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'''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. 582 on June 12, 2023 and a career-high WTA doubles ranking of No. 3 on May 20, 2024.
 
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 in June 2017. 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. In 2023, she won the WTA 250 event in Austin, her third WTA doubles title, with partner Aldila Sutjiadi. Also in 2023, she won her first Grand Slam title with a victory at the US Open with [[Gabriela Dabrowski]]. The same year, Routliffe captured her fifth WTA doubles title at the 500 event in Zhengzhou, partnering again [[Gabriela Dabrowski|Dabrowski]]. In 2024, she won her sixth WTA doubles title at the WTA 250 Nottingham Open with [[Gabriela Dabrowski|Dabrowski]].
 
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.
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==WTA career finals==
===Doubles: 1415 (56 titles, 9 runners-up)===
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|WTA Premier / WTA 500 (1–3)
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|WTA International / WTA 250 (3–34–3)
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|Clay (1–1)
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|Grass (0–11–1)
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|Carpet (0–0)
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|Sara Errani (ITA) <br /> Jasmine Paolini (ITA)
|3–6, 6–4, [8–10]
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|style="background:#98fb98;"|Win
|<small>6–9</small>
|Jun 2024
|Nottingham Open, United Kingdom
|250 Series
|Grass
|[[Gabriela Dabrowski]] (CAN)
|Harriet Dart (GBR) <br /> Diane Parry (FRA)
|5–7, 6–3, [11–9]
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==Doubles performance timeline==
''This table is current as of June 1017, 2024.''
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!Tournament!!2010!!2011!!2012!!2013!!2014!!2015!!2016!!2017!!2018!!2019!!2020!!2021!!2022!!2023!!2024!!SR!!W–L!!Win %
Line 1,118 ⟶ 1,128:
|27
|32
|1213
|colspan=3|'''192193'''
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:#efefef;"
|style="text-align:left;"|Titles
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|1
|3
|01
|colspan=3|56
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:#efefef;"
|style="text-align:left;"|Finals
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|4
|4
|23
|colspan=3|1415
|- style="background:#efefef;"
|style="text-align:left;"|Hardcourt Win–Loss
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|6–4
|0–4
|4–0
|0–0
|01 / 1415
|17–14
|13–14
|4855%
|- style="background:#efefef;"
|style="text-align:left;"|Carpet Win–Loss
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|33–24
|32–30
|29–13
|25–13
|56 / 192193
|246–167250–167<sup>2</sup> <sup>3</sup>
|60%
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:#efefef;"
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|58%
|52%
|6669%
|colspan=3|59.5695%
|- style="background:#efefef;"
|style="text-align:left;"|Year-end ranking
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|0
|1
|01
|23
|-
|style="text-align:left;"|Kimberley Zimmermann (BEL)
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|0
|1
|34
|56
|}