Excellent opportunity for a lot of our youngsters (and a couple of foreign interlopers )
We have some of the tiddlers back from Les Petits As. And a few older players too. Lots I've never heard of. A few names I've been following from afar and will be very curious to see how they do. A few LTA 'stars'.
Qualis have finished and the main draws are out.
In the girls, Issey Purser and Kristina Paskauskas are top seeds. But Mimi Xu is also in the draw, plus Talia Gatenby, Ella McDonald and Ellie Blackford and other interesting players
In the boys, we have a French lad and an Irish lad as top 2 seeds. But also Fabio, Luca, Phoenix, Hugo C etc.
Ella McDonald had to withdraw. Hope she's OK. But little Amalia Widdowson (born 2008, saw her at the Super Auray, one of the our GB team in LTA comps too) gets the benefit, into the QFs (don't even know if 2008-ers are allowed to be ITF ranked???)
Congrats to Phoenix for taking out the second seed in style. Only one 'pesky' left now :)
And Jonah Gethin (new name to me) for coming through so far without breaking sweat. (Looking him up, I think the boy was born and grew up for a certain period in Hong Kong - not sure how old he was when he came here)