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Boys & Girls: 2024 Tennis Europe Winter Cups (U12/U14/U16)
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Last year's under 12 Winter Cup was cancelled, but this year it is the first to start with qualifying taking place this weekend, and their finals in 2 weeks time. Mixed news as the boys qualify, but the girls do not. The U12 boys (Frederick Fabricius, Kai Max Hodkinson and Oskar Laskowski) beat bot...
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Other events, 2024 - week 7
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There's a J30 in Dublin this week so obviously a fair few Brits playing, although less than there would have been, presumably, but for the J30 also at Liverpool In sum: Girls: Elizabeth Evans has made the singles final Martha Groun and SophiaFredericks-McKee lost in the QFs Elizabeth & Tia...
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Boys & Girls: J30 Liverpool 2, GB - hard, indoor (Week 7)
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A second J30 at Liverpool Another excellent two full qualis draw - although quite a few different names from last week Strange though that the tournament referee has drawn up two different sorts of draws (both the same size) - it's true that there are several persmissible draw versions but strange to...
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Boys & Girls: J200 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, hard (Week 7)
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The Dominican Republic J200 Copa Marengue has been good to Brits, with weak fields to exploit - JackPinnington Jones, Ella McDonald and Luca Pow being winners in the last 3 years. There are 6 Brits in the singles draws here, including a wildcard for Ciara Moore for some reason, but round 1 has not gone w...
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Boys: J300 Cairo, Egypt, clay (Week 7)
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Viktor Frydrych is seeded 4 in this event. His first opponent is one of the players Henry Searle beat en route to his Wimbledon title R1 (L32) (4) Viktor Frydrych v Manas Dhamne (IND)
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Other events, 2024 - week 6
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J100 Manacor Allegra Korpanec Davies (2nd seed) is into the SFs in singles Hannah Read (top seed) lost in the QFs (Max Carrier lost in R2, Freya Peet and Erin Pearce lost in R1) Allegra+ are also into the doubles final (Hannah & Erin Pearce lost in the semis) J60 Tunisia Mark Ceban (2nd seed) i...
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Boys & Girls: J30 Liverpool, GB - hard, indoor (Week 6)
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Wonderful to see an absolutely full quali draw, both girls and boys Well done to Liverpool ! -- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 2nd of February 2024 08:34:57 PM
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Boys & Girls: J200 Oberhaching, Germany, indoor hard (Week 6)
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Luke Hooper came through qualifying to add to the three seeded Brits in the main draw, but Zechariah Hamrouni, Daniela Piani and Ruby Cooling all lost out. Boys R1 (L32) (1) Charlie Robertson v (WC) Sydney Zick (GER) (Q) Luke Hooper v Jakub Jedrezczak (POL) (5) Benjamin Gusic Wan v Nico Hipfl (AUT) Gir...
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Other events, 2024 - week 5
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I'm going to lay the blame on Winter Cup but, certainly, in terms of ITF juniot events, there's not much GB interest left at the end of the week. However, we do have: J30 Austria Louis Hull has made the singles final - good luck, Louis ! J100 Spain Allegra K Davies is into the doubles SFs -- Edited by Coup Dro...
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Boys & Girls: J100 Glasgow, GB - hard, indoor (Week 3)
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There's obviously a big British contingent In the boys, the top 4 seeds are, in order: a Romanian boy, Max Carrier, Luke Hooper and an Estonian boy Mark Ceban is playing here Wildcards have gone to Jesse Clarkson, Liam O'Brien and Lance Nisbet The GB qualifiers were Murray Watters and Louis Hull Alex E...
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Boys & Girls: Australian Open, hard (Weeks 3/4)
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With 7 Brits already in the main draw (Oliver Bonding, Viktor Frydrych, Charlie Robertson, Benjamin Gusic Wan, Hannah Klugman, Mingge Xu and Mika Stojsavljevic) three girls play the first of two qualifiers tonight to try and join them. Live scores should be available via Flashscore and other bet...
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Other events, 2024 - week 4
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J100 Dubai Max Castle came through qualis and won his R1 match He also got a R1 win in dubs Isaah Ali lost though J100 NZ Josh Hinton got a BYE and then lost in R2 Wambui Taylor won her R1 and then lost in R2 J60 Bosnia & H Tia BonitaJakupovic-Kljako and Georgiana Mititelu both won in R1 J60 S. Africa...
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Boys & Girls: Les Petits As Tennis Europe U14 super category, France, indoor hard (Week 4)
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One of the two leading under 14 events takes place this week, with Mark Ceban's 2023 victory a hard act to follow, especially with no seeded Brits. We have several boys in the field, but just two girls (thanks to Sevil Parviz qualifying and Megan Knight being handed a wildcard, as speculated in the Bol...
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Girls: J300 San Jose, Costa Rica, hard (Week 4)
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After a couple of J100 events in Costa Rica it now hosts the long running Coffee Bowl (59th edition). Brooke Black has been awarded a wildcard after her two semi so far, and she has been joined by qualifier Flora Johnson. Both have tricky draws, against the fourth seed and one of the highly-touted Pen...
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Other events, 2024 - week 3
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J100 Costa Rica R1 losses for Flora Johnson and Vlada Kozak Brooke Black won though J100 Dubai Max Castle lost in R1 J60 Bosnia & H Tia Jakupovic-Kljako won in R1 but lost in R2 Georgiana Mititelu won both, though, and is into the QFs J60 Austria R1 win fors Rhys Lawlor and Serena Manca, but lo...
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Boys & Girls: Tennis Europe U14 Category 1 Junior International, Bolton, acrylic (week 3)
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As usual Bolton hosts the traditional warm-up event before Les Petits As this week Draws can be found on the Tennis Europe website Seeded Brits are Scott Watson (8) Eric Lorimer (11) Neo Armus (13) Niall Pickerd-Barua (9) and Samuel Fussell (16) in the boys event. In the girls event just Daisy Woot...
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Boys & Girls: J300 Traralgon. Australia, Hard (Week 3)
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This is the first J300 tournament of the season as is the warm-up event for the Australian Grand Slam which starts for the Juniors next week. The qualifiers have completed. We had no entrants in the qualifiers with a late withdrawl from Hephzibah Oluwadare but have a string of entrants in the main dra...
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Other events, 2024 - week 2
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A small thing - or maybe not..... From what I can see, Julia Reynolds (14 years old) has switched her tennis nationality from France to GB She's playing in Malmo qualis this week.
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Other events, 2024 - week 1
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And here we are, a new year, life and tennis going round and coming round.... There's a busload of GB players in Belgium J60 this week Just looking at qualis, we have: Karina Kiss, Anna Boran, Martha Ground Rafa Kiss, Josh Craze, Milo Nardelli, Leo Silverston, Henry Redfern, Matt Ground, Louis Hull ...
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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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Boys & Girls: U12/U14 Junior Orange Bowl, Florida, USA (Week 50-51)
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The main draws start tomorrow for the junior Orange Bowl.. It is hard to work out nationalities, so there may well be other Brits in the draws, and some of the nationalities may be incorrect. Hannah Klugman was a finalist in the under 14s last year. U12 Boys R1 (L128) (17) Pekko Pfundstein v Max D Smith (...
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Other events, 2023 - week 49
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J100 India Yash Bahalkar lost in R1 J60 Togo Top seed Grace Chinwike won her R1 but lost in R2 in three sets Daisy Clifford, seeded 7, also won in R1 but lost out in R2 Daisy has made the semis of the doubles though J30 Ethiopia Billy Moxon won in R1 and also in R2 but lost his QF to the 8th seed Harry Cornhil...
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Boys & Girls: J100, Loughborough, GB - hard (Week 49)
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The quali draws are out Lots of empty slots, in both girls and boys...... In the boys, the top two Q seeds are Spanish and Irish Henry Jefferson should be top seed in the MD, hoping to do better than last week In the girls, Zara Burns (IRE) is top Q seed. Hannah Read, who is nearly top-100, should be the top s...
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Boys & Girls: J60, Glasgow, GB - hard (Week 48)
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Boys There's only a 16-entrant quali draw, with 14 GB boys and only two foreign lads The two wildcards have gone to Alex Winder and Alex English Henry Jefferson should be the top seed in the main draw - the event is a bit 'below' him really but I guess because it's in Scotland he wants to play, which makes s...
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Other events, 2023 - week 48
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J60 India Yash Bahalkar lost in R1 J30 Ethiopia Harry Cronhill won his R1 and lost in R2 J30 Togo Daisy Clifford won R1 but lost in R2 But she's into the SFs in dubs J30 Morocco MatildaCabrera Burns lost in R1 J30 Norway Henry Best won his R1 match But Harry Lumb and Tom Chapman lost theirs -- Edited b...
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