Fifteen-year-old British hopeful Mika Stojsavljevic was denied a first-ever WTA win as she misplaced an exhilarating match towards Moyuka Uchijima 6-4 6-7 (7-9) 7-6 (8-6) in Tokyo.
Stojsavljevic is the reigning US Open women champion however was handed a tricky draw on the Pan Pacific Open towards Japan’s Uchijima, the world No 57 – an entire 576 locations larger than her within the WTA rankings.
{The teenager}, who discovered herself a break of serve up in all three units, needed to save 5 match factors in complete by way of the first-round contest earlier than lastly succumbing to the sixth.
Three of these match factors had been saved within the second set as Stojsavljevic battled again to drive a decider, taking the tie-break 9-7.
The Briton then raced out of the blocks and right into a 5-2 lead within the third set, earlier than she was damaged, crucially, when serving for the match, with Uchijima happening to take the deciding tie-break and the match in just below three hours on courtroom.
Had she gained, Stojsavljevic would have risen virtually 200 locations within the WTA rankings and secured a second-round assembly with prime seed and Olympic champion Qinwen Zheng.
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Stojsavljevic was in jubilant temper after beating Sonobe Wakana to win the ladies’ US Open earlier this 12 months
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