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Do we like Ajla Tomljanović?

Our score: 6 out of 10. Clean on harm and no court or conduct trouble, but the record of real good works is thin and there's one heated on-court stoush.

Ajla Tomljanović is a Croatian-born tennis player who picked up a racquet at six and left home around 13 to train at the Evert academy in Florida. She later switched to representing Australia, a move that took years of residency and eligibility steps, and she has been a fixture of the Aussie women's game since.

Her peak run came on grass: Wimbledon quarter-finals in 2021 and again in 2022, after years of saying she disliked the surface. She's also talked about wanting to play on towards the LA 2028 Olympics and perhaps move into commentary, which suggests a person with plenty left in the tank off-court too.

Her biggest stoush was at Wimbledon 2021. Trailing 4-0 in the decider, Jelena Ostapenko took an 11-minute medical break, and Tomljanović accused her of faking it, saying afterwards she knew when someone was injured. Ostapenko denied it and called her the worst player on the tour, so it got ugly on both sides. It's heat of the moment competitive stuff, not a pattern of mistreating anyone.

The recent noise came in June 2026, when Marketa Vondrousova copped a four-year ban for refusing a doping test. Tomljanović told journalists at Eastbourne she thought the whole ITIA was very arrogant and that the rules made no sense. Whether you read that as a player sticking up for a colleague or as a hot take on a serious integrity system depends on how you feel about anti-doping bodies.

On the harm check, we searched for anything on LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants, health or the planet and found nothing harmful from her. We also found no lawsuits, convictions or allegations against her. The honest caveat is that there's not much on the record about her wider views either, so it's a clean sheet more than a ringing endorsement.