03/11/13
Alfie Hewett won both the men's singles and doubles titles in Sion as Lauren Jones and Luz Esperanza Merry reached their first women's doubles title together.
Top seed Hewett fought back from a set down to defeat fourth seed Sebastien Husser 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 in the semi-finals of the men's singles and then held on in another three set contest in the final to overcome second seed David Dalmasso, his third French opponent in four matches, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3.
Hewett and Dalmasso also justified top seeding in the men's doubles, easing to a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Italy's Diego Amadori and Luca Spano in the last four and defeating Morocco's Lhaj Boukartacha and Husser 6-3, 6-3 in the final.
Hewett ends his 2013 season having won five ITF 3 Series singles titles and eight doubles titles in total, including two at ITF 2 Series level and five at ITF 3 Series.
Jones saw her women's singles challenge end in the semi-finals when she was beaten 6-1, 6-2 by German top seed and eventual runner-up Bianca Osterer.
Meanwhile, Jones partnered Merry to a 6-3, 6-3 semi-final win over Swiss duo Karin Suter-Erath and Delphine Woeffray in the women's doubles semi-finals. With Jones contesting her sixth women's doubles final of the year and Merry playing in only her second ever senior women's doubles final in her first year in the sport, the British second seeds pushed Osterer and Spain's Lola Ochoa hard in the title decider, but Osterer and Ochoa held on for a 6-3, 7-5 win.
02/11/13
Alfie Hewett and Lauren Jones moved into the men's and women's singles semi-finals on the second day in Sion after both securing straight sets wins in their quarter-finals.
Luz Esperanza Merry joins Hewett and Jones in the semi-finals of the doubles events.
For the second successive day 15-year-old top seed Hewett dropped just one game as he eased to a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Switzerland's Thomas von Daeniken. Hewett will play French fourth seed Sebastien Husser for a place in Sunday's final.
Hewett is partnering Frenchman David Dalmasso in the men's doubles and the top seeds began their campaign with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Swiss duo Raphael Gremion and Yann Jauss. They play Italy's Luca Spano and Diego Amadori in the semi-finals.
In the women's singles fourth seed Jones had a much tougher match than she had on the opening day, but held on to defeat Switerland's Simona Rusnak 6-3, 6-4. Jones will meet German top seed Bianca Osterer in the last four.
Jones also partnered Merry to the women's doubles semi-finals. The second seeds will play Karin Suter-Erath and Delphine Woeffray, their second Swiss opponents in successive days, for a place in the final after defeating Nalani Buob and Angela Grosswiler6-0, 6-1 in their opening match.
However, Merry saw her singles challenge come to an end against French third seed Emmanuelle Morch, as Morch secured a 6-3, 6-0 quarter-final win.
01/11/13
All three Brits moved comfortably into the second round of their respective singles events on the first day of play in Sion.
Top seed Alfie Hewett defeated Pascal Chessel of France 6-0, 6-1 and will face Thomas Von Daeniken of Switzerland for a place in the semi-finals of the men's singles.
Lauren Jones is fourth seed for the women's singles and also dropped just the one game as she opened her campaign with a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Switzerland's Annabelle Ribeaud. Jones will meet Simona Rusnak of Switzerland in the quarter-finals.
Luz Esperanza Merry is also through to the last eight of the women's singles after being drawn against Switzerland's Angela Grosswiler in the first round. Merry faces a tough quarter-final against French third seed Emmanuelle Morch.
31/10/13
Alfie Hewett, Lauren Jones and Luz Esperanza Merry, the three members of Great Britain's victorious junior team at the 2013 BNP World Team Cup in Turkey in May, fly the flag at the ITF 3 Series Sion Indoor.
Hewett, the world No.1 ranked player in the junior boys' rankings, arrives in Sion after winning the men's consolation singles on Sunday at the Nottingham Indoor and has already won four ITF 3 Series titles in Britain, Belgium and Spain this season.
Jones won her first career singles title earlier this year in Turkey and was a quarter-finalist at the Nottingham Indoor last week, where she also reached the semi-finals of the women's doubles.
Merry, who turned 13 last week, has recently attained career best senior women's singles and doubles rankings of No. 101 and No. 92 respectively. She will hope to build on the kind of form she produced in August in Belgium, where she won her first junior singles title and reached her first senior women's singles final and won her first senior women's doubles title.
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