Qualifying: Mimi Xu into second round of qualifying<\/p>\n
The qualifying stages began at the Lexus Birmingham Open with Mimi Xu<\/a> getting off to a winning start.<\/p>\n However, it wasn’t to be for Heather Watson<\/a>, Jodie Burrage<\/a>, Hannah Klugman<\/a>, Emily Appleton<\/a>, Lily Miyazaki<\/a> and Victoria Allen who all lost out in the second round of qualifying for the WTA 250 event.<\/p>\n Xu, who made her debut on grass at this event last year, held her nerve against Canadian Kayla Cross, eventually winning 6-3, 5-7, 6-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n The 18-year-old will face former world No.40 Tereza\u00a0Martincova in a bid to reach the main draw.<\/p>\n Watson\u00a0narrowly missed out on a spot in the second round of qualifying after a 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 defeat to 11th seed Viktoria Hruncakova.<\/p>\n Burrage\u00a0also lost out in a three set battle – 2025 champion Greet Minnen won their match 6-7(3), 7-6(6), 6-1.<\/p>\n Elsewhere,\u00a0Klugman,\u00a0Appleton,\u00a0Miyazaki\u00a0and Allen\u00a0all lost out in straight sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qualifying: Mimi Xu into second round of qualifying The qualifying stages began at the Lexus Birmingham Open with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}