 Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 08 Jul 2007 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 08 Jul 2007 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 08 Jul 2007 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 08 Jul 2007 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 08 Jul 2007 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 08 Jul 2007 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 08 Jul 2007 |  Photographer: Susan Mullane
Date: 08 Jul 2007 |
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| 08 Jul 2007 - Wimbledon - Eleanor Preston |  Related Audio |
| Young and Radwanska reign at Wimbledon |
 An Interview with Junior Wimbledon champion Donald Young (MP3 format)
An Interview with Wimbledon champion Urszula Radwanska (MP3 format)
An Interview with Wimbledon doubles champion Anastasia Pavlychenkova (MP3 format)
 
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American Donald Young and Poland’s Urszula Radwanska are the new junior Wimbledon champions after an exciting climax to the 2007 Championships. Young beat Belarussian ITF Touring Team member Uladzimir Ignatik 7-5, 6-1; while Radwanska came from a set down to beat American Madison Brengle 6-2, 3-6, 6-0 in the girls’ final.
“It feels great. It's awesome. Right now I still feel really good that I've won,” said 17-year-old Young, who also won the 2005 Australian Open boys’ title. “I can't really believe that you know, I felt I was the target, you know, the highest ranked pro player in the tournament, third seed. I didn't really have a strategy. I mean, hit a lot of first serves in, make him play, move him around, try to attack and just keep a lot of balls in play and put pressure on him. The first set was the key to the match, I believe. If I'd have lost the first set it would have been a real dogfight to come back and try to win the second because he would have just got even more confident, hit more balls in, you know, loose and just go for it. But me getting up a set, I relaxed a little, he started pressing, I got a couple of breaks early.”
Young has not played junior tennis in recent months, preferring to concentrate on building his results at Challenger and Future level on the professional tour, but far from taking a step down to play juniors, Young said life could be just as tough amongst the up and comers. “It's not a big difference. Most junior guys are playing Futures. A couple of them final'd, semi'd. So you see a lot of the same guys. The Futures, Challengers guys, they're grown men. These guys are juniors, but they're going to be the next pros.”
Radwanska, whose sister Agnieszka won the Wimbledon girls’ title in 2005, scored a double success on Sunday when she teamed up with Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to beat Misaki Doi and Kurumi Nara 6-4, 2-6, 10-7 thanks to a match tiebreaker. There was no shortage in the boys’ doubles final either - Italians Daniel Lopez and Matteo Trevisan beat Roman Jebavy and Martin Klizan 7-6, 4-6, 10-8.
“It’s great that my sister won and then I won,” said Radwanska. “It is amazing to be a Wimbledon champion like her.”
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