{"id":243118,"date":"2025-10-27T01:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/243118\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T01:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:24:09","slug":"wrexham-open-mimi-xu-secures-singles-and-doubles-titles-on-same-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/243118\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham Open: Mimi Xu secures singles and doubles titles on same day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh teenager Mimi Xu secured the biggest victory of her career so far by beating Mika Stojsavljevic to win the Lexus Wrexham Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Xu defeated her fellow British teenager and former Junior Billie Jean King Cup team-mate 6-3 7-5 in the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Later in the day Xu teamed up with Ella McDonald to win the doubles title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the singles final, the 18-year-old from Swansea made a strong start, winning five games in a row and breaking three times to storm out to a 5-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stojsavljevic proved more solid on serve in the second set and the young Brit saved seven break points to stay in contention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, with the scores locked at 5-5, Xu managed to seal the all-important break before serving out a landmark victory on her third match point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s honestly felt amazing,&#8221; said Xu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been so good, the atmosphere, the crowd, the environment, I&#8217;ve loved every minute of it. I honestly have no words to describe how I feel at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welsh teenager Mimi Xu secured the biggest victory of her career so far by beating Mika Stojsavljevic to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-243118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}