The ITF has announced the draws for the inaugural ITF Junior Masters at the Sichuan International Tennis Centre in Chengdu, China on 3-5 April 2015.
The ITF Junior Masters features eight male and eight female players who qualified on the basis of their 18-and-under ITF Junior World Ranking at the end of 2014. Both draws will be held on a knock-out basis with positional play-offs, with each player guaranteed three matches to determine their final position between first and eighth. The 16 competitors will also be competing for a total prize fund of $160,000 in travel grants, and wild cards that have been offered by the ITF’s member nations and professional tournaments.
Men’s Singles Draw
(1) Andrey Rublev (RUS) v Michael Mmoh (USA)
Duck Hee Lee (KOR) v Marcelo Zormann (BRA)
Jaume Munar (ESP) v Taylor Fritz (USA)
Chung Yunseong (KOR) v (2) Orlando Luz (BRA)
Women’s Singles Draw
(1) Xu Shilin (CHN) v Aliona Bolsova Zadoinov (ESP)
Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) v Jil Teichmann (SUI)
Elena Gabriela Ruse (ROU) v Kristina Schmiedlova (SVK)
Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) v (2) Iryna Shymanovich (BLR)
Live coverage of the ITF Junior Masters will be available on the ITF Juniors website match centre: http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/itf-junior-masters.aspx. The match centre will feature an interactive live blog, live scores, news articles, photographs and the latest results. Matches will also be streamed live on http://www.tennisjuniortv.com
Play will start at 13:00 local time (05:00 GMT) on Friday and Saturday and 10:30 local time (02:30 GMT) on Sunday.
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