Draft:Ella McDonald

Ella McDonald
Country (sports)	United Kingdom
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open Junior	1R (2023)
French Open Junior	2R (2023)
Wimbledon Junior	2R (2022)
US Open Junior	2R (2022)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open Junior	QF (2023)
French Open Junior	QF (2023)
Wimbledon Junior	1R (2022)
US Open Junior	2R (2022)

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Declined by Adamtt9 9 months ago. Last edited by Citation bot 25 hours ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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Comment: Doesn't yet meet the guidelines set out by WP:GNG or WP:NTENNIS. Seems to be a case of WP:TOOSOON as McDonald is still young and has a potential long career ahead. Adamtt9 (talk) 01:38, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Comment: While I do think the player could meet WP:GNG, at the moment the article is just too short and underdeveloped.
Try taking a look at these guidelines from the WikiProject, so you can get a general idea of how your biography should look like. Oltrepier (talk) 07:43, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Ella McDonald is a British tennis player.^[1]

Career[edit]

Given a wildcard into qualifying at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships, McDonald pushed veteran American Coco Vandeweghe to a third set tie-break.^[2]

McDonald started 2023 in the British team at the United Cup alongside Cameron Norrie, Harriet Dart, Dan Evans, Katie Swan, Jan Choinski, Jonny O'Mara and Ranah Stoiber.^[3]

McDonald won her first ITF World Tour title in February 2023. She won the women’s doubles alongside Maia Lumsden at the W25 Glasgow event held at the Stirling National Academy against Dominika Salkova and Anna Siskova. It was Lumsden and McDonald’s debut tournament as a pair.^[4] In January 2024, partnered with Finland's Laura Hietaranta she won the Sunderland ITF doubles title 6-4, 6-1 against Julie Belgraver and Katarina Stresnakova to win back-to-back 35k ITF doubles titles.^[5]

Personal life[edit]

She is the daughter of Joanna McDonald and former professional footballer Neil McDonald. She has two siblings Charlotte and Lucas.^[6]

ITF Circuit finals[edit]

Doubles: 5 (5 titles)[edit]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	17 February 2023	ITF Glasgow	25,000	Hard	Maia Lumsden	Dominika Salkova Anna Siskova	3-6, 6-1, (13-11)
Win	2–0	8 January 2024	ITF Loughborough	35,000	Hard	Liv Hovde	Alicia Barnett Sarah Beth Gray	4-6, 6-2, (10-7)
Win	3–0	15 January 2024	ITF Sunderland	25,000	Hard	Laura Hietaranta	Julie Belgraver Katarina Stresnakova	6-4, 6-1
Win	4–0	29 April 2024	ITF Nottingham	35,000	Hard	Holly Hutchinson	Ali Collins Lauryn John Baptiste	7-6, 7-6
Win	5–0	19 May 2024	ITF Monastir	15,000	Hard	Talia Nielson-Gatanby	Jiayu Xu Ying Zhang	6-4, 6-2