Wimbledon 2025: Mimi Xu insists she has received ‘a very good probability’ in opposition to Emma Raducanu in first-round conflict | Tennis Information

British teenager Mimi Xu is concentrating on a serious upset when she performs Emma Raducanu within the first spherical of Wimbledon.

Xu, 17, is ranked No 302 on this planet and was a wild card entrant to the Wimbledon championships.

Trying ahead to her conflict with former US Open champion Raducanu, the Welsh teen stated: “I really feel like I am actually prepared for it. I am actually excited for it. Clearly she’s performed so properly in her profession and I am firstly of mine.

“So I believe it is going to be a extremely good take a look at for me, actually good alternative for me to only exit and play and have enjoyable. I believe she’s a extremely good function mannequin to have.”

However her admiration for Raducanu will not forestall her from pushing for victory.

“I have been taking part in rather well,” she stated. “So I believe my sport actually fits grass. I am actually assured in my sport in the meanwhile.

“I will go on the market, take pleasure in each second, give it a very good go. And I consider I’ve received a very good probability if I do all that.”

They’re aware of one another already. Xu got here by way of the Garden Tennis Affiliation’s nationwide academy at Loughborough and remembers watching Raducanu win the US Open in 2021 with the opposite gamers who boarded there.

The pair are pleasant, typically speaking collectively in Mandarin, with Xu’s mother and father each of Chinese language heritage together with Raducanu’s mom.

They received to know one another higher when Xu was a hitting associate for the British crew on the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Malaga final November.

Raducanu is coming into Wimbledon this 12 months after a troublesome couple of matches at Eastbourne amid “some actually unhealthy” private information, whereas she continues to battle a niggling again downside.

There have been no indicators of discomfort when the 22-year-old educated on the All England Membership on Friday, though she was properly crushed in a observe set on Courtroom One by former champion Elena Rybakina.

Xu might discover herself taking part in the British No 1 on one of many important courts. However Xu stated: “I am actually able to embrace it and actually simply exit and luxuriate in it. On the US Open final 12 months I received to play on Louis Armstrong, which I believe was a tremendous expertise as properly.

“So I’ve had that sort of huge courtroom, huge stadium expertise. And if I do get to play on that courtroom, I am actually excited.”