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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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Boys: Evert American ITF Junior Circuit - Grade 4 (Week 45)
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The highlight here is the return to action of Nick Jones, who was one of the top ranked 1992 boys at the start of the year (just outside 200), but hasn't played since April. R1 (L64) Mikaiah Vea (USA) v Damian Gryzelko (GBR) Nick Jones (GBR) v Terrell Celestine (USA) (7) Morgan Mays (USA) v Clay Crawford (...
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Boys & Girls: International Junior Saint-Cyprien - Grade 5 (Week 44)
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Stefan Sterland-Markovic continues to tackle low grade tournaments, and could be joined by Josh Ward-Hibbert, who is in final qualifying. Beth Askew lost in qualifying for the girls event. Boys R1 (L32) (1) Stefan Sterland-Markovic (GBR) v Daryl Monfils (FRA) (6) Alexandre Massa (FRA) v Lloyd G...
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Boys & Girls: Heiveld Indoor Junior Championships, Belgium - Grade 4 (Week 44)
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A large British entry here, headed by Chris Simpson after his recent spell tacking Mens Futures. The 64 draws give opportunities for a number of 1993 boys and 1994 girls. Boys R1 (L64) Paul Gaetti (LUX) v Toby Martin (GBR) (WC) James Junior Storme (BEL) v (6) Daniel Cochrane (GBR) James Hignett (GBR) v...
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Girls: LTAT- ITF Junior Tournament 5, Thailand - Grade 4 (Week 44)
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The girls stay in Thailand to conclude their Asian tour with a low grade event. Elisha, Daneika and Lucy would all need to reach the final for the singles event to count amongst their top 6. R1 (L32) (1) Elisha Gabb (GBR) v (q) Areeporn Wanichayaranich (THA) (WC) Chanikarn Silakul (THA) v Amy Askew (GBR...
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Girls: South Carolina ITF, Lexington, USA, Hard - Grade 2 (Week 44)
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R1: (8) Natalie Beazant v Jessica Wacnik (USA) -- Edited by DavidC on Tuesday 3rd of November 2009 07:25:06 PM
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Girls: LTAT Junior Championships, Thailand - Grade 2 (Week 43)
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With many of the players in the Osaka Grade A (both events there incidentally were won by Kristina Mladenovic, who thus virtually guarantees the number 1 world ranking at the end of the year) coming here the field is strong for a Grade 2 and 5 of our 6 girls were forced to qualify. Daneika Borthwick and Lu...
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Boys and Girls: 10th Torneig ITF Andorra La Vella 2009 - Andorra (G4) - Carpet - Week 43
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Boys R1: (8) Joe Rodgers v Marius Merz (GER) Lloyd GLASSPOOL (GBR) Vs Gijs LINDERS (NED) (5) (LL) Joshua Ward-Hibbert v Stefan SCHEENSTRA (NED) Joe MILLS (GBR) Vs Carlos BAUTISTA ENRIQUE (ESP) Josh Reason was top seed in qualifying but lost in FQR Girls R1: Nicole PETERSON (GBR) Vs Alisa DANILOVA (RU...
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Boys: Nokia Junior Cup, Finland - Grade 4 (Week 42)
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Stefan Sterland-Markovic is having a good week here so far. I notice that his most recent victim claims grass as his favourite surface, despite the lack of such courts in Russia and never having played on it in an ITF event - perhaps a tongue-in-cheek comment. Singles R1 (L32) (4) Stefan Sterland-Mar...
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Boys & Girls: 8th Dubai ITF Junior Championships - Grade 4 (Week 42)
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This tournament was disastrous in singles, with no-one winning a main draw match, but provides us with the first junior title of the week thanks to Alex Wilton partnering Jorge, who I imagine is his younger brother. Boys R1 (4) Sebastian Richter (GER) d. Jordan Bull (GBR) 6-4 6-2 Constantin Christ (G...
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Boys & Girls: Osaka Mayor's Cup, World Super Junior Tennis Championships, Japan - Grade A (Week 42)
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The penultimate top tier junior event of the year sees a relatively weak field, especially in the Boys event, where players outside the top 100 are seeded. With the majority of our top boys playing Spanish Futures it falls to 4th ranked 1993 boy Robert Carter to maintain interest, and he is fortunate t...
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Girls: HRT Autumn Cup, Denmark - Grade 4 (Week 41)
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The Rens are doubling up regularly in junior events at present: R1 (L32) (1) Jessica Ren (GBR) v Johanna Skoglund (SWE) Saana Saarteinen (FIN) v (4) Jennifer Ren (GBR)
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