Erin Routliffe

Biography
Erin Routliffe (born April 11, 1995 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a Canadian-New Zealand professional tennis player. She reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 591 on October 22, 2012 and a career-high WTA doubles ranking of No. 33 on February 28, 2022.

Routliffe studied at the University of Alabama and was part of their tennis team from September 2013 until her graduation in May 2017, majoring in public relations. Routliffe is a two-time NCAA doubles champion with Maya Jansen for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. She turned professional after graduating and started representing New Zealand after the ITF agreed to allow her to change her representational nationality to the country of her birth. She played her first Fed Cup ties for New Zealand against Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in July of the same year. In 2021, Routliffe won her first WTA doubles title at the 250 event in Palermo with partner Kimberley Zimmermann. In 2022, she won her second WTA doubles title, this time at the 250 tournament in Washington, D.C. with Jessica Pegula.

Routliffe was born in New Zealand while her parents, Robert Routliffe and Catherine MacLennan, were on an around-the-world sailing adventure. They stayed there four years before returning to Canada. She has two sisters, Tara and Tess, the latter being an international paraswimmer representing Canada. Routliffe started playing tennis at the age of 6. She made the move to Montreal in September 2011 to train at the National Training Centre and stayed there until 2013.

Doubles performance timeline
This table is current as of August 15, 2022.

Notes
 * 1 The first WTA 1000 event of the year (then a WTA Premier 5) has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open beginning in 2009. Dubai was classified as a WTA Premier 5 event from 2009–2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. From 2015 to 2020, the two tournaments alternated between WTA Premier 5 and Premier status every year.
 * 2 The total overall W–L record showed in this table is the official one from the WTA. A loss that should have been included was not counted in this W–L record.
 * NB The tournament in Cincinnati (then a WTA Premier 5) was played in New York City, the French Open was played in September and after the US Open, the Italian Open was also played in September and after the tournament in New York City/Cincinnati (then a WTA Premier 5), and the 2020 Olympic Games were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
 * NB The WTA 1000 tournament in Indian Wells was played in October and after the tournament in Cincinnati due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.

Mixed doubles performance timeline
This table is current through the 2022 Wimbledon Championships.