Erin Hope Routliffe (born 11 April 1995) is a New Zealand professional tennis player who previously represented Canada.

She won the doubles title at the GB1 in Tulsa, Oklahoma with Carol Zhao, defeating Charlotte Petrick and Denise Starr in the final.

[15] Routliffe lost in the first round in singles of the junior Australian Open, but made the quarterfinals in doubles for her third straight Grand Slam.

[21] The following month, Routliffe and partner Maya Jansen won the US Open National Playoffs in doubles, and were awarded a wildcard for the main draw.

[23] Routliffe advanced to her first professional singles final in July 2016, at the $25k in Winnipeg, where she was defeated by fellow qualifier Francesca Di Lorenzo in straight sets.

Routliffe played her first Fed Cup ties for New Zealand against Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in July, dropping only one game in her winning debut over Guljan Muhammetkuliyeva.

[26] The next week at a $60k in Toronto, she won her second doubles title, defeating Ysaline Bonaventure and Victoria Rodríguez, partnering Alexa Guarachi.

[28] In January, with compatriot Jade Lewis, Routliffe won her third and fourth doubles titles, in consecutive weeks at ITF tournaments in Sharm El Sheikh.

Losing all three rubbers, New Zealand nevertheless finished second in the group, and moved through to the 5th-8th place play-offs against Pakistan the following day, where Routliffe beat Ushna Sohail, 6–3, 6–1.

[34] They lost in the quarterfinals of the next tournament at the $80k-level in Charlottesville, Virginia but then won again in the last of the three events, at Charleston, South Carolina, where they beat Louisa Chirico and Allie Kiick.

From there Routliffe returned to Canada, and she teamed again with Victoria Rodríguez for an ITF tournament in Gatineau, Quebec; they were beaten in their quarterfinal.

Teaming again with Guarachi at the Washington Open, her very first WTA Tour event, they made the final, where they lost in straight sets to third seeds Han Xinyun and Darija Jurak.

Returning to Canada with Guarachi, they were beaten by Carson Branstine and Rebecca Marino in the first round of an ITF tournament in Vancouver.

She and Freya Christie reached the semifinals in Brisbane, and she won her ninth doubles title of the year in Toowoomba,[38] but lost with different partners in the first round in both Bendigo and Canberra.

A month later, Routliffe was in Auckland where she lost in the semifinals of the New Zealand Championships to Valentina Ivanov,[39] but won the doubles as top seed with Paige Hourigan.

Routliffe's next event was the Newport Beach Challenger in California, where she and Kristie Ahn lost in the first round to Manasse and Pegula.

From there it was to the U.S. clay-court swing where, with Alexa Guarachi, they attempted to defend their title in Dothan, but were upset in the first round by Beatrice Gumulya and Abbie Myers.

A semifinal loss in Spain was followed by a first-round exit at Surbiton and then a defeat in the quarterfinals at Nottingham to Monica Niculescu and Elena-Gabriela Ruse.

She and Jaimee Fourlis were finalists in the first doubles event, but Routliffe had to default in the quarter-finals in the second week when her partner Arina Rodionova was injured playing singles.

The latter had recovered by the time they moved to Mildura for the following week, and they made the final, losing to Tereza Mihalíková and Abbie Myers.

Her first WTA Tour match of the year was in Bogotá, where she and Viktoriya Tomova lost to Arantxa Rus and Tamara Zidanšek in the first round.

Returning to New Zealand for her first tournaments in nearly three years, she and Paige Hourigan won the doubles title at the inaugural $25k Eves Open in Papamoa.

[45] At Strasbourg, she was awarded a lucky-loser place in the main draw after losing in straight sets to Angelina Gabueva in the last round of qualifying.

In the main draw, she defeated Hsieh Su-wei, earning her first WTA Tour main-draw singles win, before withdrawing from tournament before her second-round match against Elina Svitolina.

There, they defeated Hsieh Su-wei, who was on a 16 match major winning streak, having won both the 2023 French Open and the 2023 Wimbledon Championships, and Wang Xinyu to reach the final for the first time in Routliffe's career and second in Dabrowski's.

Their win at the Zhengzhou Open qualified them for the 2023 WTA Finals in Cancún, making her the first player from New Zealand to compete in the prestigious year-end event,[48] and took Routliffe to a new career-high ranking of world No.

Routliffereached a second WTA 1000 final with Gabriela Dabrowski at the Miami Open where the pair lost to alternates Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sofia Kenin in a deciding champions tiebreak.

[51] By winning her sixth title in June, at the Nottingham Open and first on grass courts with Dabrowski, over Harriet Dart and Diane Parry,[52][53] she reached a new career-high ranking of No.

[57] Seeded second at the WTA Finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Dabrowski and Routliffe went unbeaten to top their group and reach the semifinals,[58][59] where they defeated Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Ellen Perez in straight sets.