philwrig wrote:

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I'll go for an alternative interpretation. Knowing the importance of playing matches and training on clay for a junior, it's quite possible that instead of playing a couple of senior tournaments on clay where her inexperience on the surface may lead to a couple of 1st round losses, play at this level where she can guarantee winning matches/ get experience on this surface and get ideal prep for RG juniors. I don't get the impression that her priorities are juniors anymore except for the grand slams. I'll be surprised if she continues to play juniors after the US open.

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Yes, I tend to think it's more just a pragmatic choice in her development, bearing in mind also what wimdledont says about the limitation as to how many senior tournaments Katie yet play. All in all there seems quite a lot of sense in playing clay events as a junior, no doubt getting in more clay experience and saving up other later events as a senior. 

I doubt that leading factors have been concern about her junior ranking ( more actually save her better surfaces to help her senior ranking ) or the possible junior exempts that come with certain rankings although of course she'll no doubt do her best in the junior tournaments that she plays and take what comes with any successes.

christ wrote:

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Ms Swan also has to bear in mind that she has to get to WR 275 to make my prediction come true, so I assume that her tournament selection will be made with this as a primary objective.

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