Welsh teenager Mimi Xu has been knocked out of Junior Wimbledon, losing in the semi-finals of the girls’ singles.<\/b><\/p>\n
The 17-year-old from Swansea was beaten by the sixth seed Julieta Pareja in a tight three-set battle in what proved to be her final Junior Wimbledon outing.<\/p>\n
She lost Xu lost 6-2, 6-7(7), 6-4 to the American, who will face Mia Pohankova of Slovakia in the final.<\/p>\n
Xu, who had never made it beyond the third round at Wimbledon, had beaten French Open girls’ champion Lilli Tagger of Austria 7-6 (4) 6-1 to reach the last four.<\/p>\n
Xu had made her senior Wimbledon debut as a wildcard against Emma Raducanu, losing in straight sets in the first round defeat.<\/p>\n
Despite defeat to Raducanu, Xu said she “loved every single moment” of her debut hopes the experience will inspire her to return to SW19.<\/p>\n
In the ladies doubles, Xu and fellow British wildcard Ella McDonald defeated defeated Linda Noskova and Rebecca Sramkova 6-4 6-7 6-3.<\/p>\n
But the pair were beaten by seeded duo Caroline Dolehide and Sophia Kenin of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welsh teenager Mimi Xu has been knocked out of Junior Wimbledon, losing in the semi-finals of the girls’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-257696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114837734471949596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}