Joanna Garland
Joanna Garland is a Taiwanese professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 117, achieved on 12 January 2026. Garland is the current No. 1 Taiwanese singles player.
Garland has won 16 singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Early life
Garland is half-British and half-Taiwanese. Born in Stevenage, she moved with her family to Taiwan when she was ten years old.In 2016 she won the Taiwan national U18 tennis championship. By this time, Garland's parents had returned to Stevenage to look after Garland's grandparents, and took Joanna's brothers with them. Garland stayed in Kaohsiung, living with her aunt, to pursue tennis and continue her schooling, as well as competing on the ITF Junior Circuit in Asia.
Career
Junior years
Coached by Hamid Hejazi, Garland had a very successful junior career and achieved her highest junior ranking of 14 on 26 February 2018. Garland reached the quarter-finals of the girls' singles at the 2018 French Open with wins over Gabriella Price, Viktoriia Dema, and Zheng Qinwen, before losing to Leylah Fernandez. She reached the third round of the girls' singles at the 2018 Wimbledon, before losing to Emma Raducanu. At the 2018 US Open, she reached the semifinals of the girls' doubles alongside Moyuka Uchijima but they lost to Coco Gauff and Caty McNally.Professional
Garland defeated Katie Boulter in Thailand in October 2019 as she transitioned from junior to senior tournaments. In October 2020, she beat Boulter to win her first professional title, at a $15k event in Sharm El Sheikh.In August 2022, Garland won her first 25k level titles with victory at tournaments in England at Foxhills, Surrey and Aldershot. With these victories she became Taiwan's highest ranked female singles player, and pushed her world ranking into the top-300.
In October 2022, she won a W25 doubles title in Loughborough alongside Gabriela Knutson. In December 2022, she qualified for the WTA 125 tournament in Angers, before losing in three sets to Viktoriya Tomova.
Garland won the W35 Nairobi in January 2025, defeating Angella Okutoyi in straight sets in the final.
Ranked No. 177, Garland made her major debut at the 2025 French Open, after qualifying for her first main draw with a win over Anna-Lena Friedsam. She defeated Katie Volynets in the first round; recording her first major match win, before losing to Yulia Putintseva in the second round.
At the 2025 Chennai Open, she reached her first WTA Tour semifinal with wins over qualifiers Arianne Hartono and Mei Yamaguchi then overcoming lucky loser Arina Rodionova, before losing in the last four to seventh seed Kimberly Birrell, after letting slip a 5–0 lead in the third set and failing to convert on any of her five match points.
Garland won her first WTA 125 title at the 2026 Canberra Tennis International, defeating Polina Kudermetova in the final.
Exhibition events
At the 2026 Australian Open, she reached the finals of the 1 Point Slam exhibition event before losing to amateur player Jordan Smith. Her path to the final involved one-point victories over Alexander Zverev, Nick Kyrgios, Maria Sakkari and Donna Vekic.Performance timeline
| Tournament | [2025 WTA rankings|WTA Tour|2025] | 2026 | W–L |
| Australian Open | A | Q1 | 0–0 |
| French Open | 2R | 1–1 | |
| Wimbledon | Q3 | 0–0 | |
| US Open | Q1 | 0–0 | |
| Win–loss | 1–1 | 1–1 |
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 23 (16 titles, 7 runner-ups)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score | |||||||||||||||
| Loss | 0–1 | Dec 2018 | ITF Ortisei, Italy | W15 | Hard |  Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)
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