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Girls: J2 Novi Sad, Serbia, clay (Week 35)
(Preview)
Ranah Stoiber continues for another week in Serbia, but Eva Shaw's retirement last week prompted a late withdrawal here. She has to take on a top 100 player, albeit one with a low win percentage this year R1 (L32) Ranah Akua Stoiber v (6) Kira Pavlova (RUS)
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Boys & Girls: 2021 French Open Juniors, clay (Week 23)
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Tough draws for all three Brits involved in the first junior Grand Slam of 2021. Jack Pinnington Jones plays one of the highest ranked unseeded players, who pushed him earlier in the year. Lu Maxtedi has the French 9th seed, while Matilda Mutavdzic draws the second seed, and Roland Garros semi-fina...
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Other events, 2021 - week 34
(Preview)
The Ghana trip continues Accra, J4: Ellie Blackford and Serena Manca both won in R1 France, J4: Miles Groom won in R1. As did Kristina Paskauskas. And Nick Philbert. Rosie Speed qualified but lost in R1. Gabia Paskauskas also lost, as did Roy Keegan Singapore. J4: Scarlet Perkins won in R1 Panama...
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Girls: J1 Pancevo, Serbia, clay (Week 34)
(Preview)
Eva Shaw and Ranah Stoiber return to action after a week's break. Eva plays a qualifier, who has won a lot of matches this year at a lower level, including one against Ranah. Eva is in the same quarter of the draw as top seed Ane Mintegi Del Olmo, the Wimbledon champion perhaps looking to play a junior tou...
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DavidC
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Boys: J1 College Park, USA, hard (Week 34)
(Preview)
A strong field here with 16 seeds ranked inside the top 50 R1 (L64) Aidan Kim (USA) v Derrick Chen
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Boys & Girls: Junior Nationals (U12/U14), Nottingham, hard (Week 33)
(Preview)
This year the under 16 and under 18 Nationals took place in June with Wimbledon wildcards at stake. The under 12s and under 14s are in their usual slot but with changes in format. The under 12s are no longer at Bournemouth on clay and both events consist of 8 round robin groups of 4 before a 16 player elimi...
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Other events, 2021 - week 33
(Preview)
Flora Johnson has dropped out of Accra (which is well-brought up of her, don't want to look greedy ) However, the other girls are doing fine R1 wins for Jade Cole, Ellie B and Serena Manca Skye Bentum Siripi lost Poland, J5: Anthony Wright won in R1 Zach Stevens in is France, J4, as is Georgina Hays U...
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Boy & Girls: J4 Porto, Portugal - hard (Week 33)
(Preview)
R1 Wins for: Phoenix Weir; Kyle Hughes; Josh Manuel; Louis Bowden; Thomas Giles; Isabelle Lacy; Emma Cohen; Sirena Waas; Tabitha Holmes (with a bye) Mason Dace, Max Relic, Charlotte Clarke and Andra Sutherland lost
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Coup Droit
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Boy & Girls: J4 Maribor, Slovenia - clay (Week 33)
(Preview)
And it's a full house R1 wins for: Henry Searle; Fabio; Luca Pow; and Hugo Coquelin Talia and Mimi
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Boys: J2 Guadalajara, Mexico, clay (Week 33)
(Preview)
This Grade 2 has a low cut-off, enabling Wil Jenkins and his Mexican opponent, both ranked just inside 1000, to gain direct entry R1 (L32) Wil Jenkins v Inigo Diaz (MEX)
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Girls: J3 Renningen, Germany, clay (Week 32)
(Preview)
Eva Shaw is top seed in the Grade 3 which ends the Central European series of events For Ranah Stoiber and herself (they have withdrawn from next week's Grade 2). Comfortable start today R1 (L32) (1) Eva Shaw d. (W) Kim Martin (GER) 6-3 6-0 (5) Ranah Akua Stoiber d. (Q) Sophia Ksandinov (GER) 6-2 6-1 R2 (...
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DavidC
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Other events, 2021 - week 31
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Colombia, J4: Wil Jenkins has a R1 win Tajikistan, J5: R1 win over the 7th seed for Zach Stevens (and a win in the dubs too) Ghana, J5: R1 wins for: Skye Bentum-Siripi, Flora Johnson and Serena Manca Jade Cole just lost out though. Dom Rep, J5: R1: Win for Maceo Simpson Portugal, J5: R1 wins for Roy...
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Other events, 2021 - week 32
(Preview)
Having taken the title AND finalist place last week, nice to see the same bunch of girls here again, plus Ellie B. Ghana, J5: R1 wins for: Ellie Blackford; Flora Johnson; Serena Manca R1 losses for: Jade Cole; Skye Bentum-Siripi Spain, J5: R1 wins for Emma Cohen and Sarah Tatu (over the 4th seed) Joel...
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Boy & Girls: J4 Kranje, Slovenia, clay (Week 32)
(Preview)
A large batch of LTA rated ones here this week: Boys: R1 wins: Henry Searle R1 Byes to R2: Hugo Coquelin; Luca Pow; Fabio Nestola; Will Jansen (Brooklyn Bamburac lost in the FQR) Girls: R1 Byes: Mingge Xu R1 losses: Talia N Gatenby
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Coup Droit
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Boy & Girls: J5 Porto, Portugal, clay (Week 32)
(Preview)
As we've got a busload here this week, I've given them their own thread BOYS Mason Dace and Thomas Giles lost in qualis R1 MD: Wins for: Kyle Hughes; Phoenix Weir; Louis Bowden; Josh Manuel; Max Relic Losses for: Kit Henderson; CHarlie Robertson; R2 MD: Wins for: Louis Bowden; Josh Manuel; Max Rel...
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Girls: J2 Gladbeck, Germany, clay (Week 31)
(Preview)
Eva Shaw and Ranah Stoiber are on the second leg of a Central European tour, oscillating between Grade 3 and Grade 2 events R1 (L32) Tea Lukic (GER) v Ranah Akua Stoiber (5) Eva Shaw v (WC) Isabella Lettieri (GER)
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DavidC
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Other events, 2021 - week 30
(Preview)
I may have missed some, but looking across the lists, we seem to have: J5 Tajikistan - Zach Stephens into the last 16 J5 Croatia - Fabio Nestola into the last 8 J3 Bogota - Will Jenkins lost first round J5 San Marino - Nicholas Philibert lost round 2 J3 Prague - Eva Shaw and Ranah Stoiber are yet to play but b...
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Other events, 2021 - week 29
(Preview)
Colombia, J5: Wil Jenkins has won a round in both singles and doubles. Sofia Banhaddouch lost in her first q match, and in doubles. Santo Domingo, J3: Maceo Simpson lost in R1 in singles but got a R1 win in doubles
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Girls & Boys: J5 Edinburgh 2, UK - clay (outdoor) (Week 28)
(Preview)
A stronger field than week 1, as some of the Wimbly juniors players show up. However, suddenly going back to clay is not ideal. Boys: Matt Rutter is top seed, and safely through to R2 Roy Keegan, seeded 3, however, got beaten easily by Anthony Weingarten, 2 & 2 Hugo Coquelin - our UNDER 16 National Ch...
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Other events, 2021 - week 28
(Preview)
Egypt, J5: Zach Stevens won in R1 and now faces the top seed in R2 (in both singles and dubs) Nairobi, J4: Dhillon Oahley won in R1 but lost his next R2 match (George Russell lost in qualis) Santo Domingo, J3: Maceo Simpson won his R1 match
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Boys: JA Milan, Italy, clay (Week 28)
(Preview)
The long-running Trofeo Bonfiglio usually acts as a warm-up for most of the top Juniors prior to the French Open. Local Covid restrictions saw it postponed to July, where it now precedes the European Championships in Switzerland, or at least it does for most European nations. Unfortunately there...
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Girls: 2021 Wimbledon (Week 27)
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(Preview)
Qualifying starts at Roehampton tomorrow for junior Wimbledon. Jasmine Conway is a direct entry, but unfortunately is in the same section as the Korean she lost to this week - who went on to the quarter-finals of the main draw. None of the Roehampton wildcards appear in qualifying, so are likely con...
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Boys: 2021 Wimbledon (Week 27)
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(Preview)
Just as Roehampton started 2 days later, so does junior Wimbledon, with qualifying beginning tomorrow in Roehampton. None of the Roehampton main draw wildcards are in qualifying, so they are the most likely recipients of main draw wildcards. QR1 (q1) Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg (FRA) v (qWC) Matt...
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Other events, 2021 - week 27
(Preview)
Greece, J4: Matt Rankin and Max Relic both made the QFs here (in both singles and dubs) before losing out. Tabitha Holmes lost in R2 of the singles BUT is into the dubs final tomorrow - good luck to her! Cairo, J5: Zach Stevens also made it to the QFs (in both singles and doubles) Nairobi, J5: George Ru...
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Girls & Boys: J5 Edinburgh, UK - clay (outdoor) (Week 27)
(Preview)
The J5 event in Edinburgh this week is practically 100% British - there's barely a foreign player (less than in the 'closed' events we had earlier) I'm also assuming quite a few of the top entrants won't be there as they have/had wildcards into Wimbly (i.e. Issey Purser and Jaquie O, for instance, hav...
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