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Boys & Girls: Les Petits As Tennis Europe U14 super category, France, indoor hard (Week 4)
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One of the two leading under 14 events takes place this week, with Mark Ceban's 2023 victory a hard act to follow, especially with no seeded Brits. We have several boys in the field, but just two girls (thanks to Sevil Parviz qualifying and Megan Knight being handed a wildcard, as speculated in the Bol...
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Girls: J300 San Jose, Costa Rica, hard (Week 4)
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After a couple of J100 events in Costa Rica it now hosts the long running Coffee Bowl (59th edition). Brooke Black has been awarded a wildcard after her two semi so far, and she has been joined by qualifier Flora Johnson. Both have tricky draws, against the fourth seed and one of the highly-touted Pen...
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Other events, 2024 - week 3
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J100 Costa Rica R1 losses for Flora Johnson and Vlada Kozak Brooke Black won though J100 Dubai Max Castle lost in R1 J60 Bosnia & H Tia Jakupovic-Kljako won in R1 but lost in R2 Georgiana Mititelu won both, though, and is into the QFs J60 Austria R1 win fors Rhys Lawlor and Serena Manca, but lo...
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Boys & Girls: Tennis Europe U14 Category 1 Junior International, Bolton, acrylic (week 3)
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As usual Bolton hosts the traditional warm-up event before Les Petits As this week Draws can be found on the Tennis Europe website Seeded Brits are Scott Watson (8) Eric Lorimer (11) Neo Armus (13) Niall Pickerd-Barua (9) and Samuel Fussell (16) in the boys event. In the girls event just Daisy Woot...
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Boys & Girls: J300 Traralgon. Australia, Hard (Week 3)
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This is the first J300 tournament of the season as is the warm-up event for the Australian Grand Slam which starts for the Juniors next week. The qualifiers have completed. We had no entrants in the qualifiers with a late withdrawl from Hephzibah Oluwadare but have a string of entrants in the main dra...
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Other events, 2024 - week 2
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A small thing - or maybe not..... From what I can see, Julia Reynolds (14 years old) has switched her tennis nationality from France to GB She's playing in Malmo qualis this week.
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Other events, 2024 - week 1
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And here we are, a new year, life and tennis going round and coming round.... There's a busload of GB players in Belgium J60 this week Just looking at qualis, we have: Karina Kiss, Anna Boran, Martha Ground Rafa Kiss, Josh Craze, Milo Nardelli, Leo Silverston, Henry Redfern, Matt Ground, Louis Hull ...
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2023 Rankings
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The new rankings will come out on Monday But just to start the thread with a copy of the new names that are now being used instead of Grade 2 or J2 (or whichever generation of names you're up to so far) ITF: The new naming structure, which is to be launched from 1 January 2023, will see the tournaments grade...
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Boys & Girls: U12/U14 Junior Orange Bowl, Florida, USA (Week 50-51)
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The main draws start tomorrow for the junior Orange Bowl.. It is hard to work out nationalities, so there may well be other Brits in the draws, and some of the nationalities may be incorrect. Hannah Klugman was a finalist in the under 14s last year. U12 Boys R1 (L128) (17) Pekko Pfundstein v Max D Smith (...
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Other events, 2023 - week 49
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J100 India Yash Bahalkar lost in R1 J60 Togo Top seed Grace Chinwike won her R1 but lost in R2 in three sets Daisy Clifford, seeded 7, also won in R1 but lost out in R2 Daisy has made the semis of the doubles though J30 Ethiopia Billy Moxon won in R1 and also in R2 but lost his QF to the 8th seed Harry Cornhil...
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Boys & Girls: J100, Loughborough, GB - hard (Week 49)
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The quali draws are out Lots of empty slots, in both girls and boys...... In the boys, the top two Q seeds are Spanish and Irish Henry Jefferson should be top seed in the MD, hoping to do better than last week In the girls, Zara Burns (IRE) is top Q seed. Hannah Read, who is nearly top-100, should be the top s...
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Boys & Girls: J60, Glasgow, GB - hard (Week 48)
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Boys There's only a 16-entrant quali draw, with 14 GB boys and only two foreign lads The two wildcards have gone to Alex Winder and Alex English Henry Jefferson should be the top seed in the main draw - the event is a bit 'below' him really but I guess because it's in Scotland he wants to play, which makes s...
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Other events, 2023 - week 48
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J60 India Yash Bahalkar lost in R1 J30 Ethiopia Harry Cronhill won his R1 and lost in R2 J30 Togo Daisy Clifford won R1 but lost in R2 But she's into the SFs in dubs J30 Morocco MatildaCabrera Burns lost in R1 J30 Norway Henry Best won his R1 match But Harry Lumb and Tom Chapman lost theirs -- Edited b...
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Boys & Girls: J300 Bradenton, USA, clay (Week 48)
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The penultimate major event on the junior ITF calendar also has under 12, under 14 and under 16 events with limited British interest. In the under 18 event Charlie Robertson and Viktor Frydrych are seeded, but they have had mixed fortune today: Viktor winning and Charlie losing 3 setters. Gabia Pas...
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National Academies
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https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2022/05/blow-for-tennis-scotland-as-stirling-academy-to-close/amp/
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Other events, 2023 - week 47
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Spotted we didn't have a thread for this week, so have just had a check on who is still in action this week - sorry I haven't captured any earlier defeats and apologies if I am missing someone still in action!! J30 Larnaca Singles - Maxwell Castle is into the semis Doubles - Max and Dan Hughes are into the se...
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Boys & Girls: J500 Merida, Mexico, clay (Week 47)
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The second Mexican tournament ifs one of the elite J500s. Charlie Robertson is among early winners today, while Oli Bonding faces a rematch against last week's conqueror Boys R1 (L64) (15) Charlie Robertson d. Izan Almazan Vallente (ESP) 4-6 6-2 6-4 (11) Oliver Bonding v (Q) Abhishek Thorat (USA...
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Other events, 2023 - week 46
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J60 Bahrain Allegra K Davies got a BYE in R1 Flora Johnson won her R1 match Segiy Rafiee won his R1 match too As did Josh Hinton But Issah Ali lost J60 Kenya Macy Denney-Richards is playing here J30 Morocco Sam Park won in R1 Chidi Ike Okut lost Daisy Clifford yet to play J30 UAE Federica Barbieri won her...
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Boys: J300 Zapopan, Mexico, clay (Week 46)
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There are 4 weeks of high grade North American events to finish the junior ITF season. The first only has Oli Bonding, but others join from next week onwards. Oli plays a qualifier or wildcard in round 2 R1 (L48) (3) Oliver Bonding bye
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Boys & Girls: J60 Liverpool, GB - hard (Week 46)
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Qualifying starts tomorrow Boys qualifying is loaded Girls qualifying is half empty again
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Other events, 2023 - week 44
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J100 France Aryan Singh lost in R1 Finbar McGarvey won one match and lost in R2 J60 Senegal Rhys Watters is into the QFs Max Bland and Freddi Sharp made it into R2 Milo Nardelli, Harry Cornhill, Murray Watters,Daniel Joita and Noah Paterson lost in R1 The Watters bros are into the SFs in doubles, as are...
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Girls: Junior Billie Jean King Cup, Cordoba, Spain, clay (Week 45)
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The Junior Billie Jean King Cup follows a similar format to the Junior Davis Cup, with 4 Round Robin groups of 4 playing Monday - Wednesday before place matches from Friday. Finishing in the top 2 of their round robin group should be comfortable for the team of Mingge Xu, Hannah Klugman and Hephzibah O...
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Boys & Girls: J30 Liverpool, GB - hard (Week 45)
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There are 11 spare slots in the girls qualifying draw Which is dreadful, and a real shame But no one is forced to play, it is what it is As such, though, no wildcards obviously. The boys is way more respectable. Which is nice to see. No BYEs. Wildcards were given to a Norwegian lad, as well as Charlie Wood...
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Girls: J200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, hard (Week 45)
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Freya Peet has joined Allegra Korpanec Davies and Gabia Paskauskas for the second Asian J200 R1 (L48) Allegra Korpanec Davies bye Gabby Gregg (AUS) v Freya Peet (7) Gabia Paskauskas bye R2 Allegra Korpanec Davies v (16) Aishi Das (NZL)
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Other events, 2023 - week 45
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J100 Poland Jay Johnson Hauldren and Luke Hooper both lost in R1 J100 Cyprus Max Castle won his R1 match As did Marelie Raath. But Flora Johnson lost. J60 Kenya R1 win for Macy Denney-Richards J30 Bahrain R1 wins for Josh Hinton, Sergiy Rafiee and Ophelia K Davies Issah Ali lost J30 Jamaica Dylan D...
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