Juniors playing professional senior tennis

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Juniors playing professional senior tennis

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Some great ranking news for our Juniors:

Singles Girls:

We now have three ranked junior girls as our new youngest, Talia, zooms into the WTA rankings with her runners-up place at Birmingham:

Matilda Mutavdzic (2004) WTA 427
***Talia Neilson-Gatenby (2005) WTA 839
Jasmine Conway (2004) WTA 1065

Doubles Girls

Matilda Mutavdzic (2004) 1094
Hannah Smith (2004) 1132
Tabitha Holmes (2005) 1157
Paulina Jurkowska (2005) 1399
Jessica Matthews (2004) 1435

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And good news for boys too as 15 year-old Henry gets a doubles ranking - our first 2006-born player with a ranking

Single Boys

Phoenix Weir (2005) AATP 1782

Doubles Boys

***Henry Searle (2006) ATP 1541
Yujiro Onuma (2004) ATP 2201
Mukhtar Andu (2004) ATP 2356

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

We now have three girls in the top-1000 adult rankings for the first time in ages, as Jasmine gets her Glasgow points and soars into the 800s:

Matilda Mutavdzic (2004) WTA 424
Talia Neilson-Gatenby (2005) WTA 836
Jasmine Conway (2004) WTA 886

In the boys, it's still Phoenix in the singles:

Phoenix Weir (2005) ATP 1777

BUT we have two new guys with doubles rankings

1529 - NEW IN - Patrick Brady (born 2004), age 17

1529 - NEW IN - Matt Rankin (born 2004), age 17

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 28th of February 2022 08:56:32 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

THere hasn't been much action recently (Jasmine and Matilda both played in one week but both lost in R1; Matilda lost again in R1 this week)

However, in Tunisia, Kristina P (aged 17) came through qualis and then got her first MD win.

R1: PASKAUSKAS, Kristina (GBR) Q UNR/1250 def MARANDEL, Lola (FRA) WC 1450/850 6-2 6-0

She also got her first MD doubles win at the end of March too, playing with a Korean girl.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 15: Matilda won one round at a 25k in France, before losing in three.

Jasmine came through qualis nicely before getting knocked out in R1 in the UK 25k

Talia had a wildcard into the MD but also lost in R1 (although 5-7 5-7 to the woman who's made the final)

Ranah has a wildcard too but lost to Jodie as top seed.

Kristina P lost in the FQR in a 15k

Will Jansen, Louis Bowden and Luca Pow had wildcards into the MD of UK 25 but lost

Fabio Nestola did better, in that he came through qualis, and beat Ben Jones (about 1100) along the way

Yujiro Onuma also got a win over a ranked player in the QR1

Louis Bowden got a win in R1 doubles too

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 16:

Jasmine ('04) and Talia ('05) both got a win in R1 of the 25k in Nottingham

(Ranah & Isabelle Lacy lost)

Yujiro Onuma got a ranked win in qualis, Luca Pow lost in R1 MD

In terms of rankings, we are now:

WTA:

422 - Matilda Mut. ('04)
825 - Talia Neilson Gatenby ('05)
845 - Jasmine Conway ('04)

We have 6 junior girls ranked in doubles, all outside the top 1000, namely: Tabitha Holmes, Andra Sutherland, Matilda, Paulina Jurkowska, Jess Matthews and Hannah Smith

ATP:

1738 - Phoenix Weir ('05)

We welcome Louis Bowden ('04) to the doubles ATP rankings ! New in, thanks to his win last week

We now have 6 boys with ATP dubs rankings too, again all outside the top-1000, namely: Louis, Patrick Brady, Henry Searle, Matt Rankin, Mukhtar and Yujiro.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 18 2022:

The BIG news this week is that wildcard Mimi Xu ('07), age 14, won her R1 match in the 25k in Nottingham, and so gets a singles ranking point.

(The caveat is that she did so by beating Lois Newberry, also born 2007, also a wildcard, so - with the best will in the world - it's not quite such a headline event, but all the same)

Matilda has also won her R1 match at the 25K+H event in Spain

(Plenty of other juniors played in the UK too but lost their matches)

In the boys, Louis Bowden ('04) got two wins to make it through qualis in Nottingham before losing in R1

(ADD: Both Mimi and Matilda lost in R2)

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 6th of May 2022 01:39:38 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Mimi gets 5 points for a 25K R1 win. That will now give her 11 points in total and a WTA ranking!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Mimi gets 5 points for a 25K R1 win. That will now give her 11 points in total and a WTA ranking!

Even better biggrin

Tx !

(points do my head in - I'm the world's worst smile )

LordBrownof · Futures level

Will she be the youngest player in the world with a WTA ranking?

Strongbow · All-time great

LordBrownof wrote:
Will she be the youngest player in the world with a WTA ranking?

Mingge's bithday is in October. There are 2 other 14 year olds with a raking but both are born in July so she would be the youngest.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

09/05/22

Just to note the rises in the junior girls, as Talia and Jasmine break into the top-800 ....

In terms of rankings, we are now:

WTA:

428 - Matilda Mut. ('04)
770 - Talia Neilson Gatenby ('05)
798 - Jasmine Conway ('04)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 19:

The big news this week was the Kristina Paskauskas (age 17), unranked, has won the ITF 15k doubles title in Tunisia

(She also won her R1 singles match which - I think - should be her third counter for a ranking in a week's time)

Excellent week - lovey to get a title (with her 18 year-old Chinese partner, Sijia Wei

Elsewhere, lots of girls turned out in Nottingham for the 25 but no wins. Matilda Mut. also lost in her first match in the 60k in France.

In the boys in Notts, Will Jansen got a R1 win though - which will give a welcome ATP ranking

Yujiro Onuma also got two wins in qualis, making the main draw.

Phoenix Weir also got a win.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

16/05/22

Our junior girls are really making their mark. In terms of singles rankings, we are now:

WTA:

423 - Matilda Mutavdzic ('04)
767 - Talia Neilson Gatenby ('05)
795 - Jasmine Conway ('04)
1197 - Mimi Xu ('07)

In doubles, we have Tabitha Holmes, Paulina Jurkowska, Fran Davis, Jess Matthews, Andra Sutherland, Matilda, and Hannah Smith (ranked 1124 up to 1711)