European Youth Championships – Singles Draw Released

The Singles Draw has been released with the qualifying matches beginning on Wednesday, other than Ashley Givan who got straight into Round 1 and will play on Thursday.

Junior Girls

Ashley GIVAN (ER: 162) is playing England’s Maria TSAPTSINOS (ER:157) in the First Round.

Hannah LYNCH-DAWSON (ER: 274) will play Simona HORVATHOVA (ER:272) from Slovakia in the qualification round, waiting in Round 1 is Tilda JOHANSSON (ER:88) from Sweden.

Emma Ludlow has drawn Margaryta PRUDIUS (ER: 200) of Ukraine in the qualification round and for the winner Switzerland’s Amanda FAUVEL (ER: 131) is waiting in Round 1.

Cadet Boys

Zak WILSON will face Greece’s Ioannis SGOUROPOULOS (ER: 211) in the qualification round with Aljaz SMALJCELJ of Slovenia (ER: 77) in Round 1 for the winner.

Alexander GILLEN has been drawn against Yaser RAZOUK of Scotland in the qualification round, they played in the team event, Alex was defeated 3-2 (9-11, 15-17, 11-5, 11-7, 7-11) so he will be keen to get some revenge and turn the result around. Maxim KISELEV of Russia will play the winner in Round 1. KISELEV is the third seed and ranked 3 in Europe and 20 in the World.

Owen CATHCART will be playing Magnus Johann HJARTARSON from Iceland, for the winner Ilia KANUNNIKOV of the Ukraine (ER: 55).

Cadet Girls

In the qualification round Katie MCGLONE will play Mihaela DIMOVA of Bulgaria and Emily Bolton (ER: 106) of England has been drawn to play the winner in Round 1.

Chloe O’HALLORAN will face Styliani PATEKAKI of Greece in the qualification round with Tatiana KUKULKOVA of Slovakia (ER: 55).

Rebecca FINN will play Rachel CRAWFORD of Scotland in the qualification and Liz LETHAL (ER:132) of Luxemburg will be the opponent who plays the winner.

For the full draws check out the ETTU Results page. 

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