Astra Sharma (born 11 September 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 84 in singles and 91 in doubles. Sharma has won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. In addition, she has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as eight titles in singles and seven in doubles on the ITF Circuit.
In December 2017, she won the Australian Open Wildcard Playoff alongside Belinda Woolcock, their main-draw entry into the 2018 Australian Open.
At the 2019 Australian Open, she and fellow Australian John-Patrick Smith reached the final of the mixed-doubles competition after receiving a wildcard to enter the main draw.
Early life Sharma's father, Devdutt Sharma, is a Singaporean Indian with roots from Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Northern India. He was a high jumper. He attended Raffles Institution and National University of Singapore. He worked as an acoustic engineer. Astra's mother, Susan Tan, is a Singaporean Chinese. She was a sprinter from CHIJ Saint Theresa's Convent. Astra, named after the Astras wielded by the Hindu gods, has a younger brother Astron who also went into a tennis career.
Astra was born and raised in Singapore, before her parents emigrated to Perth, Western Australia in 2005, when she was ten years old. She attended Applecross Senior High School. As a junior, she did some training at Bull Creek Tennis Club, near Willetton.
Career 2011–2014: The beginnings Sharma made her ITF Circuit debut in October 2011, after qualifying in Kargoorlie. In 2012, Sharma played just four tournaments, without a win. In March 2013, she reached the quarterfinals in doubles at an ITF event in Sydney. In 2014, she competed in qualifying in three tournaments across the U.S., making the main draw in just one, where she lost in the first round.
In 2015, Sharma played just three tournaments on the ITF Circuit, reaching the quarterfinal or better in all three. She won her first title in July 2015 at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Sharma ended the season with a singles rank of 787. She also received a scholarship to Vanderbilt University, graduating in 2018, majoring in medicine, Health and Society, along the way helping the Commodores win their first NCAA team tournament in 2015, with various honors such as a selection to the 2014 SEC All Freshman team and being the 2017 SEC Player of the Year.Astra Sharma: From Currey Tennis Center to the Australian Open Finals Originally intent on becoming an orthopedic surgeon, she decided not to continue in medical school as her professional tennis career took off.Medical school? Vanderbilt star Astra Sharma is going pro in tennis after postseason Still in 2022, she used a partnership between the WTA and the University of Florida to earn a master's degree in Applied Physiology and Kinesiology.GAME, SET, MATCH: WTA AND UF'S WINNING PARTNERSHIP
2016–2018: ITF Circuit success
In 2016, Sharma competed on the European ITF Circuit. She experienced little singles success but partnering Frances Altick, won two doubles titles in July.
She commenced the next season in June, qualifying and making the main draw in Sumter, U.S. Across July and August 2017, Sharma won her second and third ITF titles in Târgu Jiu and Graz. She ended the year with a singles rank of 440.
In 2018, Sharma competed mostly on ITF events across North America. In March, she reached the final of the ITF event in Orlando. In June and July, she won her fourth and fifth singles titles in Baton Rouge and Gatineau, Canada. In October, she returned to Australia and reached the quarterfinals in three consecrative tournaments. Sharma ended 2018 with a singles rank of 225.
2019: First WTA Tour final In January 2019, Sharma qualified for the Australian Open and won her first-round match over fellow Australian Priscilla Hon, before losing in the second round. In mixed doubles, she and John-Patrick Smith made it through to the final, after they defeated the second seed team of Bruno Soares and Nicole Melichar in the semifinals, but lost to the third seeds, Barbora Krejčíková and Rajeev Ram. In March, Sharma won the $25k singles and doubles at Irapuato, Mexico. In April, Sharma reached her first WTA Tour final, losing to Amanda Anisimova at the Copa Colsanitas. In May, she qualified for and reached the second round of the Strasbourg International, and later lost in the first round at the French Open. Sharma competed in qualifying events across the European grass-court season and lost in the first round of Wimbledon. In August, she travelled to North America and qualified for Cincinnati. At the US Open, Sharma lost in the first round. She ended the year with a singles rank of 108, and a doubles rank of 136.
2020: French Open match win Sharma started 2020, losing in the singles and doubles first rounds of both Hobart International and Australian Open. For the mixed doubles, she partnered again with John-Patrick Smith, and they reached the semifinals in Melbourne. In March, Sharma reached the second round of the Monterrey Open and the quarterfinal of the ITF event in Irapuato, Mexico, before the tour was stopped due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the US Open, Sharma lost in the first round to 19th seed Dayana Yastremska in a third set tie-breaker. She qualified for the French Open and reached the second round of this year's much later held event.
2021: WTA Tour title, top 100 Sharma defeated top seed Ons Jabeur to win the MUSC Health Women's Open (Charleston II), her first career title.
In May, she made the second round of the French Open for a second consecutive year. In June, she entered Wimbledon as a lucky loser and was defeated by Kristýna Plíšková in the first round.
At the US Open, she qualified before losing to eighth seed Barbora Krejčíková in the first round. In October, she reached the second round at the Indian Wells Open.
Sharma ended 2021 with a singles ranking of 98, a career year-end high, and a doubles ranking of world No. 107.
2022–2024 In 2022, Sharma reached the second round at Indian Wells with a win over Magda Linette, before losing to 13th seed Victoria Azarenka.
In 2024, she entered the Charleston Open as a lucky loser and defeated compatriot Arina Rodionova and 16th seed Lesia Tsurenko to reach the round of 16 where she lost to third seed Maria Sakkari.
Partnering Veronika Erjavec, Sharma was runner-up in the doubles at the WTA 125 Canberra International, losing in the final to Veronika Erjavec and Darja Semeņistaja.
Performance timelines
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup, United Cup, Hopman Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.
Singles Current through the 2026 US Open. Tournament20192020202120222023202420252026Win %Grand Slam tournaments Australian Open2R1R1R1RQ2Q2Q2Q10 / 41–4 French Open1R2R2R1RAQ3Q2A0 / 42–4 Wimbledon1RNH1R1RAQ1Q1A0 / 30–3 US Open1R1R1RQ3Q1Q2Q2Q10 / 30–3Win–loss1–41–31–40–30–00–00–00–00 / 143–14WTA 1000Dubai / Qatar OpenAAAQ1AAAA0 / 00–0Indian Wells OpenANH2R2RAAAA0 / 22–2Miami OpenANHQ11RAAAA0 / 10–1Madrid OpenANHAAAQ2AA0 / 00–0Italian OpenAAAAAQ1AA0 / 00–0Canadian OpenQ1NHQ1AAAQ1A0 / 00–0Cincinnati Open1RQ2Q1AAAQ1A0 / 10–1Wuhan OpenANHAAA0 / 00–0China OpenQ1NHAAQ10 / 00–0Guadalajara OpenNHAAAA0 / 00–0Career statisticsTournaments1051211110Career total: 40Titles0010000Career total: 1Finals1010000Career total: 2Overall win–loss7–102–512–113–110–11–10–01 / 4026–39Year-end ranking10812896231120249156$1,877,430
Doubles Current through the 2024 US Open. Tournament2018201920202021202220232024Win %Grand Slam tournaments Australian Open1R1R1R1RA1R1R0 / 60–6 French OpenA1R1R1RAAA0 / 30–3 WimbledonA2RNHA1RAA0 / 21–2 US OpenAAA1RAAA0 / 10–1Win–loss0–11–30–20–30–10–10–10 / 121–12Career statisticsTournaments16513911Career total: 36Titles0101100Career total: 3Finals0102100Career total: 4Overall win–loss0–14–52–511–128–80–10–13 / 3625–33Year-end ranking327136109107117204403
Mixed doubles Tournament20192020202120222023Win % Australian OpenFSF1R1RA0 / 47–4 French OpenANHAAA0 / 00–0 WimbledonANHAAA0 / 00–0 US OpenANHAAA0 / 00–0Win–loss4–13–10–10–10–00 / 47–4
Grand Slam tournament finals Mixed doubles: 1 (runner-up) Result Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents ScoreLoss2019 Australian Open Hard John-Patrick Smith Barbora Krejčíková Rajeev Ram 6–7(3–7), 1–6
WTA Tour finals Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) LegendWTA 250 (1–1)Finals by surfaceClay (1–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1Copa Colsanitas, ColombiaInternationalClay Amanda Anisimova6–4, 4–6, 1–6Win1–1Charleston Open, United StatesWTA 250Clay Ons Jabeur2–6, 7–5, 6–1
Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up) LegendWTA 500WTA 250 (3–1)Finals by surfaceHard (1–0)Clay (2–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Copa Colsanitas, ColombiaInternationalClay Zoe Hives Hayley Carter Ena Shibahara6–1, 6–2Win2–0Abierto Zapopan, MexicoWTA 250Hard Ellen Perez Desirae Krawczyk Giuliana Olmos6–4, 6–4Loss2–1Hamburg Open, GermanyWTA 250Clay Rosalie van der Hoek Jasmine Paolini Jil Teichmann0–6, 4–6Win3–1Copa Colsanitas, Colombia (2)WTA 250Clay Aldila Sutjiadi Emina Bektas Tara Moore4–6, 6–4, [11–9]
WTA 125 finals Singles: 1 (title) ResultW-LDateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1–0 Sep 2023Open Romania Ladies, Romania Clay Sara Errani 0–6, 7–5, 6–2
Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ResultW–LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 Canberra International, Australia Hard Kaylah McPhee Veronika Erjavec Darja Semeņistaja 2–6, 4–6
ITF Circuit finals Singles: 16 (10 titles, 6 runner-ups) LegendW100 tournaments (1–0)$60,000 tournaments (1–2)$40,000 tournaments (0–1)$25,000 tournaments (4–2)$10/15,000 tournaments (4–1)Finals by surfaceHard (7–2)Clay (3–4) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1–0 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000 Hard Ola Abou Zekry 6–3, 2–6, 6–0Win 2–0 ITF Târgu Jiu, Romania15,000 Clay Belinda Woolcock 1–6, 6–2, 7–5Win 3–0 ITF Graz, Austria15,000 Clay Vendula Žovincová 2–6, 6–3, 6–2Loss 3–1 ITF Toowoomba, Australia25,000 Hard Eri Hozumi 5–7, 2–6Loss 3–2 ITF Orlando, United States15,000 Clay Sophie Chang 3–6, 6–7(6–8)Win 4–2 ITF Baton Rouge, United States25,000 Hard Maria Mateas 6–2, 6–1Win 5–2 Challenger de Gatineau, Canada25,000 Hard Victoria Rodríguez 3–6, 6–4, 6–3Win 6–2 ITF Cairns, Australia25,000 Hard Destanee Aiava 0–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–1Win 7–2 ITF Irapuato, Mexico25,000 Hard Verónica Cepede Royg 6–7(3–7), 6–4, 6–3Loss 7–3 Jun 2023ITF Ystad, Sweden40,000 Clay İpek Öz 1–6, 3–6Loss 7–4 Jul 2023Open de Montpellier, France60,000 Clay Clara Burel 3–6, 5–7Win 8–4 Oct 2023Playford International, Australia60,000 Hard Joanna Garland 7–6(8–6), 6–0Loss 8–5 Oct 2023Sydney Open, Australia60,000 Hard Destanee Aiava 3–6, 4–6Loss 8–6 ITF Sabadell, SpainW35 Clay Guiomar Maristany 3–6, 3–6Win 9–6 Apr 2025FineMark Championship, United StatesW100 Clay Whitney Osuigwe 6–2, 6–2Win 10–6 ITF Nashville, United StatesW15 Hard Rose Marie Nijkamp 6–3, 6–1
Doubles: 12 (7 titles, 5 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments (0–1)$80,000 tournaments (0–1)$60,000 tournaments (1–1)$40,000 tournaments (2–0)$25,000 tournaments (2–2)$10,000 tournaments (2–0)Finals by surfaceHard (2–3)Clay (5–2)