Next tournament victory for Lilli Tagger – Diepresse.com
The East Tyrolean Lilli Tagger, 17, succeeds the next self-confirmation with the triumph at the ITF event in Plovdiv.
Austria’s new tennis star shines: Lilli Tagger celebrates her second tournament victory. At the end of March, Austria’s young people, 17, won the first international women’s title. The East Tyrolean beat in the final of the ITF-W35-Sandplatz event in Terrassa Spanish position the French woman Lois Boisson set at position 7: 6, 6: 3. The protégé of ex-French Open winner Francesca Schiavone was thus the youngest Austrian winner of a $ 25,000 prize money tournament since Tamira Paszek in 2005.
Two weeks later, Tagger triumphed on Saturday at the ITF-J300 tournament in Plovdiv. As top seeds, she gave the competition in the southern Bulgarian city no chance, gave only a single sentence in her five encounters on the way to the title and defeated the Russian Ekaterina Tupitsyna 6: 4, 6: 3 in the final. It also moves into the top 20 of the ITF junior ranking for the first time.
In the live ranking of the WTA-Ranation list is the 17-year-old in position 563.
A double victory
Lucas Miedler And the Portuguese Francisco Cabral brought the double title at the Tennis Challenger in Madrid on Sunday. The duo prevailed 7: 6 (2), 6: 4 against Jakub Paul/David Pel in the final of the 100 event. Most recently in Marrakech, Miedler/Cabral of the Swiss-Dutch pairing were still inferior. (Red.)
