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STICKY:
Junior Rankings - Grade events
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OK. This is a rare foray for me into the Junior section as I don't really start to follow players until they start to hit the futures circuit. But having played tennis in La Manga this week and come a cross some talented GB juniors who were talking about their ranking and the level of events that they had p...
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Bob in Spain
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STICKY:
Forum Code of Conduct
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Code of Conduct can be found HERE
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Drew
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Juniors playing professional senior tennis 2018
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With Jack Draper 16 (JCH 38) playing in Egypt and Jake Hersey 17 (JCH 143) both playing this week and Emma Radacanu 15 (JCH 45) doing so well last week, there seemed some value in a pooled thread just to bring things together. There is quite a deep cohort of juniors moving into transition. Such a thread m...
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Boys: 23eme Open International de Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France, clay - Grade 1 (Week 17)
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Jack Draper returns to junior action with live scores available at http://scores.tennisticker.de/fra/sb.html?tournid=3618 R1 (L48) (8) Jack Draper bye
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DavidC
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Girls: Nottingham Junior International (Week 1), hard - Grade 4 (Week 16)
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All the top 6 seeds here are British, headed by Erin Richardson, Amelia Bissett, Morgan Cross and Matilda Mutavdzic. All the seeds have first round byes, with the full draw at http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100041258
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Boys: Nottingham Junior International (Week 1), hard - Grade 4 (Week 16)
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The main draw is now up at http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100041258 with the usual large home British contingent, including Rahul Dhokia and Felix Gill as second and third seeds
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DavidC
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Other events - week 16
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In Barbados, G4, Blu Baker (3) is through to the QFs. In Egypt, G4, Zyaan Ahmed (2) made the last 16 before getting knocked out. In Guadeloupe,, G5, Derrick Chen is through to the semis in singles and dubs. In Serbia, G5, Eleanor Baglow won two matches and lost in the last 16. In Tunisia, G3, Connor T...
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Girls: Plovdiv Cup, Bulgaria, clay - Grade 2 (Week 16)
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Victoria Allen remains in Bulgaria for the second G2 R1 (L32) Vladislava Petrovskaia (RUS) v Victoria Allen
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DavidC
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Other events - week 15
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Joe is doing well in Israel, beating the second seed in 2 sets today, after making the final last week: Israel, G4: R1: Joseph WHITE (GBR) 6-3 6-1 Raz HAVIV (ISR) Samer AL TORI (ISR) 7-6(1) 6-2 Ying HOU (GBR) R2: Joseph WHITE (GBR) 6-4 6-3 Roi GINAT (ISR) [2] Trinid...
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Boys: ITF Junior Cap d'Ail, France, clay - Grade 2 (Week 15)
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The first of the high grade French Spring events starts tomorrow, with Emile Hudd and Anton Matusevich expected in the draw (not yet up). Live scoring should be available via http://scores.tennisticker.de/fra/sb.html?tournid=3615
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Boys & Girls: Haskovo Cup, Bulgaria, clay - Grade 2 (Week 15)
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Amarni Banks made it to final qualifying but just missed out on joining Harry Wendelken and Victoria Allen in the main draw Boys R1 (L32) Harry Wendelken v (Q) Zane Khan (USA) Girls R1 (L32) Victoria Allen v Kristyna Lavickova (CZE)
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Other events - week 14
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Only Abidjan, at the moment, but in 'other events' just in case something else crops up Abidjan, G5: R1: Jessica DHOME-CASANOVA (GBR) 6-3 6-0 Sadjo COULIBALY (CIV)Ananya VARTAK (GBR) [7] BYE Danielle DALEY (GBR) [2] BYE R2:Alexandra ANTTILA (FIN) [1] 6-1 6-4 ...
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Boys: International Spring Championships , USA, hard - Grade 1 (Week 14)
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The top ITF junior event this week sees three Brits take part in a mainly American field. Holly Fischer was a late withdrawal. Rahul Dhokia has a tough round 1 against someone who reached the semis of the regional G1 last week. Live scores should be available this afternoon via http://scores.tennist...
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Boys & Girls: Junior Ftt, Tunisia - clay - Grade 4 (week 14)
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Girls: R1: Holly STAFF (GBR) 6-3 7-6(5) Linda ALESSI (ITA) Morgan CROSS (GBR) [5] 6-4 5-7 6-0 Elizaveta KOKLINA (RUS) Jana KOLODYNSKA (BLR) [7] 6-2 6-1 (SE) Tanysha DISSANAYAKE (GBR) Boys: R1: Mohamed Anouar BRAHAM (TUN) 6-0 6-3 Zyaan AHMED (GBR) [3]
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Boys & Girls: Messika Open, Bat Yam, Israel - hard - Grade 4 (week 14)
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Girls R1: Erin RICHARDSON (GBR) [2] 6-1 6-1 Riva HONDIASHVILI (ISR) Boys R1: Joseph WHITE (GBR) 6-0 6-4 Bar MESHEL (ISR) Jack PINNINGTON JONES (GBR) 4-6 6-3 6-3 Noam COHEN (ISR) Alexander GAPONENKO (ISR) [5] 6-0 6-1 Benjamin HEYNOLD (GBR) Samer AL TORI (ISR) 6-3 6-...
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2018 rankings
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I know there are a lot of point on offer for grade 1 and Orange Bowl to come, but if you take out the 99'ers from the current rankings, this is where the GB players currently in the top 500 would be ranked at the start of Jan. 30 LOFFHAGEN, George 35 MCHUGH, Aidan 81 DRAPER, Jack 89 MATUSEVICH, Anton 90 HUDD, E...
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Other events - week 13
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In Malta, g5, young Natalya Ogunwale (sister of Jacquelyn), born 2003, came through quails and won a match but then lost out. Our star 2003-er, however, Matilda M, is going strong: Girls R1 (L48) Natalya OGUNWALE (GBR) 7-6(5) 6-3 Carlotta MENCAGLIA (ITA) Victoria SUBEV (GBR) [15] BYE M...
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Boys & Girls: GD Tennis Cup II, Turkey - hard - Grade 4 (week 13)
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Boys (L64): (q) Derin ACAROGLU (GBR) 7-5 6-1 Danyil SHCHEBLYKIN (UKR) Oscar WEIGHTMAN (GBR) [4] 6-0 6-2 Denis ILYUKHIN (RUS) Jack PINNINGTON JONES (GBR) 6-1 6-2 Furkan KARABULUT (TUR) Girls (L64): Erin RICHARDSON (GBR) [2] 7-5 6-3 Eva GARTSEVA (RUS) Selin Lidya SEPKE...
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Girls: 43rd City of Florence, Italy, clay - Grade 2 (Week 13)
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The annual Easter tournament in Florence has just one British entrant this year - Victoria Allen who is seeded in the same quarter as fast rising Dane Clara Tauson (won the Croatian G1 last week and a $15K event as a 14 year old) R1 (L32) Metka Komac (SLO) v (8) Victoria Allen
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Boys & Girls: Trofeo Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spain, clay - Grade 1 (Week 13)
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Qualifying has started today in Alicante for this G1, involving several Brits. Expected in Tuesday's main draw are George Loffhagen, Jacob Fearnley, Emile Hudd, Anton Matusevich, Jake Hersey, Zyaan Ahmed and Destinee Martins Felix Gill, Barney FitzPatrick, Benjamin Heynold, Daniel Webb, Am...
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Other events - week 12
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Good to see Blu again: Puerto Rico, G4: R1 (L64): Blu BAKER (GBR) [1] 6-0 6-0 Michael YOUNAN (CAN) Emiliano GONZALEZ (MEX) 6-2 6-3 Wil JENKINS (LL) (GBR) Latvia, G5: R1: Artsiom BARDZIN (BLR) [3] 6-3 7-6(1) Matthis ROSS (GBR)
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Boys & Girls: Malta ITF U18 World Ranking Tournament, hard - Grade 4 (Week 12)
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This used to be the go to tournament for scores of Brits at this time of year. This time there is only a handful or so, but they include our top under 14 Matilda Mutavdzic and top seeded Rahul Dhokia Boys R1 (L64) (1) Rahul Dhokia v Tomasz Frankowski (POL) (3) Fynn Kuenkler (GER) v Matthew Clegg Panagiotis...
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Boys: 34. Perin Memorial, Croatia, clay - Grade 1 (Week 12)
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Only one Brit here, but George is top seed, looking for his first main draw win of 2018 R1 (L64) (1) George Loffhagen v Luka Mrsic (AUT)
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Boys & Girls: Vendimia Cup, Argentina - clay - Grade 3 (Week 12)
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Holly Fischer is fourth seed here with a BYE in R1 George Davis is in the main draw too, seeded 11. And young Mila Burek, age 13, (and as discussed in the other threads re a seeming penchant for high ranking tournaments in far-flung places) has come through quails. QR1: Mila BUREK (GBR) 6-3 6-1 C...
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Boys & Girls: XII ITF Junior Grip2, Spain - clay - Grade 2 (Week 12)
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We don't always put up the quali results but as this is a G2 and a lot of our promising younger players are in the qualis here, it seemed useful: Girls: QR1: Amelia BISSETT (GBR) [1] 6-4 6-1 Ariadna BRIONES GINESTA (ESP) Kylie BILCHEV (GBR) 7-5 6-2 Alba REY GARCIA (ESP) Amarni BANKS (GBR) [...
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