Hannah Klugman

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Hannah Klugman
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Klugman at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Residence Wimbledon
Born (2009-02-18) 18 February 2009 (age 15)
PlaysRight-handed
CoachBen Haran
Prize money$69,480
Singles
Career record20–15 [a]
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 510 (14 October 2024)
Current rankingNo. 571 (27 January 2025)
Grand Slam singles results
Wimbledon Q3 (2024)
Australian Open  Junior3R (2024, 2025)
French Open  Junior2R (2023, 2024)
Wimbledon  Junior3R (2023)
US Open  JuniorQF (2023)
Doubles
Career record5–4 [a]
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 601 (28 October 2024)
Current rankingNo. 662 (27 January 2025)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open  JuniorF (2025)
French Open  JuniorQF (2024)
Wimbledon  JuniorF (2023)
US Open  JuniorSF (2024)
Last updated on: 27 January 2025.

Hannah Klugman (born 18 February 2009) [1] is a British professional tennis player. She has a career high singles ranking of 510 achieved on 14 October 2024. [2] [3]

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Early life

Klugman was born in Kingston-upon-Thames and brought up in Wimbledon Village, where she was introduced to tennis at the Westside Club. [4] [5] [6] Her first coach was Alison Taylor, wife of former Wimbledon semi-finalist Roger Taylor. She began training under Ben Haran from the age of nine. [7] She is the youngest of four girls, and was inspired to take up tennis by her older sisters. [5]

Klugman also took part in field hockey, netball, swimming and running during her childhood. Following the end of the COVID-19 lockdown, she opted to focus solely on tennis. [8] In October 2023, Klugman reiterated her desire to stay at Wimbledon High School to complete her GCSEs. [9] However, she switched to online learning a few months later. [10]

Career

Klugman has been coached by Ben Haran in Reeds Tennis School in Cobham since she was nine years old. [11] Haran has previously worked with British tennis professionals Jack Draper and Dan Evans. [12]

2022

Klugman made her debut on the ITF junior circuit at the J3 event in Loughborough in March, which she won. Aged 13 years and one month, this made her the youngest British winner of a J3 event or above – eclipsing an earlier success of Emma Raducanu, who had won a lower-graded J5 at a similar age. [8] She won a second J3 in Loughborough the following week, this time without dropping a set. [8] In December, she reached the final of the U14 Orange Bowl. [13]

2023

In April 2023, Klugman defeated Mika Stojsavljevic to win the LTA Junior National Championships under-16 girls' singles, held at the LTA's National Tennis Centre in Roehampton. [14]

Later that year at the age of 14 years-old, she recorded her first career win in a junior singles grand slam singles event when she recorded a victory over the seeded Italian Federica Urgesi at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships. [15] In the girls' doubles event at the tournament, she and teammate Isabelle Lacy started their campaign with a win over Emerson Jones and Ema Milic. [16] They progressed through the rounds to reach the final of the girls' singles, beating American pair Tatum Evans and Alanis Hamilton in straight sets in the semi-final. [17] In the final, they were defeated by Czech pair Alena Kovačková and Laura Samsonová in straight sets. [18]

In September 2023, Klugman reached the quarterfinals of the girls’ singles and girls' doubles at the 2023 US Open. [19] Her run included a win over third seed Sayaka Ishii. [20] Her run was ended when she had to retire from her quarterfinal match after 47 minutes. [21]

In October 2023, she competed against senior players in Shrewsbury, England after being given a wild card into qualifying. [22] She came through qualifying and aged 14 years-old, she became the youngest player to qualify for a $100,000 event on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, beating the record set by Coco Gauff. [23] [24] She reached the quarterfinals in Shrewsbury before her run was ended by world no. 115 Oceane Dodin. [25]

In December 2023, Klugman, still only 14 year-old, won the under-18 Orange Bowl in Florida, beating Laura Samsonová in the quarter-finals and fourth seed Iva Jovic in the last four, before defeating American Tyra Caterina Grant 6-3 6-3 in the final. [26]

2024

In January 2024, Klugman entered the junior events at the 2024 Australian Open. [27] She reached the semifinals of the Girls' doubles alongside Mingge Xu. [28]

In June 2024, she was awarded a wild card into qualifying for the singles of the 2024 Wimbledon Championships. [29] In the first round she defeated Petra Marčinko, and in the second round Linda Fruhvirtová. [30] She lost in the final qualifying round to American Alycia Parks. [31]

In October 2024, she partnered with Ranah Stoiber to reach the final of the 2024 GB Pro-Series event in Shrewsbury where they faced Mingge Xu and Amelia Rajecki. [32] They lost in straight sets. [33]

2025

In January 2025, she reached the final of the girls' doubles at the 2025 Australian Open alongside Emerson Jones. In the final they lost in straight sets to American twins Annika and Kristina Penickova. [34] [35]

ITF Circuit finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

Legend
W100 tournaments (1–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1 Oct 2024 GB Pro-Series Shrewsbury, United KingdomW100Hard (i) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Ranah Akua Stoiber Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Amelia Rajecki
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Mingge Xu 		4–6, 1–6

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 2 (runner-up)

ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentScore
Loss 2023 Wimbledon Grass Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Isabelle Lacy Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Alena Kovačková
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Laura Samsonová 		4-6, 5-7
Loss 2025 Australian Open Hard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Emerson Jones Flag of the United States.svg Annika Penickova
Flag of the United States.svg Kristina Penickova 		4-6, 2-6

Notes

  1. 1 2 In WTA Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches

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