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Our strongest team of 1998s start the season of European Summer Cups trying to qualify for next week's under 14 finals, which serve as qualifiers for the World Junior Team Cup in August

They open today as top seeds in their group against Serbia, and Sam Ferguson has won the opening singles. Jay Clarke, ranked 1 in Europe, is due to play the top singles



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GBR 3 Serbia 0 (straight sets wins for Sam, Jay and Jay/Daniel Bennett in doubles)

We play Romania tomorrow with a place in the finals at stake

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The boys swept Romania aside, again without losing a set, and play host nation Spain for seeding rights in next week's finals

Semifinals

GBR 3 Romania 0

Sam won 6-3 6-1
Jay won 6-2 6-3
Sam/Daniel won 6-2 6-3

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The boys were hammered by Spain, a country whose players often don't play many TE14 events so are underranked

GBR 0 Spain 3

Sam lost 3-6 5-7
Jay lost 2-6 7-6(1) 2-6
Sam/Daniel lost 6-4 6-7(5) 3-6

We will therefore be unseeded in the finals this weekend

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The finals start today and we have drawn third seeds Turkey, which on paper looks a favourable draw. Sam won the second singles comfortably, and if we win either the first singles (Jay) or doubles then we will be in the semis plus qualify for the World Junior Tennis finals in August

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They took full advantage of the draw to secure qualification for the World finals

Finals R1

(3) Turkey 0 GBR 3

Sam won 6-3 6-1
Jay won 6-2 6-4
Jay/Daniel won 5-7 6-4 7-5

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GBR v Germany

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3rd-4th playoff it will be after Germany take an unassailable 2-0 lead

Sam lost 6-1 3-6 1-6
Jay lost 6-3 6-7(5) 5-7

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Jay & Daniel won the doubles 6-3 6-3 making it GBR 1 Germany 2

3rd-4th place play-off

GBR v Switzerland

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3rd-4th place play-off

GBR 2 Switzerland 1

Daniel lost 7-5 2-6 4-6
Jay won 6-4 7-6(6)
Sam/Jay win 6-4 6-3

Spain (who thumped us in qualifying) won the final against Germany


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Our campaign to defend the Junior Davis Cup starts tomorrow in Spain. The first step is to qualify for the European Summer Cup finals, and the team of Peter Ashley, Joshua Sapwell and Alex Sendegeya are unseeded in that quest. First up is the useful looking Romanians, seeded third, who include last year's TE numbers 1 and 3.

The under 18s start tomorrow in Slovakia with a team of Jonny O'Mara, Scott Clayton and Clay Crawford

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The defence of the Davis Cup ended on the first day. Romania looked to be strong opponents, but I expected a close contest. Unfortunately Romania ran away with the two singles, and winning the doubles provides little consolation

U16 Qualifying QF GBR 1 (3)ROM 2

Alex lost to Bogdan Ionut Apostol 3-6 2-6
Peter lost to Nicolae Frunza 6-1 0-6 1-6
Sendegeya/Sapwell bt Bogdan/Apostol 6-3 6-2


Better news from the under 18s who beat the Dutch

U18 Qualifying QF NED 1 (2)GBR 2

Scott lost 2-6 1-6
Jonny won 6-1 6-2
Scott/Jonny won 7-6(6) 6-2

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(4)Ukraine v (2)GBR


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What do we think about Peter's progress? On the face of it he seems to have staled somewhat in the last year.

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LordBrownof wrote:

What do we think about Peter's progress? On the face of it he seems to have staled somewhat in the last year.

 Peter's progress has been steady, not spectacular, so has been overtaken by a number of 96s. Of more concern arguably is the lack of progress made by Josh who ended his TE14 career ranked 2 (Peter was ranked 7). Injuries may have been a factor, and he retired today in a consolation match against Serbia.

 



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Better news from the under 18s who qualified for next week's final, winning their group

Under 18 qualifying SF

(2)GBR 3 (4)Ukraine 0

Clay won 6-4 6-2
Jonny won 6-3 6-7(4) 6-0
Scott/Clay won 6-4 6-2

Final

(2)GBR 2 (3)SVK 1

Clay lost 5-7 0-6
Scott won 6-1 7-5
Jonny/Scott won 7-5 4-6 [11-9]




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The under 18 finals started today, but our team were unable to make much impression on a strong German side (two top 25 players)

Under 18 finals: QF

GBR 1 Germany 2

Scott lost to Maximilian Marterer 5-7 1-6
Jonny lost to Daniel Masur 4-6 3-6
Scott/Jonny beat Mareter/Masur 6-4 6-4


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