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As the qualifying draws are up for the U16 Juniors Nationals, I thought it worth putting up a thread - I hope that is ok, DavidC or anyone else, please feel free to delete later!

The U16 event runs from Saturday 5th April (qualies start) to 11th April. Main draw starts 7th April

Qualies is a 32 draw, 8 get through to join the 24 in the main draw for singles. Doubles will be 16 pair fields.

 

Boys qualies - https://competitions.lta.org.uk/tournament/F8031BC3-026A-4875-AE3E-AB9837918D6C/draw/7 

Girls qualies - https://competitions.lta.org.uk/tournament/F8031BC3-026A-4875-AE3E-AB9837918D6C/draw/8

The under 18 event starts later on 12th April for qualies and the main draw commences 14th April, with a final on the 18th April

https://www.lta.org.uk/48eb45/siteassets/compete/junior/file/16u-and-18u-nationals-players-pack-2025.pdf

Note - as we are in week 14 now and qualies starts this weekend, I have put this as weeks 15 and 16, hope that is correct. 

 

 

 

 





-- Edited by JonH comes home on Saturday 12th of April 2025 04:46:52 PM

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Always interesting to see who gets the wildcards - usually the younger players, to let them lay up, especially in the 16U which doesn't overlap with the 14U

And here in the girls, we've got real youngsters. Quali wildcards have gone to:

Radostina Shopova - 2010
Sevil Parviz - 2010
Tanishka Naveen - 2011
Dasha Jones - 2012

In the boys there are no wildcards - no youngsters worth promoting?



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Thanks for the information - looking forward to this.

Just out of interest, do other countries have their own National Champs?

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Oscariyan wrote:

Thanks for the information - looking forward to this.

Just out of interest, do other countries have their own National Champs?

 France does, not sure about others

Generally, it's very important for the younger categories but the 18U, for instance, doesn't usually have the best players in it - they're supposed to have moved up by that point and also it usually clashes with the US Open so the older ones are over there 

NB In France, you HAVE to play your own category, and only that category - no doubling up



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Oscariyan wrote:

Thanks for the information - looking forward to this.

Just out of interest, do other countries have their own National Champs?

 France does, not sure about others

Generally, it's very important for the younger categories but the 18U, for instance, doesn't usually have the best players in it - they're supposed to have moved up by that point and also it usually clashes with the US Open so the older ones are over there 

NB In France, you HAVE to play your own category, and only that category - no doubling up

 That's interesting, I am glad we are copying something from France then because they seem to have a very good youth system. We should also be looking at Italy's system because they are doing exceptionally well too (especially the boys side). I am sure we could learn a thing or two. 



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Oscariyan wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Oscariyan wrote:

Thanks for the information - looking forward to this.

Just out of interest, do other countries have their own National Champs?

 France does, not sure about others

Generally, it's very important for the younger categories but the 18U, for instance, doesn't usually have the best players in it - they're supposed to have moved up by that point and also it usually clashes with the US Open so the older ones are over there 

NB In France, you HAVE to play your own category, and only that category - no doubling up

 That's interesting, I am glad we are copying something from France then because they seem to have a very good youth system. We should also be looking at Italy's system because they are doing exceptionally well too (especially the boys side). I am sure we could learn a thing or two. 

 The boys side looks good in France; but the girls side is just dire at the moment 

I do think it's better in terms of having a lot of kids play, easy and cheaper to play, good for kids to do sport etc etc 

But in terms of producing top girls, there's a big problem - I have my own pet theories about some of the problems but some of them are rather personal to certain bigwigs and best not printed here ...



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JonH comes home wrote:

As the qualifying draws are up for the U16 Juniors Nationals, I thought it worth putting up a thread - I hope that is ok, DavidC or anyone else, please feel free to delete later!

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Note - as we are in week 14 now and qualies starts this weekend, I have put this as weeks 15 and 16, hope that is correct.

 All fine Jon - thanks for starting.  I have made the links clickable.



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Is this being broadcast live on YouTube again?

The lta have been very absent with live streaming this year so far unless Ive missed something?

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Mervatron2 wrote:

Is this being broadcast live on YouTube again?

The lta have been very absent with live streaming this year so far unless Ive missed something?

 I do hope it's being streamed !!!!

The problem for the LTA with most of their other livestreaming is that they're now not allowed to livestream events on Youtube - the ITF deal with the new livescore and livestream provider forbids it

Which would be OK if the new provider actually provided what they're supposed to provide but .....

 



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The quali matches have kicked off

And there is indeed live streams :) :) :)

e.g.

www.youtube.com/watch

Unfortunately, the scores and names of the players is wrong - but seemingly you can't have everything ......

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Boys

QR1 wins for Nolte, Aminu, Kali, Low, Hedge, Strack, Joita, McKay, Selvaraasan ....

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For the people who follow the girls, there's an interesting match between two of our best 2010s

Daisy Wootton slaps at the ball too much for my liking, has some technical problems on her serve and isn't always in position. But sometimes gets a good strike in.

Radostina Shopova has a far more attractive, classisally good game - a nice serve, gets power from her legs, better footwork

2011-born Milica Milojevic is very young, and still a 'little girl' in body shape, and lacks power through her shots, but she's nippy, and nicely balanced

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Impressed by what I've seen of April Sackflame

Only born in 2012 (!!!) so VERY young for this event

A tall, slender girl, but moves well, nice technique - for her age, there's a whole lot to like there

(and I know Rose rates her )



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 7th of April 2025 12:13:59 PM

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Daisy Wootton relaxed a little after she won a very tight first set, played a bit better, hit through her shots better, and it got into Radostina's head

All in all, a nice match - good quality from both

AND - a huge well done, girls - it was VERY fairplay - very windy, and quite a lot of balls that less 'ethical' girls might have called out, but the two of them even gave the benefit of the doubt to the other - it was very nice to see



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There's another round of qualis to go

But the main draws have come out already

Girls:

Top seeds: Hollie Smart, Ophelia K Davies, Megan Knight, Daniella Britton

Wildcards: Liv Zingg, Annabel Wong, Rosie Cho


Boys:

Top seeds: Rhys Lawlor, Scott Watson, Eric Lorimer, Niall Pickerd-Barua



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