French tennis is looking for its new one Marion Bartoli or Mary Pierce, their last Grand Slam champions (Wimbledon 2013) and Roland Garros (2000), respectively. In recent memory there are too Amelie Mauresmowho reigned at Wimbledon, or who is still active Caroline Garciachampion of the 2022 WTA Finals, who at 30 years old is the best ranking in the ranking, 26th.
You have to go down to the 47th position to find Clara Burel, 22 years old. A younger one is Diane Parry61st.
Each edition of Roland Garros is a local sigh for having a queen at home. That doesn’t help either Yannick Noah He was the last local man to win, in 1983.
The financial resources managed by the French Federation (FFT) are millions thanks to a Grand Slam that also offers ideal facilities.
However, the new gem of the French quarry comes from Russia. She has had a French passport since November, when she announced that from then on she would compete individually and in teams as a Frenchwoman. He lived near Nice, with his mother and former tennis player Julia Efremova, a mentor from his childhood who failed to succeed on the professional circuit, which he abandoned in 2009. His brothers Alexei and Vladimir have also become naturalized. The father died in his country of origin, Alexeicancer victim.
Ksenia Efremova He arrived in France in 2019. At 14 (he will be 15 on April 29), this season he became the youngest champion of a professional tournament in twenty years.
He won the W15 tournament in Monastir, winning all seven matches in two sets. In 2013 he was a finalist in the under-14 Les Petits As in Tarbes. He made his junior Grand Slam debut at the last Australian Open, which he entered with an invitation from the exchange of the Australian and French federations. They lost in the quarterfinals to the then Czech champion, 16, Renata Jamrichova.
Efremova entered the academy group Patrick Mouratoglouformer of Serena Williams and currently manages Danish Holger Rune. It is in the area where the Russians are moving Daniel Medvedevwith whom he was at war.
This generates a lot of expectations in a country always in need of glory. At 14 years, 8 months and 3 days old, he is the fifth youngest champion of an ITF tournament (the Third Division, the first step to access the professionals).
In 2003 there was a poker game for 14-year-old players: the Bulgarian Sesil Karatantcheva (14, 1 month and 20 days), the Russian Alisa Kleybanova (14, 1 month and 23 days), the Swiss Timea Bacsinzky (14 and 2 months) and the Czech Nicole Vaidisova (14 and 5 months).
Another pearl of the racket that follows.
His former Russian compatriot Mirra Andreeva, world number 38 at 16 years old, also chose the Côte d’Azur. Not like that Alina Korneevaanother young prodigy who has just chosen the Rafa Nadal Academy in Manacor as his base.
Source: La Verdad
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