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Girls: 2023 Wimbledon (Week 28)
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(Preview)
Qualifying for the Wimbledon main draw begins tomorrow, with 2 wins required to join direct entrants Ella McDonald, Ranah Stoiber, Mimi Xu and Hannah Klugman in the main draw. In addition there are 7 wildcards (+ Taylah Preston of Australia, who just missed out on a main draw place with her WTA ranki...
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241
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15366
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Boys & Girls: J300 College Park, USA, hard (Week 34)
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(Preview)
This is the stronger of the two J300 events this week, with quite a few players getting practice before the US Open Boys R1 (L48) Charlie Robertson v Andrew Delgado (USA) Girls R1 (L48) (4) Mingge Xu bye Mika Stojsavljevic v Alanis Hamilton (USA) Taylor Goetz (USA) v Hephzibah Oluwadare
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DavidC
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20
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2004
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Other events, 2023 - week 34
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J100 France A complete blow-out with first round losses for: (1) Allegra K Davies, Tamara Kuti, Serena Manca, Isabella Wong and Sarah Copley J100 Spain Also the same for the boys in Spain with R1 losses for Zach Stephens (to a LL) and Luke Hooper In the girls, Erin Pearce lost to the top seed But (4) Dan...
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Boys & Girls: J300 Pancevo, Serbia, clay (Week 34)
(Preview)
There are a couple of J300 events this week. Some of our US Open bound contingent are taking part in a warm up event over there, but Europe is staging some events on clay providing good opportunities for those just below the US Open cut-off. Viktor Frdydrych takes on the winner of the recent Durban J30...
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DavidC
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6
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899
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Boys & Girls: U14/U12/U11 National Championships, Nottingham, hard (Week 33)
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(Preview)
The remaining Junior National Championship age groups take place over the next week. Bizarrely they have started the U14 boys singles early, which devalues the event as Mark Ceban, Rhys Lawlor and Leo Wright are returning from the World Juniors (Rhys/Leo are in the doubles which starts later) Lin...
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DavidC
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32
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3685
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Other events 2023 - week 33
(Preview)
J100 Zimbabwe Marelie Raath is through to the QFs in singles and SFs in doubles Liam Channon lost in R2 J100 Egypt Allegra K Davies lost in the QF Sarah Copley lost in R1 J100 Germany Denis Ivanov lost in R1 Jamie Diack lost in R3 Leticia Romanova lost in R2 J100 Mexico Aryan Singh lost in his first m...
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5
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803
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Other events, 2023 - week 32
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J100 Zimbabwe Yash Bahalkar and Liam Channon both won one match and then lost in the next round Liam is into the doubles semis though In the girls, Marelie Raath is through to the quarters, Alice Haddad won a match before losing in the next round, and Grace Chinwike had to retire in her first match Mar...
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8
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Boys: J300 Prague, Czech Republic, clay (Week 33)
(Preview)
Prague stages the highest grade junior event this week, and two members of our European Summer Cup final teams are taking part. R1 (L48) (11) Viktor Frydrych bye Benjamin Gusic Wan v (WC) Martin Doskocil (CZE)
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4
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948
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Boys & Girls: J30 Bradfield, GB - clay (Week 32)
(Preview)
There's the second event at Bradfield this week, a repeat in effect of last week's In the girls: Sophie Bekker and Isabella Wong are the top two seeds again. Last week's winner, Tia, seemingly is not playing, though. 13 year-old Rosie Cho has one of the wildcards In the boys, the two Swiss players who...
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Girls: J200 Renningen.Rutesheim, Germany, clay (Week 32)
(Preview)
There are three British girls in the main draw here R1 (L32) Polina Humeniuk (UKR) v Hannah Rylatt (WC) Louanne Djafari (GER) v Gabia Paskauskas (6) Julie Pastikova (CZE) v Hannah Read
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4
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832
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Boys & Girls: J30 Bradfield, GB - clay (Week 31)
(Preview)
Always nice to see our youngsters playing on clay at home This is a J30 so obviously, from a spectator/fan view, most interesting in terms of how our youngest, promising players do Girls: Hollie Smart (who made the U14 Final at Wimbledon) has qualified and made the main draw As has Edie Griffiths, who i...
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Other events, 2023 - week 31
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J100 Poland Brooke Black lost in R1 J60 Luxembourg Max Carrier is into R2, and also the SFs of the doubles Erin Pearce and Flora Johnson are also into R2 Lois Newberry lost in R1 though All three are into the dubs' SFs J60 Zimbabwe Yash Bahalkar lost in R3 Liam Channon lost in R2 Tavis Wright lost in R1 L...
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Coup Droit
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Other events, 2023 - week 30
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Colombia, J100 Athina Schlepphorst has won two matches and is into the QFs Netherlands, J60 Zech Hamrouni and Luke Hooper both got BYES and then won a match and so are into R3 Isabella Walker and Amalia Widdowson both lost in R1 But Tamara Kuti won a match before losing in R2 Fiji, J30 Wambui Taylor won...
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Girls: J300 Durban, South Africa, hard (week 31)
(Preview)
Mixed fortunes in the draw for the British girls in Durban, as the tournament there ramps up to a J300. Marelie Raath gets a wildcard but Allegra Korpanec Davies has to take on a top seed again (the one who beat Marelie last week). Jadesola Cole successfully negotiated qualifying, and draws another...
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Girls: J300 Bytom, Poland, clay (Week 30)
(Preview)
This is the top grade event this week, with Mimi Xu as the top seed, joined by Imogen Haddad R1 (L48) (1) Mingge Xu bye (9) Imogen Haddad bye
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Girls: J200 Durban, South Africa, hard (week 30)
(Preview)
Last year there were rich pickings for a large British contingent in South Africa. This time round there is no J500 or equivalent, and the British entry is just a couple, both drawn against top 4 seeds R1 (L32) (4) Gaeul Jang (KOR) v Allegra Korpanec Davies Marelie Raath v (2) Gloriana Nahum (BEN)
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Girls: J200 Basel, Switzerland, clay (Week 30)
(Preview)
Vlada Kozak is here, tackling her second J200 of the year and drawing a wildcard R1 (L32) Vlada Kozak v (WC) Salome Fluri (SUI)
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664
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Boys & Girls: 2023 European Championships U14/U18, clay (Week 29)
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Normally there are European Championships at under14 under 16 and under 18 level, but this year's under 16 event (moved from Russia to Prerov in the Czech Republic) has been cancelled. Nations other than the host are only allowed 2 representatives per event We have our top ranked quartet in the und...
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Other events 2023 - week 29
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Santo Domingo, J100 Marcus Weekes won his R1 match before losing In the girls, Flora Johnson lost in R1, against the top seed. Heidi Crncan lost a very tight R1 match against the 7th seed. But Allegra K Davies has won two matches, and is into the QFs Flora & Allegra are also into the dubs semis Arme...
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Boys: 2023 Wimbledon (Week 28)
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(Preview)
Henry Searle and Oliver Bonding are direct entrants whilst we have 8 wildcards (copying from CD's Roehampton post) BOYS' SINGLES 1 Freddy BLAYDES (GBR) 2 Viktor FRYDRYCH (GBR) 3 Benjamin GUSIC WAN (GBR) 4 Henry JEFFERSON (GBR) 5 Luca POW (GBR) 6 Charlie ROBERTSON (GBR) 7 Zach STEPHENS (GBR) 8 Phoeni...
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Boys & Girls: Wimbledon under 14 Invitational Singles, grass (week 28)
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(Preview)
The draws for the second under 14 invitational singles are now on the Wimbledon website The boys event sees Mark Ceban seeded 1, Rhys Lawlor 8, along with Leo Wright and the draw is here The format is 4 groups of 4 round robin, probably taking place over 2 days, followed by knock-out matches, with grou...
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Other events, 2023 - week 28
(Preview)
J100 Dom Rep Flora Johnson won R1 and is playing the top seed in R2 Marcus Weekes lost in R1 J60 Georgia Aryan Jit Singh has won two rounds and is in the QFs J30 Denmark Young Liam Channon won two rounds before losing in the QFs Henry Best lost in R1 J30 Kenya Rafael Kiss lost in R3 Emilia Julin is throug...
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Boys & Girls: J30 Dublin, Ireland - carpet (Week 28)
(Preview)
It was a bit of a disaster in the boys, with TEN lads losing in round 1 However, Sam Chadwick won, and in R2 too, so is now in the QFs In the girls it was a fair bit better. Two lost in R1 but Sophia Kovacheva and Fran Simpson are now through to the QFs and Allegra Hodson got a win in R1, before losing in R2.
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Other events 2023 - week 27
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Romania J100 Vlada Kozak won R1 and is into R2 Greece J60 Kai-Luca Ampaw and Georgiana Mititelu are into R2 Belgium, J60 Tamata Kuti won her R1 match and is into R2 Kenya, J30 Leo Silvertson and Rafa Kiss have won two matches and are into R3 As has Ophelia Korpanec Davies Karina Kiss lost in R1 Emilia Ju...
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Boys & Girls: J30 Edinburgh, Scotland - clay (Week 27)
(Preview)
It's a pretty skinny qualification draw - not that many entrants, especially in the boys Which might be fine, I guess, but there's no exams or anything now so - again - let's not hear that there aren't domestic events for our players and only those who can travel abroad have access to competition. Beca...
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