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Boys: Slovak Junior Indoors - Grade 2 (Week 2)
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A strong contingent is in Eastern Europe for this event followed by a Grade 1 tournament in the Czech Republic which has provided British success in the past. Liam Broady has a tough opener against a player who beat him in straights last autumn. R1 (L64) Lewis Burton (GBR) v Aleksandre Kondulukov (RUS...
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Boys: Loy Yang Traralgon International, Australia - Grade 1 (Week 3)
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R1 (L64) Jack Carpenter v Jaden Grinter (NZL) (15) Oliver Golding v (q) Darren K. Polkinghorne (AUS) Tom Allen v (16) Micke Kontinen (FIN) edit: Kontinen's nationality added along with country of tournament -- Edited by DavidC on Thursday 14th of January 2010 07:42:02 PM -- Edited by DavidC on Frid...
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Girls: Magnolia Cup, Poland - Grade 4 (Week 2)
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13 year-old Eden Silva was featured in a controversial Channel 4 documentary about talented sporting kids (and their parents) last year. She retained her place on the Team Aegon programme despite struggling to make an impression on the Tennis Europe circuit (though she missed several months for s...
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Boys & Girls: Coffee Bowl, Costa Rica - Grade 1 (Week 1)
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The Casablanca sextet have moved, with the exception of Oliver Golding, to Costa Rica. Lucy Brown's couple of wins in Mexico have taken her just inside the top 100, and she has a good opening draw here (that's as far as I can see as the host website has mangled the drawsheets), but Jennifer Ren has drawn a...
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Boys: Salk Open, Sweden - Grade 4 (Weeks 0/1)
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Stefan Sterland-Markovic opens his 2010 campaign later today in the familiar position of being number 1 seed in a low grade tournament, and will hope to go one better than Oliver Golding's final last year. R1 (1) Stefan Sterland-Markovic (GBR) v Oskar Wikberg (SWE) Nima Madani (SWE) v Joe Rogers (G...
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Boys: International Casablanca Junior Cup, MEX, GA (Week 0)
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For the first event of the 2010 season Oliver Golding is seeded to reach the quarters in a Grade A event, but has a potential banana skin in round 1 playing against an American who qualified for the orange Bowl, beating Andrew Bettles en route. Andrew and George Morgan have opted out leaving Robert Cart...
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Girls: International Casablanca Junior Cup, MEX, GA (Week 0)
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(16) Lucy Brown (GBR) vs. (LL) Maria Jose Cardona (COL) Maria Elise Casares (ECU) vs. Jennifer Ren (GBR) (10) Jessica Ren (GBR) vs. Ana Sofia Sanchez (MEX) Joanna Henderson (GBR) vs. Kerrie Cartwright (BAH) And we're away again Jo could run into the highly rated Sachia Vickery if she wins. -- Edited b...
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Girls: Junior Orange Bowl, USA - U14/U12 (Weeks 50-51)
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Katy Dunne is aiming to go one step further than at the Eddie Herr and become the first British winner of the under 14s here (Jessica Ren was a winner in the under 12s in 2006). The main draw starts on Thursday U14 R1 (L128) (17) Katie Boulter v Skye Hopper (AUS) (17) Alice Keddie v Sitilia Rencheli (MDA) Ha...
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Boys: Junior Orange Bowl, USA - U14/U12 (Weeks 50-51)
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Luke Bambridge leads the British hopefuls trying to emulate George Morgan and Jamie Delgado (winners in 2007 and 1991 respectively). The main draw starts tomorrow, and we also have one or two players left in qualifying, though Alex Sendegeya was an early casualty in the 256 (!) strong qualifying dr...
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Boys: Prince Cup, Miami, USA: Grade 4 (Week 50)
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The final ITF junior event of the 2009 season includes Nick Jones and Alex Wilton, who have stayed in Florida after unsuccessfully trying to qualify for the Orange Bowl. Unfortunately Nick has been drawn against the USTA under 16 champion (defeating Jack Sock in the final). The Prince Cup also inclu...
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Boys: Dunlop Orange Bowl, Miami, USA: Grade A (Week 49)
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The final Grade A event of the year gets under way today for most of our entrants who have to negotiate qualifying (3 rounds). Jack Carpenter, Oliver Golding and Tom Allen are direct entrants. QR1 (1) James Marsalek v Alexander Igoshin (RUS) (9) Robin Olin (SWE) v Andrew Bettles Nick Jones v (11) Anto...
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Girls: Dunlop Orange Bowl, Miami, USA: Grade A (Week 49)
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Heather Watson should be the third seed behind Mladenovic and Babos here, with top 5 end of year placings up for grabs. Seven girls are trying to join her in the main draw, with Jessica Ren probably having the best opportunity given the draw. Our other seeds Elisha Gabb and Natalie Beazant will probabl...
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Boys: Eddie Herr International Junior Championships, USA - U12/14/16 (Week 48)
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The under 12 event is the first to start today, but British hopes mainly rest in the under 14s, where a strong entry includes our top quartet Kyle Edmund, Evan Hoyt, Luke Bambridge and Chris Pearce. Clay Crawford is the only direct entry in the uner 16s U12 R1 Charlie Ridout (GBR) v Manoel Alencar (POR) J...
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Girls: Eddie Herr International Junior Championships U18, USA - Grade 1 (Week 48)
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Heather Watson should be the top seed here, and is our only direct entrant. Jessica Ren might have been given a Special Exempt. Neither of the Rens are in qualifying , as both were still playing doubles in Mexico when the draw was made. QR1 (1) Natalie Beazant v Maria Belaya (USA) Adel Arshavskaya (USA)...
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Boys: Eddie Herr International Junior Championships U18, USA - Grade 1 (Week 48)
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Oliver Golding, Jack Carpenter, Tom Allen and James Marsalek are in the main draw here. Qualifying begins today, with seeds ranked inside 200 and just 8 qualifiers, so anyone who qualifies will have done well. QR1 Andrew Bettles v (13) Bruno Semenzato (BRA) David Sofaer (AUS) v (9) Richard Gabb Luci...
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Boys: Week 48 - Junior Zagreb Open 2009 - G5 (Hard)
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R1 Joshua WARD-HIBBERT (GBR) defeated Laurent LOKOLI (FRA) 7-5 6-4 R2 Joshua WARD-HIBBERT (GBR) defeated Mate PAVIC (CRO) (4) 6-2 6-2 QF Filip VEGER (CRO) (8) defeated Joshua WARD-HIBBERT (GBR) 4-6 6-0 7-5 Doubles R1: MISTREANU (ROU) / WARD-HIBBERT (GBR) defeated GOLES BABIC (CRO) / OSTOJIC (CRO...
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Boys & Girls: Week 48 - ITF East Africa 18 & Under Junior Circuit - Uganda 2009 - G4 (Clay)
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Boys R1 Sam HUTT (GBR) defeated Gaetan VAN OOTEGHEM (BEL) 6-2 6-2 Lewis WHITELEY (GBR) defeated Brian MALLYA (TAN) 6-1 6-2 Celestin NKOUELEUE (CMR) defeated Jonathan CORNISH (GBR) 4-6 6-4 6-4 Steven BILLINGTON (GBR) defeated Desire NGURUSU (RWA) 6-1 6-0 R2 Sam HUTT (GBR) defeated Brandon EBERSEY...
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Boys & Girls: NTA-ITF Juniors, India - Grade 4 (Week 48)
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Toby Martin goes in Gurgaon for his second successive title Boys R1 (L32) Tushal Thawani (IND) Vs (Q) Joshua Page (GBR) (Q) Sid Hazarika (GBR) Vs Sai Teja Paladugu (IND) Rajat Maheshwar Maheshwarii (IND) Vs (Q) Daniel Elston(GBR) Digvijay Singh Mehta (IND) Vs (6) Daniel Cochrane (GBR) (5) Ronit Sin...
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BRITISH SUCCESSES 2009 - JUNIORS
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As explained near the end of the 2008 thread (and as promised to DJ ages ago!), this year's titles are going to be put directly onto a web page in the stats section of the site at http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html to act as a permanent and easily accessible roll of honour page for all of the succ...
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Boys and Girls: Week 47 Indian ITF Junior Tournament - Guwahati 2009 - G5 (Hard)
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Boys R1: Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND) (1) defeated Sid HAZARIKA (GBR) 4-6 6-1 6-1 Toby MARTIN (GBR) defeated Alok Kumar TRIPATHI (IND) 6-2 6-2 James IRELAND (GBR) (7) defeated Vishnu JINAN (IND) 1-6 6-0 7-5 Rashein SAMUEL (IND) defeated Joshua PAGE (GBR) 2-6 7-6(8) 6-2 Madhurjya DUTTA (IND) Vs Dan...
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Boys and Girls - Week 47 - ITF East African Circuit - Rwanda 2009 - G5 - Clay
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Boys R1 Steven BILLINGTON (GBR) defeated Anatole BIZIMANA (RWA) 6-0 6-2 Sam HUTT (GBR) defeated Desire NGURUSU (RWA) 6-1 6-0 Jonathan CORNISH (GBR) defeated Obedi NSENGIYUNVA (RWA) 6-1 6-1 Lewis WHITELEY (GBR) defeated Harun Mburu MUIRURI (KEN) 6-0 6-2 R2: Celestin NKOUELEUE (CMR) (15) defeate...
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Boys: Yucatan World Cup, Mexico - Grade 1 (Week 47)
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R1 (L64) Andrew Bettles v (15) Brandon Burke (JAM) (8) Oliver Golding v Juan Sebastian Gomez (COL) Tom Farquharson v (WC) Victor Gonzalez (MEX) Liam Broady v Michael Zhu (USA) Ashley Hewitt v Nikolai Haessig (CAN) James Marsalek v Marco Aurei Nunez (MEX) Lewis Burton v (9) Mick Lescure (FRA) Richard...
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Girls: Yucatan World Cup, Mexico - Grade 1 (Week 47)
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Seven British hopefulls here in this tournament which leads up into Eddie Herr and the Orange Bowl, and which was won last year by Heather Watson. R1 (L64) Jennifer Ren v (16) Nadia Echeverria Alam (USA) (10) Elisha Gabb v (WC) Elizabeth Begley (USA) (15) Danieka Borthwick v (Q) Sofia Espana Perez (ME...
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Boys will be boys
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From an article in the Mirror - (the lads were at a training camp in Spain) Teenagers Jack Carpenter and George Morgan, two of our likeliest lads, had their collars felt by police called to a disturbance at the block of flats where they were staying in Barcelona. They were ordered to apologise to neighb...
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Preview of Week 47-50 Junior tournaments
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Although week 46 is a thin one for British juniors the following four weeks see all of our 1992-94 boys & girls who are ranked top 300 (except Laura Robson and Stefan Sterland-Markovic) down for some of the prestigious North American tournaments. The first event is the Grade 1 Copa Yucutan in Mex...
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