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Player of the Year Polls - Most Improved Girl
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By David C Most Improved Stephanie Cornish Steph has moved rapidly this year from outside 500 to the cusp of the top 100, thanks to a late season spurt, which saw her capture a Grade 2 title in China, before beating a top 50 player in the Eddie Herr Trophy. Joanna Henderson Joanna won a silver medal at the W...
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Boys & Girls: Traralgon Junior ITF International, Australia - Grade 1
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This is the first of 2 Grade 1 events acting as a warm-up for the Australian Open, with the main draw starting on Friday. The disappointing news is that Laura Robson was a late withdrawal (not clear whether this was due to the stomach muscle problem which occurred at the Orange Bowl). Hence there are jus...
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Boys: Casablanca Junior Cup, Mexico - Grade A
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QR1 (4) John-Randolph Thornton bye QR2 (4) John-Randolph Thornton beat Eduardo Martinez (MEX) 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 FQR (4) John-Randolph Thornton beat Guillermo Haugen (MEX) 6-2, 6-2 L64 Alex Golding v Rodney Carey (BAH) (Q) John-Randolph Thornton v (WC) Diego Salinas (MEX) Ahmed El Menshawy v (Q) Vict...
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Boys & Girls: Coffee Bowl (Copa del Cafe), Costa Rica - Grade 1
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From the contingent in Mexico, Heather Watson will be heading shortly for Australia, preparing for the AO Juniors, whilst John-Randolph Thornton moved rapidly to Sweden. That leaves just 3 Brits for the second Latin American leg. Alex has his work cut out playing a Casablanca Cup semi-finalist. B...
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Boys & Girls: Salk Open, Stockholm, Sweden - ITF Grade 4
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Both the Ren sisters are seeded here, and the Boys' draw includes John-Randolph Thornton, who played in the overlapping Casablanca Cup earlier in the week, joined here by Elliot Barnwell and qualifier Oliver Golding. Boys Singles R1 Nima MADANI (SWE) Vs Elliot BARNELL (GBR) John-Randolph THORNT...
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Girls: Casablanca Junior Cup, Mexico - Grade A
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The first of the season's 9 Grade A tournaments (including Grand Slams) is the weakest in terms of rankings, given the timing and location of the event. Heather Watson is the main British hope here, being seeded 5. The top seed is the player she beat in the Yucatan Cup final - world number 6 Ana Bogdan Gir...
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The Official BRITISH SUCCESSES Thread : 2008
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Week 02: LEWIS BARNES wins CHANDIGARTH G3 Week 04: DANIEL SMETHURST wins CZECH REPUBLIC G1 Week 05: LISA WHYBOURNE wins BANGLADESH G4 Week 06: AMY ASKEW wins NEW ZEALAND G4 Week 08: LEWIS BARNES and SCOTT SEARS win NETHERLANDS G4 doubles Week 10: ALEXANDRA WALKER wins LATVIA G4 Week 10: MICHAEL DAVIS...
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Girls: Junior Orange Bowl 2008
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The major event for under 14s and under 12s has plenty of British interest. The Qualifying draws were a massive 256 (including some byes). Apart from any qualifiers or LLs in the main draws: U12 R128 Estelle Cascino France v. Lauryn John-Baptiste United Kingdom Mirabelle Njoze United Kingdom v. G...
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Boys & Girls: Prince Cup, Miami, Florida - ITF Grade 4
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Following on from last week's Under 14 and Under 12 events there is an ITF under 18 tournament here (alongside an under 16 tournament), involving many of the boys who took part in the Orange Bowl under 16s. In the girls event Steph Cornish is seeded 2, looking to make further inroads into the top 100. Boy...
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Boys: Junior Orange Bowl 2008
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George Morgan's victory in the Under 14 section here last year will be a hard act to follow. In the main draws, apart from any qualifiers, are: U12 R128 Charley Force United States v Jack Gibbens United Kingdom Yossef Dahan Israel v Joshua Sapwell United Kingdom Q v Peter Ashley United Kin...
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Junior Australian Open 2009
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The entry lists have been announced, and the British involvement will be limited to: Boys: Main Draw Alastair Barnes Qualy James Chaudry Ahmed El Menshawy Girls: Main Draw Laura Robson Heather Watson Hannah James Qualy None Some of the other top juniors may play the Grade 1 events in Latin America an...
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Cheating in British junior tennis
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It's rife - or so this article by Jasper Gerrard in today's (or it could be tomorrow's) Telegraph, reporting the view...
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Tennis Europe Under 14 - Week 51 round-up
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While some of our top 14 year-olds are taking part in the Junior Orange Bowl, most of our top 13 year old boys are in France, at St Genevieve des Bois, for a top Grade 1 event. Our 3 top ranked players (Luke Bambridge, Christopher Pearce and Evan Hoyt) were all knocked out before the semis, but 4th ranked K...
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Player of the Year Polls - Top Girl
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By David C Top Girl Stephanie Cornish Steph has moved rapidly this year from outside 500 to the cusp of the top 100, thanks to a late season spurt, which saw her capture a Grade 2 title in China, before beating a top 50 player in the Eddie Herr Trophy Tara Moore Tara played the top singles in the GB 16 & un...
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Player of the Year Polls - Most Improved Boy
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By David C Most Improved Boy Luke Bambridge Luke has made rapid progress in the Tennis Europe Under 14 rankings reaching the semi and winning the doubles in a top tournament in Moscow last month. As a result Luke is now ranked 2 in Europe. Liam Broady Liam started the year ranked outside the top 100 in Ten...
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Girls : Orange Bowl 2008
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U16 1st Round Qualifying Chrissie HOOLAHAN (GBR) vs (13) Liana TODOROVA (BUL) Sara MARACHESANI (GBR) vs (3) Rocio PORTELA-BERRIOS (PUR) (4) Ruth SEABORNE (GBR) vs Belinda NIU (USA) Direct Entrants 28 Natalie BEAZANT 34 Sabrina STEWART -- Edited by Akhenaten at 10:45, 2008-12-05
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Boys: Orange Bowl 2008
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U16 We've got loads of entrants in the U16s. Let's hope they're as successful as at the Eddie Herr! 1st Round Qualifying Sizya KIVANDA (GBR) vs Hunter CALLAHAN (USA) (2) Andrew BETTLES (GBR) BYE Eimon HEYWOOD (GBR) vs Joseph DORSEY (USA) (9) Tom FARQUHASON (GBR) vs Vlad-Victor CORNEA (ROU) Jordan B...
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Prince Cup 2008 - Miami, Florida
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Currently taking place at Patricio Apey's academy in Miami. Nationalities are not listed in all cases so I may have missed some players. Boys 14 Singles Qualifying Round 1 Jathan Malik (GBR) bt Lucas Gomez (USA) (q14) 7-5, 6-7, 1-0 (5) Round 2 Jathan Malik (GBR) vs. Taichi Nakajima (JAP) Girls 14 Sing...
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Boys: Eddie Herr International Junior Championships
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Like the Girls there are 4 events: U12/U14/U16/U18 but our strongest contingent here is in the under 16s, including George Morgan, last year's Orange Bowl U14 winner. Qualifying has started for the U14/U16/U18. Tom Hill, Jonathan Cornish, Clay Crawford, Brooks Allen, Jathan Malik and Joshua W...
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Girls: Eddie Herr International Junior Championships
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These prestigious championships have 4 categories: U12/U14/U16/U18 with Laura Robson the winner of the under 14s last year. This year we have a strong contingent in the under 18s headed by Laura, joined by Heather Watson, Hannah James, Steph Cornish and Tara Moore The Under 12s start their main dra...
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Boys & Girls: East Africa 18 & Under Junior Circuit - Burundi 2008 (G5)
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Boys 1st Round David MCKENZIE-JAMES (GBR) defeated Simon Peter AYELLA (UGA) 6-3 6-3 Adam THORNTON-BROWN (GBR) (10) BYE 2nd Round David MCKENZIE-JAMES (GBR) defeated Armand NDAYIKEZA (BDI) (12) 4-6 6-2 6-1 Adam THORNTON-BROWN (GBR) (10) defeated Richard SSEMANDA (UGA) 6-1 6-4 3th Round David MC...
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Boys & Girls: Yucatan World Cup (G1) - Merida, Mexico
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A sprinkling of Brits have turned up in this event which leads onto the much more prestigous event Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl which take place later in the year. The primary aim for most of the participants will be to try and book a place in the Australian Open for 2009.
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Major Junior events in November/December
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I thought I would post an alert about the forthcoming major junior events, along with links to websites where you can find the latest acceptances for any event you are interested in. GBR did particularly well last year with George Morgan winning the U14 Junior Orange Bowl and Laura Robson winning the...
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Boys & Girls: Week 45 round-up
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It is a quiet time in the Junior calendar before the Grade 1/Grade A tournaments in North America. This week there was a small group in an American Grade 4, who made no impression, and a larger contingent in a Grade 5 event in Saint Cyprien, France. The singles results were unimpressive. Despite having...
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Boys & Girls: Heiveld Indoor Junior Championships, Belgium - ITF Grade 4
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There is a large British presence here, including European 14&under Junior Masters champion Liam Broady. The top seed in the girls event is another 14 year old star - local girl An-Sophie Mestach Boys R1: Constantin Le Goff (FRA) v Liam Broady (GBR) Tom Farquharson (GBR) v Ivan Vereschaga (RUS...
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