British teenager Mika Stojsavljevic claimed her first WTA Tour main-draw victory on November 4, defeating Sofia Kenin 6–3, 4–6, 6–4 in the first round of the Hong Kong Tennis Open.
The 17-year-old entered the draw as a lucky loser after losing in qualifying. She took the opening set and led the second 3–0, but Kenin recovered to force a decider, the WTA reported.
Stojsavljevic regrouped to win the third set 6–4. Tennis.com’s completed match record confirms the three-set score on Centre Court.
The result came at her sixth attempt to win a WTA main-draw match, according to the tour. It takes her into the last 16 of the WTA 250 event, ending Kenin’s singles campaign in Hong Kong.
Archive illustrative photograph (2010): wooden and carbon-fibre tennis rackets. Not from the Hong Kong match. Photo: “Wood and CFRP tennis rackets” by CORE-Materials, courtesy of Prof Claire Davis, School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, CC BY 2.0. Display may resize or crop the image.
