Teenager Hannah Klugman continued her outstanding run on the W100 Shrewsbury by defeating British No 5 Lily Miyazaki to succeed in the quarter-finals.
Klugman continued her very good type to defeat world No 163 Miyazaki 7-6 (9-7) 4-6 6-2 and go away native spectators shocked.
She is going to now tackle world No 46 Oceane Dodin for a spot within the semi-finals of the ladies’s singles.
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Highlights of Hannah Klugman in opposition to Sayaka Ishii within the junior match of the US Open
Klugman, who grew to become the youngest participant to qualify for a W100 match on the ITF Tour in Shrewsbury, bettered the document of reigning US Open girls’s singles champion Coco Gauff, who was the earlier youngest participant to qualify for a W100 match.
Klugman is now assured to match Gauff, who reached the quarter-finals at W100 Charleston aged simply 15 in 2019.
Coached by Ben Haran at Reed’s Faculty, his base in Cobham, the 14-year-old schoolgirl saved three break factors within the third sport earlier than settling into the competition.
Lily Miyazaki reached the second spherical of the US Open this yr earlier than dropping to Belinda Bencic
Japanese-born Brit Miyazaki, who has represented her membership and her county, Surrey, since she was an adolescent, was made to battle for each level as they headed right into a tie-break.
Miyazaki saved 4 set factors, however she couldn’t forestall Klugman from ultimately taking the set after delivering a pin-point first serve out huge.
Klugman continued to be the aggressor and he or she maintained her high-level to interrupt Miyazaki’s resistance early within the second set earlier than consolidating for a 3-1 lead, however Miyazaki stayed calm to interrupt again within the sixth sport earlier than occurring to win it and ship the competition right into a decider.
In a gritty ultimate set, Klugman surged right into a 3-1 lead however this time she continued her big-hitting strategy to interrupt serve for the third time within the match earlier than sealing the most important win of her profession to maneuver into the ultimate eight.
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Klugman, 14, on loving her expertise on the US Open
Talking on the US Open earlier this yr, Klugman mentioned: “I nonetheless go to Wimbledon Excessive Faculty, I wish to keep there so long as I can, it is good to have buddies outdoors tennis.
“It is getting fairly powerful now however I’ll try to keep so long as potential. I take my pc away with me and keep in contact with my lecturers.
“I wish to get my GCSEs at college for certain however that is thus far forward. I do not actually wish to go on to school however we are going to see the way it goes, for now I wish to go skilled.”
Fran Jones joined fellow Brit Amarni Banks within the subsequent spherical however Harriet Dart and Katie Swan each exited
In Thursday’s different matches, British No 3 Harriet Dart went all the way down to a shock 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 loss to fellow Brit Amarni Banks, whereas Fran Jones got here via a gruelling encounter to defeat Elena Malogina of Estonia 3-6 6-1 7-6 (7-3), however Katie Swan misplaced 7-5 6-2 to Dutch participant Suzan Lamens.