There’s nothing left to prove on the ITF circuit, eight titles from eight finals appearances. Fruhvirt now faces a big challenge among the adults

Brenda Fruhvirt is still a 15-year-old player who continues to amaze the tennis world. It is a slight exaggeration to say that she is only breaking her own records every day. Some experts agree that it’s time to move on, and that time is now.

This year, the younger of the Wonder Sisters has competed in twelve ITF events in the W25 category. Here, the tournament is subsidised with $25,000 and the winner gets 50 points in the rankings.

Out of the twelve entries, Brenda made it to the finals 8 times and each time it was a title! The last one was on Sunday, October 23rd in Santa Margherita, Italy.

Her opponent was In-Albon of Switzerland. But she didn’t get into the game much. The final was an absolutely clear-cut affair, as Brenda’s opponent won a single game and the Czech lost only 4 balls for her serve!

Due to her age, Brenda does not have completely unlimited opportunities to participate in adult tournaments. Nevertheless, her overall record is already 62 matches played, 54 of them victorious.

In November, the young Czech will face a big challenge. She will be touring South America, where she is going to enter 3 WTA125 events, tournaments with a $125,000 prize money and where the winner will score 160 points.

And there will be much tougher and higher ranked opponents. The first stop on the schedule will be the city of Colina, Chile. Kristina Mladenovic and Danka Kovinic are already entered.

Argentina will host the second tournament and neighbouring Uruguay the third. Brenda has experienced first-hand that the transition to big events is not easy during this season.

In February, Brenda made it through the qualifying rounds in Guadalajara, Mexico, but in the main event, she failed to make it through the opening round. Granted, she was even 14 years old at the time, and it’s something to keep an eye on.

Relatively high expectations were also set towards the junior Frech Open in late May/June, but even there Brenda didn’t make it past the opening round.

Since then, however, she has not only picked up a lot of titles, but also experience. The whole world, including us, is curious to see how Brenda will handle it and how many points she will get out of it.

Thanks to this year’s incredible results, Brenda is currently already ranked 135th in the rankings and if she manages to accumulate some points at the end of the year, there is a pretty good chance of a direct participation in the Australian Open next year. Fingers crossed!

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