Gold Coast expertise Emerson Jones cruises into the second spherical of the Wimbledon 2024 ladies’ singles competitors.
London, Nice Britain, 9 July 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Emerson Jones has made a promising begin to her marketing campaign within the Wimbledon 2024 ladies’ singles competitors.
The highest-ranked Australian junior wanted solely 57 minutes to file a 6-1 6-2 victory towards Japanese qualifier Shiho Tsujioka in opening-round motion right this moment on the All England Membership.
“Clearly first spherical at Wimby, it’s a bit nerve-wracking,” Jones mentioned.
“However I assumed I dealt with myself fairly effectively. I performed fairly strong and simply the best way I wanted to towards her.”
Jones, who celebrated her sixteenth birthday earlier this week, is the highest-seeded Australian in a Wimbledon ladies’ singles attract 26 years.
Nevertheless, the third seed isn’t too nervous about her place within the draw.
“I don’t actually free any strain,” mentioned Jones, who made the women’ singles third spherical in her Wimbledon debut final yr. “I simply must play whoever is in entrance of me as a result of everybody is basically good right here, it’s a excessive stage.”
The Nationwide Tennis Academy athlete famous that’s the greatest lesson she has learnt to this point in a shocking 2024 season.
“I all the time used to fret a bit an excessive amount of about who I might be taking part in and what my draw is like,” she defined. “However once you’re taking part in in large tournaments everybody is basically good, so I’m solely worrying about who’s in entrance of me.”
Jones subsequent faces 17-year-old Czech Eliska Tichackova, who she scored a three-set victory towards throughout a title-winning run at an ITF J500 clay-court event in Milan throughout Might.
The promising Gold Coast athlete is trying to construct on her distinctive outcomes already this yr, which embody turning into the primary Aussie to achieve an Australian Open ladies’ singles closing in 16 years and peaking at world No.2 within the ITF junior rankings.
Jones’ older brother, 17-year-old Hayden, has additionally progressed to the second spherical within the Wimbledon boys’ singles competitors.
> READ: Aussie junior Hayden Jones scores milestone win at Wimbledon 2024
Aussies in motion – Wimbledon
RESULTS
Ladies’ singles, first spherical
[3] Emerson Jones (AUS) d [Q] Shiho Tsujioka (JPN) 6-1 6-2
COMING UP
Boys’ singles, second spherical
[7] Hayden Jones (AUS) v Mees Rottgering (NED)
Ladies’ singles, second spherical
[3] Emerson Jones (AUS) v Eliska Tichackova (CZE)
Boys’ doubles, first spherical
Hayden Jones (AUS)/Pavle Marinkov (AUS) v [5] Marko Maksimovic (SRB)/Theo Papamalamis (FRA) 2-6 3-5 to complete
Ladies’ doubles, first spherical
[6] Emerson Jones (AUS)/Vittoria Paganetti (ITA) v Eliska Tichackova (CZE)/Lucie Urbanova (CZE)
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