{"id":626731,"date":"2026-06-08T00:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626731\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T00:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:18:13","slug":"mimi-xu-expectation-a-privilege-for-wales-teenage-tennis-star-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626731\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimi Xu: Expectation a privilege for Wales&#8217; teenage tennis star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Xu is likely to play in qualifiers at Ilkley, Nottingham, Eastbourne and Roehampton, but the postcode she would truly love to return to is SW19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Wimbledon is a very special tournament and one every British player dreams of competing in,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Right now my focus is on preparing well, staying healthy, and taking things one match at a time. If I do that, hopefully the opportunities will come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year Xu was awarded a wildcard to play at the All England Club, but this year she may have to work her way through qualifying, something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/61865837\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she got a taste of at just 14 years old.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Last year was an unforgettable experience. Making my Wimbledon debut was something I had dreamed about for a very long time,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The atmosphere, the occasion and the support I felt was incredible. To return to SW19 would mean a lot, and hopefully I can use last year&#8217;s experience to feel even more comfortable if I get that opportunity again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xu is likely to play in qualifiers at Ilkley, Nottingham, Eastbourne and Roehampton, but the postcode she would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-626731","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\/626731","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=626731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}