{"id":665439,"date":"2026-06-30T04:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/665439\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:03:10","slug":"wimbledon-2026-mimi-xu-proud-of-her-fight-after-first-round-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/665439\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2026: Mimi Xu proud of her fight after first round defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wimbledon wild card Mimi Xu says she was proud of her fight after pushing Daria Kasatkina to a third-set decider on the opening day of the championship. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 18-year-old from Swansea was always up against it having drawn a former quarter-finalist ranked some 259 places above her. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And the Australian, making her ninth appearance at SW19, raced into a first-set lead as Xu struggled to find her rhythm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She just settled into the match better than I did, I was trying to do the right things but I just had that feeling on my racket,&#8221; said Xu. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After leaving the court, the teenager returned transformed and won the second set 6-3 to set up the decider, which Kasatkina won 6-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Xu, playing in only her second Grand Slam, was quick to find the positives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m proud of myself on how I was able to forget about the first set, forget about that disappointment and refocus and go again,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Her experience definitely showed in the tighter moments, but I I fought really well and I&#8217;m able to take my experiences from last year and this year into hopefully following years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wimbledon wild card Mimi Xu says she was proud of her fight after pushing Daria Kasatkina to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-665439","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\/665439","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=665439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}