A nice day in Denmark, with three out of three wins for the youngsters.

Jack Draper def. (LL) Erik Carlsten (SWE) 6-2 6-3

(WC) Paul Jubb def. Valdemar Holm (SWE) 6-1 6-1

Anton Matusevich def. (WC) Martin Nygaard (DEN) 6-1 6-1

Great results for the boys today. Yes it is Paul Jubb's first ITF outside the UK, nice to see he's been included on the LTA trip with Anton and Jack. There's been a lot of talk about the lack of funding and support in recent posts but that's not the case here the LTA have sent 2 national coaches Richard Plews and Martin Weston. Let's hope they offer help and encouragement to ALL of the British players at tournament this week.

Young Anton Matusevich (age 14) pulls off the best result of the day, however, beating the second seed, 17 years old, and ranked 328 or so.

Camille lost, however.

Ernie wrote:

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A very good win for Anton v the 2 seed

Yes Coup... Weston, Plews and Antons coach are here with the 3 boys... Im my opinion a little excessive! I can't work this funding policy out there seems to be a copious amount of funding for the youngsters but nothing for the 16 +.

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I think (seeing the new changes) there's even a copious amount of funding now for the older ones. But only for a very select few.

I'm afraid it just reeks of jobs for the boys. It seems to me to be funding for the coaches, not funding for the players.

There is no way that three LTA-paid coaches (I'm assuming Anton's coach is LTA paid-for as well) need to go to accompany three 14 -15 year-olds.

The head FFT trainer of the department where I was has recently come back from a trip to the French Dom-Tom. He took four youngsters. That seems a fair 'bang for your buck' in terms of costs and potential reward. One coach - four kids.

But three and three ? Frankly, it's just having a laugh.....

Anton's next opponent has already reached one G4 final this year.

Boys R2

(7) Jeremy Gschwendtner d. (LL) Leyton Rivera (SWE) 6-7(0) 6-4 6-1
(4) James Davis d. Viktor Thoresson (SWE) 6-7(5) 6-3 6-3
(11) Sebastian Grundtvig (DEN) d. Jack Draper 6-2 6-4
(6) Georgii Kravchenko (UKR) d. (WC) Paul Jubb 6-0 6-3
(3) Louis Newman d. Robin Erik Parts (EST) 6-2 6-4
(12) Matthew Summers d. Linus Bergevi (SWE) 6-1 6-0
Anton Matusevich d. (2) Henrik Atlevi (SWE) 6-3 7-5

R3

(Q) Filip Cristian Jianu (ROU) v (7) Jeremy Gschwendtner
(4) James Davis v Erik Grevelius (SWE)
(16) Tobias Lindberget (SWE) v (3) Louis Newman
Kasper Elsvad (DEN) v (12) Matthew Summers
(13) Johannes Foss Abrahamsen (NOR) v Anton Matusevich

Girls R2

Yuval Keren (ISR) d. (5) Camille Verden Anderson 7-6(2) 6-0
(16) Maria Budin d. Lilly Elida Haseth (NOR) 6-2 6-4

R3

(16) Maria Budin v (Q) Alexandra Almborg (SWE)

A guaranteed semifinalist (James & Matthew are also in the doubles semis)

Boys R3

(7) Jeremy Gschwendtner d. (Q) Filip Cristian Jianu (ROU) 6-1 6-2
(4) James Davis d. Erik Grevelius (SWE) 6-4 6-1
(16) Tobias Lindberget (SWE) d. (3) Louis Newman 6-2 6-2
(12) Matthew Summers d. Kasper Elsvad (DEN) 7-5 6-4
Anton Matusevich d. (13) Johannes Foss Abrahamsen (NOR) 6-4 7-5

QF

(1) Emil Ruusuvuori (FIN) v (7) Jeremy Gschwendtner
(4) James Davis v (8) Gilbert Jaeger (SWE)
(12) Matthew Summers v Anton Matusevich

Girls R3

(Q) Alexandra Almborg (SWE) d. (16) Maria Budin 0-6 7-5 6-4

SF

(6) Georgii Kravchenko (UKR) v (12) Matthew Summers