Austrian tennis hope Lilli Tagger leaves Wimbledon

Austrian tennis hope Lilli Tagger leaves Wimbledon

In the quarter-finals of the Wimbledon Championships, 17-year-old Lilli Tagger, who is considered a great hope for the Austrian tennis association, had to leave the tournament. In an exciting match, she competed against the British Mingge Xu of the same age and finally had to give up with 6: 7 (4), 1: 6. The first set was highly contested, both players showed strong serves and kept the game open to the tie break. Tagger, however, missed an important breakball at 2: 1, which gave XU the opportunity to win the sentence in an exciting tie break.

In the second set, Tagger's service broke when she served twice, which XU gave the opportunity to clearly win the sentence. This is a setback for the young player, who had previously achieved impressive results in her junior career, among others at the Australian Open and the French Open. However, the end of an ambitious tournament course at Wimbledon.

A look at Lilli Tagger's career

Lilli Tagger, born on February 17, 2008, has recently made remarkable progress. Since she joined the Francesca Schiavone Academy in Varese, Italy, she has greatly improved her skills and has achieved a highest individual ranking of 506 that she reached on May 19, 2025.

Tagger's junior career is characterized by numerous successes. In 2024 she managed to qualify for the girls' singles at the Wimbledon Championships. In 2025 she reached the quarter-finals of the girls' singles at the Australian Open and the semi-finals at the French Open, where she won against number 12 on the ranking, Julia Stusek. She became the first Austrian player since Tamira Paszek, who reached a semi -finals of a Junior Grand Slam, and crowned her performance with the winning of the tournament after a win against Hannah Klugman from Great Britain.

Wimbledon juniors results

The defeat of Tagger comes in the context of a competition that produces many promising talents. Another remarkable result in the junior field was XU's victory over Tagger. On the No.3 Court, XU defeated the 3 Tagger Setzplatz in two sets:

These developments show that despite the setbacks, Lilli Tagger and other talents, they continue to strive to assert themselves in international tennis. The next challenge will be to learn from this experience and to focus on future tournaments.

The complete information and results for the Wimbledon juniors can be found on the pages of Laola1 , wikipedia and BBC .