British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Alicia Dudeney

Lambda · Top national player

Alicia completed her time at Florida with a career record of 89-36 in singles and 86-40 in doubles.
In her 1st year, she defeated Mary Stoiana in the SF of the SEC Championships. While Stoiana went on to become the best player in college tennis in subsequent seasons, Alicia's trajectory regrettably was hampered by injuries causing her to play lower down the order than the role she was expected to play following her successful 1st year, particularly during her 3rd year.

Returning to full fitness for the start of her final year, she reached the NCAA doubles semi-final with Rachel Gailis, adding to the QF she reached in her 2nd year.
In the last ITA rankings before the NCAAs she is ranked 48 in singles - the 2nd highest British woman and her career highest ranking - and has 2 entries in the doubles rankings at 15 (with Rachel Gailis) and 19 (with Bente Spee who she played with during the spring season) - these are the 2nd and 3rd highest rankings for a British woman this season. She finished her 1st, 2nd and final years ranked in the top 25 in doubles.

She finished her final year in singles on an 11 match win streak playing at No 2 and leads the team for wins this season (by a long way) in singles and doubles with a 23-8 record in singles and 24-10 record in doubles. Her performance this year was recognised by the opposition coaches across her conference as they voted her to receive All-SEC 1st team honours. To provide context of the achievement, the SEC is the strongest women's conference in Div 1 college tennis and includes 4 of the top 5 ranked women and 8 of the top 16 teams.

Leaving college behind, she's entered for some W15s later this month but a long way down the alt list.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Go, Alicia !

Enjoyed watching her as a teenager - that was some thundering serve

- and still remember her run to the QFs in Junior Wimbeldon - the last British girl standing, I seem to remember

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Alicia's singles have been going well, and will be back in the top-500 next week, with a new CH

But doubles are even better, with a title at the W50 Slovakian event this week:

FINAL - Alicia Dudeney (GBR) / Elena Malygina (EST) CR991 (378+613) def [2] Sofya Lansere (***) / Ivana Sebestova (CZE) CR560 (329+231) 3-6 6-3 10-6

Mervatron2 · ATP qualifying

Great to see.

Happy to see some new girls coming through to have more coming through the ranks.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

15th Dec 2025

Alicia is now WTA 438

this is a CH, and puts her at 14th in the GB list

This is someone who was well outside the top-1000 only 4 months ago

Lambda · Top national player

Thought I'd copy my summary of Alicia's year that I put in the Pos vote here.

After being hampered by a hip injury for a couple of years that required surgery she finally was able to play freely and show what she was capable of her in her final semester in college. Being the single consistent success story in a Florida team in crisis in their worst season ever, she held the team together and finished her college career on a 11 match win streak in the toughest women's conference in US college. Playing at No 2 she went from unranked at the beginning of March to her college career high of 44 by the end of the season (which for her was April). During the spring semester she won 17 matches and lost just 2 matches. On top of that she finished the college season ranked 16 in doubles with her doubles partner of the spring semester.

Then immediately after her university commencement ceremony she embarked on a highly successful start to her pro career. Playing her first ITF event of the year in mid-May, she played 20 events in 28 weeks to the beginning of December. She reached the final in only her 2nd event. She went on to play 3 W15 finals winning 2 of them in an incredible 11 match win streak in September. She also won a W35 in August to give her 3 singles titles and a 72% win rate with 46 wins and 18 losses in pro play. She went from unranked in mid-May to 439 by the end of the year (career high of 438 in mid December).

Of the 20 singles events she played doubles in 18 of them, reaching the final in 8 of them and winning 6 titles (2 W15s, 3 W35s and 1 W50), going unranked at the end of May to a career high of 283 at the end of the year.

DF · Tennis legend

Let us hope that she continues her upward trajectory in 2026 and hopefully with no injuries smile

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

The player of the season final is up and running

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