Young American WTA star Emma Navarro is taking the tennis world by storm. But what is Emma Navarro’s racquet?
Emma Navarro’s racquet
Emma Navarro’s racquet is a Yonex VCORE 98. Interestingly, she doesn’t use the latest 2023 VCORE cosmetic but the 2021 one. If you go back a few years, she has been changing cosmetics with the new Yonex racquet updates. Most likely, she is using the Yonex VCORE SV 98 painted like the 2021 version.
All pros get their racquets customized and/or matched, but we are unaware of Navarro’s racquet specs. We know she is using Yonex Poly Tour Rev strings.
Yonex have recently released a sand-colored limited edition of the Yonex VCORE 98 2023. You can check out this racquet at Tennis Warehouse, Tennis Warehouse Europe or Tennis Only.
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Biography and Career
Emma Navarro was born on May 18, 2001, in New York, US. She’s the daughter of billionaire businessman Ben Navarro who owns several tennis facilities and in 2022 bought the rights to the Cincinnati Open.
Emma made her WTA main draw debut at the Charleston Open in 2019 following two years of college tennis at the University of Virginia. In the coming months Navarro was considered one of the top talents in the country.
After winning the NCAA Championships in 2021, she made her Grand Slam debut at the 2021 US Open, at just 20 years of age.
In 2023, she got her first major match win in her French Open debut, reaching the 2nd round. 2024 has been a good year for Emma Navarro, winning her first WTA Tour title at the Hobart International and also playing at the Paris Olympics (where she lost in the third round to Qinwen Zheng who won gold later).
Notable Stats / Info
- She is currently no 12 in the WTA rankings which is also her career high.
- Currently, in singles, The American has 195–108 in w/l over her professional career.
- She plays right-handed with a two-handed backhand.
- In her career Emma Navarro earned a total prize money of $2,469,160.
- Emma Navarro’s coach is Peter Ayers, a former college tennis player.
Follow Emma
WTA tennis fans can follow Emma Navarro on Instagram where she has 155K followers.
