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Boys: Wimbledon Juniors - Grade A (Week 27)
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Jonny O'Mara's failure to enter Wimbledon, made him ineligible for a wildcard according to LTA rules, but a compromise has been made and Wimbledon have awarded him a qualifying wildcard along with 5 others. Kyle Edmund and Cameron Norrie make the main draw on ranking, while Luke Bambridge could hav...
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Girls: Wimbledon Juniors - Grade A (Week 27)
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Qualifying starts tomorrow with new Brit Jessica Simpson making the draw on ranking, and joined by 5 wildcards. It would appear that as well as Katy Dunne, Katie Boulter and Harriet Dart main draw wildcards have probably gone to Isabelle Wallace, Lana Rush, Anna Brogan, Gabi Taylor, Freya Christie...
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Boys: Amman International Tournament 2 , Lebanon - Grade 5 (Week 27)
(Preview)
A maiden title here for Luke Oakley in an all-British final R1 (L32) (7) Luke Oakley (GBR) d. (WC) Abdulla Ahli (UAE) 6-1 6-0 (Q) Piers Farhang (GBR) d. (WC) Fahad Al Jahani (UAE) 6-4 6-0 R2 (7) Luke Oakley (GBR) d. (LL) Indra Patwardhan (IND) 6-1 6-1 (Q) Piers Farhang (GBR) d. (WC) Hamzeh Al-Aswad (JOR) 6...
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Boys and Girls : Corfu Cup, Greece - Grade 5 (Week 27)
(Preview)
Again, while the big Wimbly juniors is going on, some smaller tournaments are proving successful for the young GB players. On the boys side, Alex Canter has made the semi-finals, having beaten the top seed, and Luke Simeone also is in the semis, capitalising on beating the third seed in R1: R1 : Alex...
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Boys: Pajulahti Cup, Finland - Grade 5 (Week 27)
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Just to say that Sacha Modica, the fourth seed, has lived up to his ranking, making the semi-final, with victories as follows: R32 : Sacha MODICA (GBR) [4] 3-6 7-5 6-2 Patrick KAUKOVALTA (FIN) R16 : Sacha MODICA (GBR) [4] 1-6 6-4 6-1 DENIS MERKULOV (RUS) QF : Sacha MODICA (GBR) [4] 6-0...
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Boys: Biesterbos Open, Netherlands - Grade 2 (Week 27)
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Clay Crawford missed out on Wimbledon and turns up here as one of the seeds R1 (L64) (13) Clay Crawford (GBR) bye Fran Zvonimir Zgombic (CRO) d. Rhett Purcell (GBR) 2-6 7-6(3) 6-2 (WC) Joris Bodin (NED) d. Christopher Reynolds (GBR) 4-6 6-2 7-6(3) R2 Tim Van Rijthoven (NED) v (13) Clay Crawford (GBR)
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589
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Boys & Girls:ITF Junior Tunisia - Grade 4 (Week 26)
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Last week Joel Cannell reached the semifinals in Tunisia. This week he has gone one better reaching his maiden ITF singles final without dropping a set Boys R1 (L32) Ben Stride (GBR) d. (WC) Amine Souayah (TUN) 6-0 6-0 Joel Cannell (GBR) d. Mohamed Oualha (TUN) 7-5 7-5 (6) Christopher Reynolds (GBR) d...
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540
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Girls: AEGON Junior International Roehampton - Grade 1 (Week 26)
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http://www.lta.org.uk/NewWebsite/LTA/Documents/Fans%20News%20and%20Major%20Events/Results/2013/Aegon%20Ju...
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Boys: AEGON Junior International Roehampton - Grade 1 (Week 26)
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http://www.lta.org.uk/NewWebsite/LTA/Documents/Fans%20News%20and%20Major%20Events/Results/2013/Aegon%20Junior%20International%20Roehamp...
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4608
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Girls: Copa Mundo Maya, Guatemala - Grade 4 (Week 25)
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Katie Swan's maiden ITF title in El Salvador earned her a Special Exempt into the draw in neighbouring Guatemala R1`(L32) Taylor Shukow (USA) v (SE) Katie Swan (GBR)
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Boys & Girls: Eastbourne under 18 events v USA (week 25)
(Preview)
Along with the main events there are a couple of under 18 challenge events between GB and the US over the next two days with the matches shown on the oop A girls team of Katy Dunne, Katie Boulter, Harriet Dart and Gabriella Taylor takes on Taylor Townsend (former world no. 1) Louisa Chirico (French Open s...
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Boys: 14th Gerry Weber Junior Open, Germany - Grade 2 (Week 25)
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Roger Federer makes way for the juniors on Halle's grasscourts, in the highest grade tournament this week. Robbie Ridout lost in qualifying, leaving Alex Sendegeya as the only Brit in the main draw, and he takes on a Korean ranked 31 R1 (L32) (7) Young Seok Kim (KOR) v Alexander Sendegeya (GBR)
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Boys & Girls: Riga Open, Latvia - Grade 4 (Week 25)
(Preview)
Anastasia Mikheeva plays her first junior event since winning in Nottingham, and opens against a local wildcard. Boys R1 (L32) Sacha Modica (GBR) v Almantas Ozelis (LTU) Girls R1 (L32) (5) Anastasia Mikheeva (GBR) v (WC) Alise Isajeva (LAT)
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Boys: Grass Court Championships, USA - Grade 4 (week 24)
(Preview)
Just a word to say that Stefan Copper made the finals in the boys' doubles. Semifinal Stefan COOPER (GBR) / Shaquille Montel TAYLOR (BAH) won 6-2 6-2 against Alexey ALESHCHEV (RUS) / Santiago SALAZAR (COL) Unfortunately, the pair were 'defaulted' in the final. No idea why.
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Boys & Girls: Copa INDES Internacional ITF Junior, El Salvador - Grade 4 (Week 24)
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A couple of Brits making doubles finals here, including a maiden one for Katie Swan Boys R2 (L32) (10) Andrew Watson (GBR) d. (Q) Enrique Asmar (COL) 6-1 7-6(5) R3 (7) Peter Bertran (DOM) d. (10) Andrew Watson (GBR) 7-5 6-2 Doubles Final (1) Bertran/Gonzalez (DOM/GUA) v (2) Bernardo/Watson (BRA/GBR...
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Boys & Girls: ITF Euro Holding Bytom Cup, Poland - Grade 4 (Week 24)
(Preview)
Two weeks ago Adam Glynn walked away with both titles in Estonia and here he is top seed looking for a repeat. Top seeded in the girls event is Jazzi Plews, dropping down understandably after failing to win any matches in higher grade events this year. Boys R1 (L32) (1) Adam Glynn (GBR) v Bart Van Leijsen...
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Girls: French Open - Grade A (Week 23)
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(Preview)
Harriet Dart and Isabelle Wallace are trying to join Katy Dunne and Katie Boulter in the main draw. Isabelle's opponent has played a number of Brits in the last year, losing to Katy, Katie and Jazzi Plews, but beating Harriet. QR1 (WC) Harmony Tan (FRA) v (12) Harriet Dart (GBR) Chiara Grimm (SUI) v (12...
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Boys: French Open - Grade A (Week 23)
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(Preview)
Luke Bambridge just made it into the main draw to join Cameron Norrie and Kyle Edmund. There is an outside chance that Evan Hoyt has a Special Exempt, but it appears that he just missed out on the qualifying cut, which he needed to make to be eligible. In qualifying Jonny O'Mara could meet last week's nem...
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Boys & Girls: Podgorica Open, Montenegro - Grade 5 (Week 22)
(Preview)
The second week in Montenegro culminated in a title for Georgina Axon along with Holly Hutchinson. In singles she reached the semis as in the previous week before a rude awakening from another of the Slovak team who won the World Junior Tennis trophy last year. There are further blogs on this tourname...
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Boys & Girls: Epitok-Abris Cup, Hungary - Grade 2 (Week 22)
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With Joshua Sapwell a late withdrawal and Rhett Purcell plus Jasmine Amber Asghar losing in qualifying there are just 2 Brits in the main draw. Katy Dunne was a finalist here 2 years ago. Boys R1 (L32) Billy Harris (GBR) v Xander Veys (BEL) Girls R1 (L32) Freya Christie (GBR) v Vendula Zovincova (CZE)
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Boys & Girls: Estonian Junior Open - Grade 4 (Week 22)
(Preview)
Adam Glynn has won a high percentage of his junior matches in the last few months, and he has advanced here to both finals, sweeping aside all opponents, including last year's top ranked TE14 (Mikael Ymer) Rebecca Smaller has reached her second ITF doubles final of the year. Boys R1 (L32) (3) Adam Glyn...
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Boys & Girls: Astrid Bowl Charleroi, Belgium - Grade 1 (Week 22)
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Anna Brogan, Gabi Taylor, Joel Cannell, isaac Stoute and Patrick Graham all took part in qualifying, but Anna was the only one to come through and join Evan Hoyt and Samm Butler in the main draw. Anna looks to have a tough draw - if she gets past a qualifier whose record is impressive, she comes up against...
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Girls: 54 Trofeo Bonfiglio, Italy - Grade A (Week 21)
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There are 3 British girls in the main draw (Danielle Konotoptseva lost in qualifying) for this Grade A - extra bonus points being now given to this, the Orange Bowl and Youth Olympics in recognition of the stronger fields compared with other non-Slam Grade As Isabelle Wallace appears to have the toug...
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Boys & Girls: 2013 French Open preview
(Preview)
The entry lists have been revealed for Roland Garros and remarkably all the top 93 have entered. That means Luke doesn't initially make the cut, but is 99% certain to after withdrawals and unused Special Exempts. Kyle is placed at the bottom of the main draw acceptances, as he is using his ATP ranking t...
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Boys & Girls: Montenegro Open - Grade 4 (Week 21)
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(Preview)
Eleanor Dean made a winning ITF debut here in 2010. Rob Smith is blogging from this year's event, with plenty of photos and detail of the prep, at http://itc-tennis.com/category/blog Unusually for a foreign ITF two of his charges meet in round 1. ITF rules on player segregation from the same coun...
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