Mingge Xu

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Mingge Xu
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Full nameMingge Olivia Xu
Country (sports)Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Born (2007-10-02) 2 October 2007 (age 17) [1]
Prize money$70,349
Singles
Career record29–23
Career titles1 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 442 (21 October 2024)
Current rankingNo. 506 (11 November 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open  JuniorQF (2024)
French Open  Junior2R (2024)
Wimbledon  Junior3R (2023)
US Open  JuniorSF (2024)
Doubles
Career record23–9
Career titles4 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 293 (4 November 2024)
Current rankingNo. 298 (11 November 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open  JuniorSF (2024)
French Open  JuniorQF (2023)
Wimbledon  JuniorF (2024)
US Open  JuniorQF (2023, 2024)
Last updated on: 11 November 2024.

Mingge Olivia "Mimi" Xu (born 2 October 2007) is a British tennis player. [2] [3]

Contents

Early life

From Swansea, South Wales, [4] [5] Xu started playing tennis at the Swansea Tennis and Squash Club, before moving to the National Tennis Academy in Loughborough. [6] She then moved to the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton where she started to be coached by Mathew James. [7]

Career

At the 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' singles, Xu lost in three sets in the first round to fourth seed Polina Kudermetova.

In June 2022, Xu won the Junior Girls title at the LTA Junior National Championships, beating Talia Neilson-Gatenby 6-4, 7-5 in the final at the National Tennis Centre. [8] Aged 14, she had also won the under-16 British title earlier that same month. [9] Winning the British junior title granted her a wildcard into qualifying for the main draw of the 2022 Wimbledon Championships and at 14, she would have been the youngest qualifier in the Open era. However, she was defeated by 800+ places higher ranked Hanna Chang of the USA in the first round. [10] In the Wimbledon Championships junior girls' singles competition, she reached the last-16 in both 2022 and 2023. She also made the doubles quarterfinals at the French Open and US Open in 2023. [7]

She reached the quarterfinals of the girls' singles at the 2024 Australian Open, [11] and made the semifinals of the girls' doubles alongside Hannah Klugman. [12]

In April 2024, Xu and Mika Stojsavljevic 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 to reach the final of the girls' singles. In the singles final, she defeated Hannah Klugman 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 to win the U18 national title. [13] In June 2024, she was awarded a wildcard into qualifying for the singles of the 2024 Wimbledon Championships. [14] As a result, she broke into the top 10 of the junior rankings for the first time. [15]

Playing alongside Stojsavljevic, she reached the final of the girls' doubles at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, after a win over top seeds and defending champions, Alena Kovačková and Laura Samson, in the quarterfinals and a straight-sets win over Julia Stusek and Julie Pastioka in the semifinals. [16] [17] In the final, they lost on a championship tiebreak to Tyra Caterina Grant and Iva Jovic of the United States. [18] She reached the semifinals of the girls' singles at the 2024 US Open. [19]

Partnering with Amelia Rajecki, Xu won the doubles title at the ITF W100 Shrewsbury in October 2024, defeating fellow Britons Hannah Klugman and Ranah Stoiber in the final. [20]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 1 (title)

Legend
W35 tournaments (1–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0 Aug 2024 ITF Aldershot, United KingdomW35Hard Flag of the United States.svg Haley Giavara 6–4, 6–1

Doubles: 5 (4 titles, 1 runner-up)

Legend
W100 tournaments
W50 tournaments
W35 tournaments
W15 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (4–1)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–0 Mar 2024 ITF Monastir, TunisiaW15Hard Flag of Slovakia.svg Radka Zelníčková Flag of Serbia.svg Elena Milovanović
Flag of Austria.svg Tamira Paszek 		2–6, 6–2, [10–6]
Loss1–1 Jul 2024 ITF Nottingham, United KingdomW50Hard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Katie Swan Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Naiktha Bains
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Amelia Rajecki 		6–1, 4–6, [8–10]
Win2–1 Aug 2024 ITF Aldershot, United KingdomW35Hard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Naiktha Bains Flag of Thailand.svg Punnin Kovapitukted
Flag of Japan.svg Akiko Omae 		6–4, 6–3
Win3–1 Oct 2024 ITF Reims, FranceW35Hard (i) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Sarah Beth Grey Flag placeholder.svg Ekaterina Ovcharenko
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Emily Webley-Smith 		6–3, 6–1
Win4–1 Oct 2024 GB Pro-Series Shrewsbury, United KingdomW100Hard (i) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Amelia Rajecki Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Hannah Klugman
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Ranah Akua Stoiber 		6–4, 6–1

Junior Grand Slam tournament finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

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