Britain’s young tennis star Hannah Klugman has achieved a milestone of surpassing America’s Coco Gauff’s record.
The 14-year-old becomes the youngest player in history to qualify for an ITF W100 event with her impressive run of form.
Recently, she broke the record and became the youngest player to qualify for the US Open Junior quarterfinal.
Klugman has also won the British national championship U16 and U18 levels, showing her class over and over again.
She has already climbed to number 16 in the ITF junior’s rankings and after qualifying for the recent event, she is likely to improve her rankings.
Klugman defeated Czech Republic’s Aneta Laboutkova in the first phase of the qualifying round of the event with a score of 6-2, 6-1.
Later, she went on to get the better of Turkey’s Pemra Ozgen in the second qualifying round of the competition with a score of 6-4, 6-3.
Klugman has already won the first-round clash of the tournament against Poland’s Gina Feistel in straight sets with a score of 6-3, 7-5. She is now set to face off against Yuriko Miyazaki in the round of 32 clash on Wednesday.
Another record on the #ITFWorldTennisTour 🚨 Junior World No. 16 Hannah Klugman reached the quarter-finals of the girls’ singles @usopen and is now the youngest player to qualify for an ITF W100 event 👏 Hannah's run at W100 Shrewsbury 👉 bit.ly/46xLNk0
