While she was booked on a flight later Sunday night, Efremova still had time to enjoy one key aspect of Melbourne culture.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I had already time to visit Melbourne Zoo. It was very nice. I saw a lot of gorillas, which I made some good video. I was happy with that,\u201d she revealed.<\/p>\n
The junior AO champion now has her sights set on the WTA Tour but knows she has to pick her tournaments wisely because of age restrictions on juniors.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, for sure, definitely I would play some pro tournaments more. The thing is \u2026 they have limitation of playing unlimited tournaments,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo for sure I’m going to continue to play Grand Slam juniors, some big tournaments, and more focus on the pros. Now I’m going to, for example, play 125K [tournament] in Paris, WTA, which is going to be a good tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n
Currently ranked No. 583 on the WTA tour, Efremova already has huge ambitions for 2026 and beyond.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be ready for the next year, my goal is to become top 200 to enter the [qualifications], you know, of the Grand Slams and, of course, of all other tournaments,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The daughter of former professional tennis player Julia Efremova and former amateur player Alexey Efremov, she has been in the spotlight from an early age.<\/p>\n
Training at the world famous Mouratoglou Academy since 2019, Efremova was competing in the 14-year-old age group as an 11-year-old, winning the Tim Essonne Cup, one of the most prestigious trophies in the under 14 circuit, in 2022.<\/p>\n
Now a junior AO champion and having won 27 of her last 29 matches, Efremova is a player on the rise and one to earmark as a future star of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While she was booked on a flight later Sunday night, Efremova still had time to enjoy one key…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-445029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}