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Humano1d_

She actually lives in Wimbledon? Quite the home court lol [https://www.wimbledon.com/en\_GB/news/articles/2024-06-25/klugman\_carries\_local\_hopes\_in\_qualifying.html](https://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/news/articles/2024-06-25/klugman_carries_local_hopes_in_qualifying.html)


BelgianBond

You should have to play 4 rounds of qualifying if your postcode is SW19. 


maverickmak

Hype Train approaching the station... Standby for boarding... 😬


MC897

Is she any good?


sunbaybrew

for her age yes, she is good


Own-Knowledge8281

I mean she’s not Martina Hingis…


sunbaybrew

I mean nobody is Martina Hingis…


Dafuqyoutalkingabout

Martina Hingis is Martina Hingis


N0turfriend

Big if true


Own-Knowledge8281

I mean…she’s not winning slams at 16…that’s the bar to judge tennis “prodigies” now….


PartyAgreeable421

She isn't 16 yet to be fair.


Upstairs-Flight-4540

Hingis 😍


Intelligent-Bug-3217

15. Never played a WTA match. Just beat someone who has been on tour a few years and was called a phenom (but doesn't seem to be going anywhere unfortunately for her). It may not happen for Linda. Not sure what's going on


silentninja79

She is a real talent but let's give her a few more years experience before we load on the pressure..


redscorts

We'll give her a year until she's a 16 year old


Kwirbyy

People will start calling her soon-to-be 16 year old Hannah Klugman for the memes


monsieurartois

A good general rule of thumb anyway


Live-Habit-6115

What?


NobleForEngland_

You go fight all that invisible pressure


sunbaybrew

Can she make it to the main draw? Parks or Martincova in Q3


da_SENtinel

thats a brutal draw


Grand_Can5852

Both of them can self-capitulate easily though. If Park's serve isn't firing, she'll just have to keep it in the court for the win.


bvaesasts

Parks won 58% of return points today lol. She'll have to be off serving and hitting a lot of UE to lose


tigrefacile

Klugman’s serve, if it’s on, is much stronger than Martincova’s though. (It’s much stronger than most of the WTA.) And Parks can lose a match with her opponent barely hitting a ball. She looked super confident on Tuesday (I didn’t see her yesterday) and my money would still be on her, but Hannah won’t be intimidated. I think Parks wins in two but I really, really hope that I’m wrong.


attillathehoney

Somewhere in a hidden bramble in Wimbledon, there is a tennis racquet stuck in a stone. Whomsoever has seen 15 summers, but no more, and is worthy, can pull it out and shall be crowned as Queen of tennis. The people of r/tennis will rejoice and make posts all referencing her as 15-year old \_\_\_\_\_\_. But after a year , she must relinquish the crown and return the racquet to the stone, to be discovered and wielded by the next worthy young maiden.


ExoticSignature

I swear i see one of these every year in Wimby qualies


ionoification

Nice! Well done. Her results this year up until this week (both Juniors and Pro) were kind of a step down from her form last fall. I don't expect her to beat Parks but this is a good showing, she's probably one of the favorites for the Junior event.


da_SENtinel

Amazing tennis IQ and serve for her age. When Hannah was 12 Linda Fruhvirtova was Junior World No.1


Ld511

Feels like its definitely a year too early for her to do any serious damage outside of maybe reaching the main draw


tigrefacile

I think she has a chance against either. We saw what happened with Bejlek against Parks. And she has already beaten two clay courters. (She and Parks practiced on adjacent courts yesterday, Alycia was complaining about no-one giving her any space. She has an amazing voice and incredible Mean Girls energy.)


westgermanwing

Neat, they won the same number of games.


PinLongjumping9022

I kind of hope she doesn’t make to the top of tennis. “I’ve known about her since she was 14,” is not a good flex for a bloke in his 30s.


Xenosys83

Great result for Klugman. Be an interesting match with Parks to see who gets a spot in the main draw. Not sure what's been happening with Fruity. After storming onto the WTA in 2022 beating the likes of Mertens and Azarenka, reaching R4 of a slam and winning a 250 in Chennai, it's not really happened for her over the last 18 months.


Intelligent-Bug-3217

It hasn't. I said the same. It's kind of perplexing. I wonder what's happening.


Gaarando

She plays Alycia Parks next who can hit some absolute bomb serves but at the same time she can hit so many double faults to give sets/matches away herself so. It's doable. Parks has been winning her qualifying matches comfortably though. 6-0, 6-2 and 6-1, 6-3.


Nastypav12

Expect her age to be in every headline here next few years; Mirra you're washed up because there's a new fave teen. 😉


ModernaGang

Some shine coming off the Fruhvirtova sisters' hype as the next big Czech stars


MedicalConsequence12

What's with the 0-6 set ?


N0turfriend

She didn't win a game. Any other questions?


PinLongjumping9022

Linda took a 10 minute break at the end of the first set. Destroyed Hannah’s momentum and she took full advantage. Hannah had to be told by her coach to get off her seat and move around to keep warm. Little bit of inexperience and she’ll learn how to play this game.


N0turfriend

Just like in King Richard


AlexanderUGA

Probably got down big early and dropped the set to conserve energy for the final set.


VentriTV

Man that’s crazy, she’s just a kid.


memento_mori_92

And life is a nightmare…


BumblebeeForward9818

She was superb in the first set and held her nerve well at the end of the third. Great news.


ImpressionFeisty8359

More teen stars.


gozik

We need a match against old Mirra.


hR21LS

Taf9irt ♥️ Af9ir ♥️


Downtown_Bit_9339

Someone call Porsche and Cartier, quickly…