While a 37-year-old is currently the last German representative in the women’s singles at the Grand Slam in Wimbledon with Laura Siegemund, away from the very big stage, a 14-year-old is aiming to advance to the tennis elite: Ida Wobkers ITF career is just 14 matches, eleven, however. The last on Thursday.
Next exclamation mark by Ida Wobker! The 14-year-old German reached the quarter-finals at the W35 tournament in Stuttgart-Vaihingen in an impressive manner.
Wobker, who benefited from the task of her Greek opponent Sapfo Sakellaridi (number 353 of the world rankings) in the first round, swept in the round of 16 DTB colleague Stephanie Wagner with 6: 3 and 6: 1 from Court. Wagner ranks to position 513 in the WTA ranking.
Wobker only allowed a break chance throughout the game and only had to give up her service, otherwise the top talent served strongly in close situations.
Wobker made his debut on the ITF tour in April and immediately reached the semi-finals in Antalya (W15). This was followed by a quarter-finals in Estepona (W15) and recently the first final in Kamen (W15), which she lost to 15-year-old Mariella Thamm.
Definitely four Germans in the quarter -finals
Wobker could also have met in quarter-finals from Stuttgart-Vaihingen on the same. Thamm (number 684 of the world rankings), who achieved a surprise at the start against the top seed Russian Ekaterina Makarova (number 218 of the world rankings), but also lost her round of 16 against Emily Seibold (number 595 of the world rankings), also a German player.
From a German perspective, 18-year-old Valentina Steiner (number 750 of the world rankings), who, through a victory over the American Rasheda McAdoo (number 532 of the world rankings), also came into the qualification for the semi-finals in Swabia, and Noma Noha Akugue (number 261 in the world rankings) with Marie Voigt (number 536 of the world rankings) clearly won.