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Girls: J200 Durban, South Africa, hard (week 30)
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Last year there were rich pickings for a large British contingent in South Africa. This time round there is no J500 or equivalent, and the British entry is just a couple, both drawn against top 4 seeds R1 (L32) (4) Gaeul Jang (KOR) v Allegra Korpanec Davies Marelie Raath v (2) Gloriana Nahum (BEN)
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Girls: J200 Basel, Switzerland, clay (Week 30)
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Vlada Kozak is here, tackling her second J200 of the year and drawing a wildcard R1 (L32) Vlada Kozak v (WC) Salome Fluri (SUI)
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Boys & Girls: 2023 European Championships U14/U18, clay (Week 29)
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Normally there are European Championships at under14 under 16 and under 18 level, but this year's under 16 event (moved from Russia to Prerov in the Czech Republic) has been cancelled. Nations other than the host are only allowed 2 representatives per event We have our top ranked quartet in the und...
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Other events 2023 - week 29
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Santo Domingo, J100 Marcus Weekes won his R1 match before losing In the girls, Flora Johnson lost in R1, against the top seed. Heidi Crncan lost a very tight R1 match against the 7th seed. But Allegra K Davies has won two matches, and is into the QFs Flora & Allegra are also into the dubs semis Arme...
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Boys: 2023 Wimbledon (Week 28)
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Henry Searle and Oliver Bonding are direct entrants whilst we have 8 wildcards (copying from CD's Roehampton post) BOYS' SINGLES 1 Freddy BLAYDES (GBR) 2 Viktor FRYDRYCH (GBR) 3 Benjamin GUSIC WAN (GBR) 4 Henry JEFFERSON (GBR) 5 Luca POW (GBR) 6 Charlie ROBERTSON (GBR) 7 Zach STEPHENS (GBR) 8 Phoeni...
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Boys & Girls: Wimbledon under 14 Invitational Singles, grass (week 28)
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The draws for the second under 14 invitational singles are now on the Wimbledon website The boys event sees Mark Ceban seeded 1, Rhys Lawlor 8, along with Leo Wright and the draw is here The format is 4 groups of 4 round robin, probably taking place over 2 days, followed by knock-out matches, with grou...
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Other events, 2023 - week 28
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J100 Dom Rep Flora Johnson won R1 and is playing the top seed in R2 Marcus Weekes lost in R1 J60 Georgia Aryan Jit Singh has won two rounds and is in the QFs J30 Denmark Young Liam Channon won two rounds before losing in the QFs Henry Best lost in R1 J30 Kenya Rafael Kiss lost in R3 Emilia Julin is throug...
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Boys & Girls: J30 Dublin, Ireland - carpet (Week 28)
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It was a bit of a disaster in the boys, with TEN lads losing in round 1 However, Sam Chadwick won, and in R2 too, so is now in the QFs In the girls it was a fair bit better. Two lost in R1 but Sophia Kovacheva and Fran Simpson are now through to the QFs and Allegra Hodson got a win in R1, before losing in R2.
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Other events 2023 - week 27
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Romania J100 Vlada Kozak won R1 and is into R2 Greece J60 Kai-Luca Ampaw and Georgiana Mititelu are into R2 Belgium, J60 Tamata Kuti won her R1 match and is into R2 Kenya, J30 Leo Silvertson and Rafa Kiss have won two matches and are into R3 As has Ophelia Korpanec Davies Karina Kiss lost in R1 Emilia Ju...
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Boys & Girls: J30 Edinburgh, Scotland - clay (Week 27)
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It's a pretty skinny qualification draw - not that many entrants, especially in the boys Which might be fine, I guess, but there's no exams or anything now so - again - let's not hear that there aren't domestic events for our players and only those who can travel abroad have access to competition. Beca...
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Girls: J300 Roehampton, London, grass (Week 27)
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Qualifying starts tomorrow for the traditional Wimbledon warm-up event with a strong field (cut-off around 60-70). Ella McDonald, Ranah Stoiber, Mimi Xu and Hannah Klugman are direct entries. Hephzibah Oluwadare, Isabelle Lacy (guaranteed), Imogen Haddad, Hannah Read, Given Roach, Ruby C...
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Boys: J300 Roehampton, London, grass (Week 27)
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The main draw starts on Sunday, so qualifying begins tomorrow with Hugo Coquelin, Luca Bluett, Kyle McKay and Luke Hooper the highest ranked Brits. Henry Searle and Oliver Bonding are in the main draw by ranking, while Charlie Robertson, Luca Pow (both guaranteed), Phoenix Weir, Ben Gusic Wan, Vik...
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Boys & Girls: J60 Naas, Ireland - carpet (Week 27)
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Despite a high number of entrants, GB has only got two boys through to R2 in the boys. The first is Lawrie Wilkin, our star youngster from last week who won the title in Greece as a qualifier. He's here playing as an SE. Arthur Attrill is the second. Better showing by the girls, though. The following are i...
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Other events, 2023 - week 26
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The Scottish Junior Open Championships are taking place at the moment Congrats to: Boys U16: (3) Louis Hull, who beat (1) Isaac Forde Girls U16: (2) Anna McKnight, who beat (4) Eva Hutchins Boys U12: (wc) Myles Kiely, who beat (5) Samuel Riley Girls U12: (1) Grace Watson, who beat (4) Tanishka Na...
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Boys & Girls: J30 Belfast, Northern Ireland - carpet (Week 26)
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A good number of mainland GB players in Belfast this week, as you'd expect. After all the wins and losses of the first 2 rounds, we now have: BOYS QFs: (5) Conor Brady v (1) IRE (4) Joe Mazingham v (6) IRE (q) Lucius Gutteridge v (3) IRE (2) Finn Lester v (7) IRE GIRLS QFs: (7) Isabella Walker (GBR) v (1) IRE...
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Other events, 2023 - week 25
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New Caledonia, J30 Josh Hinton has made the QFs And the SFs in doubles BIH, J30 Joe Mazingham lost in R1, in singles and dubs Isabella Gibson got a win in R1 before losing in R2 She's still going in the dubs though Netherlands, J100 Kyle McKay lost in R1 Greece, J60 Dan Hughes lost in R1 But Finbar McGa...
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U14 Junior International - Tennis Europe - Category 1 - Roehampton, GB (Week 24)
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This is the only grasscourt U14 event It was held for the first time last year as a lead-up event to the inaugral U14 Wimbledon championships It was won by Mika S, in the girls, and a Romanian boy Both the winner and the finalist in boys and girls qualify automatically for the U14 Wimbly event week numbe...
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Other events, 2023 - week 24
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Well, here's this week's 'Where's Wally' version of the rest of junior events, the prize being given to whoever can find the most number of winners who I have chosen to ignore, gloss over, forget or otherwise just completely zap on Keeping it simple for starters: Nigeria, J30 Grace isn't here this we...
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Other events, 2023 - week 22
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Uganda, J30: 14 year-old Meela Patel got a win in R1 In the boys, Jesse clarkson beat the 7th seed But Rio Hanif and Chide Ike Okot lost in R1 Rio & Jesse beat the second seeds in dubs though. And Chide+ won too. South Africa, J60: Sophie Bekker won in R1 Moldova, J30 Mark Ceban beat the 7th seed in R1 ...
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Boys; J300 Bamberg, Germany, clay (Week 24)
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Viktor Frydrych is in this J300, with a familiar opponent. The nephew of former top 50 ATP player Andreas Vinciguerra has been drawn against several Brits in the last year, beating Luca Pow last time. Their match is the third on court 3 tomorrow with live scores expected here Boys R1 (L48) William Re...
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Other events 2023 - week 23
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South Africa, J60 Sophie Bekker (age 14) has made the QFs Nigeria, J30 Our two 13 year-olds are here again this week - Grace and Alisha, as well as Ava Austerberry Guetamala, J60 Ollie Hooper lost in R1 Congo, J30 Sam Park and Yash Bahalkar are through to the Qfs in singles and to the semis in double...
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Boys & Girls: 2023 French Open, clay (Week 23)
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Qualifying gets underway tomorrow for the second Grand Slam of the year. There are two qualifying rounds. Hep Oluwadare is in a tough section with the 2021 Les Petits As winner up first, and if successful then the top qualifying seed Tyra Grant, who won a J300 recently. Hannah Klugman appears to have a...
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Boys & Girls: J100 Varnamo, Sweden - clay (Week 22)
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We don't normally have dedicated threads for the lower events unless they're domestic But this is a J100 And it has several highly seeded GB Players in it, namely: Boys: (1) Viktor Frydrych (6) Henry Jefferson Girls: (2) Gabia Paskauskas (8) Hannah Rylatt Vlada Kozak
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Boys & Girls: J60 Edinburgh, GB - clay (Week 22)
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Well, this is a problem .... J60 is a good level. Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, good transport links etc etc. And there's barely anyone in the qualis The girls only has 11 entries in total - and only 6 of those are British The boys have GB 11 boys who've turned up Is this because the event is on clay?...
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Junior funding.
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Wasn't sure if this has been asked, but I was in the junior forum, and saw all these tournaments our juniors are attending in places around the world. Do the parents have to fund these and travel with their kids, else how does it work? It struck me that if this is the case then only the kids with the richest a...
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