Shortest Female Tennis Players
Girls with short height in tennis are somehow faced drawbacks while on serve, tall female tennis players make good points with ace while petite female tennis players face some difficulty in handling serve shots.
The average height in tennis female players is 5.7″, whereas the shortest among the top 100 WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) tennis players is Lauren Davis with 5 feet 2 inches. Her current rank is 88 in singles.
On the other hand, there is another female tennis player Amanda Coetzer, she is a former professional tennis player comes under the top 20 players back then, Her height is 1.58 m.
Shortest Female Players Ever in Tennis History
1: C.G Hoahing
Her height of 4 feet 9 inches makes C.G Hoahing the shortest competitor at Wimbledon.
The British-born Chinese tennis player, MISS GEM Hoahing, who is fifteen years of age in this picture has had a remarkably successful season in England, March 1937.
She wins the British Junior title at the earliest age at which the rules allowed her to compete, and the open singles at Seaton.
2: Nuria Llagostera Vives
| Height | 5′ 1″ / 1.56m |
| Name | Nuria Llagostera Vives |
| Birth Place/National | Mallorca, Spain |
| Date of Birth | May 16, 1980 |
| Singles Titles | 2 |
| Plays | Right-Handed |
| Prize Money | $2,636,375 |
| W/L Singles | 364 / 282 |
3: Anna Smashnova
| Height | 5′ 2” / 1.57 m |
| Name | Anna Smashnova |
| Birth Place/National | Minsk, Belarus / ISRAEL |
| Date of Birth | Jul 16, 1976 |
| Single Titles | 12 |
| Plays | Right-Handed |
| Prize Money | $2,274,431 |
| W/L Singles | 401 / 304 |
Shortest Female Tennis Players in 2022
5.2″ in the currently shortest female tennis player height we have seen in top professional. Here below are the biography of the top 3 shortest tennis players in 2022.
1: Lauren Davis
| Height | 5′ 2″ / 1.57m |
| Name | Lauren Davis |
| Birth Place/National | Gates Mills, OH, USA |
| Date of Birth | Oct 9, 1993 |
| Singles Titles | 1 |
| Plays | Right-Handed |
| Prize Money | $3,646,182 |
| W/L Singles | 313 / 231 |
2: Misaki Doi
| Height | 5′ 3″ / 1.59 m |
| Name | Misaki Doi |
| Birth Place/National | Yokohama, Japan |
| Date of Birth | Apr 29, 1991 |
| Singles Titles | 1 |
| Plays | Left-Handed |
| Prize Money | $3,486,902 |
| W/L Singles | 376 / 342 |
3: Yulia Putintseva
| Height | 5′ 4″ / 1.63 m |
| Name | Yulia Putintseva |
| Birth Place/National | Moscow, Russia / KAZAKHSTAN |
| Date of Birth | Jan 7, 1995 |
| Singles Titles | 2 |
| Plays | Right-Handed |
| Prize Money | $5,440,829 |
| W/L Singles | 332 / 256 |
The above mentioned are the small height female tennis players among top ranking athletes in wta tennis, few more players we are highlighted here with the same height Yulia Putintseva (5 ft 4 in).
- Jasmine Paolini
- Camila Osorio
- Kristina Kucova
There are a few more female players who are not active in tennis but at some point, they played good games on the court, in the first section where we have pinned down the top 3 short height tennis players whereas in the next section we have listed active female tennis players whose height is short.
We measure the height from the official portals of tennis news (wtatennis) and other well known information providers.
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