Czech star Fruhvirtova becomes youngest to win five ITF singles titles
The milestones keep on coming for Brenda Fruhvirtova.
Just six months after clinching her first professional crown and emulating other 14-year-old title winners like Anna Kournikova and Justine Henin, the Czech prodigy went several steps further - becoming the youngest player in history to win five titles on the ITF World Tennis Tour.
Aged 15 years, four months and 21 days, Fruhvirtova collected her fifth career title in emphatic style on Sunday – beating Germany’s Luisa Meyer auf der Heide 6-0 6-0 in just 57 minutes in the final at W25 Mogyorod.
The victory was Fruhvirtova’s 15th consecutive match-win, her third title in a row and her fifth of the year on clay at W25 level following twin triumphs at W25 Tucuman in February, and further victories at W25 Klosters and W25 Danderyd this summer.
It was also the first double bagel in a final on the ITF World Tennis Tour since Sweden's Dragos Nicolae Madaras defeated Romanian qualifier Bogdan Ionut Apostol at M15 Antalya in January.
Fruhvirtova is comfortably the youngest player to win five ITF women’s singles titles, ahead of previous record holder and current world No. 29 Su-Wei Hsieh, who was 15 years 8 months and 14 days old when she achieved the feat.
Two other players have won five professional singles titles before their 16th birthday - Daria Lopatetska (15y 10m 24 days) and Latisha Chan (15y 8m 30 days). No player has ever managed six ITF tournament triumphs before turning 16.
Fruhvirtova, who has notched 32 wins to just five losses on the ITF World Tennis Tour in 2022, climbed 47 spots in the WTA rankings on Monday to a career-high No. 271.
There were four other teenage winners of women’s tournaments on the ITF World Tennis Tour over the weekend, with 16-year-old Serb Mia Ristic, 18-year-olds Kristina Dmitruk and Solana Sierra, and 19-year-old Julia Middendorf also securing titles.
Kamilla Rakhimova won the marquee tournament of the week, claiming her sixth career title – and first above W25 level – at W60 Bronx.
Discover all of the weekend's results on the ITF World Tennis Tour here.
Can Fruhvirtova become the first 15-year-old to win six ITF singles titles? Follow her results from W25 Braunschweig this week, here.