Giulia Luchetti (ITA) and Liam Sharkey (GBR) have won the prestigious Kungens Kanna & Drottningen Pris in Stockholm (SWE), the second 14&U Super Category event of the season.
Meanwhile at the Category 1 event in Auray (FRA), Evangelina Shingaleeva and Lukas Kacin (CZE) have won one of the world’s most prestigious 12&U events at the Open Super 12 Auray.
The packed winter schedule sees in-form 14&U players making their mark off the back of the Winter Cups, with a total of 11 tournaments having taken place over the past week.
Stockholm
Luchetti put in a strong performance all week and was unrelenting on her title run, winning all her matches in straight sets. Key results for the Italian came in the latter stages, knocking out fourth seed Beata Maresova (CZE) 6-4 6-4 in the semifinals before overcoming a tougher battle in her next match. The final was a 7-5 7-6 fight, but Luchetti overcame Ukrainian Mariia Kocherzhenko to collect her second title of the season.
For the boys’ champion Sharkey, it was his first title of the season and first major win on the Junior tour, having previously won two Category 3 tournaments in 2024. The thirteenth seed upset top seeded Cypriot Anastasis Mosaikos in the Round of 16 in a tough three-set tussle, where he surrendered his only set of the tournament. Smooth sailing all the way to the final set up a clash with another top seed, #4 Martin Adamca. Sharkey was too strong for his Slovakian opponent, taking the match and the title with a 6-4 6-4 win.
This prestigious tournament dates back to 1901, with past champions including junior stars such as Martin Landaluce and Jana Kovackova. The famous “Last 8 Club” welcomes new “members” every year: namely the singles quarterfinalists. This year’s Last 8 saw a host of players who will rack up more points in the Race to Monte-Carlo and offered interesting battles between some top seeds:
G14
Eva Maria Bulai [1] (ROU) vs Vega Bontin [7] (SWE)
Mariia Kocherzhenko [3] (UKR) vs Vera Morozova [12] (EST)
Marie Schmidhofer [11] (AUT) vs Beata Maresova [4] (CZE)
Clara Vicol [WC] (CAN) vs Giulia Luchetti (ITA)
B14
Liam Sharkey [13] (GBR) vs Enzo Brito (SWE)
Lionel Friessnegg [14] (AUT) vs Yanru Li (CHN)
Adam Napari [9] (FIN) vs Luis Saraiva [4] (POR)
Luca Sageder [8] (AUT) vs Martin Adamca [16] (SVK)
Boys’ Doubles Final
Martin Adamca (SVK) & Matteo Sanson (SVK) def Frederick Fabricius (GBR) & Oskar Laskowski (GBR) 7-6 6-4
Girls’ Doubles Final
Arina Fomina & Lyubov Pronenko def Giorgia Lanza (ITA) & Giulia Luchetti (ITA) 6-2 6-7 10-3
Tennis Europe President, Henrik Thorsøe Pedersen was on site at the event this year and remarked: “This is the first time I’m visiting this tournament … These tournaments are extremely important (and) the feedback from players and coaches has been good.” Watch the full reel with the President here:
Open Super Auray
Lukas Kacin (CZE) def Enrico Sesti (ITA) 7-5 6-1
Evangelina Shingaleeva def Vanessa Balej (CZE) 2-6 7-5 6-1
Boys’ Doubles Final
Tobias Jecminek (CZE) & Lukas Kacin (CZE) def Daniel Marinov (CAN) & Lucca Teixeira (CAN) 2-6 6-1 0-7
Girls’ Doubles Final
Arina Guslinskaia & Evangelina Shingaleeva def Sahara Baptiste (GBR) & Mila Berta (SWE) 7-6 1-6 10-6
Elsewhere on the TEJT this week:
- Banska Bystrica (SVK), 14&U Cat.2: - TEJT 2 U14 " Baseline Open U14 2026" - Oliver Noga (SVK) and Milica Capin (SRB) have scored maiden tournament wins this season
- Nottingham (GBR), 12&U Cat.2: Lexus Junior International Nottingham - Brits Conrad Goh and Yilin Li have picked up their first ever TEJT titles
- Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (FRA), 14&U Cat.1: This weekend also marks the kick-off at TIM Essonne, with the qualifying event taking place. Follow us online and on social media this coming week for more from the indoor courts on the southern outskirts of Paris.