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Zootennis.com, a website devoted to junior and college tennis, has become the primary source of news for over 40,000 unique visitors per month. In addition to daily news posts on topics of interest junior and college tennis, zootennis.com's editor Colette Lewis provides live coverage of approximately 18 tournaments annually, with match reports accompanied by photos and videos.
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1d ago
©Colette Lewis 2024--Indian Wells California--Next spring Valerie Glozman and Rudy Quan will be in the midst of their first collegiate dual match season, but they will need to carve out a few days to compete in the women's and men's BNP Paribas Open qualifying after winning those wild cards with titles at the ITF J300 FILA International Junior Championships.The unseeded Glozman, who has signed ..read more
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2d ago
©Colette Lewis 2024--Indian Wells CA--A cramping Valerie Glozman had failed in her attempt to serve out the match at 5-2 in the third set of her semifinal with No. 2 seed Iva Jovic at the FILA International Junior Championships ITF J300 Saturday, so when she went up 15-40 with Jovic serving, she tapped all her reserves to close out the match. After running down shot after shot and throwing up one ..read more
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3d ago
©Colette Lewis 2024--Indian Wells CA--Kaylan Bigun and Rudy Quan will meet again at the FILA International Junior Championships ITF J300 semifinals Saturday, a rematch of their quarterfinal thriller from last year, when Quan saved three match points to upset Bigun 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-3. Bigun booked his spot in the semifinals with a 6-3, 6-3 win over No. 9 seed Ian Mayhew, while Quan took out unseeded ..read more
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4d ago
©Colette Lewis 2024--Indian Wells CA--Cool and breezy conditions were no impediment to a trio of Americans, who took out more highly ranked players to reach Friday's quarterfinals at the ITF J300 FILA International Championships at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.Valerie Glozman, Matisse Farzam and Rudy Quan all have had success on these courts in past years and continued to prove up to the ..read more
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5d ago
©Colette Lewis 2024--Indian Wells CA--Cooper Woestendick has already been in Indian Wells for more than ten days, after playing in the men's qualifying a week ago Monday thanks to the wild card he received for winning last year's inaugural ITF J300 title here during the second week of the BNP Paribas Open. Today he began his defense of the Fila International Junior Championships boys singles ..read more
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6d ago
©Colette Lewis 2024--Indian Wells CA--Fourteen-year-old Christina Lyutova and 17-year-old Ian Mayew have yet to suffer a loss in ITF Junior Circuit play this year, extending their winning streaks with wins today at the Fila International Junior Championships, a J300 tournament held in conjunction with the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.Lyutova, the 2023 USTA Nationals 16s ..read more
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1w ago
©Colette Lewis 2024--Indian Wells CA--While the seeds at the FILA International ITF J300 in Indian Wells don't begin play until Tuesday after first round byes, the wild cards took center stage, with all six boys wild cards and four of the six girls wild cards posting victories on a spectacular day for tennis in the Coachella Valley.After a long day of travel, I didn't get onsite until ..read more
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1w ago
Seventeen-year-old Katie Rolls won her first ITF J500 match last December at the Orange Bowl, and lost in the first round last week at the Porto Alegre J300 warmup event for this week's J500 in Blumenau Brazil. Yet the ninth seed found the best form of her junior career at the Banana Bowl, beating three Top 8 seeds in her six victories, and finishing in style today, with a 7-6(3), 6-2 win over ..read more
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1w ago
Katie Rolls has reached the singles semifinals and the doubles final at the ITF J500 Banana Bowl in Blumenau Brazil. The 17-year-old from Michigan, who has verbally committed to the University of Virginia, defeated unseeded 14-year-old Angelica Sara of Italy 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 in today's singles quarterfinals. In the doubles semifinal that followed, Rolls got another win over Sara, with she and ..read more
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1w ago
The ITF J300 Fila International Championships begins next Monday at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden and I'll be onsite to cover it again this year. Wild cards for the tournament have been awarded, with all accounted for in the boys field; there are still others to be determined among the girls. Although it is a open international field, unlike last year, when it was a North American closed event ..read more