Irene Burillo


Irene Burillo Escorihuela is a Spanish professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 207 in singles, achieved January 2022, and No. 173 in doubles, achieved on 17 November 2025. She has won one WTA 125 doubles title, and six singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Early life

Burillo was born in Caspe, Zaragoza. Her father, Carlos Burillo, was a footballer. She has a twin brother named Carlos. She trains at the Ad in Tennis Academy in Barcelona.

Career

In January 2021, Burillo won the inaugural Georgia's Rome Tennis Open, a $60k event, by defeating Grace Min in the final in her fifth three-setter of the week to win her first title since 2017 – and her first above $15k level.
She made her WTA Tour debut at the 2022 Rabat Grand Prix where she lost to Ajla Tomljanović in the first round. The following month, she entered the Open Internacional de Valencia as a wildcard, but lost to fourth seed Arantxa Rus in the first round.
In 2023, she qualified for her first WTA 1000 tournament, the Madrid Open, having been given a wildcard for the qualifying draw. She won her first match at the WTA Tour-level against Kaia Kanepi in the first round.
Ranked No. 280, she qualified for her first major at the 2024 French Open by defeating Carole Monnet, Veronika Erjavec, and Jil Teichmann in qualifying without dropping a set. However, she lost in the first round of the main draw to fellow qualifier Moyuka Uchijima.

WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups)

Performance timeline

Only main-draw results are included in win–loss records.

Singles

''Current through the 2024 Madrid Open.''

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 15 (6 titles, 9 runner-ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Aug 2015ITF Las Palmas, SpainW10Clay

Doubles: 18 (8 titles, 10 runner-ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Oct 2015ITF Melilla, SpainW10Clay