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Boys & Girls: Copernicus Bowl, Poland, clay - Grade 3 (Week 32)
(Preview)
7 Brits here, with Damian Rodriguez facing the most difficult draw against a home player ranked in the top 30 who has reached 4 G2 finals in the last few months. Boys R1 (L32) (1) Kacper Zuk (POL) v Damian Rodriguez Jake Hersey v (5) Mattia Frinzi (ITA) (16E) Vincentiu Andrei Niculescu (ROU) v (7) Jack Mo...
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Boys: 2016 European Summer Cups - U12/U14/U16/U18
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(Preview)
The boys had more fortune than the girls in the draw for the first European Summer Cups (u14) and avoided the top qualifying seed (Czech Republic) until today, by which time qualification had been assured. The team of Benjamin Heynold, Barney Fitzpatrick and Toby Samuel beat Portugal 3-0 and Poland...
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Girls: Epetion Cup, Croatia - clay - Grade 5 (Week 31)
(Preview)
Maria Budin is top seed here. Charlotte Navinweinstein has a wc but has drawn the second seed. Aleksandra Topalovic has been drawn against the 8th seed. (Graziella Barrett, Vicki Subev, Jack Navinweinstein and Nathan Fernandes lost in qualifying).
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Boys & Girls: Junior de Leiria, Portugal - clay - Grade 4 (Week 31)
(Preview)
There are tons of GB youngsters playing all over the place this week. And a huge cohort of them seem to have descended on Portugal. In the Boys, there are: James Story and Joe White - who lost their last rounds in Q but who both got in as LLs; Seeds (1) Jack Molloy; (2) Joe Tyler; (3) Will Davies; (7) Emile Hu...
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Girls: 2016 European Summer Cups - U12/U14/U16/U18
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(Preview)
The first of the European Summer Cups, the under 14s, concluded qualifying today for the finals, as the tournament acts as a qualifier for the World Juniors in August. The draws for these are something of a lottery, and unfortunately we ended up in a group where we add to face one of the four strongest n...
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Boys & Girls: Luxembourg Outdoor Junior Open, clay - Grade 4 (Week 31)
(Preview)
After a good week in Switzerland Anton Matusevich scales back to a G4, joined by some of our top younger junior girls Boys R1 (L32) (4) Anton Matusevich v Alexander Maarten Jong (NED) Girls R1 (L32) (1) Eva Marie Voracek (GER) v (LL) Lauren Armstrong (3) Esther Adeshina v Celine Fritsch (GER) (WC) Meri...
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Boys & Girls: 2016 European Junior Championships, Switzerland, clay - Grade B1 (Week 29)
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(Preview)
Our two boys here will do well to win a round, and if they do they will face two of Europe's top juniors Geoffrey Blancaneaux and Mate Valkusz. Max lost narrowly to Finn's opponent in a G2 earlier in the year, while Finn was well beaten by Max's opponent in another G2. The girls have a much better chance of p...
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DavidC
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Girls : Grade 4 ITF Copa Club Farallones, Colombia . Week 31
(Preview)
13 yo Holly Fischer is here in the Grade 4 event as no. 11 seed , most likely playing her first match on Tuesday
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cya
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Boys & Girls: Dundalk ITF Junior Tournament, Ireland, carpet - Grade 5 (Week 31)
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(Preview)
http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100037288
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Boys: World Junior Tennis Finals (U14), Czech Republic, clay - Week 31
(Preview)
The team of Benjamin Heynold, Barney FitzPatrick and Toby Samuel qualified for the 16 country finals starting tomorrow. We have been drawn in a group with Italy (top seed), Korea Republic (seeded 7) and Mexico, opening tomorrow against Korea. Italy have 2 boys ranked in the TE top 5 and won the Europe...
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Boys & Girls: South Central Circuit 1, Zimbabwe - hard - Grade 4 (Week 31)
(Preview)
FQR: BOYS Pierce WIDDECOMBE (GBR) 7-6(4) 4-6 6-3 Keith Tafadzwa MWA****A (ZIM) GIRLS: Sasha HILL (GBR) [2] 7-6(3) 6-0 Danica MALAN (RSA) [6] Kate CUNNINGHAM (GBR) [8] 7-5 6-3 Odette BEAGRIE (USA) [4] So, three came through qualis. And Hannah Davies is in the MD too.
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Boys: Swiss Junior Trophy, clay - Grade 2 (Week 30)
(Preview)
The British contingent for the top grade event this week has been swollen by Anton Matusevich and Dominic West coming through qualifying. The pair haven't been given the kindest draws though. R1 (L32) (Q) Anton Matusevich v (7) Konstantin Kirovski (SRB) Damian Rodriguez v (Q) Fabien Salle (FRA) (Q...
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DavidC
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Boys & Girls: Belfast City ITF Junior Tournament, carpet - Grade 5 (Week 30)
(Preview)
http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100037287
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DavidC
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Boys & Girls: ITF Veska, Czech Republic, clay - Grade 4 (Week 29)
(Preview)
Some of the boys out for last week's G3 in Romania have moved over to the Czech Republic and been reinforced by Paul Jubb and Eliz Maloney Boys R1 (L64) (15) Paul Jubb bye (6) Jack Draper bye (8) Anton Matusevich bye (2) Ewen Lumsden bye Girls R1 (L64) (1) Eliz Maloney bye
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Boys & Girls: 2016 under 16 European Junior Championships, Russia, clay (Week 29)
(Preview)
We have 4 representatives in the under 16s starting tomorrow in Moscow Boys R2 (L64) Jakob Groener (NOR) v Jake Hersey Aidan McHugh v Adrian Andreev (BUL) Girls R1 (L128) Gergana Topalova (BUL) v Gemma Heath R2 Basak Akbas (TUR) v Nell Miller
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Boys & Girls: Malahide ITF, Ireland, carpet - Grade 5 (Week 29)
(Preview)
After two GB domestic events, there are now two in Ireland which, naturally, have quite a large number of British entrants, including many 'youngsters'. In the boys, Josh Rose and Emile Hudd are seeded 2 and 3. In the girls, Destinee and Essence Martins, and Summer Yardley, are seeded 2, 3 and 4. In th...
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Boys & Girls: 2016 under 14 European Junior Championships, Czech Republic, clay (Week 29)
(Preview)
The under 14s play in Pilsen starting tomorrow with most countries limited to two representatives, and draws as follows: Boys R1 (L128) Benjamin Heynold bye Barney FitzPatrick v Daniel Ibragimov (RUS) Girls R1 (L128) Emma Raducanu v Velizara Fileva (BUL) Kylie Bilchev v Christina Ntanou (GRE)
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DavidC
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Girls: Nike Junior International Bournemouth, clay - Grade 4 (Week 28)
(Preview)
http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100037270
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DavidC
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Other events - week 28
(Preview)
In the Dominican Republic, Grade 4: R1: George DAVIS (GBR) [12] 6-3 6-3 Juan Pablo BERRY LEON (MEX) In Armenia, Grade 5: R1: Ksenia SHIKANOVA (RUS) 6-4 6-3 Charlotte NAVINWEINSTEIN (GBR) Charlotte is in the doubles, though, as is Ying Hou, who lost in the qualis. In Paraguay, Grade 5:...
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Boys: Nike Junior International Bournemouth, clay - Grade 4 (Week 28)
(Preview)
http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100037270
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DavidC
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Boys & Girls: Flower Bulb Tournament, Netherlands, clay - Grade 4 (Week 28)
(Preview)
In the qualis, Vincent Chen lost his first match but in the girls: QR1: Elisa VAN MEETEREN (GBR) 4-6 6-3 6-1 Maryvonne MARANG (NED) Elise plays her FQR match today. In the Main Draw, there is: Rahul Dhokia; (12) Dominic West; and (5) Jeremy Gschwendtner
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Boys: 21st Wilson - Tivoli Trophy Timisoara. Romania, clay - Grade 3 (Week 28)
(Preview)
There is a large British contingent here, some preparing for the European Championships next week (U18/U16). Jack Draper has a tough draw against a recent G1 finalist R1 (L32) (1) Constant de la Bassetiere (FRA) v Jack Draper Valentin Popescu (ROU) v (7) Jack Molloy Ewen Lumsden v (Q) Alexander Gima...
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Girls: Wimbledon 2016, grass - Grade A (Week 27)
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(Preview)
5 of the 6 qualifying wildcards have gone to Brits (one to Aussie star Seone Mendez) leaving Gabi Taylor, Fran Jones, Ema Lazic, Georgina Axon, Ali Collins, Eden Richardson and possibly Maia Lumsden as likely recipients of main draw wildcards. QR1 (WC) Megan Davies v (9) Ludmilla Samsonova (ITA) (3...
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Boys: Wimbledon 2016, grass - Grade A (Week 27)
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(Preview)
Qualifying starts tomorrow, and it appears as if Alexis Canter, Alastair Gray, Ewan Moore, Finn Bass, Max Stewart, Ben Draper, Luke Hammond and Aidan McHugh have main draw wildcards. Jake and possibly Damian appear to have the toughest test in the first qualifying round QR1 (WC) Jack Tyler v (16) Ch...
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Boys & Girls: Leeuwenbergh, Netherlands, clay - Grade 4 (Week 27)
(Preview)
This started off in the 'Other events' thread but I'd meant to start a dedicated one, as there are quite a few Brit youngsters playing, but somehow forgot..... So here it is re-born: Boys: QR2: Ewen LUMSDEN (GBR) [2] 6-3 6-2 Quin VERSTEGEN (NED) FQR: Ewen LUMSDEN (GBR) [q2] 7-5 6-4 Erwan Benson MOMO AN...
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