2023-11-28 01:04:33
At just 15 years old, the ÖTV young hope reached her first double final in Egypt.
The ninth international women’s tournament in her young career will probably stay with Lilli Tagger for a long time. It wasn’t just that the East Tyrolean was able to achieve a main competition victory among adults for the first time at last week’s ITF W15 hard court event in Sharm El Sheikh: the teenager also stormed straight into the final in her first ever appearance in a women’s doubles competition. And at the tender age of 15! She narrowly missed out on her debut success: Tagger (WTA doubles -) had to beat the second-seeded Russians Evgeniya Burdina (WTA doubles 878) and Nina Rudiukova (WTA doubles 1089) in the title fight with Egyptian local hero Mariam Atia (WTA doubles -). ) despite a 7:5, 3:0 lead, they were still defeated 7:5, 4:6 and 6:10 in the match tiebreak.
Atia/Tagger first eliminated the Polish-German pairing Olivia Bergler (WTA doubles 1446) and Maya Drozd (WTA doubles -) 6:4, 6:4 and then also eliminated the two top seeds, Yasmin Ezzat from Egypt (WTA -doubles 707) and Alyssa Reguer from France (WTA doubles 985), defeated 7:6 (5), 4:6, 10:8. After a 6:2, 6:4 in the semifinals once morest the Taiwanese Ju-Yun Jeng (WTA doubles -) and Fang An Lin (WTA doubles 711), the final was on a knife’s edge, but this time there was no happy ending. In the singles, Tagger (WTA -) had, following two successes in qualifying, with a total of only six game losses, given the British wildcard player Sholape Ayanbadejo (WTA -) a maximum penalty of 6:0, 6:0 in the main draw. In the round of 16, however, she lost out to fourth-seeded Dutchwoman Anouck Vrancken Peeters (WTA 962) 1:6, 7:5, 3:6. Nevertheless, Tagger was able to secure her second WTA point and now only needs one more countable result to enter the women’s world rankings for the first time.
Here are some impressions from the award ceremony:
” class=”thumbnail pull-left”> Lilli Tagger (far left) at the award ceremony with her doubles partner Mariam Atia (3rd from left).
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