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 15)
Singles
Career record0–0
Career titles0
1 ITF
Grand Slam singles results
French Open  Junior1R (2024)
Wimbledon  JuniorQF (2023)
US Open  JuniorW (2024)
Doubles
Career record0–0
Career titles0
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open  Junior3R (2024)
Wimbledon  JuniorF (2024)
US Open  JuniorQF (2024)
Last updated on: 7 September 2024.

Mika Stojsavljevic (born 15 December 2008) is a British tennis player. She won the girls' singles title at the 2024 US Open. [1]

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Early life

Stojsavljevic was born to a Serbian father from Velika Popina in Croatia and a Polish mother from Warsaw. [2] She was raised in Ealing, where she attended St Benedict's School. She later trained at the LTA national academy in Loughborough. [2] [3] [4] She attends Loughborough Amherst School. [5] Growing up, she idolised Maria Sharapova. [6]

Career

Junior career

2023

In April 2023, she reached the final of the LTA national junior championships where she lost to Hannah Klugman. [7] [8]

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. [9] [10]

2024

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. [11] 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. [12] [13] In the final they lost on a championship tie break to Tyra Caterina Grant and Iva Jovic of the United States. [14]

Alongside Mingge Xu she reached the quarter-finals of the Girls' doubles at the 2024 US Open. [15] [16] 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 Sanobe of Japan in straight sets. [17] In doing so, she became the first British player to win the girls' singles final at the US Open since Heather Watson in 2009. [18]

Senior career

In April 2024, aged 15 years-old, Stojsavljevic defeated two-time Wimbledon quarter finalist 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. [19]

In June 2024, she was awarded a wildcard into qualifying for the singles of the 2024 Wimbledon Championships [20] but lost her first round match to Selena Janicijevic. [21]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Legend
W25/35 tournaments
W15 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0Apr 2024ITF Nottingham, United KingdomW35Hard Flag of France.svg Julie Belgraver 7–6(7), 6–3

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

ResultYearTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Win 2024 US Open Hard Flag of Japan.svg Wakana Sonobe6–4, 6–4

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss 2024 Wimbledon Grass Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Mingge 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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