 Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 07 Jul 2007 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 07 Jul 2007 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 07 Jul 2007 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 07 Jul 2007 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 07 Jul 2007 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 06 Jul 2007 |
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 An Interview with Donald Young (MP3 format)
An Interview with Urszula Radwanska (MP3 format)
An Interview with Madison Brengle (MP3 format)
 
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Donald Young and Madison Brengle could make it an American double in the Wimbledon juniors after both won through to Sunday’s singles finals at the All England Club. Young will take on reigning Roland Garros boys’ champion Uladzimir Ignatik; while Madison Brengle plays Poland’s Urszula Radwanska.
“I watched Breakfast at Wimbledon on TV at home all the time,” said Young, who beat Australian Greg Jones 6-4, 7-5 in the semi-finals. “I would sit there all day and watch. Watching tennis makes you want to go out there and play and so I would watch and then go out and try and play the kind of strokes they would play. In the junior players lounge you can look and see all the guys who’ve won it and I’d definitely like to be on the board and always be there in history.” Ignatik, from Belarus, was too strong for Ricardas Berankis, beating the Lithuanian 7-5, 3-6, 6-1 in their semi-final.
“It felt really good to get into the final because Greg Jones is a great player,” said Young. “I feel lucky to have got out of that match. I’ve gone one better than I did here in 2005. It’s been more tough mentally than physically actually because I’m used to playing matches, but the waiting around and having to play two matches a day and get yourself up for two good opponents, that’s tough. It makes it an even better achievement to get to the final of Wimbledon, to beat all those good players and to be down to the last two.”
Brengle, who beat Katarzyna Piter 7-5, 7-6 in the semis, was runner-up to ITF Junior World Champion Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in January’s Australian Open and said she was determined to learn from her experiences in Melbourne. “The last time, when I went out I was just so nervous,” she said. “It was a new situation and really nerve-racking. I don’t think I believed I could do it. I had so many doubts. I’m hoping it will be better this time. She’s good on grass. I can’t control what she does so I need to play aggressive and play my game.”
Brengle will face tough competition from Radwanska, though, whose elder sister Agnieska won the girls’ title in 2005. “It does make me want to win it more. It would be really great, my sister and then me,” said Radwanska, who beat Great Britain’s Anna Fitzpatrick 7-6, 6-3. “I am very happy,” she said. “It is my first junior grand slam final and I hope it’s going to be good. Fitzpatrick was playing very good. She was serving very well but I was also playing good. It was a very tough match and I won the last point, so I’m happy. I don’t know what it is, but I come on the grass and I play very good.”
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