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==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
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.
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.
==WTA career finals==
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