This week, Priscilla Hon made its top 100 debut and became a member of the sit-down podcast to give some insights into how she came on tour after a decade.
Melbourne, Vic, Australia, October 7, 2025 | Matt Trollope
In June, Priscilla Hon Viktoriya Tomova led 7-5 3-0 in the first round of Berlin qualification before he lost. That result had a major influence on how she approached the next games in a transformational season.
“I was a bit stuck in the big points. Like, do I play safely and wait until they miss?” HON remembered this week’s episode The sit-down Podcast. “It is such a thin line, where you connect and go after it, but there is a higher risk to miss.
“What I learned from that match was that I had to stop playing so safely. So that’s what helped me to qualify at Wimbledon.”
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Less than two weeks later Hon went to the final round of Wimbledon qualification, confronted with the Canadian phenomenon Victoria Mboko, stared at five competition points and eventually won, to the main table on SW19 for the first time at the age of 27.
‘[On] Those match points, I just left it, I kept playing how I would play any other point, “she explained.” I just kept progressing, I remained aggressive on those points and it paid. “
Since that loss of Berlin, HON has built up a record of 13-6, also qualified eligible for the US Open and progresses on the third round-hair best result at a major and then win her first games at WTA 1000 level in Beijing, where she came against Belinda Bencic within a set of the fourth round.
This success on the big stage helped the Queenslander to make her top 100 debut in what she described as a “up and down journey”.
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“I mean, it’s huge,” Hon said about her ranking milestone. “Finally be able to reach it after so many years of play, and it is always that benchmark that everyone tries to make, and finally be able to do it, yes, it is very satisfying.
“There are clear people who have always believed in me, thinking that I can do a lot more, and I feel that I am finally starting to realize that. And also many people who doubted me, so it is also the best feeling they can prove wrong.”
Hon’s talent was clearly 10 years ago that she won her first professional title at the ITF 15K event in Mornington. After having ended in 2016 at World No.535, she improved her final ranking every year and ended 2019 at no. 123, a season in which she made her Billie Jean King Cup debut for Australia and won her first Grand Slam Main-Draw competition at Roland Garros.
She kept trending up and reached the second round on Australian Open 2020 before the COVID-19-Pandemic hit.
During the closure, she sustained a hip injury that sidelined her for more than a year and was admitted to the hospital in the hospital in the season in the season in the season in the season. She was also forced to fight with the death of her old coach Anthony Richardson, whom she described as “a second father for me who grew up”.
“That’s the thing about tennis – it’s a long journey. You start from such a young age and there are always setbacks, and every player has them,” she said.
“The only thing you really learn is to never give up. There are always doubts.
“I am 1759848081 Playing much more aggressively, and I feel that I did that a few years ago, where I went upstairs, and then Covid and everything and then I feel that I really lost my way. I started playing so defensively and I was not at all happy with the way I played.
“I feel that I have unlocked a small new part of my brain.”
HON has won 37 singles competitions in 2025. There have been seasons in which she won more – she made 45 in 2022 – but it is the nature of the victories and the level at which they have been reached, which distinguishes this year.
At the same time, she has drawn inspiration from her tennis -playing friends. Colleague Queenslander Kimberly Birrell’s climb to the top 100 in January, the Run of Amanda Anisimova to the Wimbledon – Final in July – whom she saw from Anisimova’s entourage on Center Court – and Karolina Muchova’s quarterfinals campaign in New York were all Moment’s Hon Bost.
And because she proves herself that she could match her tennis talent with consistency from week to week, Hon did not look back.
“The number of times I have heard people say:” Oh, you are talented and you’re ranked much lower than you should be “, and I have something like:” Yes, I know it, “but I also see my results, the way I play and feel, and I have something like:” yes, I didn’t like to see that time, so it was probably gel, ” Outside the top 200.
“I have worked a lot on the mental side of things and just try to keep it much more. I feel that I have now been able to play a number of games, kept my level, [I’m] Really happy with and confident in the way I play.
“That is a kind of what I mean by ‘unlocked’, because I feel that I have showed myself that I can do this. And so now I feel … I am really excited to see where I can go.”
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