2024-04-18 22:59:38
In the individual competition at the major youth tournament in France, Lilli Tagger performed extremely well.
Ekaterina Perelygina, who has lived and trained in Austria for many years, has held Austrian citizenship since the end of 2023. And without a doubt, the red-white-red women’s tennis has gained another source of future hope with the 17-year-old. The ÖTV contract player proved this again this week, where she achieved a remarkable double coup at the premier ITF J300 youth tournament in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. It is the second at an international U18 event after that in Wels 2021 (ITF J4, now ITF J60) and the biggest success for the NÖTV ace along with the individual home triumph in Villach 2023 (ITF J200).
Perelygina (ITF 62) won the opening match with Bulgarian Iva Ivanova (ITF 15) against Italian Vittoria Paganetti (ITF 44) and Lithuanian Laima Vladson (ITF 48) 6:4, 7:6 (3). Afterwards, the number three duo was able to assert itself in the match tiebreak three times in a row: with 6:3, 6:7 (7), 10:4 over Japanese Reina Goto (ITF 90) and German Valentina Steiner (ITF 104), with 7: 6 (3), 6:7 (2), 14:12 against the Ukrainians Anastasiia Firman (ITF 127) and Yelyzaveta Kotliar (ITF 56) and finally in the final with 6:4, 5 :7, 10 :5 over the fourth seeded Malak El Allami from Morocco (ITF 43) and Rose Marie Nijkamp from the Netherlands (ITF 45). Perelygina had recently showcased the doubles semi-finals at the ITF J300 events in Asunción and Porto Alegre as well as at the ITF J500 tournament in Blumenau, the traditional Banana Bowl.
Tagger storms into the semi-finals with 6 wins without dropping a set
In the individual competition, Perelygina was clearly eliminated in the first round against the second-ranked American Tyra Caterina Grant (ITF 8) 0:6, 3:6. Another local young hope makes it all the better: Lilli Tagger. The East Tyrolean is sensational in the semi-finals on the Mediterranean coast after a total of six victories without losing a set. The 16-year-old only played his way through the qualifiers with three sure successes and a total of only eleven match losses – only to eliminate numbers 81, 15 and 28 in the youth world rankings one after the other in the main competition. Tagger (ITF 248) defeated Italian Angelica Sara 6:1, 7:6 (2), served in round two from a submission from Perelygina’s fourth-seeded doubles partner Ivanova 6:0, 1:0 for the ÖTV talent and left In. in the quarter-finals, the sixth-ranked Belgian Jeline Vandromme could not stop her. In the end it was 6:4, 6:3 for Tagger, who now challenges fifth-placed American Kaitlyn Rolls (ITF 22) on Friday.
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