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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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2026 Rankings
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It's always a huge deal for the juniors when last year's oldest lot drop out and everyone makes a huge jump up the rankings I've put the top-1000 GB boys here, as a ref point for the rest of the year I've just put their absolute rankings - suffice to say they've all gone up a lot, about 200 places for the bett...
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Junior Rankings - Grade events
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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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Girls: J200 Montevideo, Uruguay, clay (Week 38)
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Just two Europeans playing the Uruguay Bowl, but one of them is Liv Zingg playing here before a W15 qualifier in Argentina. Liv is off to a good start today. In doubles she is paired with her round 2 opponent R1 (L32) (5) Liv Zingg d. Lauren Yuna Shibata (BRA) 6-1 6-2 R2 (16R) Caira Delfina Vega Gudino (A...
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Boys & Girls: J300 Sanxenxo, Spain, hard (Week 38)
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Mark Ceban and Daniella Britton are highly seeded here, joined by Edie Griffiths and qualifier Anna Boron. Dani's first round opponent won 3 matches in her last J300, including a player of similar rank to Dani Boys R1 (L32) (1) Mark Ceban v Dario Ruiz Cruz (ESP) Girls R1 (L32) Anna-Adelina Nykyforuk (...
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Girls: J200 Cape Town, South Africa, hard (Week 38)
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The second Cape Town J200 sees Megan Knight in the same position in the draw, but the top two seeds have swapped places, so she won't have Jahnie Van Zyl to worry about (who as well as beating Megan only lost a maximum of 4 games in any match en route to the title) R1 (L32) Meri Sandenbergh (RSA) v (7) Megan Kn...
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Girls: J500 Osaka, Japan, hard (Week 38)
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A top tier event in Japan, and Rosie Cho has successfully negotiated qualifying after her semi in Miki Her round 1 opponent has though recently won J100 and J200 events. R1 (L48) (WC) Hinata Morish1ta (JPN) v Ophelia Korpanec Davies Aoi Watanabe (JPN) v (Q) Rosie Cho
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Boys & Girls: European 16 & Under Championships, Parma, Italy, clay (Week 38)
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The last of the European age group championships started today with mixed results for the 4 British representatives. The two successful in round 1 have tough tasks against the top seeds in round 2. Live scores are available here Boys R1 (L128) Aran Selvaraasan d. Henrik Brathen Bergh (NOR) 6-0 6-...
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Other events, 2026 - week 37
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J60 Spain (1) Grace Watson and (3) Milica Milojevic are through to the SFs in singles And to the final in the dubs Good luck to both Emilia Linley got a win in both singles and doubles too Matt got a win in singles Antonia Bell, Isabella Caesar and Murray Watters lost in R1 J60 Ghana Denzell Darkey i...
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Girls: J200 Miki, Japan, indoor hard (Week 37)
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Japan hosts one of the top tier J500 events next week, but as a preliminary there is a J200 event this week R1 (L32) Rosie Cho v Rito Arima (JPN)
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Girls: J200 Cape Town, South Africa, hard (Week 37)
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Cape Town is hosting a couple of weak J200 events, with Megan Knight and Hermione Korpanec Davies amongst the players. Both made a good start today R1 (L32) (7) Megan Knight d. (WC) Botshelo Diseko (RSA) 6-1 6-0 Hermione Korpanec Davies d. (Q) Megan Van Vuuren (RSA) 6-2 6-2 R2 Milan Swanepoel (RSA) v...
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Boys & Girls: J300 Oberpullendorf (European U18 Regional Championships), Austria, clay (Week 37)
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This is the second of the European age specific championships, where each European country (apart from the hosts) are allowed 2 entrants. Coming straight after the US Open there are few top 50 players here, with opportunities offered to others. Alex Mirrington takes on the German who ended Rhys La...
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Boys: J300 Beijing, China, hard (Week 37)
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Vincent Fletcher has travelled from Kazakhstan to here R1 (L48) (15) Vincent Fletcher bye
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Other events, 2026 - week 36
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J100 Spain Bad weather has affected this event but, net net, we now have: Kasra Shirazi in the doubles final (lost in R2 in singles) Sofia Tatu in the doubles final, and in QF in singles Good luck to both ! Pui Yin Lung won a match and lost in R2 J100 Latvia Klara Sehnalova got a win and then lost in R2
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Boys & Girls: US Open, hard (Week 36)
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The draw is out for this year's US Open. Mark and Rhys have decent starters, but are likely to face top seeds in round 2. Hollie has to face a Wimbledon semi-finalist, who Dani pushed to a third set tiebreak when they played recently in the European Summer Cup Boys R1 (L64) Mark Ceban v (Q) Yoshihiro Sak...
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Boys & Girls: J300 Astana, Kazakhstan, hard (Week 36)
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The Astana tournaments ratchet up to J300, and Vincent Fletcher has a familiar opponent from last week, who retired against him in round 3 Boys R1 (L48) (WC) Mansur Sainov (KAZ) v Vincent Fletcher Girls R1 (L48) (9) Ophelia Korpanec Davies bye Rosie Cho v Albine Kakanova (KAZ)
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Boys & Girls: J300 Repentigny, Canada, hard (Week 35)
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The four Brits who are accepted into the US Open main draw or qualifying have all opted to play this traditional warm-up tournament. They have brought it forward a day from Sunday this year, presumably to minimise the risk of those in US Open qualifying being stuck here without a Special Exempt Boys...
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Other events, 2026 - week 35
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J100 Spain Anna Boron (2) and Sofia Tatu (4) are into the QFs Pui Yin Lung put up a huge battle against the top seed, in R1, but ended up losing 4-6 in the third set In the boys, Murray Watters got a wildcard, a R1 win, and lost to the top seed in 3 sets J30 Ghana Denzell Darkey is into the QFs J30 Serbia Matt K...
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Boys & Girls: J200 Astana, Kazakhstan, hard (Week 35)
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There is British interest in relatively weak J200 and J300 events in Kazakhstan clashing with the US Open Boys R1 (L48) Vincent Fletcher v Makhmudbek Beknazarov (UZB) Girls R1 (L48) (8) Ophelia Korpanec Davies bye Rosie Cho v Adiya Omarbek (KAZ)
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Other events, 2026 - week 34
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J100 France Liv Zingg is top seed, and won her R1 match comfortably Alice Haddad got a more hard-fought win in R1, 7-5 in the third J100 Spain Sam Zlotnik and Ara Selvaraasan both got R1 wins and are through to R2 Playing together they got a win in dubs too In the girls, Anna Boron lost in R1 But Emilija L...
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Girls: J200 Belgrade, Serbia, clay (Week 34)
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Megan Knight continues in Serbia after last week's J300 R1 (L32) (16R) Megan Knight v Camilla Olga Castracani (ITA)
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Boys: J200 Rakovnik, Czechia, clay (Week 34)
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Last month Darsh Sachin Patel won a J100 event in the Dominican Republic, and he now ramps up to a J200. R1 (L48) (WC) Filip Sebek (CZE) v Darsh Sachin Patel
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Other events, 2026 - week 33
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It's been a complete washout in singles in Spain, but somewhat made up for in doubles J100 Spain First round losses for: Alex Mirrington, Sam Zlotnik, Harry Cornhill Anna Boron, Sasha Zlotnik, Sofia Tatu (defaulted) and Emilija Lebedevaite No wins...... BUT Alex & Sam are into the boys dou...
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Boys & Girls: U9-U14 National Championships, Nottingham, hard (Week 33)
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The main draws of the lower age groups for the Nationals start today, with the under 14 boys. Some top names from the Tennis Europe rankings are missing from the draw, including Liam Sharkey and Max Hodkinson, but Oskar Laskowski is here as top seed. The under 14 girls start on Monday, whilst other a...
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