Eva Lys: The Hamburg Qualifier Who Broke Into the WTA Top 40
At the 2022 Stuttgart WTA tournament, a 20-year-old qualifier ranked 342nd in the world walked onto court and beat Viktoria Golubic — ranked 38th at the time — in the first round. Nobody in the press box was paying much attention. They should have been. That qualifier was Eva Lys, and that result set a template she has been repeating ever since: show up as the underdog, leave with the upset. Four years on, Eva Lys has a Lacoste sponsorship, a career-high …