Junior Watch: British tennis players – 12th July

Who's in?

Find out which juniors have reached the latter stages of junior ITF and Tennis Europe events around the world.

Pete Ashley, Jonny O'Mara, Elly Dean (ITF Grade 1 Germany - Singles & Doubles), Evan Hoyt, Tom Hill (ITF Grade 1 Morocco – Singles & Doubles), India Sanders (ITF Grade 4 Estonia - Doubles), Christopher Reynolds, Alannah Griffin, Freya Christie (ITF Grade 5 Greece - Singles & Doubles), Jazzi Plews (ITF Grade 4 Netherlands - Singles & Doubles), Brandon Micah Walkin, Megan Rogers (ITF Grade 4 Australia - Singles & Doubles), Robbie Ridout (ITF Grade 4 Czech Republic - Singles & Doubles), Joel Cannell, Katie Boulter (ITF Grade 4 Belgium – Doubles), Michael Mhangami (Tennis Europe 12U Category 3 Bulgaria – Doubles)

A number of British players at ITF Grade 5 & Tennis Europe 14U Category 3 - AEGON Junior International Edinburgh  

Getting to know

14&U Summer Cups

The Great Britain 14U girls team of Maia Lumsden, Jazzi Plews and Gabriella Taylor scored the first ever win for GB in this category of the Tennis Europe Summer Cups, beating Germany 2-0 in the final.

The win marks the first time since 1979 that a British girls’ team has won a Summer Cups title, and is the first win in this age category.  

The final was a one-sided affair, with Plews conceding just three games in the opening rubber against Katharina Gerlach before Lumsden gave the team an unassailable 2-0 lead with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Lena Rueffer.  

In the boys 14U competition GB finished third, having lost out to in their semi-final to Germany but beating Switzerland 2-1 in the third/fourth place play-off.

The Summer Cups also serve as the European qualifying competition for the ITF World Junior Tennis tournament and both the GB 14U boys and girls teams have qualified. The world’s team event for 14Us takes place in Prostejov in August.

What else is new?

AEGON Junior International Edinburgh

The ITF and Tennis Europe events happening in Edinburgh have reached the quarter-final stages in the singles & doubles events.

View the ITF 18U draws

View the Tennis Europe 14U draws

One more thing

The AEGON 12U County Cup Finals are taking place at Bolton Arena on Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 July.

The 12U CC Event is held in 2 stages – the first stage being the qualifying event and the second stage the finals.

For the qualifying event, the 44 counties were placed in 4 groups of 6 counties and 4 groups of 5 counties per gender. These groups were in no particular order and they competed over the weekend of Saturday 30 June & Sunday 1 July to find a winning team from each group. 

The winning teams from each venue then progressed to the finals where the 8 teams per gender will compete to be County Champions. 

The match format will be played as a compass draw with each match comprising of 3 singles and 1 doubles.

Finals of AEGON 12U County Cup to take place at Bolton Arena

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