Juniors playing professional senior tennis

indiana · Tennis legend

RE: Juniors playing professional senior tennis

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
With two 25ks this week at Nottingham (for men and women), there will be lots of chances for our juniors to show their colours on the adult stage.

And it's gets off to a flying start with:

QR1: (qWC) Fabio Nestola (born 2005) UNR defeated (q5) Luca Castelnuovo (SUI) WR 975 by 6-3 1-6 [10-4]

The other really excellent result today was:

Q1: ROACH, Given (GBR) UNR {18yo JCH=209} def. BAHARMUS, Humera (IND) (5) 824 6-1 6-2

And also:

Q1: OGUNWALE, Jaquelyn (GBR) UNR def HUTCHINSON, Holly (GBR) (13) 1217 4-6 7-5 [11-9]

There were also R1 wins for against unranked players for:

Gabia Paskauskas

Hannah Rylatt

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Big news in the Juniors-in-Adults category this week as Mimi gets herself back a ranking
Also, both Talia and Isa have jumps up (+20 and +41, resepctively)

And congrats in the boys to:

Freddy Blaydes who boost his doubles ranking, to ATP 1313 (+91)

Girls

17/04/23

Singles adult rankings:

671 - Talia Neilson Gatenby ('05)
831 - Isabelle Lacy ('06)
863- Ranah Stoiber ('05)
1035 - Ella McDonald ('05)
1181 - Mimi Xu ('07)

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 17th of April 2023 09:10:33 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Nottingham, 25k

Given Roach (2005) followed up her excellent QR1 win with another win, and made the main draw, earning her first WTA point, and putting up a very good show against the WTA 349, only losing 4-6 5-7

Hannah Rylatt had at least 4 match points to do the same and qualify, but came up agonisingly short.

Gabia and Jaqui also lost.

However, Jaqui Ogunwale (2005) got a main draw doubles win today (with Anna Popescu)

Henry Searle (2006) also got a win in doubles, with Mike Shaw.

But pride of place today goes to 14 year-old Hannah Klugman (2009) who won her first adult match of her career, beating Eliz Maloney (WTA 394) in three sets, and earning herself 5 points

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

After Hannah's mega effort yesterday, two more youngsters followed up with excellent results.

Mega congrats to Mika and Hephzibah

So, the three R1 wins are as follows:

R1: KLUGMAN, Hannah (GBR) WC UNR def MALONEY, Eliz (GBR) 394 7-6(5) 6-7(4) 6-1
R1: STOJSAVLJEVIC, Mika (GBR) WC UNR def WILSON, Emma (GBR) Q 868 7-6(4) 6-3
R1: OLUWADARE, Hephzibah (GBR) WC UNR def MARTYNOV, Diana (FRA) LL 913 6-2 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Only Hannah is left standing, with another super win over a top-400 player.
But Hep put up some decent resistance in set two, and good experience whatever for both her and Mika

R2: KLUGMAN, Hannah (GBR) (born 2009) WC UNR def MARCINKEVICA, Diana (LAT (9) 393 6-3 6-4
R2: BAINS, Naiktha (GBR) (6) 338 def STOJSAVLJEVIC, Mika (GBR) (born 2008) WC UNR 6-1 6-1
R2: OLUWADARE, Hephzibah (GBR) (born 2007) WC UNR lost to RODIONOVA, Arina (AUS) (5) 299 1-6 3-6

Hannah than lost by a whisker, in a third-set TB, to Katy Dunne

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 8th of May 2023 08:13:32 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

08/05/23

In the girls, we have two new juniors, now with adult doubles rankings:

1334 - Given Roach (age 18)

1334 - Jaquelyn Ogunwale (age 18)

Also:

1478 (+28) Fran Simpson (age 16)

1478 (+28) Paulina Jurkowska (age 17)

In the boys, we have one new junior with an adult doubles rankings:

1909 - Henry Searle (age 17)

Also:

1819 (+251) Nicolas Philibert (age 17)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The main story in juniors playing up this week is that Ranah and Talia both made the QFs, played each other, and Ranah came out on top, in three sets

QF: STOIBER, Ranah Akut (GBR) (8) 865/1078 def NEILSON GATENBY, Talia (GBR) (4) 714/505 6-7(4) 6-4 6-3

Ranah then got a W/O into the final but lost 6-0 6-3 to Yufei Ren

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Sunday 28th of May 2023 06:52:30 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

29/05/23

Congrats to 17 year-old Aryana Bartlett (born Sept. 2005) who has come through qualis in two 25k events this month and has now got herself a WTA singles ranking of WTA 1299

That makes 5 juniors with singles rankings (as Mimi has dropped out):

706 - Talia Neilson Gatenby ('05)
776 - Ranah Stoiber ('05)
852 - Isabelle Lacy ('06)
1060 - Ella McDonald ('05)
1299 - Aryana Bartlett ('05)

In doubles, Ella now heads the pack, after making the 25k semis at Notts, with Given, in May.

It currently looks like this:

659 - Ella McDonald ('05)
946 - Given Roach ('05)
1062 - Ranah Stoiber ('05)
1353 - Jaquelyn Ogunwale ('05)
1353 - Sarah Copley ('07)
1414 - Talia Neilson Gatenby ('05)
1489 - Paulina Jurkowska ('05)
1511 - Fran Simpson ('07)
1547 - Brooke Black ('07)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

12/06/23

The BIG news last week was that Isabelle Lacy (age 16) came through qualis at Surbiton.

She beat STEVANOVIC, Natalija (SRB) (7) 217 6-4 7-5,
and GILLAN, Alice (GBR) 743 6-3 3-6 6-2

AND then in the main draw defeated BRENGLE, Madison (USA) (3) 95 7-6(2) 5-7 6-1, got a walkover in the next round, before finally losing to Lily

So Isa is now the new top adult ranked junior girl in singles:

646 (+206) Isabelle Lacy ('06)
722 - Talia Neilson Gatenby ('05)
767 - Ranah Stoiber ('05)
1105 - Ella McDonald ('05)
1288 - Aryana Bartlett ('05)

In doubles, Ella is now up to WTA 574, having made another 25k semi-final, this time in Austria, with Nguyen Tan

In the boys, big congrats to Freddy Blaydes (age 17) who is now our top-ranked junior boy in doubles, after success with his brother, Billy

Doubles:

1080 (+256) Freddy Blaydes ('05)
1836 (=) Nicolas Philibert ('05)
1893 (+32) Henry Searle ('06)

In singles, it's still Henry, Phoenix, Nicolas, and Zach, all within a stone's throw of each other, at the bottom end of the ranking table

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

26/06/23

Isabelle continued her wonderful run of good form with a win over Golubic WTA 138, and only losing by the skin of her teeth to Bolsova, WTA 110
Talia also chalked up a super win over Robbe, WTA 216, before very unforunately suffering a hip injury

This means our top two girls in WTA are:

594 (+58) Isabelle Lacy ('06)
702 (+31) Talia Neilson Gatenby ('05)

In doubles, the good news is that Isa Lacy now also has a doubles ranking.

AND a big welcome to the rankings to Georgina (Gigi) Hays, age 16

We now have 11 girls with WTA doubles rankings

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

03/07/23

Congrats to Freddy Blaydes who is now in the top-1000 for doubles

Boys:

Doubles:

932 - Freddy Blaydes
1652 - Nicolas Philibert
1935 - Henry Searle
2034 - Zach Stephens

In singles, there's no real change:

1583 - Henry Searle
1850 - Phoenix Weir
1906 - Nicolas Philibert
2020 - Zach Stephens

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

July 17th

There is a big improvement in the health our girls' adult rankings
Hannah gets her first ranking and is the youngest player in the world with a WTA ranking
Welcome back to Mimi, too
So that's seven girls with WTA singles rankings

592 - Isabelle Lacy (2006)
705 - Talia N Gatenby (2005)
1010 - Ranah Stoiber (2005)
1064 - Ella McDonald (2005)
1095 - Hannah Klugman (2009)
1239 - Mimi Xu (2007)
1316 - Aryana Bartlett (2005)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

31st July

And the girls' listing looks better and better as both Ranah and Ella move up about 100 places each and break back into the top-1000

590 - Isabelle Lacy (2006)
707 - Talia N Gatenby (2005)
936 - Ranah Stoiber (2005)
983 - Ella McDonald (2005)
1100 - Hannah Klugman (2009)
1244 - Mimi Xu (2007)
1328 - Aryana Bartlett (2005)

A couple of big moves in the doubles too, for the junior girls, notably:

539 (+51) Ella McDonald
783 (+181) Given Roach
1062 (+494) Brooke Black ('07)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Truly super result from Given Roach (2005) at Foxhills today, beating the WTA 321 Petra Hule in three sets

Also, Ranah Stoiber (2005) put out GB's Marni Banks WTA 384

Credit also to Ella McDonald (2005) who beat Maria Navarro WTA 639 in qualis

And Ruby Cooling (2007) who beat GB's Lauryn John Baptiste, WTA 826