Draws announced for ITF Junior Masters

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 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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