2010 European Junior Championships - 16 & Under

Mathias Bourgue and Silvia Garcia Jimenez have been crowned as the 2010 European 16 & Under Champions following the final day of the event in Moscow.

Garcia Jimenez is the surprise winner of the girls' event. The Spanish 15-year old does not currently have a Tennis Europe Junior Tour ranking, but made a mockery of her unseeded status, upsetting three seeded players during her seven-match win streak, including a win over #2 Leolia Jeanjean in the second round.

In the final, she beat Slovak sixth seed Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 7-5 7-6(3) to secure her first title on the Tour. She becomes the third Spanish winner of the 16 & Under title, following in the footsteps of Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (1986) and Lourdes Dominguez Lino (1997).

The doubles final saw Elke Lemmens & Elise Mertens recover to beat Slovaks Schmiedlova and Natalia Vajdova in a match tie-break, 4-6 6-2 10-3. The win marks the first doubles title for Belgium at the European Championships since future world #1s Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters teamed up to win in 1996.

Meanwhile, top seed Mathias Bourgue won an all-French final in the boys' event with a 6-4 7-5 win over Gregoire Barrere. Having lost just one set in his six matches (to Filip Veger of Croatia in the quarter finals), Bourgue becomes the first French winner of the 16 & under event since Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in 2001 and strengthens his already firm grip on the European #1 ranking.

Bourgue also joins a select band of players to have won all three major championships, the European Junior Championships plus the indoor and outdoor team championships, the Tennis Europe Winter Cups by HEAD and a European Summer Cup.

It is the first time in nine years that a player has held all three titles at once. In 2002, Tomeu Salva of Spain teamed with Rafael Nadal and Marcel Granollers to claim both team championships, was crowned as European Junior Champion, and then achieved the unique feat of adding the European Junior Doubles title (with Granollers).

The boys' doubles final saw fourth seeds Vasco Mensurado & Federico Silva (POR) edge past Luke Bambridge & Kyle Edmund 7-6(4) 6-4. The win is a second consecutive European Junior doubles title for Silva, who won the 14 & Under event last year with Gonçalo Loureiro, as and also secures a first ever European title for Portugal in the 16 & Under age group.

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