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STICKY:
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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STICKY:
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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STICKY:
Forum Code of Conduct
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Code of Conduct can be found HERE
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Other events, 2024 - week 18
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J100 Morocco Excellent win by Erin Pearce over the 2nd seed in R1 And a win over 14 year-old French girl, Lebeau, 7-5 in the third, in R2 J60 Qatar Issah Ali lost in R1 As did Ophelia K Davies Sophier Bekker got a R1 win but lost in R2 J100 USA Josh Hinton lost in R1 J100 Canada Athina Schlepphorst won in R1...
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Boys & Girls: J500 Plantation, Florida, USA, clay (Week 49)
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The ITF Junior season ends this week, with the prestigious Orange Bowl the leading event. A couple of matches have already finished, with a win for Hannah Klugman but a loss for Hephzibah Oluwadare. Charlie Robertson, Viktor Frydrych and Mika Stojsavljevic are on court now, with live scores here...
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Girls: J200 Targu Jiu, Romania, clay (Week 18)
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Allegra Korpanec Davies and Freya Peet are seeded here. Georgiana Mititelu lost in qualifying R1 (L32) (4) Allegra Korpanec Davies v Alexia Patru (ROU) (8) Freya Peet v (LL) Thea Marcu (ROU)
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Boys: J200 Salsomaggiore, Italy, clay (Week 18)
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Maxwell Castle plays his first main draw J200 R1 (L32) (8) Pierluigi Basile (ITA) v Maxwell Castle
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Other events, 2024 - week 17
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J100 USA Athina Schlepphorst beat the 4th seed, won her next match and then went out, in a third-set TB, to Hannah Ayrault, age 13, who is making quite a lot of waves in her first ITF event J100 Turkey Freya Peet has won two rounds and is into the QFs in singles, and semis in doubles J60 Costa Rica Ollie H...
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Boys & Girls: J500 Offenbach, Germany, clay (Week 17)
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Some of our top juniors are involved in the third J500 event of the year. Hannah's opponent in round 1 has reached the semis in her last 2 J300 events. Oli Bonding is going for his second J500 title in a row, after winning in Brazil, where he beat Naoya Honda in the final. The Japanese boy is Viktor Frydr...
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Boys & Girls: J200 Aldershot, hard (Week 17)
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As you would expect there is a large British contingent for this J200, though only one boy ranked high enough to be seeded. The British seeds are Ben Gusic Wan (1) Gabia Paskauskas (3), Hannah Read (4) Allegra Korpanec Davies (6) and Brooke Black (7). Conor Brady's title in the Latvian J100 earns hi...
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Boys & Girls: XXIX Taça Internacional Maia Jovem Tennis Europe U14 Super Category, Portugal, clay (Week 16)
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This is the third of the top category under 14 events this year. Like all the Super Category events live streaming is available - go to the tournament website There is a strong field for the boys event especially (7 of the top 8 ranked at time of entry). Megan Knight is likely to have a rematch with top se...
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Other events, 2024 - week 16
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J100 Latvia Conor Brady has made the QFs - now plays the top seed Also into the SF in doubles J100 Tunisia Mark Ceban is through to R2 As is Marelie Raath Although Sarah Copley lost in R1 J60 Panama Ollie Hopper lost in R1, but got a win in doubles J30 Ivory Coast Round 1 wins for Harry Cornhill and Darsh...
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Girls: J200 Haskovo, Bugaria, clay (Week 16)
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Gabia Paskauskas is seeded here R1 (L32) (Q) Vanesa Vlahova (BUL) v (5) Gabia Paskauskas -- Edited by DavidC on Wednesday 24th of April 2024 05:19:16 PM
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Boys & Girls: J200 Piestany, Slovakia, clay (week 16)
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After his run to the final of the Nationals Charlie Robertson is top seed here. Boys R1 (L64) (1) Charlie Robertson v Niels NcDonald (GER) Girls R1 (L64) Alexandra Zimmer (AUT) v (6) Hephzibah Oluwadare (7) Magdalena Smekalova (CZE) v Freya Peet
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Boys: J300 Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France, clay (week 16)
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Viktor Frydrych is in the highest grade junior ITF this week1 R1 (L32) (3) Viktor Frydrych v (WC) Lucas Marionneau (FRA)
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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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Boys: 2024 U16/U18 Junior National Championships, NTC, acrylic (Weeks 14/15)
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Qualifying for the under 16 Nationals gets under way tomorrow, with the under 18s taking place the following week. The main draw has been expanded to 24, including the likes of Mark Ceban, Liam Channon and Rhys Lawlor At stake in week 1 for the winner is; Wild card for Wimbledon Junior Championships Ma...
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Other events, 2024 - week 15
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Following her exploits last week, young Tara has unfortunately (or understandably) withdrawn from this week's event in Ghana However, we are still well represented  J30 Ghana R1 wins for 2010-born Lisa Bolton and Daphnee Lovdahl Myah Harper lost, but has a win in the doubles (as have the ot...
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Girls: 2024 U16/U18 Junior National Championships, NTC, acrylic (Weeks 14/15)
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Qualifying for the under 16 Nationals starts tomorrow, with the under 18s taking place the following week. The main draw has been expanded to 24, including Mika Stojsavljevic, Freya Peet and Hollie Smart as the highest ranked ITF players At stake in week 1 for the winner is; Wild card for Wimbledon J...
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Other events, 2024 - week 14
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There's a big turnout in Ghana, with three names I haven't seen before, and real youngsters too J30 Ghana R1 wins for Maya Chang Harper (age 13) and Lisa Bolton (age 13) and Daphnee Lovdahl (age 14) and Tara Lawal (age 13) and Alisha Ndukwu (age 14), second seed, by a BYE Josh Wright and Kyle Babbage...
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Girls: J200 Cap d'Ail, France, clay (Week 14)
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Marelie Raath is the one Brit tackling a J200 or higher grade ITF tournament this week R1 (L32) (Q) v Marelie Raath
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Other events, 2024 - week 13
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There's a bus load in Malta J60 Malta (with three rounds before QFs) R1 wins, Boys: Max Carrier, Harry Abel, Felix B Evans, Joe Mazingham and Matt Mclain R1 wins, Girls: Sarah Copley, (q) Rose Clifton, Ophelia K Davies, Charlotte Holmes, Sofia Aquilina and TiaJakupovic-Kljako Got to feel for poo...
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Boys & Girls: J30 Dublin, Ireland - hard (Week 13)
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The second Dublin J30 sees, again, a reasonable GB turnout (To be honest, there's more Brits at Malta this week, but Malta is going in the 'Other' thread, that's just the way it is ) In the boys, R1 wins for: Louis Hull, Arthur Attrill, Rhys Watters, Lucas Ebery, Max Bland, Rafi Kiss R1 losses for: He...
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Girls: J200 Florence, Italy, clay (Week 13)
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As usual the Florence J200 is scheduled to end on Easter Monday. Gabia Paskauskas provides British interest R1 (L32) Greta Petrillo (ITA) v (7) Gabia Paskauskas
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Other events, 2024 - week 10
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After the huge success here by Flora and Freya last week, here's hoping for similar exploits this week J100 South Africa So far, going well - both girls are through to the QFs J30 Norway Congrats to 14 year-old Rosie Clifton who qualified and then won her R1 match before losing in R2 - that's her fir...
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