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2024 Rankings
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Today's the 'big' day when all the 2005-ers drop out and the ITF junior rankings get recalibrated The girls' list looks very good on the eye - three in the top 50, seven in the top 100.... and three 2009-born girls in the top-500 Girls Jan 1st 2024 7- Hannah Klugman ('09) 15 - Mimi Xu ('07) 42 - Mika Stojsa...
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OK. This is a rare foray for me into the Junior section as I don't really start to follow players until they start to hit the futures circuit. But having played tennis in La Manga this week and come a cross some talented GB juniors who were talking about their ranking and the level of events that they had p...
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Forum Code of Conduct
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Code of Conduct can be found HERE
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Boys & Girls: 2025 Australian Open, hard (Week 4)
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With Oliver Bonding, Mika Stojsavljevic, Mimi Xu and Hannah Klugman in the main draw, qualifying begins tonight for 5 other Brits hoping to join them. Live scores should be available here Boys QR1 Ashton McLeod (AUS) v (q9) Conor Brady (q6) Mark Ceban v Aryan Kamani (AUS) Girls QR1 Ruien Zhang (CHN...
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Other events, 2025 - week 3
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to be updated later -- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 11th of January 2025 08:40:45 PM
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Boys & Girls: Tennis Europe U14 Category 1 Junior International, Bolton, indoor acrylic (week 3)
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In 2024 there was a group of 3 British boys who moved into the Tennis Europe top 10 early in the year. In 2025 we have 3 British girls already in the top 10, led by Megan Knight at number 1. Megan isn't taking part in the British Category 1 event which starts tomorrow (she is on the entry list for the Super Cat...
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Boys & Girls: J300 Traralgon, Australia, Hard (Week 3)
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Although the main draw starts tomorrow this is a week 3 event, acting as a warm-up for the Australian Open. We had 3 players in qualifying and all were successful. Brooke Black has a tough draw though, taking on the Orange Bowl runner-up (who also won the previous J500 event in Mexico) Boys R1 (L64) (Q...
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2025 Rankings
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It's that time when all the 'old' juniors drop out and we get our first full list of rankings 2007-born players are the oldest allowed in 2025 juniors Three top-20 girls is not much different from last year; but we now have 7 in the top-100, which is very healthy. 2025 6th Jan 2025 - The Top 500 GIRLS 5...
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Boys & Girls: J200 Kosice, Slovakia, indoor hard (Week 2)
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Ben Gusic Wan is the second seed here. He was originally scheduled to go on to the Australian Open, but he withdrew from that today. The British contingent is increased by Enrico Franchi coming through qualifying Boys R1 (L32) Aleksa Oparnica (SRB) v (8) Maximilian Carrier (Q) Enrico Franchi v Fili...
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Other events, 2025 - week 2
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J100 UAE Ophelia K Davies and Federica Barbieri (LL) are in the MD here Levi Taylor lost in the FQR J100 Turkey Megan Knight is playing here - 6th seed - she's only got one other J100 counter but obviously so so young that barely matters - will be interesting to see how she does  J60 Sweden Harry A...
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UK ITF tournaments
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I'm just looking at the ITF junior calendar and the only 2 ITF junior events in the UK in January and February are at Liverpool. This isn't normal - am I missing something or have the LTA cut back on hosting tournaments?
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Girls J300 New Delhi, India, hard (Week 2)
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The first J300 of the year has Allegra Korpanec Davies as the sole British entrant, stopping off en route to Australia R1 (L32) Eva Marie Desvignes (FRA) v (8) Allegra Korpanec Davies
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Juniors playing professional senior tennis
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With Jack Draper 16 (JCH 38) playing in Egypt and Jake Hersey 17 (JCH 143) both playing this week and Emma Radacanu 15 (JCH 45) doing so well last week, there seemed some value in a pooled thread just to bring things together. There is quite a deep cohort of juniors moving into transition. Such a thread m...
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Other events, 2025 - week 1
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The TCBB U12 Cat 1 event is taking place in France this week It has been won by Holge Rune, Ekaterina Makarova, Ostapenko, Blancaneaux, Kiki Mladenovic etc etc A presitgious event, which usually has a lot of GB interest (There are also - of course - a lot of winners who do not go on to figure in any signif...
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Other events, 2024 - weeks 49 - 52
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J100 Latvia Both Max Carrier and Alisha Ndukwu won their R1 singles Emma Ketler lost J60 Bahrain AleksandarDaskalovic and Maria Ustic won in R1 Maria Nicol lost J60 Togo R1 win for Jesse Abu Gace Chinwike has a BYE and then won in R2 J60 Zimbabwe Kasra Shirazi won in R1 NatashaMashonganyika ...
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Boys & Girls: 2024 Tennis Europe U14 Masters, Monte Carlo, Monaco, clay (Week 43)
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In the current Loughborough thread, Rose has drawn our attention to Megan Knight having made the Tennis Europe U14 Masters event. Since Tennis Europe has put out an article with all the qualified players and reactions here I will start the thread early. Eric Lorimer, Scott Watson and Niall Picker...
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Boys & Girls: J500 Plantation, Fl. USA outdoor clay (week 50)
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The final J500 of the season, includes the main under 18 event won by Hannah last season as well as under 16s and then the Junior Orange Bowl for u12 and u14 players later (I think those normally have a separate thread). qualies is underway with Athina Schlepphorst playing and losing her opener. The m...
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Boys & Girls: U12/U14 Junior Orange Bowl, Florida, USA (Week 50-51)
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Usually the Junior Orange Bowl is a week after the under 18 event, but this time it has already started. it is always difficult to work out the British players as the drawsheet does not give nationalities. I have spotted 8 Brits, and there may well be others. Boys U12 R1 (L128) Arnav Nadikatla (USA) v (...
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Boys & Girls: J100 Loughborough, indoor hard (week 49)
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Looks like a strong entry in Loughborough as last weeks J60 players are joined by some higher ranked juniors
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Boys & Girls: J300 Bradenton, Fl. USA outdoor clay (week 49)
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Draws are up for main draw but in qualies, Athina Schlepphorst won through to the FQR, beating the second seeded Jamaican, James, to do so and quite a big beating as well, of 3 and 1. Sadly, she lost in FQR. In main draw, Allegda K-D and Flora Johnson are in the girls, Oli B (seeded 4) and Viktor F go in the bo...
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Girls: J200 Hong Kong - hard (Week 49)
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R1: Isabella Wong def. (5) Yushan Shao (CHN) 6-4 4-6 6-3 R2: Isabella Wong LOST to Mutsumi Uemura (JPN) 7-5 6-2 Shame Isabella couldn't capitalise on the excellent R1 win Still got doubles to come For those interested, the 2010-born winner of Les Petits As this year (Mariia Makarova) is also play...
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Boys & Girls: J200 Oslo, Norway, indoor hard (Week 48)
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A sizeable British contingent here, including many from last week's successful J100 in Stavanger. Unluckily Brits have drawn the top two seeds in the girls event, though that wasn't a barrier to Sophie Bekker last week. Conor Brady is drawn against last week's boys winner, and former Les Petits A...
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Boys & Girls: J60 Stirling, GB - indoor hard (Week 48)
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The quali draws kick off tomorrow Karina Kiss is top q seed in the girls, Mathias Lescano-Vecchi top q seed in the boys
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Boys & Girls: J500 Merida, Mexico, clay (Week 48)
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A strong British cast here for one of the top graded events outside Slams, augmented by Freya Peet who negotiated qualifying. Boys R1 (L64) (3) Oliver Bonding v Kase Schinnerer (USA) (13) Maxwell Exsted (USA) v Viktor Frydrych Valentin Garay (ARG) v (2) Charlie Robertson Girls R1 (L64) (9) Thea Frod...
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Other events, 2024 - week 48
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J100 Latvia Alisha Ndukwu lost in R1. She got a win in doubles though. Max Carrier made the QFs in singles, before losing out But has made the finals of the doubles - good luck, Max J100 Hong Kong Isabella Wong got a R1 win, before losing in R2 J60 UAE AleksandarDaskalovic lost to the top seed, in three s...
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