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STICKY:
2026 Rankings
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It's always a huge deal for the juniors when last year's oldest lot drop out and everyone makes a huge jump up the rankings I've put the top-1000 GB boys here, as a ref point for the rest of the year I've just put their absolute rankings - suffice to say they've all gone up a lot, about 200 places for the bett...
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Juniors playing professional senior tennis
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With Jack Draper 16 (JCH 38) playing in Egypt and Jake Hersey 17 (JCH 143) both playing this week and Emma Radacanu 15 (JCH 45) doing so well last week, there seemed some value in a pooled thread just to bring things together. There is quite a deep cohort of juniors moving into transition. Such a thread m...
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Junior Rankings - Grade events
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OK. This is a rare foray for me into the Junior section as I don't really start to follow players until they start to hit the futures circuit. But having played tennis in La Manga this week and come a cross some talented GB juniors who were talking about their ranking and the level of events that they had p...
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Forum Code of Conduct
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Code of Conduct can be found HERE
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Boys & Girls: 2026 Australian Open, hard (Week 4)
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Mark Ceban and Hollie Smart are our direct acceptances this year for the main draw. Rosie Cho is in the qualifying draw, which starts tonight with live scores available here Girls QR1 (q6) Rira Kosaka (JPN) v Rosie Cho
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Other events, 2026 - week 3
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J100 UAE Sophie Bekker has won two rounds and is into the QFs J60 Austria Scott Watson and Niall Pickerd-Barua both won in R1 and are into R2 As is Grace Watson But Milica Milojevic lost in R1 to the 4th seed J60 Hong Kong Millie Ryder got a win before losing in R2 Charlotte Perks lost in a third-set TB ...
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Boys & Girls: J300 San Jose, Costa Rica, indoor hard (Week 3)
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This is the 61st time the Costa Rican Coffee Bowl tournament has taken place. Rhys Lawlor is rewarded for his good start to the season with a seeding, while Daniella Britton came through qualifying Boys R1 (L32) William Moxon v Xavier Augustin (USA) (8) Rhys Lawlor v Angel Veliz (ECU) Girls R1 (L32)...
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Girls: J200 Marsa, Tunisia, clay (Week 3)
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Alisha Ndukwu is the only Brit left for the second Tunisian J200 R1 (L32) Alisha Ndukwu v Vega Aguilar Ferrandez (ESP)
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Boys & Girls: Tennis Europe U14 Category 1 Junior International, Bolton, indoor acrylic (week 3)
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This curtain raiser for the under 14 season takes place a week before Les Petits As, attracting a strong field.. In total there are 15 British boys and 17 girls in the main draw. British seeds are Oskar Laskowski (9), Frederick Fabricius (12) in the boys and Dasha Jones (5), Ginny Chen (10), Isabella...
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Boys & Girls: J200 Kolkata, India, hard (Week 3)
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Ophelia K D is joined by her sister Hermione for the second Indian J200. All 3 Brits here have drawn wildcards or lucky losers. Boys R1 (L32) Kasra Nathaniel Shirazi v (WC) Hruthik Katakam (IND) Girls R1 (L32) (LL) Reet Jhawar (IND) v Hermione Korpanec Davies (WC) Ananya Jain (IND) v (2) Ophelia Korpa...
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Boys & Girls: J300 Traralgon, Australia, hard (Week 3)
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Both our acceptances for the Australian Open main draw are taking part in the traditional warm-up event. Rosie Cho lost out in qualifying. Mark Ceban has drawn the second seeded Brazilian who ended Oli Bonding's run at the US Open. Hollie Smart is first up on Show Court 1 at 10pm tonight GMT, with li...
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Other events 2026 - week 2
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J100 UAE Ollie Knight lost in R1 but into the SFs in doubles J60 Serbia Bella Relton won R1, then beat the girl who beat the top seed, to make the QFs in singles Also in the QFs in dubs, wuth Serbian playing partner J30 Singapore Ryan Szeto (age 14) got a win and a loss As did (q) Calista Lau (age 14) - her fir...
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Girls: J200 Hammamet, Tunisia, clay (Week 2)
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Megan Knight starts her 2026 campaign as third seed here R1 (L32) (3) Megan Knight v (WC) Bicene Benzaied (TUN) Alisha Ndukwu v (2) Veronika Sekerkova (CZE)
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Girls: J200 Gurugram, India, hard (Week 2)
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The second Indian tournament drops down to a J200, but Ophelia K D faces a tough match against a former Orange Bowl under 12 winner R1 (L32) (6) Ophelia Korpanec Davies v (Q) Daniel Baranes (FRA)
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Other events 2026 - week 1 (A)
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I see that in adults we're calling it week 53 But in juniors, it is definitely week 1 this week - and it matters as the age restrictions that apply are the 2026 ones But the juniors and adults should be in synch so maybe we'll go for Week 1 (A) and Week 1 (B) or something like that - I'll amend it later if that se...
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Other events, 2026 - week 1 (B)
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As per the other thread, technically last week was week 1 for juniors (and indeed adults?) And had to be labeled as such because of the year-of-entry requirements being 2026 rules But the forum in general has this week as week 1 - which does seem more intuitive, tbh So I'm putting this week as 'week 1 (B)...
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Boys & Girls: J200 Kosice, Slovakia, indoor hard (Week 1B)
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This is the 33rd time this event has taken place, and as usual it is the first high tariff European junior ITF of the year Boys R1 (L48) (9) Rhys Lawlor bye Mark Becirovic Novak (SLO) v Kasra Nathaniel Shirazi Girls R1 (L48) (14) Edie Griffiths bye (11) Daniella Britton bye
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Girls: J300 New Delhi, India, hard (Week 1B)
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The first J300 of the year sees Ophelia Korpanec Davies seeded and claiming a win today. She teams up with singles top seed Kali Supova in doubles R1 (L32) (8) Ophelia Korpanec Davies d. Jannat Chiripal (IND) 6-2 6-3 R2 Kseniia Akhrameeva (***) v (8) Ophelia Korpanec Davies
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Girls: J500 Fort Lauderdale, USA, clay (Week 50)
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The Orange Bowl is the final J500 event of the year. Allegra Korpanec Davies and Hollie Smart should be in the main draw, out tonight. Ophelia Korpanec Davies and Athina Schlepphorst lost in qualifying. There is also an under 16 event, and Clarice Ouvarova is seeded in that. Most of the entry is Ame...
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2025 Rankings
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It's that time when all the 'old' juniors drop out and we get our first full list of rankings 2007-born players are the oldest allowed in 2025 juniors Three top-20 girls is not much different from last year; but we now have 7 in the top-100, which is very healthy. 2025 6th Jan 2025 - The Top 500 GIRLS 5...
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Girls: 2025 Junior Billie Jean King Cup finals, Santiago, Chile, clay (Week 45)
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The draw should be out this evening for the Junior Billie Jean King Cup finals. The British team of Megan Knight, Hollie Smart and Edie Griffiths will be hoping to make the top two in their round robin group to progress to the quarter-finals. Top seeds are likely to be the USA with julieta Pareja and th...
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Girls: J300 Bradenton, USA, clay (Week 49)
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Just Hollie Smart as a British representative in the final J300 of the year. She takes on a qualifier with the 3rd seed already through to play the winner in round 2 - the 15th seed, who reached the semis in Merida is in the same section R1 (L64) (Q) Armira Kockinis (USA) v Hollie Smart
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Other events, 2025 - week 50
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J100 Latvia Billy Moxon and Alisha Ndukwu both got R1 wins Emilija Lebedevaite lost J60 Bahrain Klara Sehnalova and Julia Reynolds lost in R1 Alice Haddad won in a thrid-set TB J30 Reunion Murray Watters and Theo Kraytchev both lost in R1
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Other events, 2025 - week 49
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J100 Latvia EmilijaLebedevaite lost in R1 Alisha Ndukwu lost in R2 J60 Togo OmoyinkaAyinla got a BYE and then lost in her first match Grace Chinwike bot a BYE and won her first match and is into the QFs J60 China Judy Zhang lost in R1 J30 Zimbabwe Matt Kiernan lost in R2 Maddie Turnbull lost in R1 J3...
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Boys & Girls: J100 Loughborough, GB - indoor hard (Week 49)
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An interesting event, this one, especially for the girls GIRLS Gace Watson and April Sackflame have both got SEs into the main draw here - but Milica hasn't (she has a wildcard) which doesn't make sense (to me) April and Grace both lost in the SF in singles (and neither did well in doubles) at Stirling s...
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