Lexus Junior National Championships 2024: 18U preview, draws, scores, results & live stream
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The best young talents in British tennis are set to battle it out at the National Tennis Centre for one of the biggest junior titles in the game – the 18U Lexus Junior National Championships.
With major trophies and Wimbledon wild cards on the line, the next generation of British stars will compete for the title of national champion.
The tournament has a girls’ and boys’ singles and doubles draw – all played as a straight knock-out.
Last year, Surrey's Isabelle Lacy and Warwickshire's Luca Pow were crowned champions in Roehampton.
Watch live
Live streams of the main draw at the Lexus Junior National Championships will be available here.
Key dates
Saturday 6 – Sunday 7 April: Qualifying draws
Monday 8 – Friday 12 April: Main draws
Lexus Junior National Championships draws
All the draws for the 18U Lexus Junior National Championships will be available below:
Player lists
Check out all the players competing in the 18U Lexus Junior National Championships:
Preview
The 2024 18U Lexus Junior National Championships is set to feature a blockbuster line-up of young British talent – including nine players ranked inside the ITF junior world top 100.
Reigning champion Lacy will return to defend her title at the National Tennis Centre this year. The 17-year-old has featured regularly on the pro tour over the last year having reached the quarter-finals of the Lexus Surbiton Trophy in 2023.
She’ll be joined by last year’s runner-up and current world No.6 Hannah Klugman. Supported by our Pro Scholarship Programme presented by Lexus, Klugman won the coveted Orange Bowl title last year made the US Open quarter-finals and was crowned as the 16U Junior Nationals champion.
She was also part of the Junior Billie Jean King Cup team that finished third in the 2023 Finals alongside Mimi Xu. 16-year-old Xu – who is supported by the Pro Scholarship Programme presented by Lexus – is a former 16U and 18U champion back in 2022 and has continued to rise up the rankings to world No.11. Xu won two junior singles titles last year at the J300 Beijing and J300 Repentigny and was a quarter-finalist at this year’s Australian Open.
They will be joined by Mika Stojsavljevic – who this year made the W50 Roehampton quarter-final – as well as Hephzibah Oluwadare and Gabia Paskauskas in a stacked girls’ singles draw.
Oliver Bonding comes in as the top-ranked player in the boys’ singles. The 16-year-old recently made history as the first British Boy to win the J500 Blumenau title – also known as the Banana Bowl – since 2010. Last year, Bonding finished runner-up in both the 16U and 18U singles events.
Last year’s 16U boys’ singles champion Ben Gusic Wan will also come in as one of the favourites, having recently featured in the final and semi-final in back-to-back junior events in Nonthaburi.
Viktor Frydrych is be one to watch after the 18-year-old recently finished runner-up in the boys’ doubles event at the Australian Open.
Charlie Robertson will come in as one of the top seeds as well, off the back of a season where he won three ITF junior singles titles in Glasgow, Trnava and Santo Domingo.
Wild card opportunities
The winners and runners-up at the Lexus Junior National Championships will receive wild card opportunities for events later in the season:
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18U Girls’ singles winner |
Wild card for Wimbledon Championships – Qualifying Wild card for Wimbledon Junior Championships – Main draw Wild card for 1 x ITF W35 event (April/May 2024) – Main draw Wild card for ITF W100 Ilkley (June 2024) – Main draw Wild card for ITF J300 Roehampton – Main draw |
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18U Boys’ singles winner
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Wild card for Wimbledon Championships – Qualifying Wild card for Wimbledon Junior Championships – Main draw Wild card into 1 x ITF M25 events (April/May 2024) – Main draw Wild card into 1 x ITF M25 events (April/May 2024) – Qualifying Wild card for ITF J300 Roehampton – Main draw |
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18U Girls’ singles finalist |
Wild card for Wimbledon Junior Championships – Main draw Wild card for 1 x ITF W35 event (April/May 2024) – Main draw Wild card for ITF W100 Ilkley (June 2024) – Qualifying Wild card for ITF J300 Roehampton – Main draw |
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18U Boys’ singles finalist
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Wild card for Wimbledon Junior Championships – Main draw Wild card for 1 x ITF M25 event (April/May 2024) – Qualifying Wild card for ITF J300 Roehampton – Main draw |
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18U Girls & boys’ doubles winners |
Wild card for Wimbledon Junior Championships – Main draw |
