Loughborough’s top tennis athletes head to Wimbledon

Representing the Loughborough University National Tennis Academy (LUNTA), alum and 2024 US Open junior champion Mika Stojsavljevic was awarded a wildcard into the Women's Singles main draw, as well as being selected for the main draw in the Women's Doubles. The 17-year-old started strong in the first round of the Women's Singles against Switzerland's Belinda Bencic but missed out on qualifying for the second round.

2025 Lexus Wrexham Open winner and LUNTA alum Mimi Xu will join Stojsavljevic in the upcoming Women's Doubles next week, and similarly experienced a first-round loss, after pushing Daria Kasatkina to a third-set decider on the opening day of the championship.

Lloyd Glasspool, alum and Julian Cash, the former Loughborough player-coach, will be looking to defend their title having won the Men's Doubles in 2025. In the Women's Doubles draw Olivia Nicholls goes into Wimbledon this year off the back of winning the Women's Doubles title at Queen's earlier in June.

Current LUNTA players Rhys Lawlor, Hollie Smart and Liv Zingg are set to play in the Junior Wimbledon competition.

Henry Searle, alum of LUNTA and winner of the Wimbledon Boys' title, reached the second round of Men's Singles qualifiers, and Daniella Britton entered the qualifying stage of the Women's Singles after winning the U18 National Championships in April.

Tom Kisiel, Head Tennis Coach at Loughborough University, said:

"We are delighted to see our current and former players continuing to thrive at the highest level of the game and are excited to see Lloyd and Julian try to defend the Men's Doubles title on the back of their historic achievement in 2025. Liv will go into Wimbledon full of confidence having picked up the WTA 500 title at Queens earlier this month. We wish them all the very best."

"It's great to see that so many Loughborough-based players, past and present, have earned the opportunities to compete at this year's Championships," said Nathan Miller, Academy Director of LUNTA.

"The progress that both the National Academy and University programme have made over the past few years is clearly highlighted in the sheer number of players representing Loughborough at the world's most iconic and prestigious tournament. We wish all our players well in achieving success on the grass courts of Wimbledon this year."

With the first ball struck on Monday 29 June, this year's Wimbledon Championships will run for two weeks until Sunday 12 July.