova | Arabella Koller Mavie Österreicher |
7–5, 7–5 |
Loss | 1–1 | Oct 2023 | Challenger de Saguenay, Canada | 60,000 | Hard (i) | Johanne Svendsen | Robin Anderson Dalayna Hewitt |
1–6, 4–6 |