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Mingge Xu
Mingge Olivia "Mimi" Xu (born 2 October 2007) is a Welsh tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 318, achieved on 23 June 2025, and a best doubles ranking of No. 256, set on 10 February 2025. Early life Born in Swansea to Chinese parents, Xu started playing tennis at the Swansea Tennis and Squash Club, before moving to the National Tennis Academy in Loughborough. She attended Olchfa School in Swansea, before moving to the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton, where she started to be coached by Mathew James. Career In June 2022, Xu won the Junior Girls title at the LTA Junior National Championships, beating Talia Neilson-Gatenby 6–4, 7–5 in the final at the National Tennis Centre. Aged 14, she had also won the under-16 British title earlier that same month. Winning the British junior title granted her a wildcard into qualifying for the main draw of the 2022 Wimbledon Championships, where she was defeated by 800+ places higher-ranked Hanna Chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swansea
Swansea ( ; ) is a coastal City status in the United Kingdom, city and the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, second-largest city of Wales. It forms a Principal areas of Wales, principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (). The city is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, twenty-eighth largest in the United Kingdom. Located along Swansea Bay in south-west Wales, with the principal area covering the Gower Peninsula, it is part of the Swansea Bay (region), Swansea Bay region and part of the Historic counties of Wales, historic county of Glamorgan and the ancient Welsh commote of Gŵyr. The principal area is the second most List of Welsh principal areas by population, populous local authority area in Wales, with an estimated population of in . Swansea, along with Neath and Port Talbot, forms the Swansea urban area, with a population of 300,352 in 2011. It is also part of the Swansea Bay City Region. During the 19th-century industrial heyday, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Chang (tennis)
Hanna Chang (born February 25, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. Chang has a career-high singles ranking of 193 by the WTA, achieved on 9 September 2024. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 265, reached on 6 June 2022. Chang won her first W100 title at the 2021 Landisville Challenge, partnering Alexa Glatch in the doubles draw. She reached her first WTA 125 final at the 2024 Fifth Third Charleston, losing to top seed Renata Zarazúa Renata Zarazúa Ruckstuhl (born 30 September 1997), known as Renata Zarazúa (), is a Mexican professional tennis player. She reached a best singles ranking of world No. 51 on 25 November 2024, and peaked at No. 88 in the doubles rankings on 27 ... in straight sets. WTA Challenger finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) Doubles: 1 (1 titles) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 14 (9 titles, 5 runner–ups) Doubles: 7 (3 titles, 4 runner–ups) References External links * * 1998 births Living people American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTA 125 Tournaments
WTA 125 tournaments are an international series of professional women's tennis tournaments organized by the Women's Tennis Association since 2012. Sometimes called the WTA Challenger tour (analogous to the men's ATP Challenger Series), 2015 it is the second highest level of women's competition, below the top-tier , and above the tournaments. Players who succeed in the WTA 125s earn sufficient overa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 GB Pro-Series Shrewsbury – Doubles
Harriet Dart and Olivia Gadecki were the defending champions but they chose not to participate. Amelia Rajecki and Mingge Xu Mingge Olivia "Mimi" Xu (born 2 October 2007) is a Welsh tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 318, achieved on 23 June 2025, and a best doubles ranking of No. 256, set on 10 February 2025. Early life Born in Swa ... won the title, defeating Hannah Klugman and Ranah Akua Stoiber in the final; 6–4, 6–1. Seeds Draw Draw References External linksMain Draw {{DEFAULTSORT:2024 GB Pro-Series Shrewsbury - Doubles GB Pro-Series Shrewsbury - Doubles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Rajecki
Amelia Rajecki (born 3 June 2002) is a British professional tennis player. She previously played US collegiate tennis for North Carolina State. Early life Rajecki was raised in Nottingham. She won the British Tour Masters in 2022. College career Rajecki began playing for the Wolfpack at North Carolina State University in 2020–21. In her junior year in 2022–23, she set the program record of singles wins in a season with 40 wins and 11 losses. She contributed to NC State winning their first ACC conference title in 2023, defeating Carson Tanguilig of North Carolina in the final. At the 2023 NCAA Championships, where NC State lost to North Carolina in the team final, Rajecki beat No. 1 seed, Fiona Crawley of North Carolina, in the singles bracket, with her run to the semifinals enough to secure All-American honours for herself. She was ranked No. 2 nationally in singles at the end of her senior year in 2024, being named the ITA National Senior Player of the Year, and again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iva Jovic
Iva Jovic ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Ива Јовић, separator=" / ", Iva Jović; born 6 December 2007) is an American tennis player. She has a career-high combined junior ranking of No. 2, achieved on 9 September 2024. She won two junior major titles in girls' doubles, at the 2024 Australian Open and the 2024 Wimbledon Championships. On 16 June 2025, she reached her best singles ranking of No. 89 by the WTA. Early life Iva Jovic was born to father Bojan and mother Jelena, both Serbian immigrants frorm Leskovac and Split, respectively. She has an older sister, Mia. She is from Torrance, California, and resides in Los Angeles. Jovic began playing tennis at the age of five. Career Junior years Jovic won the U14 singles event at the Orange Bowl in December 2021. She was runner-up at the inaugural International Junior Championships held at the site of the Indian Wells Open in March 2023, being defeated by Clervie Ngounoue in the final. Alongside compatriot Tyra Caterina Grant she won th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyra Caterina Grant
Tyra Caterina Grant (born March 12, 2008) is an Italian tennis player. She won the junior girls' doubles titles at the 2023 French Open, 2024 Australian Open and the 2024 Wimbledon Championships. Early life Grant was born in Rome. Born and raised in Italy, Grant is the daughter of American former basketball player Tyrone Grant, who relocated to Italy to play basketball, and Cinzia Giovinco, an Italian tennis teacher. She has both Italian and American citizenship. She trained at the Piatti Tennis Center in Bordighera, before later moving to Orlando to train at the USTA National Campus. Her younger brother, Tyson, is also a tennis player. Her mother acts as her manager. She began her junior career representing the United States but switched at 17 years old to represent Italy in May 2025, just a few days before making her debut as the official ambassador of the 2025 Italian Open in her hometown, Rome, where she also received a wildcard from the organizers. Career Junior years I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Stusek
Julia Stusek (born 30 June 2008) is a German tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 749, achieved in October 2023. She is the daughter of former professional tennis player Petra Holubová and her father Tomas runs a tennis school. Due to her Czech parents, she speaks fluent Czech. Career Stusek is occasionally coached by Melanie Molitor, the mother of former World No. 1 Martina Hingis. She made her WTA Tour main draw debut as a lucky loser at the 2024 Bad Homburg Open, where she lost in the first round to Peyton Stearns Peyton Mckenzie Stearns (born October 8, 2001) is an American professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the WTA as high as No. 28 in singles, achieved on 19 May 2025, and No. 62 in doubles, achieved on 5 May 2025. She has won one WTA .... Junior Grand Slam finals Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stusek, Julia 2008 births Living people German female tennis players Tenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Samson
Laura Samson (formerly known as Laura Samsonová; born 10 March 2008) is a Czech professional tennis player. She won the girls' doubles title at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships and was a runner-up in girls' singles at the 2024 French Open. Personal info In 2024, she changed her surname to the gender neutral form to be distinguished from another WTA Tour tennis player, Russian Liudmila Samsonova, with whom she shared the same abbreviated name (L. Samsonova). Career Juniors A member of TK Sparta Prague, Samson won her first junior title as a 13-year-old at a J5 event in Prostějov in an October 2021, without dropping a set. It was her first junior-level event. She then won her second J5 event in November 2021 in Silla-Saledar in Spain, and reached the final in her third, in Montemar. In July 2023, she won the Wimbledon girls' doubles title with compatriot Alena Kovačková. In the final, they faced Hannah Klugman and Isabelle Lacy of Great Britain, winning in straight sets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alena Kovačková
Alena Kovačková (born 13 June 2008) is a Czech tennis player. She has a career-high junior combined ranking of No. 8, achieved on 10 June 2024. Personal life She has a younger sister Jana who is also tennis player. Career Junior career Whilst ranked European number one in the U14s, Kovackova won the U16 title at the Tennis Europe Masters in Monte Carlo in October 2022. Later that year she became the first girl to win both the U14 and U16 "Player of the Year" awards in the same year. In July 2023, she won the Wimbledon girls' doubles alongside compatriot Laura Samsonová. In the final, they faced Hannah Klugman and Isabelle Lacy of Great Britain, winning in straight sets. It was the first Czech pairing to win the title since Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková in 2013. Defending the Wimbledon girls' doubles title alongside Samsonová in 2024, they lost in the quarterfinals to Mika Stojsavljevic and Mingge Xu. She played in the girls' doubles at the 2025 Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Wimbledon Championships - Girls' Doubles
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is a square number, the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. Evolution of the Hindu-Arabic digit Brahmic numerals represented 1, 2, and 3 with as many lines. 4 was simplified by joining its four lines into a cross that looks like the modern plus sign. The Shunga would add a horizontal line on top of the digit, and the Kshatrapa and Pallava evolved the digit to a point where the speed of writing was a secondary concern. The Arabs' 4 still had the early concept of the cross, but for the sake of efficiency, was made in one stroke by connecting the "western" end to the "northern" end; the "eastern" end was finished off with a curve. The Europeans dropped the finishing curve and gradually made the digit less cursive, ending up with a digit very close to the original Brahmin cross. While the shape of the character for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Wimbledon Championships
The 2024 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam (tennis), major tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, England, comprising singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior, wheelchair and Invitational tournaments were also scheduled. It was the 137th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and the third Grand Slam event of 2024. The 2024 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, gentlemen's singles title was won by defending champion Carlos Alcaraz, who defeated Novak Djokovic in a rematch of the previous year's 2023 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final, final to lift his fourth Grand Slam title. Barbora Krejčíková defeated Jasmine Paolini in the final to win the 2024 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, ladies' singles title. Tournament The tournament was played on grass courts, with all main draw matches played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon, from 1 July to 14 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
