The singles draws for the Junior Championships at Roland Garros were released today, and although there were no deviations from the ITF junior rankings in the boys' seedings, there were some adjustments made in the girls'. Alize Cornet of France, who needed a wild card to get into the main draw, is seeded second, due to her WTA ranking of 118. Sorana Cirstea of Romania has a 169 WTA ranking and is seeded fourth, while Evgeniya Rodina of Russia is 172-ranked in WTA and was given the fifth seed. The top seed is the world's No. 1 player and winner of the past two junior Grand Slams, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia, and the third seed is Anastasia Pivovarova, also of Russia, who won the recently completed Italian Open. Another oddity is the seeding of Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia, who was required to qualify but given a seed when she did. Jovanovski, 15, has been on fire during the European clay season and has seen her ranking go from 70 to 15 in the month since the French Open acceptances were announced. I definitely think she deserves a seed, but I can't recall the ITF ever taking recent results into consideration. I'm not sure what happened to Sacha Jones. At the NCAAs, she said she was on her way to France, but she's not in the draw.
It's good to see Alexa Glatch's name in a draw again. She qualified and faces Simona Halep of Romania, who won two consecutive $10K events in Bucharest last month. Madison Brengle seems underrated at No. 9, especially since she just won the Grade 1 in Belgium today, on clay, but she was barely seeded in Australia and still made the final. Reka Zsilinszka, seeded 16th in Paris, made the semifinals in Belgium, and Julia Cohen, at No. 7, is the other U.S. girl seeded in France. Veronica Li and Mallory Cecil are the other U.S. girls in the draw.
On the boys' side, the U.S. will have two seeds--Rhyne Williams at No. 13, a semifinalist in Belgium, and Kellen Damico, No. 10. Johnny Hamui, Mateusz Kecki and Austin Krajicek round out the U.S contingent in Paris.
The boys' top seed is Matteo Trevisan of Italy, who has won 17 straight junior matches, including the Italian Open, since losing in the third round in Australia. Trevisan recently took over the top ranking from Jonathan Eysseric of France, who has become a celebrity for serving as Roger Federer's hitting partner on clay (he's a lefty--go figure). Australia is well-represented with four seeds--Greg Jones (5), Aussie Open winner Brydan Klein (6), Radford recruit John-Patrick Smith (8), and Stephen Donald (9). Fourteen-year-old Bernard Tomic also qualified, to give Australia the same number of entries as the U.S. (Correction: Australia has one more than the U.S. I overlooked Andrew Thomas.)
One player that won't be contending for the French title is today's boys' winner in Belgium unseeded wild card Germain Gigounon of Belgium, who defeated Gastao Elias of Portugal. Had he entered the French, he would have earned a special exemption, but apparently he wasn't expecting to do quite as well as he did.
The ITF junior site released this preview of the French Juniors yesterday.
It's good to see Alexa Glatch's name in a draw again. She qualified and faces Simona Halep of Romania, who won two consecutive $10K events in Bucharest last month. Madison Brengle seems underrated at No. 9, especially since she just won the Grade 1 in Belgium today, on clay, but she was barely seeded in Australia and still made the final. Reka Zsilinszka, seeded 16th in Paris, made the semifinals in Belgium, and Julia Cohen, at No. 7, is the other U.S. girl seeded in France. Veronica Li and Mallory Cecil are the other U.S. girls in the draw.
On the boys' side, the U.S. will have two seeds--Rhyne Williams at No. 13, a semifinalist in Belgium, and Kellen Damico, No. 10. Johnny Hamui, Mateusz Kecki and Austin Krajicek round out the U.S contingent in Paris.
The boys' top seed is Matteo Trevisan of Italy, who has won 17 straight junior matches, including the Italian Open, since losing in the third round in Australia. Trevisan recently took over the top ranking from Jonathan Eysseric of France, who has become a celebrity for serving as Roger Federer's hitting partner on clay (he's a lefty--go figure). Australia is well-represented with four seeds--Greg Jones (5), Aussie Open winner Brydan Klein (6), Radford recruit John-Patrick Smith (8), and Stephen Donald (9). Fourteen-year-old Bernard Tomic also qualified, to give Australia the same number of entries as the U.S. (Correction: Australia has one more than the U.S. I overlooked Andrew Thomas.)
One player that won't be contending for the French title is today's boys' winner in Belgium unseeded wild card Germain Gigounon of Belgium, who defeated Gastao Elias of Portugal. Had he entered the French, he would have earned a special exemption, but apparently he wasn't expecting to do quite as well as he did.
The ITF junior site released this preview of the French Juniors yesterday.
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