Mika Stojsavljevic

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Mika Stojsavljevic
Country (sports)Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Residence Ealing, London
Born (2008-12-15) 15 December 2008 (age 17)
Prize moneyUS$168,306
Singles
Career record40–28
Career titles2 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 279 (19 January 2026)
Current rankingNo. 279 (19 January 2026)
Grand Slam singles results
Wimbledon 1R (2025)
Australian Open  Junior1R (2025)
French Open  Junior1R (2024)
Wimbledon  JuniorQF (2023)
US Open  JuniorW (2024)
Doubles
Career record12–10
Career titles1 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 461 (15 December 2025)
Current rankingNo. 461 (15 December 2025)
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon 1R (2025)
Australian Open  JuniorQF (2025)
French Open  Junior3R (2024)
Wimbledon  JuniorF (2024)
US Open  JuniorQF (2024)
Last updated on: 27 October 2025.

Mika Stojsavljevic (born 15 December 2008) is a British tennis player. She won the girls' singles title at the 2024 US Open.

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Early life

Stojsavljevic was born in the UK to a Serbian father from Velika Popina in Croatia and a Polish mother from Warsaw. [1] She was raised in Ealing, where she attended St Benedict's School. She later moved to train at the LTA national academy in Loughborough, and currently attends Loughborough Amherst School. [1] [2] [3] [4] Growing up, she idolised Maria Sharapova. [5]

Career

Junior career

2023: Wimbledon singles quarterfinal

In April 2023, she reached the final of the LTA national junior championships where she lost to Hannah Klugman. [6] [7]

Competing as a 14 year-old at the Girls' singles of the 2023 Wimbledon Championships, Stojsavljevic secured a big win over the fourth seed and French Open junior finalist Lucciana Pérez Alarcón, and Australian 14th seed Emerson Jones, reaching the quarter-finals. [8] [9]

Juniors major success: US Open singles title, Wimbledon doubles final

In April 2024, Stojsavljevic and Mimi Xu paired up to win 6–2, 1–6, 12–10 over Flora Johnson & Allegra Korpanec Davies in the girls doubles at the U18 Junior Nationals Championship. On the same day, Xu defeated Stojsavljevic in the semi finals of the girls singles. [10] In June 2024, playing alongside Xu, Stojsavljevic reached the final of the girls' doubles at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, after a win over top seeds and defending champions, Alena Kovackova and Laura Samson in the quarter-finals and a straight sets win over Julia Stusek and Julie Pastikova in the semi final. [11] [12] In the final they lost on a championship tie break to Tyra Caterina Grant and Iva Jovic of the United States. [13]

Alongside Mingge Xu she reached the quarter-finals of the Girls' doubles at the 2024 US Open. [14] [15] Completing in the Girls' singles of the 2024 US Open, she defeated top seed Emerson Jones and third seed Iva Jovic to reach the final, where she defeated Wakana Sonobe of Japan in straight sets. [16] [17] [18] In doing so, she became the first British player to win the girls' singles final at the US Open since Heather Watson in 2009. [16]

In October, Stojsavljevic finished fourth in the girls' singles at the ITF World Tour Junior Finals in Chengdou, China, which was the best result by a Briton at the event since Katie Swan finished runner-up in 2016. [19]

2024: Turning Pro, WTA debut

In April 2024, aged 15 years-old, Stojsavljevic defeated two-time Wimbledon quarterfinalist Tamira Paszek 7–6, 6–4 to reach the W35 Nottingham ITF singles final. She went on to win her first ITF singles title by overcoming Julie Belgraver of France 7–6, 6–3 in the final. [20]

In June 2024, she was awarded a wildcard into qualifying for the singles of the 2024 Wimbledon Championships [21] but lost her first round match to Selena Janicijevic. [22]

In October 2024, Stojsavljevic was given a wildcard entry to the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, losing in the first round to world number 57 Moyuka Uchijima in a deciding set tie-break. [23] [24] [25]

2025: Major debut

Stojsavljevic was awarded a wildcard to make her major tournament main-draw debut at Wimbledon, [26] losing to 31st seed Ashlyn Krueger in the first round. [27]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-up)

Legend
W35 tournaments (2–1)
W100 tournaments (0-1)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–2)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0 Apr 2024 ITF Nottingham, United KingdomW35Hard Flag of France.svg Julie Belgraver 7–6(7), 6–3
Loss1–1 Sep 2025 ITF Monastir, TunisiaW35Hard Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Vendula Valdmannová 1–6, 1–6
Win2–1 Oct 2025 ITF Birmingham, United KingdomW35Hard Flag of Slovakia.svg Katarína Kužmová 6–4, 6–0
Loss2–2 Oct 2025 Wrexham Open, UKW100Hard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Mimi Xu 3-6, 5-7

Doubles: 1 (title)

Legend
W35 tournaments (1–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentScore
Win1–0 Sep 2025 ITF Monastir, TunisiaW35Hard Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Vendula Valdmannová Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lauryn John-Baptiste
Flag of Egypt.svg Sandra Samir
6–4, 6–4

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (title)

ResultYearTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Win 2024 US Open Hard Flag of Japan.svg Wakana Sonobe 6–4, 6–4

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss 2024 Wimbledon Grass Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Mimi Xu Flag of the United States.svg Tyra Caterina Grant
Flag of the United States.svg Iva Jovic
5–7, 6–4, [8–10]

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