East Tyrolean Lilli Tagger at French Open in the junior semi-final

For Tagger on Friday against the top seeded Australian Emerson Jones.

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“I’ve never got into the Semi, so I was a bit tense before the match,” said Tagger, who was eliminated at the Australian Open in the quarter -finals. “Then I really played a good match.” She lives and trains in Varese near Milan, not very far from the Swiss border. There her trainer Francesca Schiavone opened an academy in September 2024. “There are four sand and two hard sites there,” said Tagger. “We are 15 players, train together every day.”

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