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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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STICKY:
Forum Code of Conduct
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Code of Conduct can be found HERE
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Boys & Girls: 2023 French Open, clay (Week 23)
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Qualifying gets underway tomorrow for the second Grand Slam of the year. There are two qualifying rounds. Hep Oluwadare is in a tough section with the 2021 Les Petits As winner up first, and if successful then the top qualifying seed Tyra Grant, who won a J300 recently. Hannah Klugman appears to have a...
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Other events 2023 - week 23
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South Africa, J60 Sophie Bekker (age 14) has made the QFs Nigeria, J30 Our two 14 year-olds are here again this week - Grace and Alisha, as well as Ava Austerberry Guetamala, J60 Ollie Hooper lost in R1 Congo, J30 Sam Park and Yash Bahalkar are through to the Qfs in singles and to the semis in double...
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Boys & Girls: J100 Varnamo, Sweden - clay (Week 22)
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We don't normally have dedicated threads for the lower events unless they're domestic But this is a J100 And it has several highly seeded GB Players in it, namely: Boys: (1) Viktor Frydrych (6) Henry Jefferson Girls: (2) Gabia Paskauskas (8) Hannah Rylatt Vlada Kozak
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Boys & Girls: J60 Edinburgh, GB - clay (Week 22)
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Well, this is a problem .... J60 is a good level. Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, good transport links etc etc. And there's barely anyone in the qualis The girls only has 11 entries in total - and only 6 of those are British The boys have GB 11 boys who've turned up Is this because the event is on clay?...
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Other events, 2023 - week 22
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Uganda, J30: 14 year-old Meela Patel got a win in R1 In the boys, Jesse clarkson beat the 7th seed But Rio Hanif and Chide Ike Okot lost in R1 Rio & Jesse beat the second seeds in dubs though. And Chide+ won too. South Africa, J60: Sophie Bekker won in R1 Moldova, J30 Mark Ceban beat the 7th seed in R1 ...
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Junior funding.
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Wasn't sure if this has been asked, but I was in the junior forum, and saw all these tournaments our juniors are attending in places around the world. Do the parents have to fund these and travel with their kids, else how does it work? It struck me that if this is the case then only the kids with the richest a...
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Boys & Girls: J300 Charleroi-Marcinelle, Belgium, clay (Week 22)
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Good to see Mimi Xu in a junior ITF draw for the first time this year. She, Ranah Stoiber and Oli Bonding are all using this tournament as their one event before Roland Garros. Hannah Klugman is the only Brit joining from Milan and the only one without a bye. Live scoring is available here Boys R1 (L48...
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Boys & Girls: J500 Milan, Italy, clay (Week 21)
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The Trofeo Bonfiglio has been in existence since 1959 but you have to go back to the 1960s for a British singles winner, and there have been none in the boys. We have a quintet of players here trying to remedy that stat. The draws have not been particularly kind, with 3 our of 4 unseeded players drawing se...
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Other events 2023 - week 21
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Croatia, J100 (clay) Ben Gusic Wan is 2nd seed, got a BYE, then won his next match Portugal, J100 (clay) Kai-Luca Ampaw lost in R1 Luke Hooper and Kyle McKay both got R1 BYEs Athina Schlepphorst won in R1 in the girls El Salvador, J60 R1 win for Max Castle Latvia, J60 Ellie Blackford is top seed an...
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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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Boys & Girls: J30 Wrexham, GB - hard (Week 21)
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Nice to see a low-ranking event - we've seemingly stopped doing 15ks at adult level but at least we have a few J30s left. Everyone needs an entry point.... Boys Big congrats to Theo Coates who beat the top seed yesterday, 7-5 in the third Wildcard Rhys Lawlor (only 14 and a highly regarded player) got a wi...
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Other events 2023 - week 20
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Estonia J100 Maria Ustic (seeded 6) and Hannah Rylatt (seeded 7) both won in R1 Playing together they also won their first dubs match Aryan Singh lost in singles but won in dubs Dom Rep J100 Max Castle lost in R1
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Boys: J300 Santa Croce Sull'Arno, Italy, clay (Week 20)
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Henry Searle starts his preparation for Roland Garros here. He has a tough draw though against an Italian who has just won a J200 in Italy without any extended sets to gain a Special Exempt R1 (L32) Henry Searle v (SE) Carlo Alberto Caniato (ITA)
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Girls: J200 Hannover, Germany, clay (Week 19)
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Two Brits here with seemingly favourable round 1 draws, though the wildcard who faces Gabia Paskauskas did win a J60 in March R1 (L32) (WC) Eva Bennemann (GER) v Gabia Paskauskas Tessa Johanna Brockmann (GER) v Hannah Read
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Other events, 2023 - week 19
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J100 Dom Rep Max Castle got a BYE, won R2 and lost in R3 J60 Canada Finbar Mcgarvey lost in R1 But is into the SFs in dubs J60 Turkey Aryan Singh lost in R1 Taymur Mohammad won his R1 but lost in R2 Together, they are into the SFs in doubles J30 Bulgaria Tom Lefranc lost in R1 J60 Spain Finn Lester had to ret...
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Boys & Girls: J200 St. Poelten, Austria, clay (Week 19)
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Ruby Cooling has been joined by Viktor Frydrych, Luca Bluett and qualifier Luke Hooper for the second Austrian J200 Boys R1 (L32) Luca Bluett v Duje Markovina (CRO) Viktor Frydrych v Jan Klimas (CZE) (Q) Luke Hooper v Marek Nano (SVK) Girls R1 (L32) (WC) Lilli Tagger (AUT) v Ruby Cooling
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Girls: J200 Targu Jiu, Romania, clay (Week 18)
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Imogen Haddad is the second seed here R1 (L32) (1) Elena Ruxandra Bertea (ROU) v Gabia Paskauskas (Q) Alexandra Irina Anghel (ROU) v (2) Imogen Haddad
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Other events, 2023 - week 18
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J100 Canada Finbar McGarvey has made the QFs and counting Also into the semis in the doubles J100 Algeria Zech Hamrouni lost in R2 J100 Costa Rica Max Castle won R1 J60 Panama Ollie Hooper won R1 J60 North Macedonia Jay Johnson- Hauldren is into R3 J60 Peru Luka Matellini lost in R1 J30 Jamaica Dy...
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National Academies
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https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2022/05/blow-for-tennis-scotland-as-stirling-academy-to-close/amp/
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Girls: J200 Villach, Austria, clay (Week 18)
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R1 (L32) (3) Gloriana Nahum (BEN) v Ruby Cooling
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Boys & Girls: J200 Aldershot, hard (Week 17)
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The main draws are out for the J200 event in Aldershot, including a number of players who have made their mark in last week's Women's ITF in Nottingham In the boys event Henry Searle is top seed while Charlie Robertson comes in as a wildcard to be seeded 2 Ben Gusic Wan is in Henry's quarter of the draw In th...
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Boys & Girls: XXIX Taça Internacional Maia Jovem Tennis Europe U14 Super Category, Portugal, clay (Week 17)
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This is the third of the Tennis Europe Super Category events this year, with Mark Ceban top seeded. Some of the top ranked boys are missing, but his nearest rival currently for the number 1 ranking Savva Rybkin (who beat him in the previous Super Category event in Sweden is here) Live streaming is avai...
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