Teenage SA tennis star Isabella Kruger has lost her quarter-final match at Junior Wimbledon against her 15-year-old Canadian opponent. Photo: Twitter @TennisSA
BREAKING: Daughter of Springbok legend BEATEN in Junior Wimbledon quarter-finals
Teenage SA tennis star Isabella Kruger has lost her quarter-final match at Junior Wimbledon against her 15-year-old Canadian opponent.
Teenage SA tennis star Isabella Kruger has lost her quarter-final match at Junior Wimbledon against her 15-year-old Canadian opponent. Photo: Twitter @TennisSA
Rising South African teenage tennis star Isabella Kruger has lost her quarter-final match at the Junior Wimbledon Championships against her 15-year-old Canadian opponent.
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Seventeen-year-old Kruger, who had to qualify for the tournament, went down 0-6, 7-5, 6-4 against fifth-seeded Victoria Mboko.
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Kruger had beaten British wild card Mingge Xu 6-4, 6-3 on Wednesday to book her place in the last eight of the Wimbledon Girls’ Singles.
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Earlier in the tournament, Kruger beat American Sonya Macavei 7-5, 5-7, 6-2 in the first round before shocking Slovakian fourth seed Nikola Daubnerova 6-4, 6-7 (4/7), 6-2 in her second round clash.
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Kruger’s 19-year-old sister, Zoe, is also a professional tennis player.
Zoe and Isabella Kruger are the daughters of the late Ruben Kruger
Their father was former Springbok great Ruben Kruger.
Ruben Kruger was part of the Springbok team that memorably won the 1995 Rugby World Cup on home soil.
He tragically died at age 39 in 2010 after battling brain cancer.
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