Gianluigi Quinzi and Indy De Vroome have been crowned as European Junior Champions after both players recorded straight sets victories on the final day of play in Pilzen (CZE).
Top seed Quinzi beat compatriot Filippo Baldi 6-1 6-2 in the first ever all-Italian final at the event. The title - his third of the season - strengthens Quinzi's position as Europe's #1-ranked 14 & Under player. After a nail biting opening match against Arkadijs Slobodkins (LTU) in which he was stretched to a final set tie break, Quinzi was in dominant form throughout the week, winning the rest of his matches in straight sets in a run that included victories over three seeded players and increases his current win streak to 13 Tennis Europe Junior Tour matches.
Quinzi becomes just the second Italian player ever to win the boys 14 & Under title, and came just short of achieving a rare double, having also paired up with Baldi to reach the doubles final. Their experience as a doubles team was not enough to see off the challenge of Phillip Gresk and Kamil Majchrzak in the deciding match however. The Polish pair fought back from a set down to outlast the Italians - who were both playing in their second match of the day - 3-6 6-4 10-6, becoming the first Polish players to win the 14 & Under title in 16 years.
In the girls event, Indy De Vroome capped a dream week by upsetting fifth seeded home hope Katerina Siniakova 6-3 6-3 to win her first ever European Championship title. Unseeded De Vroome had a tough path to the final, single-handedly accounting for five of the tournament's sixteen seeds, including European #1 Ksenia Sharifova in the quarterfinals.
De Vroome will rocket back into the 14 & under top ten where she first appeared last year, and is the fourth Dutch girl to win the title since 2002, following in the footsteps of Michaella Krajicek (2002), Renee Reinhard (2004) and Richel Hogenkamp (2006).
The girls doubles title went to Estelle Cascino and Laura Tanfin of France. The pair beat Austrians Julia Grabher & Barbara Haas 6-3 6-3 to become just the second French pair ever to win the Girls 14 & Under title.