Milan is the fourth of seven J500 tournaments taking place this season and it will have a significant bearing on how the ITF World Tennis Tour boys’ and girls’ rankings look as we head towards the mid-point of the campaign. J500s provide premier playing opportunities for players on the ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors and are a rung below Junior Grand Slams in terms of ranking points on offer.
J500 Milan will once again take place at Tennis Club Milano Alberto Bonacossa – a place of great history and grandeur.
Tennis has been enjoyed at Tennis Club Milano Alberto Bonacossa since 1893 and while next week’s focus will be the game’s future, with a host of rising stars competing, its past is striking in more ways than one.
Those contesting J500 Milan are bidding to follow in some exceptionally lofty footsteps, with the event boasting an awe-inspiring roll call of past winners.
In the last 20 years alone, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexei Popyrin, Elena Rybakina, Marketa Vondrousova, Alexander Zverev, Belinda Bencic, Katerina Siniakova, Sloane Stephens and Simona Halep have all triumphed at J500 Milan.
As with all J500s this season, matches from the quarter-finals onwards across the boys’ and girls’ draws can be watched live through the ITF’s junior tennis livestreaming platform