Tennis Australia is launching a new initiative to discover more home-grown talent in women's tennis, in the hope of producing more top 100 players over the next five years.
With no female Australian contingent remaining at the Australian Open, Tennis Australia wants to ensure talent is rising through the ranks.
International recruit Daria Gavrilova kept Australia competitive at the Australian Open, the Russian-born player just narrowly missing out on a berth in the quarterfinals.
But Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley says efforts to foster more home grown female talent will be ramped up with new player pathway strategies.
Currently, Australia has two female players ranked in the top 100, twenty years ago there we had four players and thirty years ago six Australian women were amongst the best in the world.
Tennis Australia's head of Women's Tennis Nicole Pratt says they're aiming to return to those levels.
