Szili’s first major documented breakthrough was winning the 2002 Australian Open girls’ doubles title with Casey Dellacqua. She followed that result by winning the Wellington women’s international/satellite event, a senior $10,000-level tournament, the next week.
Adriana Szili
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About Adriana
Adriana Szili is a former Australian professional tennis player from Adelaide, South Australia. A right-handed player who preferred hard courts, she reached career-high WTA rankings of No. 409 in singles and No. 468 in doubles. Szili is listed by the WTA as inactive. Her most notable junior achievement was winning the 2002 Australian Open girls’ doubles title with Casey Dellacqua. She later won a Wellington women’s $10,000-level tournament in 2002 and competed at the 2003 Australian Open.
Adriana Szili was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and represented Australia during her professional tennis career. The ITF records that she began playing tennis at the age of five, played right-handed and preferred hard courts. Publicly available biographical material identifies Graeme Neville as one of her coaches during her development.
Szili’s breakthrough came as a junior at the 2002 Australian Open. Partnering fellow Australian Casey Dellacqua, she won the girls’ doubles championship. She also reached the quarter-finals of the girls’ singles draw and received a wildcard into the women’s doubles event alongside Jaslyn Hewitt. The following week, Szili won the Wellington women’s international/satellite event, defeating local player Ilke Gers in the final. The Australian Sports Commission later recorded her Wellington victory among the achievements of the Australian Institute of Sport tennis programme.
She progressed to the senior professional circuit and reached a career-best singles ranking of No. 409 on 21 October 2002. Her highest doubles ranking was No. 468 on 28 February 2005. Szili appeared in the Australian Open women’s singles main draw in 2003 and in the women’s doubles main draw in 2002 and 2003, although she did not progress beyond the first round in those recorded appearances.
The WTA profile lists Szili as Australian and inactive, with no current ranking. After her playing career, publicly available Tennis Australia material records her involvement in coach-development and tennis administration roles in Victoria, including work connected with coach education and junior-team management. No reliable current professional playing roster has been located as of 18 August 2026.
Career-high singles ranking: No. 409, achieved on 21 October 2002. Career-high doubles ranking: No. 468, achieved on 28 February 2005. Junior Grand Slam champion: 2002 Australian Open girls’ doubles with Casey Dellacqua. WTA-listed career prize money: $0; this conflicts with secondary databases that report a career-prize-money figure, so no definitive cumulative earnings figure is presented.
Winning the 2002 Australian Open girls’ doubles title with Casey Dellacqua; reaching the 2002 Australian Open girls’ singles quarter-finals; winning the Wellington women’s international/satellite event shortly afterwards; reaching the Australian Open women’s singles main draw in 2003.