New York | Jeline Vandromme wins 2025 US Open Junior Singles

Jeline Vandromme van Belgium lifted the US Open Girls’ Singles Trophy on Saturday with a 7-6 (2) 6-2 defeat of the Swedish qualifying Lea Nilsson in the final, after he returned from 2-4 in the first set.

“Yes, I was just incredibly proud of what I did all week,” said Vandromme. “I was honored to win this title for myself, but also a bit for the country.”

I just tried not to concentrate on the fact that I am 2-4 or 0-2. I have just tried to concentrate on every point, every recording that I make, on my plan and my duties on the field. Then, yes, I forgot the score a bit. Jeline Hound -Teams

Earlier in the week, the British Hannah Klugman and Mika Stojsavljevic, the No. 2 and 9th seeds, fought their way to the semi -final, where they fell on Friday for the two finalists, Vandromme, the 14th Seed and Nilsson.

After an easy opener, Klugman had to come back from a set and a break to beat India’s Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi, 6-7 (1) 6-4 6-3, and to continue to the last 16.

Rajeshwaren Revathi destroyed Klugman from the start of the game and broke the 2025 French Open Girls’ Singles finalist on her first service game.

The non -sowed Indian claimed the first 5 points of the tiebreak on the way to recording the first set, and looked more stable to start the second, but Klugman finally put the ship straight.

“It was a very narrow game today,” Klugman said on the field after the victory of the coming back. “Maaya played great …[I’m] So grateful to get that in the cupboard and use this a bit to continue. “

She was also brought to 3 sets by Julie Pastikova from the Czech Republic, but prevailed, 1-6 6-3 6-4, before he produced a convincing 6-3 6-2 victory over Julia Stusak, the 5th seed from Germany, in the quarterfinals.

Any champion Vandromme brought Klugman’s Run to the early end in the semi-final, 6-3 6-2.

Defending champion Stojsavljevic’s Pad was similar, with a simple 1st round match before he meeting Deniz Dilek from Turkey, 6-3 7-6 (2), to win a 3rd round match with Jana Kovackova, the 6th seed from Czechia, 5-7 7-5.

In the quarterfinals, Stojsavljevic took the no. 4 seeds, Mia Pohankova from Slovakia, 6-4 6-3, to meet Nilsson, against whom the Brit faded, 0-6 6-1 6-1.

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In the final of Saturday, Vandromme continued her excellent summer form by recording the title with a 7-6 (2) 6-2 defeat of Nilsson in the championship match.

Looking by fellow countryman and former world no. 1 Kim Clijsters, 17-year-old Vandromme became the first Belgian girl to lift a big trophy since An-Sophie Mestach on the Australian Open 2011, and the first to do this at the US Open since Kirsten Flipkens in 2003.

She is the 5th Belgian Girls’ Singles Grand Slam champion in Open Time after Mestach, Flipkens, Justine Henin in Roland Garros 1997 and Nancy Feber on Wimbledon 1993.

A classically trained pianist, who was a student at the Bruges conservatory, has said Vandromme that only one thing connects her two passions: “You have to be disciplined in both things, and you have to practice a lot, every day,” ” told ittshenis.com this week. “I’m not sure that piano tennis helps, but I like to play both.”

Vandromme is now in a 23-match winning streak at all levels, which have spent the ITF World Tour in July and August and 3 consecutive titles collect-the roehampton ITF W35 as a qualification, then back-to-back ITF W15s in Monastir and the cutting of no. 795 of Nr.

She has now also won 33 sets in a row, after she last dropped a set in the Roehampton final, in which she defeated Shi Han, 7-6 (4) 5-7 7-5, and then she won both monastir events and the US Open title without the loss of a set.

Her run in Flushing Meadows included a 3rd round 6-3 6-2 defeat of Australian Open Girls’ finalist Kristina Penickova, and the Straight sets Semi-final victory over Klugman, the finalist of Roland Garros Girls.

Vandromme only admitted 22 games in 5 games to reach the final, but was confronted with her stiffest opposition with the title on the line.

Defending champion Mika Stojsavljevic fell in the last 4 for the final finalist, qualifying Lea Nilsson

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Although Vandromme was the clear favorite on paper that came in the game, the ruthless consistent Nilsson had rejected 3 consecutive players on their way to the final, with World No 1 Junior Julieta Pareja from the US eliminated in the 3rd round and defending defender Stojsavljevic in the Semii-finale.

Nilsson was the first player to extend her into a tiebreak since the Roehampton final, in a fitting manner, given the 17-year-old Swede’s Vechtrun this week.

After losing a 6-3 4-6 6-4 Heart-Breaker of Canada’s Nadia Lagaev in the 3rd round of the Rennentigny Junior event the last week, Nilsson caught a 7-hour flight the next morning to New York and had to play her first qualifying match that afternoon, which she took, 5-7 6 [10-7]About Ireland O’Brien from the US.

She still had the energy to separate two of the biggest disturbances from the main tracts, and grabbed Pareja, 6-4 3-6 6-3, in the 3rd round and then the Big-Serving Stojsavljevic, 0-6 6-1 6-1, and only made one unprocessed error in the 3rd set in the semi-final.

Nilsson, who has a WTA ranking list of 992, was the first Swedish girl in a junior slam final since Sofia Arvidsson on the Australian Open from 2001, and offered to become the first qualification that once won the US Open Junior title.

Girls Singles champion Jeline Vandromme (L) and Runner-Up Lea Nilsson pose with their trophies after their final on Saturday

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In the early stages of their meeting on Saturday, Nilsson jumped out to the start of 2-0 and 4-2 leads, and every time Vromme staggered in the momentum of her opponent and knew the shortage, eventually the first set in a tiebreak and then quickly the first 4 games of the second.

“I just tried not to concentrate on the fact that I am 2-4 or 0-2,” Vandromme said. “I have just tried to concentrate on every point, every shot that I make, on my plan and my duties on the field. Then, yes, I forgot the score a bit.”

The first set of the NIP-EN-Tuck saw Vandromme Wrestelen to find the balance between strength and safety when Nilsson delivered solid defense with a few excellent net trips mixed.

Vandromme fired 5 winners, almost half of her first set total of 11, in the first game alone, but was nevertheless broken, and regulated in her aggression to turn Nilsson down from 2-4.

As soon as Vandromme had the tiebreak under her belt, she loose, however, and she showed where she was capable of full current.

With a large weapon in her forehand, Vandromme danced around it with beautiful footwork to repeatedly release and raise her count of winners to 25.

“I don’t think I can still believe it,” Vandromme said in her interview on the entire country.

(LR) Alena Kovackova and her sister Jana Kovackova won the US Open Girls Doubles title, after beating Laima Vladson & Jeline Vandromme in the final

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‘[Lea] Said “Congratulations on a good week” and I said, “Yes, the level you showed this week of qualifications that reached the final, it is also something to be proud of,” “Vandromme explained about their exchange on the net after her victory.” When we did the ceremony, I cried a bit, and I wanted her and say: ‘Okay, you can be very proud. I mean, I know it is probably difficult to lose in the final when you got that far. ” But yes, I mean, she is also incredibly nice … so I just wanted to make sure she knows she could be proud. “

However, she could not let herself be excitedly excited, because she was also in the final of the girls next to Lithuania Laima Vladson as the no. 4 seeds.

Vandromme was denied the double crown by Czech sisters Alena & Jana Kovackova, the no. 3 seeds, which ran to a 6-2 6-2 victory.