Juniors playing professional senior tennis

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Juniors playing professional senior tennis

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

23/05/22

May has been been a good month for our junior girls, in terms of numbers, with two new arrivals.
In terms of singles rankings, we are now:

WTA:

427 - Matilda Mutavdzic ('04)
770 - Talia Neilson Gatenby ('05)
792 - Jasmine Conway ('04)
1180 - Mimi Xu ('07)
1560 - Kristina Paskauskas ('04)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

23/05/22

And it's slim pickings but the boys is looking a tad better as Will joins Phoenix so we now have two, at least,

1816 - Phoenix Weir ('05)
1925 - Will Jansen ('04)

We also have seven junior boys with doubles rankings now (Will, Phoenix, Patrick Brady, Henry Searle, Matt Rankin, Louis Bowden and Yujiro) - all ranked between 1370 and 2095

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 21:

A shout out to Jasmine, born 2004, who made the semis in Tunisia 15k, beating a top-500 player:

QF: CONWAY, Jasmine (GBR) (5) 792/76 def. XUN, Fang Ying (CHN) (1) 465/1434 (CH=167/120 2020) 6-4 6-3

SF: CONWAY, Jasmine (GBR) (5) 792/76 lost to MORITA, Ayumi (JPN) (3) 733 (CH=40 2011) 2-6 2-6

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 22:

Big congratulations to Isabelle Lacy (born 2006) who makes the main draw of the ITF100 in Surbiton, beating Eliz Maloney WTA 626 and Danielle Daley WTA 1304). With these points, she should now be ranked next week

Talia NG (2005) also got a win in QR1, beating Ingrid Neels WTA 1063, before losing to a top-300 player

In Tunisia 15k, Jasmine Conway (2004) also won her R1 match

In Austria 25k, Matilda Mutavdzic (2004) beat Tina Cvetkovic WTA 643 in the FQR to make the main draw

ADD: Both Jasmine and Matilda ended up winning a couple of rounds but losing in the QFs.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 3rd of June 2022 08:49:51 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Big congrats to Kristina P (age 17) who takes her second 15k doubles title in the space of a few weeks, in Tunisia:

F:- Kristina Paskauskas (GBR) / Sijia Wei (CHN) CR2688 (1387+1301) def. [3] Ashmitha Easwaramurthi (IND) / Mei Hasegawa (JPN) CR2104 (933+1171) 6-1 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

06/06/22

The big news is that 15 year-old Isabelle Lacy has now joined the ranks of junior girls with an adult WTA ranking !

And others are doing well too. So we're currently:

416 (+11) - Matilda M (2004)
735 (+35) - Talia N-G (2005)
752 (+40) - Jasmine (2004)
1182 (-2) - Mimi (2007)
1182 - NEW IN - Isabelle Lacy (2006)
1529 (+31) - Kristina Paskauskas (2004)

Edit: changed Kristina's date, thanks to post below

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 6th of June 2022 06:38:51 PM

Tennisdad_101 · Lower Club Player

Coup Droit wrote:
06/06/22

The big news is that 15 year-old Isabelle Lacy has now joined the ranks of junior girls with an adult WTA ranking !

And others are doing well too. So we're currently:

416 (+11) - Matilda M (2004)
735 (+35) - Talia N-G (2005)
752 (+40) - Jasmine (2004)
1182 (-2) - Mimi (2007)
1182 - NEW IN - Isabelle Lacy (2006)
1529 (+31) - Kristina Paskauskas (2005)

Great to see another new entry! Kristina is 2004 though not 2005, think shes signed up to join a US college this Fall too.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

13/06/22

The big news is that Matilda has broken into the top-400

***AND Ranah Stoiber (2005), our top ranked ITF junior girl, defeated Elsa Jacquemot, WTA 174, in two sets, in Ilkley 100k

WTA singles rankings

389 (+27) - Matilda M (2004)
731 (+4) - Talia N-G (2005)
737 (+15) - Jasmine (2004)
1177 (+5) - Mimi (2007)
1177 (+5) - Isabelle Lacy (2006)
1514 (+14) - Kristina Paskauskas (2004)

ATP Singles

1809 (+7) Phoenix Weir ('05)

1916 (+10) Will Jansen ('04)

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 13th of June 2022 08:20:52 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

17/06/22

Ranah (2005) went on a rampage this week, following her qualification, in Ilkley 100k

QR1: STOIBER, Ranah Akua (GBR) UNR def JACQUEMOT, Elsa (FRA) (1) 176 6-4 6-3

QR2: STOIBER, Ranah Akua (GBR) UNR def BAINS, Naiktha (GBR) (13) 361 6-7(1) 6-4 [10-6]

R1: STOIBER, Ranah Akua (GBR) Q UNR def LOEB, Jamie (USA) 209 7-6(5) 6-3

before losing in three sets to Snigur

Mimi Xu (2007) put up a decent show but lost in R1 to Wickmayer

Elsewhere, Matilda and Jasmine both lost in the R1 in Israel 25k

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

20/06/22

The big news this week is that Ranah Stoiber (2005) joins the WTA ranking singles list, thanks to the great results above

WTA singles rankings

390 (-1) - Matilda M (2004)
728 (+3) - Talia N-G (2005)
735 (+2) - Jasmine (2004)
986 - NEW IN - Ranah Stoiber (2005)
1147 (+30) - Mimi (2007)
1179 (-2) - Isabelle Lacy (2006)
1516 (-2) - Kristina Paskauskas (2004)

Still nine girls with WTA doubles rankings

ATP Singles

1799 (+10) Phoenix Weir ('05)
1910 (+6) Will Jansen ('04)

Seven boys with doubles rankings

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

11/07/22

WTA singles rankings

392 - Matilda M (2004)
705 - Jasmine (2004)
728 - Talia N-G (2005)
972 - Ranah Stoiber (2005)
1131 - Mimi (2007)
1166 - Isabelle Lacy (2006)
1520 - Kristina Paskauskas (2004)

Still nine girls with WTA doubles rankings

Several youngsters taking part - and doing well - at the Roehampton 25ks this week coming too:

QR1 wins for Brooke Black (age 14) over a WTA ranked player, as well as Jaquelyn Ogunwale (age 17) over Sugnaux, WTA 767, and a win for Kristina Paskauskas (age 18, born 2004) too

TW18 · Lower Club Player

Brooke Black is really impressive. I believe she's Wayne Black's daughter?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

TW18 wrote:
Brooke Black is really impressive. I believe she's Wayne Black's daughter?

Yes, I think she is

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Shout out this week for William Jansen (2004) who won his R1 main draw match in Roehampton