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Boys & Girls: U14 European Junior Championships, Pilzen, Czech Republic, clay (Week 30)
(Preview)
We have a strong quartet in the Czech Republic for the under 14s European Championships. Kyle Edmund reached the final in 2009 Boys R2 (L64) Jack Draper (GBR) v Kirill Yarmoshuk (BLR) Andreja Petrovic (NOR) v Jake Hersey (GBR) Girls R1 (L128) Arabella Koller (AUT) v Ali Collins (GBR) (11) Francesca J...
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DavidC
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6
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1741
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Boys & Girls: U16 European Junior Championships, Moscow, Russia, clay (Week 30)
(Preview)
The under 16 European Junior Championships take place as usual in Moscow. Most participants get first round byes, but three of our four representatives play, with Marcus Walters having the novelty of an opponent from Andorra. Boys R1 (L128) Eric Cervos Noguer (AND) v Marcus Walters (GBR) Irakli Me...
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DavidC
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4
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1737
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Girls: Nike Junior International Queenswood, clay - Grade 4 (Week 29)
(Preview)
http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100031771
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DavidC
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5
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1210
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Boys: Nike Junior International Queenswood, clay - Grade 4 (Week 29)
(Preview)
http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100031771
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DavidC
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5
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789
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Boys & Girls: 19th Wilson - Tivoli Trophy, Romania, clay - Grade 3 (Week 29)
(Preview)
A strong group of Brits, including Anastasia Mikheeva and Jodie Burrage here. Max Stewart needs to scalp a former top 100 player and top seed to progress Boys R1 (L32) (1) Dominik Stary (CZE) v Max Stewart (GBR) (LL) David Pata (ROU) v Jay Clarke (GBR) Marcus Walters (GBR) v Akos Kotorman (HUN) Girls R1...
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DavidC
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9
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1209
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Boys & Girls: Simacek ITF Junior Open Linz, Austria, clay - Grade 1 (Week 29)
(Preview)
A number of British seeds here, including Maia Lumsden who has managed to snaffle a wildcard. Anna Brogan would have to tackle the top seed if she wins her round 1 encounter. Boys R1 (L64) (11) Alexander Sendegeya (GBR) v Bjorn Thomson (IRL) Girls R1 (L64) Anna Brogan (GBR) v Mayuka Aikawa (JPN) (7) Gab...
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DavidC
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12
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3853
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Boys: Nike Junior International Edinburgh, clay - Grade 5 (Week 28)
(Preview)
As usual Edinburgh hosts a Grade 5 at this time of year, which gives an opportunity for young teenagers to make a mark. Half of the first round was played today, including a win for Jake Hersey, who is our top ranked under 14 in the Tennis Europe rankings. Another 14 year old, Jack Molloy, was among the...
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DavidC
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10
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1073
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Girls: Nike Junior International Edinburgh, clay - Grade 5 (Week 28)
(Preview)
http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamenti...
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DavidC
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10
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1361
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Boys & Girls: Justine Henin Junior Cup, Belgium, clay - Grade 4 (Week 28)
(Preview)
Justine Henin's club hosts a G4 event with 4 of the top seeds from Britain, plus week 27 finalist Charles Broom Boys R1 (L64) (1) Joel Cannell (GBR) bye (3) Luke Oakley (GBR) bye (SE) Charles Broom (GBR) v (WC) Loic Cloes (BEL) (2) Alexis Canter (GBR) bye Girls R1 (L64) (2) Eden Richardson (GBR) bye -- Edi...
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DavidC
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5
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1293
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Boys & Girls: Allianz Kundler German Juniors, clay - Grade 1 (Week 28)
(Preview)
http://www.tennisscores.de/livescore/itfjun/livescorer.html
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DavidC
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2
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1022
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Boys: Wimbledon 2014, grass - Grade A (Weeks 26/27)
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1 2 3 4 5 … 6
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(Preview)
Several boys made it into qualifying eventually as the cut-off dropped, though all will have to beat a seed to reach final qualifying. It would appear that Alex Sendegeya, Rhett Purcell, Josh Sapwell, Julian Cash, Joel Cannell and Jamie Malik have main draw wildcards QR1 (WC) Marcus Walters v (12) A...
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DavidC
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75
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7060
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Girls: Wimbledon 2014, grass - Grade A (Weeks 26/27)
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1 2 3 4 5 … 8
)
(Preview)
Unusually we have a seed in qualifying (normally all British players ranked that high get main draw wildcards). In this case it is Emily Smith, who withdrew a few days ago and so needed a wildcard for qualifying. Her section (with Lana Rush) and the one including Jasmine Asghar plus Anna Brogan presen...
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DavidC
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119
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8273
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Boys: HEAD Cup Bruchköbel, Germany, clay - Grade 4 (Week 27)
(Preview)
Charles Broom is having a great tournament here, reaching his maiden ITF final R1 (L64) Charles Broom (GBR) d. (WC) Niklas Fischer (GER) 6-2 6-1 R2 Charles Broom (GBR) d. (Q) Lucas Hellfritsch (GER) 6-2 3-6 6-1 R3 Charles Broom (GBR) d. (5) Joel Vincent Link (GER) 6-4 6-4 QF Charles Broom (GBR) d. Lucas...
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DavidC
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1
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728
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Boys: Oceana Open Junior Championships, Fiji, hard - Grade 5 (Week 27)
(Preview)
Piers Foley got knocked out in the third round but Luke Hammond is through to the semis, and together the boys have made the doubles final: Singles: QF: Luke HAMMOND (GBR) 6-0 6-4 Edwyn RAMOS (AUS) SF: Luke HAMMOND (GBR) v Jack WONG (HKG) [1] Doubles: Semi-Final: Piers FOLEY (GBR) / Luke H...
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Coup Droit
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1
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615
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Boys & Girls: Biesterbos Open, Netherlands, clay - Grade 2 (Week 27)
(Preview)
Apart from Wimbledon there are a couple of Grade 2s this week Boys R1 (L64) (LL) Nikola Aleksic (SRB) v Luke Oakley (GBR) Girls R1 (L32) (LL) Julia Rosenqvist (SWE) v Georgina Axon (GBR)
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DavidC
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2
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666
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Boys and Girls: Week 26: Other news round-up
(Preview)
Although all the main attention is on Roehampton this week, there are quite a few lower ranked ITF tournaments happening this week with young Brits playing, some going very well and some not so well(!), but it seems more efficient to group them together: Tunisia, Grade 4 All three lads came through t...
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Coup Droit
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6
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1988
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Boys: Nike Junior International Roehampton, grass - Grade 1 (Weeks 25/26)
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1 2
)
(Preview)
As usual this Wimbledon warm-up event attracts a field stronger than non-slam Grade As. No Brits are direct entries but Rhett Purcell, Alex Sendegeya, Julian Cash, Joel Cannell, Joshua Sapwell, Jay Clarke, Marcus Walters and Max Stewart are all contenders for main draw wildcards. The main draw st...
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DavidC
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21
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3684
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Boys and Girls: ITF JTC Kelibia, Tunisia, hard - Grade 4 (Weeks 25)
(Preview)
Not much joy for all our entrants with the lads (who all came through qualifying) all being knocked out in the first round. But Donia Abdel-Aziz and Katarina Weymouth won one round. And Georgina is through to the semis, beating the number 3 seed: QF: Georgina AXON (GBR) [5] 7-5 6-1 Nermeen SHAW...
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Coup Droit
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620
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Boys: ITF Odense, Denmark, clay - Grade 4 (Weeks 25)
(Preview)
Quite a contingent went over to Denmark this week with, unfortunately, not a huge amount of success. But Luke Oakley is still going strong, having won three rounds and then his quarter finals to get into the semis: QF: Luke OAKLEY (GBR) [2] 6-4 5-7 6-3 Manfred FELLIN (ITA) Luke gets the 7th see...
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Coup Droit
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1
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531
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Girls: IGTA Junior Cup, Germany, clay - Grade 2 (Week 25)
(Preview)
The bonus from Georgia's G3 doubles final in Poland is that she gets a Special Exempt here R1 (L32) (SE) Georgia Lawson (GBR) v Helen Abigail Altick (USA)
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DavidC
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1
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589
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Boys & Girls: 2014 Tennis Europe Under 14 events
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1 2
)
(Preview)
The first major event for under 14s is this week's Category 1 Teen Tennis in Bolton, acting as a warm-up for Les Petits As next week. It wasn't a successful event for the boys, with only Jack Draper and Brandon Murphy making the last 16, but in the girls event Alexandra Hunter reached the quarters and Ali...
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DavidC
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16
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4594
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Boys & Girls: Euro Holding ITF Bytom Cup, Poland - Grade 3 (Week 24)
(Preview)
Not much joy in singles but Georgia Lawson has reached the doubles final, her third this year. The girl who trounced her in singles was one of Izzy Wallace's victims at Roland Garros last week Boys R1 (L32) Jonathan Gray (GBR) d. Patrik Nema (SVK) 6-4 6-3 R2 (7) Felipe Cunha Silva (POR) d. Jonathan Gray (...
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DavidC
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1
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732
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Boys: 22nd International Junior Tournament of Offenbach, Germany, clay - Grade 1 (Week 24)
(Preview)
Alex Sendegeya is the one top British junior choosing to play on clay this week before returning to the UK for the big grasscourt tournaments, and he takes on a 15 year old who already has his first ATP point. R1 (L64) Alexander Sendegeya (GBR) v (WC) Daniel Altmaier (GER)
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DavidC
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4
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890
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Girls: French Open 2014, clay - Grade A (Weeks 22/23)
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1 2 3
)
(Preview)
With Katie Boulter and possibly Isabelle Wallace (via a Special Exempt) in the main draw, Freya Christie is the only Brit in qualifying. Her opponent in the first of two rounds is ranked inside 800 WTA, but has a less than impressive record on European clay QR1 Freya Christie (GBR) v (14) Olivia Tjandr...
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DavidC
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43
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3839
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Boys: Tirana Open U18, Albania, hard - Grade 5 (Week 23)
(Preview)
Mohamed Abdel-Aziz has made the doubles final: Semifinal: Mohamed ABDEL-AZIZ (GBR) / Hugo LARGO (ESP) 5-7 6-2 [10-3] Daniil KLIMOV (GER) / Lukas VEJVARA (CZE) [4] He lost in the first round of the singles but to a player (fifth seed) who has gone on to win his way to the semis. Good luck in...
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1
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554
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