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Reeltime


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Ok, I give up.  Can anyone point me in the direction of an explanation of the grades and rankings in junior tennis.  The ITF site is proving impossible.

 

A couple of questions I have are:

Do the grades refer to age brackets, or is it purely on ability? (i.e a grade 5 would likely see exceptional 14 year olds and not so exceptional 18 year olds)

 

And where does grade A come into this?



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philwrig


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Grade's purely ability 5 being the easiest A being the toughest.
All the junior grand slams are Grade A's.

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All it affects is the number of ranking points available for each match won. There are no limits on who can enter different grades - as long as you have a high enough ranking to get in the draw.

As with adult tournaments they are a rough guide to difficulty but grade 2 warm up events before slams usually have much stronger fields than some non-slam grade A events.

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The following page provides a reasonable introduction to junior grades

http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/circuitinfo/starting.asp

while http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/rankings/tournamentgrades.asp provides a detailed breakdown of the points on offer within each grade of event. Players count their best 6 singles and doubles scores

The top tier Grade A events are the 4 grand slams, Casablanca Cup (Mexico - just after Christmas), Copa Gerdau (Brazil - March), Trofeo Bonfiglio (Italy - May), Osaka mayor's Cup (Japan - October) and Orange Bowl (USA - December). In addition the Youth Olympics was granted Grade A status last year.

Grade 1 events include Roehampton (June), and there is a closed European Championships (July) which earns Grade 1 points, except a premium to the finalists, and hence is designated B1.

Grade 4 and 5 events are the most numerous, and easiest for low and unranked players to gain entry for.

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