Britain's Alfie Hewett and Lauren Jones are among 12 players named today by the International Tennis Federation as having qualified for the 2013 Cruyff Foundation Junior Masters, the premier international event for junior wheelchair tennis players, which will take place from 24 – 27 January in Tarbes, France.
Hewett, who turns 15 next month, will go into the prestigious event as the defending champion in the boys' singles and doubles after the Junior Masters kick-started what has been a tremendously successful 2012 for the Norfolk teenager.
At the start of this season he became just the second Brit to win the boys' singles at the Junior Masters, following Gordon Reid's triumphs in 2008 and 2009. He is among eight players named for the boys' singles at the event.
Hewett has gone on to win four senior men's singles titles this season at ITF Futures Series level and, aged just 14, has improved his senior world ranking to No. 56, as well as cementing his world No. 3 junior ranking. With the two players currently ranked above him ceasing to qualify as juniors as of the 1st January, Hewett is likely to become the world No. 1 ranked junior player in January.
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