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9vicman · Futures qualifying

RE: Boys & Girls: 2025 French Open, clay (Week 23)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Oliver Bonding and Jagger came VERY close bu ended up losing their SF in the MTB, 7-10

DavidC · Tennis legend

Brilliant to have a junior in a grand slam final for the third consecutive year - all on different surfaces. The ITF article featuring interviews with Lilli and Hannah after today's matches is here Tomorrow Lilli and Hannah open proceedings on court Simonne-Mathieu at 11am BST. The German girls CD refers to are the ones who beat Emerson & Hannah in round 1

Girls SF

Lilli Tagger (AUT) d. (1) Emerson Jones (AUS) 6-4 7-6(5)
(8) Hannah Klugman d. Rositsa Dencheva (BUL) 1-6 6-3 6-3

F

Lilli Tagger (AUT) v (8) Hannah Klugman

Boys F

Niels McDonald (GER) v Max Schoenhaus (GER)

Doubles SF

(7) Johnston/Willwerth (USA) d. (8) Bonding/Leach (GBR/USA) 6-4 2-6 [10-7]

paulisi · Tennis legend

It gets you more junior exemptions on the junior accelerator programme.

2024 JUNIOR ACCELERATOR PROGRAMME
Junior Accelerator Programme (Girls)
Junior Accelerator positions(AP) are available in the Singles Main Draw of Womens ITF World Tennis
Tour tournaments. These positions are allocated to the Top 20-ranked junior players that receive an
ITF year-end junior ranking in 2023. An eligible player shall be entitled to use their AP allocation to
gain direct entry to the Main Draw of the applicable tournament where they would not otherwise
gain entry on the basis of their WTA / ITF World Tennis / National ranking. The ITF allocates only 1
AP position per tournament.
Junior Accelerator positions will be allocated according to the following criteria:
2023 year-end ITF
Junior Ranking
Number of ITF World Tennis Tour Tournaments
1 Three (3) Tournament up to and including W100
Two (2) Tournaments up to and including W75
2 Two (2) Tournaments up to and including W100
Three (3) Tournaments up to and including W75
3 One (1) Tournaments up to and including W100
Two (2) Tournaments up to and including W75
Two (2) Tournaments up to and including W50
4-5 Two (2) Tournaments up to and including W75
Three (3) Tournaments up to and including W50
6-10 Two (2) Tournaments up to and including W50
Three (3) Tournaments up to and including W35
11-20 One (1) Tournament up to and including W50
Four (4) Tournaments up to and including W35

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Tx

So she's got to be there on Dec 31st 2025?

Allez, Hannah ! (and Mika ! and anyone else !)

Of course, it's more useful to the players from countries that don't host major events as the others will get lots of wildcard opportunities at high level

Hannah says she's going to spend the next week adjusting to grass

And then her grass court season will kick off too (as before, Nottingham is the most likely, she says)

Re Junior Wimbly, as she's going up to #3 guaranteed, from what I understand, and as Wakana Sonobe has withdrawn, that means Hannah should be #2 seed at Junior Wimbly (assuming Emerson plays - and #1 if she doesn't)

Which is some mark to have on your back !

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

If I understand correctly, a key thing for Hannah in the year to come will be the number of adult tournaments she can participate in - which is not the same as the Junior Accelerator Programme, as those are like wildcards but count towards the total

The basic for a 16 year-old is 12.

As a Grand Slam finalist, she's now guaranteed one extra event i.e. 13

But if she finishes in the top-5, she gets bumped up to the max number i.e. 16 (you can't then keep your extra one i.e. 17 because 16 is max for everyone)

So, she's already got an uptick but needs the top-5 place in particular - although, of course, she's soon 17 after that, so it's just a question of extra adult tournaments in that time period, in Australia, say.

By making a Grand Slam final, she also gets an extra wildcard WTA/ITF allowance i.e. it's normally 4 and now goes up to 5

That's if I understand it correctly

simon381 · Lower Club Player

The final is due to be played in Simonne-Mathieu. I dont think this stadium has a roof and the forecast is for quite a lot of rain. So I would expect a delay, or maybe they will play on one of the two other courts. Would be good on Phillipe Chatrier before the Ladies final but I doubt they will give that honour to them.

Var · Satellite level

Come on Hannah. Tough opponent but bring it home!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

simon381 wrote:
The final is due to be played in Simonne-Mathieu. I dont think this stadium has a roof and the forecast is for quite a lot of rain. So I would expect a delay, or maybe they will play on one of the two other courts. Would be good on Phillipe Chatrier before the Ladies final but I doubt they will give that honour to them.

Yes, they've only got three junior matches programmed for the Simonne-Mathieu and the weather is due to dry up in the afternoon so it will be no problem for them to wait until mid-afternoon to start the three matches and they'll get finished

It's not getting moved to Chatrier (IMO)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Just to point out that one of the German lads in the final was born in Cardiff, with a Scottish dad, and has GB nationality (as well as German)

Wonder if the LTA have been in touch with him ???

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Just to point out that one of the German lads in the final was born in Cardiff, with a Scottish dad, and has GB nationality (as well as German)

Wonder if the LTA have been in touch with him ???

Would that be McDonald or Schopenhaus, then? biggrin

wimbledont · Lower Club Player

and they're off...

the addict · Tennis legend

High quality match in front of a good crowd.

Jan · Hall of fame

Such a shame the BBC couldn't bring at least some commentary on this match.

the addict · Tennis legend

Jan wrote:
Such a shame the BBC couldn't bring at least some commentary on this match.

TNT aren't showing it either, but good coverage on Discovery+ with commentary.