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Girls: Banana Bowl, Brazil, clay - Grade 1 (Week 10)
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A stronger G1 this week, so Maia Lumsden drops from top to fifth seed R1 (L64) (5) Maia Lumsden bye
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DavidC
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14
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1373
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Boys : ITF Kramfors Junior Challenge, Sweden, hard - Grade 4 (Week 10)
(Preview)
Jake Hersey plays in the second Swedish G4, though Chelsea Samways and Ellie-Rose Griffiths were late withdrawals. Jake could meet Rudolf Molleker in round 2, who beat Jake en route to the European under 14 title last summer Boys R1 (L32) Jeremy Gschwendtner v (LL) Sean Zachory Ellingsen (DEN) Jake...
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568
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Girls: 35th Asuncion Bowl, Paraguay, clay - Grade 1 (Week 9)
(Preview)
Maia Lumsden is top seed hoping to take advantage of a weak G1 as the COSAT circuit enters its final stages, culminating in the Brazilian GA R1 (L64) (1) Maia Lumsden bye
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12
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1296
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Boys & Girls: ITF High Coast Junior World Ranking Tournament, Sweden, hard - Grade 4 (Week 9)
(Preview)
Success for Ellie-Rose Griffiths in her opener here would potentially lead to a crack at the top seed. Boys R1 (L32) Jeremy Gschwendtner v Kristian Prior (SWE) Girls R1 (L32) Q/LL v Ellie-Rose Griffiths (5) Chelsea May Samways v Jeanne Sapin (FRA)
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4
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763
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Boys & Girls: Aivaras Balzekas Memorial Cup, Lithuania, hard - Grade 2 (Week 8)
(Preview)
Two of Joel Cannell's rivals for top-ranked Brit are in action here, with Alexis Canter facing the challenge of overcoming the fourth seed. Ema Lazic plays someone show should be very familiar with regular followers of the junior circuit this year - and Ema will be looking to continue the sequence of...
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8
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1111
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Girls: 2015 Tennis Europe Winter Cups (U16/U14/U12)
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(Preview)
A strong under 12 team, led by Holly Fischer, who did well at the Orange Bowl and Bolton Teen Tennis, has stormed into the finals to be held at Sunderland in 2 weeks time. The team (Holly, Kylie Bilchev and Andrea Pineda) has posted 3-0 wins over the Slovak Republic and Estonia, not conceding a set, and pl...
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DavidC
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31
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6260
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Boys: 2015 Tennis Europe Winter Cups (U16/U14/U12)
(Preview)
The season of Winter Cups is underway with our under 12s qualifying today for their final in 2 weeks time. The team of Derrick Chen, Jack Pinnington-Jones and William Nolan beat Turkey 3-0 and Ukraine 2-1, so play Denmark tomorrow for seeding rights in the final in 2 weeks time. The under 14/under 16 qu...
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DavidC
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14
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2748
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Boys & Girls: Porsche Gjovik Open, Norway, hard - Grade 4 (Week 7)
(Preview)
Jack Molloy is second seed here, hoping to bag a second singles title of this year Boys R1 (L32) (Q) Valdemar Holm (SWE) v (6) Ben Draper (4) Barnaby Smith v Maxence Broville (FRA) Louis Newman v Sebastian Mermersky (USA) David Norfeldt (SWE) v Damian Rodriguez (WC) Johannes Foss Abramsen (NOR) v (2) J...
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13
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1728
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Boys & Girls: 25th Bavarian Junior Championships , Germany, carpet - Grade 4 (Week 7)
(Preview)
Eden Richardson, Emily Appleton, Megan Davies and Lauryn John-Baptiste are on the acceptance list for the girls event which has one fewer round Boys R1 (L64) James Davis v (Q) Adrian Oetzbach (GER) (8) Lucas Taylor bye
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10
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1198
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Boys & Girls: Almere, Netherlands - hard - Grade 4 (Week 6)
(Preview)
Lots of British interest here too: Dominic unfortunately had to retire but Jeremy lost in the final Q round but made it in as a LL and then took full advantage of a nice draw: R1: (Q) Jeremy GSCHWENDTNER (GBR) 6-3 6-3 (WC) Ronetto VAN TILBURG (NED) R1: Lukas VEJVARA (CZE) [1] 7-6(2) 4-1 Retired ...
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Boys & Girls: Copenhagen Winter Cup, Denmark, hard - Grade 4 (Week 6)
(Preview)
Two of our top 2000s Ali Collins and Francesca Jones are playing here Boys R1 (L32) Philip Hjorth (DEN) v (Q) Louis Newman Ben Draper v (Q) Maximilian Gatev (SUI) Girls R1 (L32) Camille Verden Anderson v (8) Lillian Gabrielsen (NOR) Linnea Bjork (SWE) v Francesca Jones (Q) Hanna Wikberg (SWE) v Ali Col...
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1455
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Boys & Girls: Trofeul D.Sturdza, Moldova, hard - Grade 2 (Week 6)
(Preview)
Anastasia Mikheeva was a late withdrawal here. OOP and a live stream is available via http://www.sturdzacup.md/ Boys R1 (L32) (WC) Maxim Budat (MDA) d. Jack MacFarlane 6-3 5-7 6-2 Charles Broom d. Cagatay Sami Soke (TUR) 4-6 6-3 6-3 R2 (6) Pavel Motl (CZE) v Charles Broom Girls R1 (L32) (WC) Vlada Med...
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DavidC
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785
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Boys: NZ ITF Summer Championship Auckland, New Zealand - hard - Grade 3 (Week 6)
(Preview)
Despite not much success in the lower tiered NZ tournaments in the last couple of weeks, Alastair seems to have peaked nicely for the Grade 3 one R1: Alastair GRAY (GBR) 4-6 7-5 6-3 Mayez Jupiter ELRICH (AUS) [15] R2: Alastair GRAY (GBR) 6-1 6-1 Kazuki SHIMIZU (JPN) R3: Alastair GRAY (GB...
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Coup Droit
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Boys & Girls: Mediterranee Avenir- Casablanca, Morocco, clay - Grade 1 (Week 6)
(Preview)
Plenty of British interest in the last of the big North African events. Joel's first opponent had a good record on clay towards the end of 2014 (semis or better of 4 consecutive G2-G4 events) Boys R1 (L64) Riccardo Roberto (ITA) v Joel Cannell Lukas Klein (SVK) v Jonathan Gray Girls R1 (L64) Lily Reynol...
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938
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Boys & Girls: 2nd Hammamet ITF Juniors Tournament, Tunisia, clay - Grade 2 (Week 5)
(Preview)
Jonathan Gray and Joel Cannell are in Tunisia for the second G2, joining Holly Hutchinson. Although seeded Joel has a fairly tough draw. Boys R1 (L32) (WC) Mohamed Oualha (TUN) v Jonathan Gray (7) Joel Cannell v Alberto Romero De Avila Senise (ESP) Girls R1 (L32) Holly Hutchinson v Chiraz Bechri (TU...
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1418
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Other tournaments - Week 5
(Preview)
In Nairobi, G5, Jack Molloy couldn't keep that winning feeling, and lost his first round match to an Italian qualifier (what a difference a week makes . .. ) Both he and Bradley Stoneham are in R2 of the doubles, though (not together) In the G4 in New Zealand, no joy for Alistair Gray. In the Swiss G4, Lu...
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553
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Boys: ITF East Africa U18 , clay - Grade 4 (Week 4)
(Preview)
A couple of different names, and second seed Jack Molloy, in action here: Two victories and a bye - a good first round :) R1: Karim NAJIA (GBR), age 14 6-4 7-6(5) Kobe VANDELANOTTE (BEL) R1: Bradley STONEHAM (GBR), age 16 6-4 5-7 6-4 Youcef RIHANE (ALG) R1: (2) Jack MOLLOY, age 15 - BYE
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1081
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Girls: 2015 Australian Open, hard - Grade A (Week 4)
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(Preview)
The draw for the Australian Open places Katie Swan in the same section as top seed Shilin Xu, but she has a decent draw in the opening round (Jade Lewis did scalp a top 50 player last week though). Maia Lumsden faces the tricky prospect of home hope Kimberly Birrell, a semi-finalist here last year and fin...
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Boys & Girls: ITF Junior Tunisia , hard - Grade 2 (Week 4)
(Preview)
Jonathan Gray would have had a shot at becoming our top ranked boy, but he was a late withdrawal, taking a wildcard into Sunderland Futures qualifying Boys R1 (L64) Gianluca Grison (ITA) v (Q) Lucas Taylor Daniel Little v Giovanni Oradini (ITA) Jack MacFarlane v (Q) Mateusz Smolicki (POL) Girls R1 (L...
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5
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889
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Boys & Girls: 2015 Tennis Europe tournaments (under 14)
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(Preview)
http://te.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?i...
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16
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Boys: Donetsk City Cup, Ukraine, hard - Grade 2 (Week 4)
(Preview)
This may well prove a short thread, as the one Brit prepared to travel out to the Ukraine has ended up with the top seed R1 (L32) (1) Vitalii Shcherba (UKR) v Piers Foley
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4
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592
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Boys & Girls: Yonex ITF Hamburg, Germany, carpet - Grade 4 (Week 3)
(Preview)
Wildcard Aidan McHugh lost out in his first round match, 6-3 6-3 But Eliz Maloney has changed Austria for Germany and started well: R1: Eliz Maloney def. Jolina Barbara Feger (GER) 6-2 6-1 In R2, she meets the 15th seed, Olga Helmi, from Denmark
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Boys & Girls: Mundial Juvenil de Tenis Barranquilla, Colombia, clay - Grade 1 (Week 3)
(Preview)
The COSAT circuit moves on to clay with Jay Clarke looking for 2 wins to secure the British number one ranking Boys R1 (L64) (Q) Victor Krustev (CAN) v (12) Jay Clarke Girls R1 (L64) Georgia Lawson v Anna Dollar (USA)
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7
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1309
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Girls: AGL Loy Yang Traralgon Junior International, Australia, hard - Grade 1 (Weeks 2-3)
(Preview)
Traditional warm-up for the Australian Open. Katie Swan has a good draw but Maia Lumsden faces a tough task against a player who beat Katy Dunne and Katie Boulter en route to a $10K title last summer R1 (L64) Emily Arbuthnott v Charlotte Robillard-Millette (CAN) Maia Lumsden v (3) Aliona Bolsova Zado...
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1247
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Boys: 27th Czech International Junior Indoor Championships, hard - Grade 1 (Week 2)
(Preview)
A relatively weak G1, but Ewan Moore will have to take on the third seed if he wins his opener R1 (L64) (Q) Lev Kasakov (RUS) v Ewan Moore (8) Joel Cannell bye
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11
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1389
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