When top seed Liv Hovde is playing with rhythm and tempo there are very few players at junior level who can keep pace with her, according to Alejandro Garcia Cenzano, her coach for the grass-court season.

This ringing endorsement came moments after Hovde, who is making her SW19 debut, sealed her place in the Junior Championships, Wimbledon final by dispatching Canada’s Victoria Mboko 6-4 6-3.

The 16-year-old will now face Luca Udvardy in tomorrow’s girls’ finale following the Hungarian’s 6-3 3-6 6-0 victory over Linda Klimovicova. Udvardy will now bid to become the first Hungarian to be crowned a Junior Grand Slam champion here since Marton Fucsovics in 2010.

The back catalogue of Junior Grand Slam winners from the United States is far more extensive, with Hovde one win away from adding her name to an illustrious list of past winners.

“When Liv is playing her best game, it is getting to the point that are very few players in the junior game who can match her,” Garcia Cenzano told itftennis.com. “She has all the tools to do well and is competing so well and thinking clearly.

“She always plays aggressively and is focused on her game, it’s as simple as that. She is doing better and better every day and we are working very hard to achieve even more.”

Should junior world No. 4 Hovde, who survived match point against Canada’s Kayla Cross in the third round, top the podium, it will be the second successive year a United States player has triumphed here after Samir Banerjee’s success 12 months ago.

Fellow Americans Coco Gauff, Amanda Anisimova, Sebastian Korda, Taylor Fritz, Reilly Opelka and Tommy Paul have all won Junior Grand Slams in recent years, and Hovde, who is a resident of McKinney, Texas, is relishing the prospect of joining this group of luminaries.

“It feels great to be a Junior Grand Slam finalist and I am so excited to play tomorrow,” Hovde told itftennis.com. “You always have to have confidence and I will be treating it as just another match – it just happens to be a final.

“I have felt controlled on court for most of this tournament, I certainly won’t be underestimating anyone, and I’ll just try to play smart and aggressively, as I always do. I am so excited to have the chance to follow in the footsteps of some great American juniors of the past.”