Eleanor Dean had her recent good form recognised by the award of the Aegon Junior Player of the Month Award for May. The 14 year old won her first ever ITF junior tournament in Montenegro last month which meant she was eligible to play in senior events.

And her senior debut was not long coming after she was awarded a wild card into the $50,000 Nottingham ITF qualifying event. With an unlucky draw of the 6^th seeded South African Natalie Grandin in Round 1, Eleanor played creditably but lost 6-3 6-3 to a player 5 years older.

Meanwhile Lucas Taylor was  working his way to the final of a Tennis Europe tournament in Reykjavic. After a bye, Lucas beat home-based Tero Jokinen, German Leon Schwarz and 2^nd seeded German Boris Klingebiel, all without dropping a set. The final was a much closer affair with Lucas losing out 6-4 3-6 6-3 to Estonia’s Ilya Vasilyev to conclude another successful week’s development.

George Morgan had an excellent week in Argentina, clocking up four wins to reach the final where he lost to the home grown Facundo Arguello. The 4th seed, Morgan beat a trio of South American players in straight sets to earn himself a semi final berth against the No.1 seed from Japan, Yatsutaka Uchiyama.

After losing a tight first set on the tie-break, Morgan took control to take the next two sets and the match 6-7, 6-4, 6-3. In the final Arguello, the No.2 seed, was always in charge, winning 6-2 6-2. But George's success is a great confidence booster as he seeks to climb the ITF Junior world rankings.

Kyle Edmund was only stopped by the eventual winner in the Tennis Europe event at Chambon-sur-Lignon, Auvergne, France in the last week of February. The fourth seeded Edmund saw off 2 Frenchmen, Cedric Blaye and Fabien Reboul in straight sets, and gave the same treatment to Spaniard David Biosca.

In a tough semi final, Frenchman Laurent Lokoli proved too strong over 3 sets 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, and went on to win the event.

But Kyle wasn't finished. He teamed up with Billy Harris to reach the doubles final where another Tennis First grantee Luke Bambridge and his partner Chris Pearce lay in wait. Bambridge and Pearce prevailed in a close match 6-4 7-6, but Edmund can look back on a good week.

Extraordinary goings on in Finland! In the Under 14 singles, Freya Christie qualified as the first seed and then triumphed with 5 more wins to take the Volvo Open in Helsinki in the second week in March.

After overcoming another qualifier, Russian Aleksandra Emelionova in Round 1, Freya then took out the No 2 seeded Finn Petra Piirtola in Round 2, 7-6 6-0.

Another Russian, Natalia Belova, was despatched in straight sets in the quarter final, and the same fate befell the fifth seed Sarlota Cesnekova from the Slovak Republic in the semis.

Finally Freya returned to dealing with the Russians, this time in the form of No.1 seed Polina Novoselova. And in the hardest of all her matches, Freya took the crown with a 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 win to end an extraordinary week in triumph!

Jazzi Plews (b.1998) recorded an impressive 6 straight wins to move from the Qualifying competition to the title at the Under 12 Winter Grand Prix event at Swindon late in 2009

Having despatched her two opponents to gain her place in the Main Draw, she notched two more straight sets wins in the opening two rounds. Both semi final and final victories were hard earned in match tie-breaks over Claudia Henry (10-3) and Eden Richardson (10-7) respectively

Moving up an age group in the Under 14 Indoor Series tournament, again at Delta Swindon in early January, Jazzi won the Consolation event. After suffering a first round loss against Christina Chrysanthou (b.1996), Jazzi won three straight matches to maintain her winning ways.