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Player of the Year Polls - Top Girl
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By David C Top Girl Stephanie Cornish Steph has moved rapidly this year from outside 500 to the cusp of the top 100, thanks to a late season spurt, which saw her capture a Grade 2 title in China, before beating a top 50 player in the Eddie Herr Trophy Tara Moore Tara played the top singles in the GB 16 & un...
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Player of the Year Polls - Most Improved Boy
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By David C Most Improved Boy Luke Bambridge Luke has made rapid progress in the Tennis Europe Under 14 rankings reaching the semi and winning the doubles in a top tournament in Moscow last month. As a result Luke is now ranked 2 in Europe. Liam Broady Liam started the year ranked outside the top 100 in Ten...
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Girls : Orange Bowl 2008
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U16 1st Round Qualifying Chrissie HOOLAHAN (GBR) vs (13) Liana TODOROVA (BUL) Sara MARACHESANI (GBR) vs (3) Rocio PORTELA-BERRIOS (PUR) (4) Ruth SEABORNE (GBR) vs Belinda NIU (USA) Direct Entrants 28 Natalie BEAZANT 34 Sabrina STEWART -- Edited by Akhenaten at 10:45, 2008-12-05
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Boys: Orange Bowl 2008
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U16 We've got loads of entrants in the U16s. Let's hope they're as successful as at the Eddie Herr! 1st Round Qualifying Sizya KIVANDA (GBR) vs Hunter CALLAHAN (USA) (2) Andrew BETTLES (GBR) BYE Eimon HEYWOOD (GBR) vs Joseph DORSEY (USA) (9) Tom FARQUHASON (GBR) vs Vlad-Victor CORNEA (ROU) Jordan B...
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Prince Cup 2008 - Miami, Florida
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Currently taking place at Patricio Apey's academy in Miami. Nationalities are not listed in all cases so I may have missed some players. Boys 14 Singles Qualifying Round 1 Jathan Malik (GBR) bt Lucas Gomez (USA) (q14) 7-5, 6-7, 1-0 (5) Round 2 Jathan Malik (GBR) vs. Taichi Nakajima (JAP) Girls 14 Sing...
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Boys: Eddie Herr International Junior Championships
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Like the Girls there are 4 events: U12/U14/U16/U18 but our strongest contingent here is in the under 16s, including George Morgan, last year's Orange Bowl U14 winner. Qualifying has started for the U14/U16/U18. Tom Hill, Jonathan Cornish, Clay Crawford, Brooks Allen, Jathan Malik and Joshua W...
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Girls: Eddie Herr International Junior Championships
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These prestigious championships have 4 categories: U12/U14/U16/U18 with Laura Robson the winner of the under 14s last year. This year we have a strong contingent in the under 18s headed by Laura, joined by Heather Watson, Hannah James, Steph Cornish and Tara Moore The Under 12s start their main dra...
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Boys & Girls: East Africa 18 & Under Junior Circuit - Burundi 2008 (G5)
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Boys 1st Round David MCKENZIE-JAMES (GBR) defeated Simon Peter AYELLA (UGA) 6-3 6-3 Adam THORNTON-BROWN (GBR) (10) BYE 2nd Round David MCKENZIE-JAMES (GBR) defeated Armand NDAYIKEZA (BDI) (12) 4-6 6-2 6-1 Adam THORNTON-BROWN (GBR) (10) defeated Richard SSEMANDA (UGA) 6-1 6-4 3th Round David MC...
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Boys & Girls: Yucatan World Cup (G1) - Merida, Mexico
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A sprinkling of Brits have turned up in this event which leads onto the much more prestigous event Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl which take place later in the year. The primary aim for most of the participants will be to try and book a place in the Australian Open for 2009.
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Major Junior events in November/December
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I thought I would post an alert about the forthcoming major junior events, along with links to websites where you can find the latest acceptances for any event you are interested in. GBR did particularly well last year with George Morgan winning the U14 Junior Orange Bowl and Laura Robson winning the...
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Boys & Girls: Week 45 round-up
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It is a quiet time in the Junior calendar before the Grade 1/Grade A tournaments in North America. This week there was a small group in an American Grade 4, who made no impression, and a larger contingent in a Grade 5 event in Saint Cyprien, France. The singles results were unimpressive. Despite having...
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Boys & Girls: Heiveld Indoor Junior Championships, Belgium - ITF Grade 4
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There is a large British presence here, including European 14&under Junior Masters champion Liam Broady. The top seed in the girls event is another 14 year old star - local girl An-Sophie Mestach Boys R1: Constantin Le Goff (FRA) v Liam Broady (GBR) Tom Farquharson (GBR) v Ivan Vereschaga (RUS...
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A Must Attend Event For Tennis Parents With Tim Henman's Father !
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An overview of the pivotal role of parents in the development of juniors and their transition into the professional game. Friday 7th November at 6.45pm. 6.45pm - Arrival 7.00pm - Introduction. 7.10pm - Guest speaker, Tony Henman, will share his knowledge and experiences as a parent of Britain's m...
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Boys and Girls - Finland G4
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Boys Christopher Simpson lost to (5) David Pel (NED) 6-3 6-4 (q) Andrew Bettles def (LL) Jaan Kononov (EST) Joseph Cohen lost to (WC) Juuso Ojanen (FIN) 4-6 6-3 6-2 L16: (Q) Andrew Bettles v (4) John Morrissey (IRL) Girls Amy Askew (GBR) d. (1)Gally De Wael (BEL) 63 61 (wc)Heini Salonen (FIN) d. (Q...
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Commenwealth Youth Games - India
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Lewis Barnes, Matt James and Chris Harrison are in the boys event, while Jade Windley, Heather Watson, Lisa Whybourn and Sian Bayliss are in the girls event. L32 (9) Lewis Barnes (ENG) beat Asher Jeremiah Khan (BRU) 6-1, 6-3 (7) Matt James (ENG) beat David Mark Fisher (RSA) 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 (13) Christ...
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Boys & Girls: British Junior National Championships 12s - 2008.
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http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=22670&draw=6
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Osaka Mayor's Cup - GA ITF
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The Draw has been done & it is as follows - Boys - Mathew Thomson Vs Grant Ive (RSA)10 Alistair Barnes Vs LL / Q Ben Davis Vs Pierre Hugues Herbert (FRA)16 David Thomson Vs Suk-Young Jeong (KOR)WC Jordan McCulloch Vs Ben McLachlan (NZL) Girls - Hannah James Vs Malou Ejdesgaard (DEN) Stephanie Corni...
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Boys & Girls - G5 - Spain
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R1 Tom ALLEN (GBR) defeated Loic DUCOURAU (FRA) (1) 3-6 6-1 6-2 Ignacio ARROYO COLOGAN (ESP) defeated Joshua REASON (GBR) 2-6 6-2 6-0 Francisco Antonio DOMINGUEZ DIAZ (ESP) defeated Paul BROWN (GBR) (6) 7-5 6-2 Egor KOVALEV (RUS) (5) defeated Todd CHICK (GBR) 6-1 6-1 Christopher JENKINS (GBR) def...
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Boys & Girls - G5 - Norway
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Ajibade qualified, Farquharson and Gleddon in as LL's. R1 Michael AJIBADE (GBR) defeated Oliver HILDERBRANT (SWE) 6-3 7-5 Tom FARQUHARSON (GBR) defeated Trym Andreas NAGELSTAD (NOR) 6-4 6-3 Joshua GLEDDEN (GBR) defeated Thomas HOLLA (NOR) 6-3 6-7(5) 6-2 R2 Adrian FORBERG SKOGENG (NOR) (1) defe...
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Boys & Girls - G3 - Canada
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R1 Garret BRASSEAUX (USA) (6) defeated James ALLEMBY (GBR) 7-6(2) 6-4 James TURBERVILL (GBR) defeated Terry ZIATYK (CAN) 6-3 6-0 R2 James TURBERVILL (GBR) defeated Hugo VERDI FORTIN (CAN) 6-2 6-2 QF Sean BERMAN (USA) defeated James TURBERVILL (GBR) 1-6 6-1 6-2 R1 Brittany WOWCHUK (CAN) defeated N...
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China Open G3 ITF Week 2 (Girls)
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Main draw entrants are Hannah James, the in form Steph Cornish, Laura Slater & Hannah Martin-Merchant - Hannah moved up from qualies after some withdrawals. The 3 1991 girls here will be trying to use this event to help them move in to the top 100 for the first time whilst Martin-Merchant is lookin...
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China Open G3 ITF Week 2 (Boys)
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David Thomson & Alistair Barnes are DA here. Mathew Thomson has moved in to the main draw from qualifying along with Jordan McCulloch, Ben Davis is the 2nd seed in qualies & all these guys will be looking to continue where they left off in Beijing & try to pick up more ranking points in t...
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Girls: 2008 Junior Fed Cup - San Luis Potosi, Mexico
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The Junior Fed Cup for under 16 takes place alongside the Junior Davis Cup in Mexico starting today. As with the boys the 16 nations are divided into 4 round-robin groups. The British team of Tara Moore, Heather Watson and Jennifer Ren is seeded 4th and is in the following group: Great Britain [4] Mexic...
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Boys: 2008 Junior Davis Cup - San Luis Potosi, Mexico
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The Junior Davis Cup for under 16s starts today in Mexico, with 16 nations divided into 4 round robin groups. The British team of Ashley Hewitt, James Marsalek and George Morgan (under the captaincy of Greg Ruedski) is seeded 8th and finds itself in Group D: India [2] Brazil Mexico Great Britain [8] Th...
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Girls: China Open - ITF G2
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China are holding a couple of ITF tournaments with a G3 next week. The Ren sisters are also going on to compete in a Hong Kong G4 the week after. According to the acceptance list, this event is being attended by a good number of British players including Hannah James, Stephanie Cornish, Jen Ren and Laur...
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