dodrade wrote:

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Coup Droit wrote:

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That's very convincing from Luca - twice on the trot

Brilliant, again, from Hannah.

Almost sad to say it's no real surprise

Really lovely to see the extremely talented Tennis Europe 11 year-old become the extremely talented ITF juniors player.....

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 Can she already play J1/J2 tournaments? 

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 She's pretty high profile, globally, so - if her ranking's not quite good enough - there's a very good chance she'll get a wildcard into any J1 or J2 tournament she wants (she got a wildcard into Les Petits As.....)

She'll obviously get one into UK events

But the question is how many of these events she wants to play, when and where. Roehampton as a pre-Wimbly juniors seems very likely. 

But her team is very 'individual', very much round her, and I guess they'll obviously have been thinking a lot about her programme this year, and probably had different versions, depending how well she did in the J3s. 

Coup Droit wrote:

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dodrade wrote:

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Coup Droit wrote:

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That's very convincing from Luca - twice on the trot

Brilliant, again, from Hannah.

Almost sad to say it's no real surprise

Really lovely to see the extremely talented Tennis Europe 11 year-old become the extremely talented ITF juniors player.....

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 Can she already play J1/J2 tournaments? 

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 She's pretty high profile, globally, so - if her ranking's not quite good enough - there's a very good chance she'll get a wildcard into any J1 or J2 tournament she wants (she got a wildcard into Les Petits As.....)

She'll obviously get one into UK events

But the question is how many of these events she wants to play, when and where. Roehampton as a pre-Wimbly juniors seems very likely. 

But her team is very 'individual', very much round her, and I guess they'll obviously have been thinking a lot about her programme this year, and probably had different versions, depending how well she did in the J3s. 

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 One constraint is that Hannah can only play a maximum of 10 ITF Junior tournaments before her 14th birthday (increased to 14 if she reaches the top 50)

Coup Droit wrote:

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Tx, David.

So with two already, and Roehampton and Junior Wimbledon very likely (don't you think?), that leaves 6 before next Feb 2023?

Which she doesn't have to cram full - she's obviously got nationals, and will play Les Petits As again, and Orange Bowl presumably, so it's not like it's ITF or nothing.

Any idea what she'd be targeting, David?

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 I don't have any inside information, but there may be a problem with Roehampton / Wimbledon.  Roehampton clashes with the European qualifying for the World Juniors U14 finals.  There have been instances where top under 14s have  played Wimbledon instead of the U14 team event but the ones I remember were either DAs (Laura Robson), were during a year when we pulled out of team competition (Mingge Xu/Hephzibah Oluwadare) or were in their final under 14 year and had already played for the GBR U14 team (Eleanor Dean, Holly Fischer).  As Hannah hasn't had an opportunity yet, she may be happy to play in the World Juniors.  If she isn't then she has the opportunity to force the issue by winning wildcard(s) at the Nationals.

The LTA might prefer to put her in the under 16s in qualifying for the Billie Jean King Cup in late July/early August.  However that would mean at least one of Isabelle Lacy, Hephzibah Oluwadare and Mingge Xu missing out - who have been short of opportunities above under 12 level.