Ingrid Neel

Ingrid Neel (born June 16, 1998) is an American-Estonian professional tennis player. She has specialized in doubles and has won four titles on the WTA Tour and three titles on the WTA Challenger Tour. In addition, she has won two singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 6 May 2024, she achieved a career-high of No. 33 in the WTA doubles rankings.

Personal life Her Estonian grandmother (also named Ingrid) emigrated from Saaremaa to the United States during World War II to avoid Soviet deportation. Her relatives live in Tallinn.

In 2017, tennisrecruiting.net ranked Neel the No. 1 incoming college freshman in the United States. Ingrid attended University of Florida. As the sole freshman on the top-ranked Gators women's tennis team, she clinched championship-winning matches for team victories in the finals of Indoor Nationals vs. North Carolina and the finals of the NCAA National Championship vs. Stanford in 2018.

Career 2015: Major debut By winning the Junior National Doubles Championships in 2015, Neel was awarded a wildcard from the United States Tennis Association into the women's doubles tournament of the US Open alongside Tornado Alicia Black where the duo won round one. They were unable to accept the substantial prize money since, at the time, it would have rendered them ineligible for participation in college tennis competition.

2021: Maiden WTA Tour title In April 2021, she won her first tour title at the Copa Colsanitas in Bogota, partnering with French player Elixane Lechemia and defeating the third seeded pair of Mihaela Buzărnescu and Anna-Lena Friedsam.

2022–24: WTA 125 & 500 titles, top 35

In July 2022, at Wimbledon with partner Aliona Bolsova, Neel upset multiple major singles and doubles titles holder Samantha Stosur and her partner Latisha Chan in the first round.

Neel won her first WTA 125 trophy, partnering German Vivian Heisen, at the 2023 Firenze Ladies Open. At the 2023 Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, she won her biggest title to date with Ulrikke Eikeri.

Neel won her fourth career doubles title at the 2024 Rosmalen Open, partnering Dutch player Bibiane Schoofs.

2025–26: Return to play, WTA 250 final In November 2025, Neel returned to court to play two W35 tournaments with Abigail Rencheli, making semifinals and winning, respectively.

Neel made her best Grand Slam tournament result at the 2026 Wimbledon Championships, making it to the quarterfinals.

Grand Slam performance timeline

Doubles

WTA Tour finals Doubles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runner-ups) LegendWTA 1000WTA 500 (1–1)WTA 250 (3–1)Finals by surfaceHard (1–0)Grass (2–1)Clay (1–1)

WTA 125 finals Doubles: 3 (3 titles)

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 2 (2 titles) Legend$10,000 tournaments (2–0)Finals by surfaceClay (2–0)

Doubles: 19 (14 titles, 5 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments (2–1)$80,000 tournaments (1–2)$50/60,000 tournaments (4–1)$25,000 tournaments (4–1)$10,000 tournaments (3–0)Finals by surfaceHard (4–4)Clay (8–1)Grass (1–0)Carpet (1–0)