Maia Lumsden

Maia Lumsden (born 10 January 1998) is a British professional tennis player. She has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 49, achieved on 3 August 2026. Lumsden has won three WTA Tour doubles titles and five doubles titles on WTA 125 tournaments as well as three titles in singles and twelve in doubles on the ITF Circuit.

Personal life Raised in Bearsden, near Glasgow from a family of five, her mother Gillian and father David brother Ewen and sister Eve, two and four years younger, respectively. Both siblings have played competitive tennis as juniors with Ewen progressing to the senior level. Educated at Beaconhurst School, Bridge of Allan later studying at nearby University of Stirling after returning to Scotland in 2016.

Career Juniors Recognized as young as age 10 as the best in Britain in her age group and training at the national academy, University of Stirling, under coach Toby Smith with mentoring by Judy Murray who said at the time that Lumsden may need to train abroad to realise her potential.

By 2012, she was the No. 1 under-14 player in the Tennis Europe rankings The following year the two players teamed up to become under-16 British National Junior Champions in the doubles whilst Lumsden was also the under-16 singles champion.

Gabi Taylor, Katie Swan, Freya Christie and Lumsden were members of the 2014 British team, coached by Judy Murray, which won the Maureen Connolly Challenge Trophy, an annual under-18s competition against the U.S.

She won an ITF under-18 title in Malta and the Super Open Auray, and reached the third round in the girls’ tournament at Wimbledon.

Lumsden was a member of Great Britain's University Tennis Team that won a gold medal at the Master’U tournament in 2017, and silver medal in 2018.

2012: Professional debut As a 14 year old, she won her first matches at ITF events beating England's Pippa Horn and Oman's Fatma Al-Nabhani, the second seed and world No. 463, to qualify for the Pro-Series event at Scotstoun.

2017–2018: ITF Circuit success In 2018, Lumsden's first full year as a professional, she recorded two individual title wins in Sunderland and the Wirral In November, Lumsden claimed her first $25k title, beating former top 100 player Valeria Savinykh in the final.

2019: WTA Tour singles debut In February, Lumsden lost at the quarterfinal stage of the $60k Shrewsbury event to top-seeded Yanina Wickmayer.

She made her WTA Tour singles debut at the Nottingham Open in June, after receiving a wildcard into the main draw of the tournament, winning her first match against fellow Brit Tara Moore, then losing the following day to Caroline Garcia.

2023–2024: Wimbledon doubles quarterfinal, top 75 At the 2023 Wimbledon Championships, Lumsden and partner Naiktha Bains became the first British pair to reach the quarterfinals in 40 years.

She won her first WTA 125 title at the 2023 Open de Rouen, playing with Jessika Ponchet, and overcoming top seeds Anna Bondár and Kimberley Zimmermann in straight sets in the final.

Lumsden made her debut in the top 70 in the doubles rankings on 22 April 2024, following reaching the doubles final of the 2024 Open de Rouen with Naiktha Bains.

Partnering with Emily Appleton, she won her second WTA 125 title at the Midland Tennis Classic, defeating Ariana Arseneault and Mia Kupres in the final which went to a deciding champions tiebreak.

2025: Two WTA 125 doubles titles Partnering Harriet Dart, she reached the doubles semifinals at the Singapore Open. Alongside Makoto Ninomiya, she won the doubles title at the WTA 125 Open de Saint-Malo in May, defeating Oksana Kalashnikova and Angelica Moratelli in the final.

In September, Lumsden and Harriet Dart won the doubles title at the WTA 125 Caldas da Rainha Open, defeating Madeleine Brooks and Anastasia Tikhonova in the final.

2026: Three WTA titles, top 50 Partnering Isabelle Haverlag, Lumsden reached the final of the WTA 500 Mérida Open, losing to second seeds Cristina Bucșa and Jiang Xinyu. Once again teaming up with Haverlag, she won the fifth WTA 125 doubles title of her career at the Open de Saint-Malo, defeating Chan Hao-ching and Ivana Corley in the final.

Playing alongside Harriet Dart, Lumsden reached the final at the WTA 125 Birmingham Open in June, losing to top seeds Talia Gibson and Janice Tjen. Again playing with Harriet Dart, and entering as a wildcard team, she won her first career doubles title at the Nottingham Open, defeating second seeds Shuko Aoyama and Chan Hao-ching in the final.

Teaming up with Tang Qianhui, Lumsden was runner-up at the Athens Open, losing to top seeds Chan Hao-ching and Miyu Kato in the final. Reunited with Harriet Dart the following week, she won her second WTA Tour doubles title at the Prague Open, defeating Lucie Havlíčková and Laura Samson in the final. She made it back-to-back WTA Tour doubles titles the next week when she teamed up with Maria Kozyreva to defeat Chan Hao-ching and Maya Joint in the final at the Memphis Classic. As a result, Lumsden reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 49, on 3 August 2026. Again playing with Maria Kozyreva, she reached the final at the WTA 500 Monterrey Open, losing to Maya Joint and Xu Yifan.

Grand Slam doubles performance timeline Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

WTA Tour finals Doubles: 7 (3 titles, 4 runner-ups) LegendWTA 1000 WTA 500 (0–2)WTA 250 (3–2)Finals by surfaceHard (2–3)Clay (0–1)Grass (1–0)

WTA 125 finals Doubles: 9 (5 titles, 4 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 8 (3 titles, 5 runner-ups) Legend$25,000 tournaments (1–4)$10/15,000 tournaments (2–1)Finals by surfaceHard (3–5)

Doubles: 20 (12 titles, 8 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments (1–1)$60,000 tournaments (2–1)$40,000 tournaments (1–0)$25,000 tournaments (5–4)$15,000 tournaments (3–2)Finals by surfaceHard (11–5)Clay (1–2)Grass (0–1)