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STICKY:
2023 Rankings
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The new rankings will come out on Monday But just to start the thread with a copy of the new names that are now being used instead of Grade 2 or J2 (or whichever generation of names you're up to so far) ITF: The new naming structure, which is to be launched from 1 January 2023, will see the tournaments grade...
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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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Girls: Australian Open, hard (Week 4)
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Qualifying for this year's Australian Open gets underway overnight, with Imogen Haddad in the draw. Ella McDonald and Ranah Stoiber (if recovered - she is still on the acceptance list) should be in the main draw. I notice that Sara Bejlek is at the bottom of the acceptance list. She gets in with her...
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DavidC
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Boys & Girls: Les Petits As U14 Super Category, Tarbes, France, indoor acrylic (Week 4)
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Rhys Lawlor has come through qualifying to join our four direct entries for the top under 14 event in Europe. Leo and the two girls play tomorrow with live scores available here . Ophelia plays fourth on the streamed court 1, which you can view here Leo is second and Hollie third on unstreamed court...
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DavidC
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Boys & Girls: J300 San Jose, Costa Rica, hard (Week 4)
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A sizeable group of Brits are tackling the hard court section of the Latin American swing of high grade events (which moves on to clay in February) 6 Brits in the main draws, plus Ellie Blackford, who lost in qualifying. Surprised to see that Ruby Cooling has been granted a wild card, rather than havi...
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DavidC
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Other events, 2023 - week 4
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UAE J100: R1 win for Luca Bluett Doha, J60 R1 win for Max Castle R1 wins for Flora Johnson (over top seed), Vlada Kozak and Jade Issah Ali and Isabella Gibson lost South Africa J60 Sophie Bekker (age 14) has won two matches and is into the QFs Daisy Clifford lost Czechia J30 Max Carrier won R1 Turkey...
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Coup Droit
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Boys & Girls: J200 Hammamet, Tunisia, clay (Week 4)
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The second week in Tunisia for Ben Gusic Wan and Marelie Raath. A tough draw for Ben, though both he and his opponent lost to the eventual runner-up last week Boys R1 (L32) (4) Vuk Radjenovic (SRB) v Benjamin Gusic Wan Girls R1 (L32) Vladislava Andreeskaya (KGZ) v Marelie Raath
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DavidC
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Boys & Girls: J100 Glasgow (indoor, hard) - Week 3
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In the boys the top four seeds are: Niels Ratiu (BEL) Viktor Frydrych Charlie Robertson WilliamRejchtman Vinciguerra (SWE) Slightly unfortunately, Dilhan Wasantha has been drawn against Viktor in the first round Conor Brady, who made the semis, in a recent GB J4 event, has drawn the top seed G...
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Coup Droit
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Other events, 2023 - week 3
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Turkey, J100 A clutch of losses for the boys in R1 But Taymur Mohammad got a win Dubai, J60: Max Castle beat the top seed in R1 Vlada Kozak lost Israel, J60: R1 wins for Serena Manca and Jade Cole, but Dina Lipovski lost Egypt, J30 Rhys Watters won in R1 -- Edited by Coup Droit on Tuesday 17th of Janua...
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Boys & Girls: Tennis Europe U14 Junior Internatinal, Bolton, indoor acrylic (Week 3)
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The Category 1 under 14 event in Bolton regularly precedes Les Petits As, one of the two leading events for this age group. There are 48 draws in both the boys and girls, which you can view here Round 1 matches are taking place today, with quite a lot of British interest, given there are only 3 British see...
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Boys & Girls: J200 Hammamet, Tunisia, clay (Week 3)
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It could be a big year for former U12 Orange Bowl champion Ben Gusic Wan, who plays his first ITF of the year here. Boys R1 (L32) Benjamin Gusic Wan v Semen Aginskiy (UKR) Girls R1 (L32) Marelie Raath v (Q) Amina Zeghlouli (MAR)
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DavidC
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Girls: J200 Kolkata, india, hard (Week 3)
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Allegra Korpanec Davies lost in qualifying for the second Indian J200 leaving just Gabia Paskauskas in the main draw. She has a favourable draw against a player who lost to Allegra in Delhi R1 (L32) Gabia Paskauskas v (WC) Sahana Sanjeev (USA)
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DavidC
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Juniors playing professional senior tennis
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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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Girls: J300 Traralgon, Australia, hard (Weeks 2/3)
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There is a depleted cast of Brits in Australia for the Open preceded by this traditional warm-up event. Ella McDonald and Ranah Stoiber came out for the United Cup event, and have been joined only by Imogen Haddad, who lost in qualifying. Mimi Xu was a late withdrawal from both events this week, whil...
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DavidC
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Other events, 2023 - week 2
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Israel, J60 Jade Cole+ and Dina Lipovski+ have both made the semis in the doubles UAE, J60 Max Castle lost out in his SF in dubs Vlada Kozak is into the semis in singles
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Girls: J200 Bratislava, Slovakia, indoor hard (Week 2)
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J200, Bratislava, Slovakia R32: (8) Hannah Klugman v Magdalena Smekalova (CZE) Just starting now on https://www.youtube.com/@TENIPOcom Hannah is on court 2 today -- Edited b...
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Girls: J200 Delhi, India, hard (Week 2)
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Allegra Korpanec Davies had a good week in the J100 (revised Grade 3) event in Chandigarh last week, but didn't quite go far enough to earn one of the first Special Exempts of the year. Nevertheless she has managed to come through 3 qualifiers (the first narrowly) to earn her place in the main draw alon...
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DavidC
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Other Events – Week 1
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There's a J100 (formerly J3) event in Sweden this week with a few young Brits involved. Boys: Dilhan Wasantha made it all the way through qualies to make the MD, meaning Brits have a quartet of Swedish opponents in R1. Albert Widell (SWE) vs [5] Henry Jefferson [3] Charlie Robertson vs Emil Kindhult (S...
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Other events, 2022 - week 52
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Ok, so this probably counts as pretty low on most people's radar BUT - the Top Tier U12 event has been taking place this week in France. In Boulogne-Billancourt Along with the Open Auray Super 12, it's one I always follow. And the Facebook site has had some live coverage Congrats to Liv Zingg (born...
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2022 Rankings
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And so, here we are, 2022 Ranah is now top-50 (+14 after the 2003s have dropped out). And we are back to having two top-100 players. (Which is hardly a lot....) BUT there's a nice bunch in the 100-200 slot now. (Players are 2004-born, unless otherwise noted) Girls Top 600: 44 - Ranah Stoiber ('05) 7...
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Girls U12/U14 Junior Orange Bowl, USA (Week 50)
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Most British attention will be on the under 14 event where unusually we have the top seed, Hannah Klugman, with the main draw beginning tomorrow. however Hannah is not the highest ITF ranked player here. Third seed Emerson Jones is JWR40, having reached a Grade A semifinal already. Also in the field i...
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Boys U12/U14 Junior Orange Bowl, USA (week 50)
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There is a strong concentration of Brits in the under 12s here with the main draws starting on Tuesday. Note that the draws show where players are based, so nationality may be different to that stated U12 R1 (L128) (9) Daniil Berezin (USA) v Manu Seijas-Wright Xander Reese v Dev Vakil (USA) Agustin Ce...
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New Accelerator Programme for top-20/30 Juniors
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The ITF and the ATP have announced the launch of the Accelerator Programme, a ground-breaking initiative designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring tennis players from 2023. The programme will see playing opportunities at ATP Challenger Tour level and ITF World Tennis Tour events res...
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Boys & Girls: JA Plantation, USA, clay (Week 49)
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The final week of the ITF Junior Circuit climaxes with the most well-known of the 7 non grand slam Grade As - the Orange Bowl in Florida. Although the top 10 ranked girls are absent (most have stopped playing junior events outside slams) there are several girls vying with top seed Ella McDonald for plac...
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