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The season of age related European Summer Cups gets underway tomorrow with qualifying for the under 14s  Other age groups have qualifying in a month's time, but the under 14s have to be earlier, because of preparation for the World Juniors in August.  The British team (Liam Sharkey, Oskar Laskowski and Max Hodkinson) is top seeded in their qualifying group in Valencia, and take on Ireland tomorrow. They are in a strong qualifying group, but benefit from having the two other teams with top 10 ranked players (Span and Portugal) in the opposite half of the draw. Two teams from each qualifying group reach the European finals.



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A very comfortable win over Ireland for the under 14s with 6 bakery product sets (Oskar and Liam playing singles), meaning they play Estonia tomorrow, with the winner qualifying for the European final

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By contrast to the girls the under 14 boys have breezed into the European final. Estonia were crushed 3-0 dropping just 9 games over the 3 matches (Liam and Oskar again playing the singles). Tomorrow they take on Portugal, one of the two other nations with a top 10 ranked player, for seeding rights.

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A smooth 3-0 victory over Portugal highlighted by Liam beating the TE4 6-3 6-1 means that our under 14s will be seeded for the final, also in Valencia, starting Monday

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The under 14 boys are seeded 2 behind Switzerland, who include the player who tops the Tennis Europe rankings currently (Richard Mitchell). They take on Poland in the quarter-finals, with a place in the European Cup semis and a spot at the World Juniors on offer to the winners.

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Wins for the 4 seeded nations, though Liam was pushed by the Polish number 1, so we will be represented in Czechia at the World Juniors

U14 QF

(2) GBR 3 Poland 0

Oskar Laskowski d. Maciez Szyca 6-0 6-1
Liam Sharkey d. Antonio Tejerina 3-6 6-1 7-5
Hodinson/Laskowski d. Tejerina/Zieba 4-2 4-2

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(4) France v (2) GBR


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For only the third time the British team are through to the under 14 European Summer Cup final. Eric Lorimer, Niall Pickerd-Barua and Scott Watson finished as runners-up 2 years ago, whilst the 1999 squad won. The final should feature a head to head between the TE3 (Liam) and TE2 (Martin Adamca)

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(2) GBR 3 (4) France 0

Oskar Laskowski d. Tristan Ducros 6-4 6-1
Liam Sharkey d. Romeo Knoll Mintsa-Eya 6-2 6-4
Hodkinson/Laskowski d. Ducrosw/Vildeuil 4-2 1-4 [10-2]

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(3) Slovakia v (2) GBR




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For only the second time Great Britain win the under 14 boys Summer Cup. Both Oskar and Liam had to come from behind, with the former saving a matchpoint. There is an Instagram reel of interviews with both plus team captain Richard Plews

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(2) GBR 2 (3) Slovakia 0

Oskar Laskowski d. Max Kimak 1-6 7-6(2) 6-3
Liam Sharkey d. Martin Adamca 4-6 6-4 6-4



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Attention turns to qualifying for the under 12s. They are in a round robin group with Denmark, Austria and Ireland. Today they brushed aside Denmark 3-0 thanks to comfortable singles wins for Conrad Goh and Philip Neuez. Philip teamed up with Louis Taylor to claim the doubles.

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Another 3-0 win over Ireland (singles wins for Philip and Louis) meaning that their match against Austria tomorrow decides who finishes first and second in their group (Austria also have 2 wins) - before the decisive 1v2 qualification play-off matches on Sunday

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The final round robin ended Austria 2 GBR 1 (Louis winning his singles) so the team finish second in their round robin and will have to beat the top team in the other group Poland tomorrow to qualify for the finals



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The under 12s miss out on the finals after a 2-1 loss to Poland. Louis won his singles, but Philip was well beaten and the pair lost the decisive doubles 6-2 6-1

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