At 14 years and 8 months, the young tennis player won her first professional tournament, the ITF tournament in Monastir, Tunisia.
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French sport has a new phenomenon of precocity in its ranks. Ksenia Efremova won the first tournament of her young career on Sunday December 31. At just 14 years, 8 months and 3 days old, the very young hopeful won the title in Monastir, Tunisia, a competition counting for the ITF circuit, a secondary circuit to the WTA. No player since 2003, and the Bulgarian Sesil Karatantcheva had won her first tournament at such a young age, the promise of a future that some already believe is bright.
Efremova defeated the German Selina Dal in the final (7-6, 6-0), after a stunning performance since she was led 4-1, then 5-3 during the first set, before winning ten of the following eleven games.
The performance is all the more remarkable because, in addition to its young age, the Habs dismissed the seeds 1, 4, 5 and 6 – without losing a single set – during the tournament to lift their first trophy.
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A great hope in world tennis, Ksenia Efremova, of Russian origin, obtained French nationality last June after spending the last four years in France. She trains in the academy of Patrick Mouratoglou, former coach of Serena Williams, who said he was convinced that his protégé would “win titles for France” last October on Télématin. “I would like to win all the tournaments, all the Grand Slams, become world number one and a tennis legend“, assured the teenager to Brut.