Find out more about the Lexus Junior National Championships<\/a><\/p>\nBritton beat Cheshire\u2019s Wong 6-4, 6-3 in a keenly contested final of the girls\u2019 singles competition, as she made up for disappointment in the final of this tournament a year ago to take the title this time.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a difficult match and I\u2019m delighted to win it as last year I was heartbroken to lose in the final,\u201d said Britton. \u201cI came into the match having a clear goal in mind. We had the rain delays, and I had to stay in the right headspace.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be a great honour to play at Wimbledon. It was an honour to play there last year and I\u2019m ready to do my best to do whatever it takes to play well at Wimbledon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Katie O\u2019Brien, LTA Women\u2019s National Coach said: \u201cIt was a good final in difficult conditions. It’s not easy coming into the tournament as No.1 seed, but Dani seems to thrive and showed some real class this week. Annabel can be proud of her efforts as well. She has improved a lot in recent months and it’s great to see her confidence building. We are looking forward to another great Nationals event next week in the 18U competition.\u201d<\/p>\n
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In the boys\u2019 singles event, Sallu completed his impressive run through the tournament as a wildcard entrant, beating top seed Lorimer 7-6(6), 6-4 in an exciting final.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels amazing,\u201d said Sallu. \u201cIt\u2019s a dream of mine to get this far and do so well in this tournament. Today was a tough day. We had some rain delays, it was really windy and I stuck to my task well. I earned it this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tried to treat it as a normal match, but the opportunities I will get after winning this are amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin Weston, LTA Men\u2019s National Coach said: \u201cIt has been a challenging week for the boys. The conditions have been tough, particularly on Monday and during the weekend for qualifying. There have been some strong winds and it has been pretty cold.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir rankings may differ, but the boys have shown that they are all playing at a very similar level and that was highlighted by Neo Armus coming through qualifying and reaching the semi-finals and Isaac Sallu, a wild card, who won in an excellent final against Eric Lorimer.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of the boys have played at a level that is significantly higher than their rankings and I hope that this is a springboard for them to take the positives from this tournament and play like this every week.<\/p>\n
“It shows how important the Junior Nationals are for these boys and also what a great venue this is to stage the event. I\u2019m convinced the boys are inspired to play above their ranking level by playing at this amazing venue and also, the significance of the prize of playing in the junior event at Wimbledon contributes to the players performing at such an excellent level.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the girls\u2019 doubles event, Northamptonshire\u2019s Leah Bush and singles finalist Wong beat Surrey\u2019s Hermione Korpanec Davies and Middlesex\u2019s Milica Milojevic 6-3, 6-1 in the final.<\/p>\n
The boys\u2019 doubles event was won by top seeds Lorimer and his partner Niall Pickerd-Barua from South Wales, as they beat singles champion Sallu and Suffolk\u2019s Scott Watson 6-4, 6-1 in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dorset\u2019s Daniella Britton and Yorkshire\u2019s Isaac Sallu have been crowned as singles champions in the 2026 16U Lexus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-511449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}