Last year Nell played the UK tour but also a number of ITF Futures events, here and out at Sharm. The only juniors she played were UK events. She didn't have much success at ITF last year so maybe she's giving the juniors another try. She has 2 ranking points so, if she's going to travel, perhaps the question should be why she isn't playing a 10k somewhere.

I don't know? Particularly on the ladies side.

There is a strong case for children at state schools, but perhaps selected out as labelled as gifted and talented to be selective in the opportunities they take.

So if you live close to an elite training centre and your baseline day to day training is secure, one could create a very competitive curriculum for development, perhaps playing a couple of weeks in the early part of the year to compete in a climate consistent with tennis and then playing local pro tournaments through the summer, both challenging and giving early exposure to pro tennis to set targets for development through transition at relatively low cost fiscally, to family life and to her education.

At 16 having completed the fundamentals of her education that hopefully would put her in a position to be very competitive in elite junior ITF tournaments and grand slams while perhaps still playing some pro tennis. I really like the schedule she played last year and it will be interesting to see the tournaments she plays this. I know nothing about Nell or her family but it looks like she has been well advised and plenty of thought put into devising a bespoke schedule for her.

And another win for Nell

She beat the 6th seed, 6-3 6-4

And Jodie Annie and Nell win their dubs, through now to the semis