Top 10 Juniors

12 & UNDER

1 Peter Ashley - Yorkshire
2 Joshua Sapwell - Bedfordshire
3 Marc Huttman - Middlesex
4 Isaac Stoute - Kent
5 Julian Cash - Sussex
6 Yosuke Higashi - Middlesex
7 Shakeel Manji - Northamptonshire
8 Adam Glynn - Dorset
9 Jamie Malik - Warwickshire
10 Benjamin Hodes - Middlesex

14 & UNDER

1 Liam Broady - Lancashire
2 Luke Bambridge - Nottinghamshire
3 Conor Bunting - Lancashire
4 Lucas Poelman - Surrey
5 Jathan Malik - Warwickshire
6 Jonathan Cornish - Essex
7 Christopher Pearce - Buckinghamshire
8 Samuel Hutt - Wiltshire
9 Joshua Ward-Hibbert - Nottinghamshire
10 Jamie Duncan - Nottinghamshire

16 & UNDER

1 George Morgan - Lancashire
2 Oliver Golding - Middlesex
3 Marc Westgate - Leicestershire
4 Gavin Davison - Yorkshire
5 Ashley Hewitt - Devon
6 Andrew Bettles - Somerset
7 Elliot Barnwell - Warwickshire
8 Michael Watkins - Oxfordshire
9 Scott Whitbread - Nottinghamshire
10 Richard Gabb - Somerset

Top Ten British Junior ITF World Singles Rankings

1 Marcus Willis 19
2 Daniel Cox 49
3 Daniel Evans 50
4 Niall Angus 60
5 Neil Pauffley 71
6 Daniel Smethurst 73
7 Michale Thompson 78
8 Thomas Knights 94
9 Mathew James 97
10 Michael Davis 117

When it comes to senior rankings, Lancashire born Dan Smethhurst, 17, is out of sight at 1156 but if you ask any top junior, he’s right on the map after his sensational run to the final of the ITF Grade 1 junior event at Roehampton a week before Wimbledon. The 18 and under event, which was being played on the Bank of England Sports Ground grass courts, attracted a world class field of players from which Dan just missed out, losing 7-5, 6-2 to the unseeded French boy, Gillaume Rufin in the final. “It’s great to see Dan’s hard work pay off,” said Paul Annacone, Head Coach of Men’s Tennis at the LTA. “He’s worked really hard this year and improved tremendously.” That work began to bear fruit, according to Annacone just a few weeks earlier at the French Open junior event on clay, where Dan battled his way past Australian Matt Reid in three pulsating sets, 4-6, 7-6, 6-0 before going down to second seeded Mexican, Cesar Ramirez, 7-5 in the third. “His first realisation that he can play at this level came at the Junior French Open and he has learnt a lot from that experience,” commented Annacone. “He now believes he can compete at this level week in week out.” Dan’s achievement in reaching the final was all the more notable as he had to battle through the qualifying event even to make it to the main draw. Dan will need more victories like that to improve upon his ITF junior ranking of 73, but this run of results over the summer will certainly boost his confidence.

GIRLS

12 & UNDER

1 Katie Boulter- Leicestershire
2 Grace Dixon - Northumberland
3 Alice Keddie - Scotland North
4 Harriet Dart- Middlesex
5 Jennifer Brown - Essex
6 Freya Christie - Nottinghamshire
7 Anouska Newman- Kent
8 Jemma Buckler - Hampshire & Isle of Wight
9 Gabrielle Paul - Kent
10 Natalie Sayer- Hampshire & Isle of Wight

14 & UNDER

1 Joanna Henderson - Scotland North
2 Jessica Ren - Yorkshire
3 Caitlin Hindmarsh- Durham & Cleveland
4 Dominique Crompton - Cheshire
5 Laura Robson - Middlesex
6 Emma Devine - Scotland East
7 Safiyyah Azeez - Wales South
8 Morven Mcculloch - Scotland North
9 Anisha Rahman - Yorkshire
10 Rona Berisha - Middlesex

16 & UNDER

1 Alexandra Walker - Northumberland
2 Jessica Ren - Yorkshire
3 Hannah Martin-Merchant - Bedfordshire
4 Nicole Peterson - Yorkshire
5 Manisha Chowdhury - Middlesex
6 Lucy Brown - Oxfordshire
7 Heather Watson - Channel Islands
8 Roisin Mullins - Derbyshire
9 Taro Keens - Hampshire & Isle of Wight
10 Ruth Seaborne - Surrey

Top Ten British Junior ITF World Singles Rankings

1 Jade Curtis 29
2 Laura Robson 59
3 Tara Moore 117
4 Victoria Brook 155
5 Lisa Whybourn 184
6 Hannah James 190
7 Lereesa Easterbrook 197
8 Jennifer Ren 220
9 Heather Watson 227
10 Laura Slater 234