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Boys & Girls: 2023 European Junior Championships 16 & Under, Parma, Italy, clay (week 39)
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The European under 16 championships were originally scheduled to take place in Prerov at the same time as the under 14 and under 18 events in July. They have since been moved to Parma and rescheduled for this week. Nations, except the host, are restricted to 2 entrants per event and we have not select...
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Other events, 2024 - week 38
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J100 South Africa Finbar McGarvey won two matches but lost in the QFs. In the girls, Sophie Bekker (2008) won her R1 and lost in three sets against the 4th seed in R2. But Allegra K Davies (2007) continues her good form and is into the semis J100 Canada Aryan Singh lost in R1 Flora Johnson won her R1 thou...
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Girls: J200 Cairo, Egypt, clay (week 38)
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Second Cairo J200 for Gabia Paskouskas, again drawn against a low seed, though this one is a 15 year old with a good recent record R1 (L32) Gabia Paskauskas v (8) Jeline Vandromme (BEL)
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Girls: 2023 European Summer Cups - U12/U14/U16/U18
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The season of European Summer Cups starts today with qualification for the under 14 finals next weekend. The under 14s are always earlier, because the finals produce qualifying nations for the world under 14 championship finals in Prostejov starting August 7. GBR are seeded 1 in their group, but q...
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Other events, 2023 - week 37
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J100 South Africa 14 year-old Sophie Bekker has made the QFs, beating the 8th seed in two sets along the way These are her first points in a J100 event so well done to her 15 year-old Allegra Korpanec Davies has also made the QFs. Good luck to both in the next round J100 Spain Zach Stephens had to retire i...
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Girls: J200 Almaty, Kazakhstan, clay (Week 37)
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Following the US Open we have a couple of quiet weeks for junior action with J200 the highest grade on offer. Kazakhstan isn't an obvious hunting ground for Brits, but Brooke Black is joining the Kazakhs and East Europeans who dominate entries here. R1 (L48) (16) Brooke Black bye
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Girls: J200 Cairo, Egypt, clay (week 37)
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Gabia Paskauskas is in Egypt for a couple of J200 events, and takes on the 6th seed, who reached a J200 final during the summer. R1 (L32) Gabia Paskauskas v (6) Ema Mravcova (SVK)
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Boys: J200 Montreal, Canada, hard (Week 37)
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Henry Jefferson played his first junior ITF match since Wimbledon but it looks like he was rusty. Both he and Aryan Jit Singh (who lost in qualifying) are in the doubles. R1 (L32) Kase Schinnerer (USA) d. Henry Jefferson 6-2 6-0
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Other events, 2023 - week 36
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J100 Kazakhstan Brooke Black is into the semis (with slight help from a retirement in the third set today) In the QFs in doubles too J100 Mayalsia SibimanyuJothikumar qualified but lost in R1 J100 Italy Luke Hooper lost in R1. As did Vlada Kozak and Tia BonitaJakupovic-Kljako J60 France Max Ca...
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Boys & Girls: 2023 US Open (week 36)
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Qualifying for the US Open starts tomorrow at the Cary Leeds Center, with draws out later this evening. Charlie Robertson, Luca Pow, Hephzibah Oluwadare and Mika Stojsavljevic should be in qualifying. Henry Searle, Oliver Bonding, Ella McDonald, Mingge Xu, Hannah Klugman and Isabelle Lacy (vi...
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Boys: J200 Rakovnik, Czech Republic, clay (Week 36)
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Mark Ceban has qualified for his first J200 event R1 (L48) (Q) Mark Ceban v (WC) Lukas Holub (CZE)
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Boys & Girls: J300 Repentigny, Canada, hard (week 35)
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This traditional warm-up for the US Open has been going since 1986, with just 2 British singles winners: Andy Murray in 2003 and Marcus Willis in 2008. No British girl has ever won here, but we have a strong quartet trying to change that in a relatively weak draw (Mimi Xu is the top seed, ranked lower tha...
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Boys & Girls: J200 Novi Sad, Serbia, clay (Week 35)
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Another top junior event i Serbia, but a notch down as a J200. Viktor Frydrych plays the French boy who beat him last week while Gabia Paskauskas takes on top TE14 Ksenia Efremova Boys R1 (L32) Thomas Faurel (FRA) v (5) Viktor Frydrych Benjamin Gusic Wan v Andres Santamaria Roig (ESP) Girls R1 (L32) K...
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Other events, 2023 - week 35
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J100 Max Carrier won in R1 and is through to R2 Zach Stephens qualified as is yet to play J60 France A blow out as Ollie Hopper and Tamara Kuti lose in R1 Ollie got a win in the dubs though J30 Kosovo Oliver Page won his R1 before losing in R2 Hectro Fullone, Casey Drake, Alex Farmanbar and Zaim Dain-Pan l...
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Girls: 2023 Wimbledon (Week 28)
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Qualifying for the Wimbledon main draw begins tomorrow, with 2 wins required to join direct entrants Ella McDonald, Ranah Stoiber, Mimi Xu and Hannah Klugman in the main draw. In addition there are 7 wildcards (+ Taylah Preston of Australia, who just missed out on a main draw place with her WTA ranki...
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Boys & Girls: J300 College Park, USA, hard (Week 34)
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This is the stronger of the two J300 events this week, with quite a few players getting practice before the US Open Boys R1 (L48) Charlie Robertson v Andrew Delgado (USA) Girls R1 (L48) (4) Mingge Xu bye Mika Stojsavljevic v Alanis Hamilton (USA) Taylor Goetz (USA) v Hephzibah Oluwadare
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Other events, 2023 - week 34
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J100 France A complete blow-out with first round losses for: (1) Allegra K Davies, Tamara Kuti, Serena Manca, Isabella Wong and Sarah Copley J100 Spain Also the same for the boys in Spain with R1 losses for Zach Stephens (to a LL) and Luke Hooper In the girls, Erin Pearce lost to the top seed But (4) Dan...
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Boys & Girls: J300 Pancevo, Serbia, clay (Week 34)
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There are a couple of J300 events this week. Some of our US Open bound contingent are taking part in a warm up event over there, but Europe is staging some events on clay providing good opportunities for those just below the US Open cut-off. Viktor Frdydrych takes on the winner of the recent Durban J30...
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Boys & Girls: U14/U12/U11 National Championships, Nottingham, hard (Week 33)
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The remaining Junior National Championship age groups take place over the next week. Bizarrely they have started the U14 boys singles early, which devalues the event as Mark Ceban, Rhys Lawlor and Leo Wright are returning from the World Juniors (Rhys/Leo are in the doubles which starts later) Lin...
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Other events 2023 - week 33
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J100 Zimbabwe Marelie Raath is through to the QFs in singles and SFs in doubles Liam Channon lost in R2 J100 Egypt Allegra K Davies lost in the QF Sarah Copley lost in R1 J100 Germany Denis Ivanov lost in R1 Jamie Diack lost in R3 Leticia Romanova lost in R2 J100 Mexico Aryan Singh lost in his first m...
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Other events, 2023 - week 32
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J100 Zimbabwe Yash Bahalkar and Liam Channon both won one match and then lost in the next round Liam is into the doubles semis though In the girls, Marelie Raath is through to the quarters, Alice Haddad won a match before losing in the next round, and Grace Chinwike had to retire in her first match Mar...
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Boys: J300 Prague, Czech Republic, clay (Week 33)
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Prague stages the highest grade junior event this week, and two members of our European Summer Cup final teams are taking part. R1 (L48) (11) Viktor Frydrych bye Benjamin Gusic Wan v (WC) Martin Doskocil (CZE)
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Boys & Girls: J30 Bradfield, GB - clay (Week 32)
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There's the second event at Bradfield this week, a repeat in effect of last week's In the girls: Sophie Bekker and Isabella Wong are the top two seeds again. Last week's winner, Tia, seemingly is not playing, though. 13 year-old Rosie Cho has one of the wildcards In the boys, the two Swiss players who...
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Girls: J200 Renningen.Rutesheim, Germany, clay (Week 32)
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There are three British girls in the main draw here R1 (L32) Polina Humeniuk (UKR) v Hannah Rylatt (WC) Louanne Djafari (GER) v Gabia Paskauskas (6) Julie Pastikova (CZE) v Hannah Read
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Boys & Girls: J30 Bradfield, GB - clay (Week 31)
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Always nice to see our youngsters playing on clay at home This is a J30 so obviously, from a spectator/fan view, most interesting in terms of how our youngest, promising players do Girls: Hollie Smart (who made the U14 Final at Wimbledon) has qualified and made the main draw As has Edie Griffiths, who i...
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