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In 1997, the ITF began the junior exempt project to help the world's top junior girls to transition to the professional level. [7] The junior exempt project provides wild cards into the ITF women's circuit events to the girls who ended the year in the top 10 of the world rankings. The number and tournament level of wild cards received depends ...
The ITF Junior Masters is a year-end singles tournament for the top-ranked 18-and-under tennis players on the ITF Junior Circuit (ITF Junior World Ranking). It is the second most prestigious annual junior event in terms of rankings points awarded, after the four junior grand slams. Each year, eight boys and eight girls participate in separate ...
The International Tennis Federation conducts the ITF Junior Circuit, which allows juniors to establish a world junior ranking and give them a chance to get an ATP or WTA ranking. Most juniors who enter the international circuit have to do so by progressing through ITF tournaments, Satellites, Futures and Challenger tournaments before entering ...
In order to help high-ranking junior girls transition from the junior circuit to the professional circuit, the ITF began the Girls Junior Exempt Project in 1997. Under this program, girls ranked in the top 10 at the end of the year are given direct entry into the main draw of three events on the ITF professional circuit the following year.
Bellis had an accomplished junior season the same year she played in her first US Open, finishing the 2014 season as the ITF Junior World Champion for holding the year-end world No. 1 junior ranking. She also won the USTA National Junior Championship that year at 15 to become the youngest winner of the event since Lindsay Davenport in 1991.
She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 105 and a doubles ranking of No. 115 achieved in August 2019 and 2024 respectively. In 2017, Osuigwe was the ITF Junior World Champion. [3] She won the juniors 2017 French Open to become the first American to win the girls' singles event in Paris in 28 years.
On the ITF Junior Circuit, Hovde had a career-high combined ranking of No. 3, achieved on 28 November 2022. [1] She reached the semifinals of the 2022 Australian Open girls' singles and the quarterfinals of the 2022 French Open girls' singles.
As a result, she broke into the top 10 of the junior rankings for the first time. [ 15 ] Playing alongside Stojsavljevic, she reached the final of the girls' doubles at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships , after a win over top seeds and defending champions, Alena Kovačková and Laura Samson , in the quarterfinals and a straight-sets win over ...