Return to the ITF homepage
Jump to more ITF websites
Return to the Juniors homepage
Home Page
Latest News
Search Articles
Audio Listing
Photo Galleries
News Feed ? | Subscribe to the ITF Tennis news feed
Ryan Sweeting (BAH)
Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 10 Sep 2005
Girls Doubles Champions: Nikola Frankova (CZE) & Alisa Kleybanova (RUS)
Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 10 Sep 2005
Jeremy Chardy (FRA)
Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 10 Sep 2005
Boys Doubles Champions: Donald Young (USA) & Alex Clayton (USA)
Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 10 Sep 2005
Alexa Glatch (USA)
Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 10 Sep 2005
Viktoria Azarenka (BLR)
Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 10 Sep 2005
Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 10 Sep 2005
Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 10 Sep 2005
Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 10 Sep 2005
Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 10 Sep 2005
Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 10 Sep 2005
Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 10 Sep 2005
Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 10 Sep 2005
Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 10 Sep 2005
Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 10 Sep 2005
Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 10 Sep 2005
10 Sep 2005 - Flushing Meadows - Eleanor Preston
Sweeting Success Sets Up Chardy Challenge
The Bahamas’ Ryan Sweeting scored a flashing 64 60 win to beat Australian Open runner-up Sun-Yong Kim and earn himself a place in his first Grand Slam final at the US Open. Sweeting, who is unseeded, will face another formidable obstacle in the shape of Wimbledon champion Jeremy Chardy of France in the biggest match of his junior career.

Chardy, who still has a chance of overhauling Donald Young to end the year as World Junior No.1, ran out a 76 62 winner over Columbia’s Santiago Giraldo in Saturday’s other boys’ semi-final.

“If I keep winning and do well at the Orange Bowl then I have a chance,” Chardy told French reporters. “It’s a big ambition of mine to be World No.1 in juniors. I had a bad start to the year at the Australian Open and at Roland Garros but with my performance at Wimbledon and now here I have given myself an opportunity.”

Reigning Australian Open champion and top seed Viktoria Azarenka of Belarus will take on American Alexa Glatch in the girls’ US Open final after they scored contrasting semi-final wins. Azarenka came from a set down to beat Romania’s Mihaela Buzarnescu 36 62 62 while Glatch, who has never progressed to the last 16 of a junior grand slam before, celebrated her 16th birthday with a 61 75 victory over Nina Henkel of Germany.

“I think I'm playing some of the best tennis I ever have right now,” said Glatch, from Newport Beach California. “I'm just really confident and feeling good about everything right now. Just walking out on the court, you've got to be able to play every match right from the beginning because these girls are tough and they're going to come out here and they're going to give you everything they've got so when you go out there, you've got to be ready for anything.”

Sweeting was certainly ready for Kim, putting an astonishingly assured performance against the Korean despite being inexperienced at playing in the latter rounds of junior grand slams.

“It was a great match for me,” said Sweeting, 18. “I really blew right through it. I came out playing aggressive and I don’t think he knew what to do. I was hitting the ball smart, clean and deep and giving him no chance to come in. I did the job I went out there to do. That was always going to be my tactic because he hits the ball hard and into the corners and I wanted to be the one dictating play. My coach Nicolas Guizar flew in from Fort Lauderdale last night to watch me and so I’m really happy I could get him a win. Now he will have another match to watch.”

Sweeting said he probably wouldn’t be nervous in the final, despite the importance of the occasion and the prospect of Chardy on the other side of the net. “I’ve been trying to be aggressive in all my matches because that’s when I’m at my best and I will have to do that again against Chardy. I won’t be nervous because I’ve got nothing to lose. He’s a great player, he won Wimbledon and he’s supposed to win. I’ve been playing well and I’m going to try and do my best against him.”

The all-American pairing of Young and Alex Clayton beat the Netherlands’ Thiemo de Bakker and Australian Carsten Ball 76 46 75 in a gritty and competitive boys’ doubles final to become US Open champions and win their first grand slam title as a team.

Russia’s Alisa Kleybanova and Nikola Frankova joined forces to win the US Open girls’ doubles title with a 75 76 win over Glatch and her fellow American Vania King.

^ Back to Top
  What is RSS? RSS Feeds from the ITF Contact Us
© Copyright by ITF Licensing (UK) Ltd. All rights reserved. No portion of this website may be duplicated, redistributed, or manipulated in any form. By accessing any information beyond this page, you agree to abide by the itftennis.com Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.