The first major under 14 event of the year is the Nike Junior International in Bolton. In the boys event only one Brit has made it through to the last 16, but that is Jack Draper, who took over the TE top ranking at the start of the year.
Full draw: http://te.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=2AD01DFE-4C82-4842-A49E-420918FBFEF5&draw=1
In the girls event encouragingly Gemma Heath, Aleksandra Pitak, Holly Fischer and Victoria Allen all put out seeds today to join the seeded Esther Adeshina in the last 16. Gemma gets to play Tornado Black's sister Hurricane in the next round
Full draw: http://te.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=2AD01DFE-4C82-4842-A49E-420918FBFEF5&draw=3
You can follow live scoring at http://www.tennisticker.de/gbr/gbr1400/sb.html
-- Edited by DavidC on Monday 19th of January 2015 07:04:52 PM
Jack sailed into the quarters, while in the girls event there was another impressive win for Victoria. Esther lost and Gemma was edged out by Hurricane who will face the winner of Aleksandra and Holly, who have split sets. Holly's progress is particularly noteworthy given she is a 2003
It's when we start talking about players who were born after we started posting on this board that we'll all really feel ancient ...
It probably won't be that long for some of us either, given that the 'old lags' among us started posting in 2005! I think the board will be 10 years old on 15 June - that's when Sheddie joined, anyway - he must have been the first.
Come to think of it, even the GB men's top 25 tables now go back over 7 years ... and I was posting it to the Rusedski board and a couple of player's websites for at least a couple of years before that, sadly not keeping copies.
-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 20th of January 2015 09:22:26 PM
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British interest in the singles ended at the quarter-final stage. Jack won the first set 6-1 against American Nathan Han but lost the other two sets by the same score, while Holly and Victoria lost in straights, also to Americans
Tarbes hosts Les Petits As, the most prestigious under 14 event in Europe with a thin British line-up this year. Top seed Jack Draper is the main British hope to go deep here.
Boys R1 (L64)
(1) Jack Draper v Borna Devald (CRO)
(WC) Jacob Fearnley v Peetu Pohjola (FIN)
Girls R1 (L64)
(Q) Esther Adeshina v Andjela Skrobonja (SRB)
Rozalina Youseva (BUL) v (Q) Emma Raducanu