Coup Droit wrote:

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J100 Cyprus

Daniella Britton (age 14) beat one Pop and now gets a pop at another Pop

(She beat Laura Pop (FRA) today and plays Gloria Pop (ROU) next)


J100 Hamburg

Unseeded Maria Ustic beat the 11th seed in two sets and now plays the 14 year-old top seed in the QFs

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 If she wins, I don't think she will be very Pop-ular amongst the Pops!

Won't be TOTP

Shame there wasn't another Pop to have a pop at....

J100 Cyprus

SF: (9) Dani (age 14) lost to Masarykova (age 14) 2-6 1-6

And lost her doubles SF too

Coup Droit wrote:

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It was the LTA's first 14U Cat 1 national tour event last week

On clay, so counts as some sort of clay court championship

(Rose will know more )

the girls' draw was very strong, with a lot of names very well known to this forum

The SFs were:

(1) Milica Sakamoto Milojevic LOST to Isabella Rebel
(2) Grace Watson def. (q) Sophia Cuninghame

Other 'big' names who lost earlier on were Judy Zhang, Hermione Korpanec Davies, Leah Bush, April Sackflame

And Grace got the title (although she is a year older)

FINAL:

Grace Watson (2011) def. Isabella Rebel (2012) 6-2 6-1

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Yes, the first of 4 national grade 1s for the 11U-14U

Theres a clay championship, a grass championship, an indoor championship and the outdoor big junior national championship.

All grass events are in May and indoor is in October

Clay for the 14U is in March and the 11U/12U later in the spring

Obviously the outdoor junior nationals is the most prestigious grade 1 and is outdoors at Nottingham in August

The boys had their clay event last weekend and it was won by Haqim Kamal (a frequent GB team pick)

Really pleased for Grace. Another well deserved title for her. 

Am expecting to see a lot of the top players at the 18U county cup events this weekend. The players love it as there are very few team events in tennis. The LTA/ITF completely misjudged the importance of it last year to the players and put the Loughborough ITF and the County Cup on at the same time. The ITF qualifying was nearly empty. Even players like Mia Wainwrigh, Tegan Bush etc prioritised county cup. Different dates this year with the county cup being moved back!  Am expecting to see those 2 play it again this year - along with the likes of Edie, Megan, Daniella, Annabel, Rosie, Grace, Millica etc in the girls and the equivalent level in the boys. With 6-10 players in each team there are some great matches to watch, especially in the higher divisions