Adam Walton

Canberra- 1 January 2023 - Australia's Adam Walton (WC)- in a round one qualifying match at the Canberra International ATP 100 Challenger tournament.

Adam Walton (born 17 April 1999) is an Australian professional tennis player. Walton has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world no. 74 achieved on 20 October 2025. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of no. 134 achieved on 18 March 2024. He has won five singles and four doubles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour.

Early life Walton was born and raised in Home Hill, a small rural town in North Queensland. He began playing tennis at five years old and moved to Brisbane at 14 when he received a tennis scholarship to attend Anglican Church Grammar School for the final three years of his schooling. The move allowed him to begin training in the National Academy at the Queensland Tennis Centre.

College career Walton played college tennis at the University of Tennessee, where he won the 2021 NCAA doubles title with Patrick Harper.

Professional career 2023: First Challenger title Walton won his maiden ATP Challenger doubles title at the San Luis Open Challenger with Colin Sinclair. He won his first singles Challenger in August at the Atlantic Tire Championships in Cary, North Carolina.

2024: Major debut, top-100 For his Grand Slam main-draw debut, he received a wildcard for the Australian Open, but lost to Matteo Arnaldi in the first round.

Ranked No. 150, he qualified for the Miami Open making his Masters debut, losing in the first round to Félix Auger-Aliassime.

Following his third singles title at the Taipei Challenger, with a win over Illya Marchenko he reached the top-100 at world No. 95 on 20 May 2024.

Walton received a wildcard entry for the French Open, but lost to Arthur Rinderknech in the first round. He recorded his first ATP main-draw win at the Mallorca Championships defeating Yannick Hanfmann, before losing to Paul Jubb in the second round.

He qualified Wimbledon making his debut and recorded his first Major win over Federico Coria, before losing to Francisco Comesaña in the second round.

2025: Miami fourth round, first ATP semifinal At the Australian Open, where he gained direct entry into the main-draw due to his ranking, Walton lost in the first round to Quentin Halys in five sets.

In March at the Indian Wells Open, he defeated Giulio Zeppieri for first at the Masters-level win, before losing to 27th seed Denis Shapovalov in the second round.

At the Miami Open, where he entered the main-draw as a lucky loser directly into the second round, replacing Hubert Hurkacz after his late withdrawal, Walton defeated Luciano Darderi and wildcard entrant Coleman Wong to reach his first Masters fourth round, at which point he lost to third seed Taylor Fritz.

In July, Walton reached his first ATP Tour semifinal at the 2025 Los Cabos Open. He lost to third seed Denis Shapovalov in the semifinal.

At the Cincinnati Open, he defeated qualifier Mariano Navone and 12th seed Daniil Medvedev to make it into the third round, where his run was ended by 22nd seed Jiří Lehečka.

2026: Two Masters second rounds At the Australian Open, Walton lost to world No. 1 and eventual champion Carlos Alcaraz in the first round.

In March, reached back-to-back Masters' tournament second rounds at Indian Wells, where he defeated Quentin Halys and before losing to 25th seed Learner Tien, followed by the Miami Open, where he qualified and overcame Sebastián Báez and then lost to 12th seed Jakub Menšík.

Given a wildcard entry into the main-draw at the French Open, Walton defeated sixth seed Daniil Medvedev in the first round for his maiden win over a top 10 ranked player. He lost to Zachary Svajda in the second round.

ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals

Singles: 20 (10 titles, 10 runner-ups) Legend (singles)ATP Challenger Tour (5–7)Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour (5–3)Finals by surfaceHard (10–9)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–1)

Doubles: 14 (5 titles, 9 runner-ups) Legend (doubles)ATP Challenger Tour (4–4)Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour (1–5)Finals by surfaceHard (4–8)Clay (1–1)

Arjun Kadhe3–6, 7–5, [10–8]

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

Wins over top-10 players