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Noma Noha Akugue turned her WTA debut into a Hamburg final
Noma Noha Akugue entered the 2023 Hamburg main draw as a wild card playing her first WTA main event and reached the final. The German left-hander beat Laura Pigossi, Storm Hunter, Martina Trevisan and Diana Shnaider before Arantxa Rus won the title match 6-0, 7-6. The run took Noha Akugue into the Top 200. She later won the W50 Oldenzaal title in 2025 and climbed to a new career high in 2026. Her father, a former boxer, introduced her to tennis at three.
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