The 58th edition of Torneo Avvenire is on, this time as a 14 & Under Super Category event. 

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Burgas, Bulgaria, hosted this week’s main tour event, the 14&U Category 1 Avenue Cup. In his maiden final of 2025, Turk Cinar Senkaya, clinched his fourth TEJT title, while the girls’ champ was Belgian Hannelore Daniels who nabs her first title of the year and fourth overall on the TEJT.

Daniels came into the event having competed hard the previous week across the border in Romania, reaching the QF as top seed at the Bucharest Cat1. She also took the doubles title there, a feat she very nearly repeated in Burgas. A topsy-turvy run to the final saw a mixed bag of easy wins coupled with a tough three-set semifinal over Arina Fomina set her up for a chance at the title. And she grabbed it with both hands, taking command of the match and earning the trophy with a 6-1 6-2 win over Emilia Henningsen (DEN).

Top boys’ seed Moritz Freitag (AUT) was on cruise control, easing his way into a third straight tour final. Going for three titles on the trot, he was upset 6-4 6-4 by third-seeded Senkaya in the tournament decider. Nevertheless, more valuable points from a deep run will be added to his tally in the Race to Monte Carlo in Tuesday’s update.

There was some joy for Henningsen, as she teamed with Fomina to overcome Noor Ceulemans (BEL) & Daniels 4-6 6-3 10-5 in the girls’ doubles final. The Kazakh pairing of Akhmadi Makhanov & Khaknazar Zhetkerbay won the boys’ doubles title 6-3 6-2, defeating Senkaya & Kyle Wan of Hong Kong in the final.

Elsewhere on the TEJT:

Two major stops on the 12&U circuit provided more opportunities for players to earn that ever-so-valuable invitation to the end-of-year Carlos Moya 12&U Festival in Mallorca.
All In Open | 12&U Cat1 | Villeneuve-Loubet (FRA)
Uma Malika Ngo Bogso from Cameroon was the girls’ champion. She defeated Josephine Silfverschiold 6-3 6-2 in the final. Meanwhile, a second Cat1 win for Thiago Carmasol has put him in good stead for a shot at a spot in Mallorca. In a riveting final, the French player defeated Lithuania’s Kajus Seliukas 7-5 1-6 7-6.

Luka Koper Junior Open | 12&U Cat1 | Koper (SLO)
Milica Capin (SRB) has added a second Cat1 win to her Bucharest title. Having won all her matches in straight sets in Koper, in the final she was true to form, defeating Lena Angleitner (AUT) 6-1 6-2. It was a special moment for Pietro Galimberti who won his first ever TEJT title. In the final he came from behind to beat Jonas Mittermayr (AUT) 1-6 6-2 6-2.

Former TEJT Stars Keep Shining

Trofeo Bonfiglio | ITF J500 | Milan (ITA)
Luna Vujovic (SRB), the 14&U European Champion in 2023, has won the tournament defeating Julieta Pareja (USA) with a 6-3 6-3 victory. Meanwhile, last year’s Boys’ 18&U European Junior Championships silver medalist Jacopo Vasami won on home soil coming from a set down to top Ivan Ivanov (BUL) 6-7(8) 6-2 6-1 in the final.

Youth sport is evolving rapidly. The expectations placed on young athletes both on the court and in the classroom - are higher than ever. For many families, managing a high-performance tennis schedule alongside education feels like juggling two full-time jobs.

That’s why, together with our Online Education Partner, Minerva Virtual Academy (MVA), we’ve put together some tips to help parents and coaches better support their athletes in being more efficient, focused and balanced off the court.

1. Be Efficient: Understand your Learning Style

Every athlete learns differently. Some are visual learners (they retain information better through diagrams and colours), others are auditory (they learn by listening or speaking) and some are kinesthetic, meaning they process best through hands-on activities or movement.
Once your child knows how they learn best, they can adapt how they revise, take notes and use downtime.

🎯 Tip: Every tennis player is passionate about tennis, so why not focus on concepts using examples from within the sport?

2. Maximise Focus: Know Your Peak Brain Time

Not everyone is wired for 8 am. lessons. Some athletes focus best early in the morning, others are sharper after training or in the evening. The key is recognising when your brain is at its best -and doing your most important academic tasks during that window.

🎯 Tip: Match hard tasks (like writing or revising) to high-focus times. Do lighter work (organising notes, reading) during low-energy periods.

3. Set Academic Goals with the Same Clarity as Sport

Success in education, like sport starts with a plan. Research shows that writing down your goals increases your chances of achieving them by 33%. Whether it’s mastering a new maths topic or submitting an assignment on time, setting and writing down short/medium-term academic targets keeps motivation high.

🎯 Tip: Build it in: Use a whiteboard, planner or app to track your weekly goals — just like you'd track match stats or training metrics.

4. Structure the Week, but Leave Room to Breathe

Routine helps reduce stress - especially during busy periods. Aim to co-create a weekly schedule to follow, but also be agile to a changing schedule!

Sports schedules are ever-changing, whether it’s a training session, a tournament or something else - always have a contingency plan for a changing schedule. When time is of the essence, your schoolwork should always be with you. Even 15 minutes extra a day is 1 hour 45 minutes extra a week or 7 hours and 30 minutes a month!

🎯 Tip: With MVA, student-athletes benefit from a flexible but consistent structure that fits around their training blocks and competitions.

5. Learn from a Mentor Who's Been There

Having direct 1:1 support from someone who’s been there is invaluable. Research shows that students with a mentor are more than twice as likely to stay engaged and reach their goals. Having someone who understands both the sport and the study pressures makes a massive difference.
That’s why every student at Minerva Virtual Academy is paired with a dedicated mentor - often a former elite or professional athlete - who meets with them weekly. These 1:1 sessions help with mindset, planning, confidence and navigating the demands of dual careers. It’s also why 97% of MVA athletes say their mentor helps them balance their sport and learning.

🎯 Tip: Whether it’s at MVA or not, having a mentor will have a huge impact on your journey

MVA are excited to unveil the Minerva Virtual Academy’s new look - with a fresh logo, bold branding and a redesigned website built to inspire the next generation of student-athletes. Explore the new website, meet their team, and see how they’re helping young tennis players thrive on the court and in the classroom.

You can book a Discovery Call with Admissions here.

It’s been a spectacular week at the Foro Italico, featuring everything from the ATP/WTA 1000 events to the Tennis Europe 16 & Under Super Category tournament.

The event offers young players a fantastic opportunity: training and competing on the same courts as the professionals, getting a glimpse into their world and finding fresh motivation to work even harder to reach that level one day. In addition to matches at the iconic Foro Italico, some matches were also held on a specially prepared court at the historic Piazza del Popolo - a unique and  unforgettable setting made possible by the Italian Tennis and Padel Federation (FITP).

This marks the second consecutive year the Junior Tour event has taken place alongside the Italian Open. After the great success of its first edition, the tournament was upgraded from Category 1 to Super Category. 

Singles

Both the boys' and girls' draws delivered plenty of surprises, with Italian players upsetting several top seeds, fueled by the support of the home crowd and the pride of competing on Italian soil.

The boys' final was an all-Polish showdown between Jan Urbanski and Jan Skrzynski. Urbanski entered as the favorite, having led 3–0 in their previous TEJT encounters. However, Skrzynski had a phenomenal week in Rome and sustained his high level through to the very end.

In the girls' draw, Felitsata Dorofeeva-Rybas dominated the field, without losing more than six games in any match. In the final, she overpowered second seed Oliwia Sybicka, taking control early and maintaining it throughout the match.

Doubles

Forza Italia thanks to Bianca Bissolotti and Martina Cerbo. Facing first seeds Tea Kovacevic (BIH) and Maria Pop (ROU), the Italians saved two match points at 2-6 4-5, turned the match around and lifted the trophies after an intense match tiebreak.

Meanwhile, Spaniards Toni Escarda and Ian Barroeta didn’t allow their Italian opponents Michele Maniglia and Massimiliano Fucile take the trophies home, and emerged victorious 7-5 7-6(3).

ELSEWHERE ON THE TEJT

Bucharest (ROU) | Dr Oetker Jr Trophy | 14&U Cat1
Moritz Freitag (AUT) backed up his Cat1 win in Rakovnik with another big title this week. He had taken out Luys Calin (GER) in his semifinal in that event and this time in Romania outdid the German again, winning his second title of the year with a commanding 6-1 6-1 win. The girls’ final saw Arina Fomina win an incredible fourth TEJT title of 2025. She was too strong for tenth-seeded Croat Korana Barisic earning the trophy with a 6-4 6-0 victory.

Belgians dominated in the doubles events. The boys’ doubles champs were Lionel Hermans (BEL) & Arthur Salafa (FRA), while it was an all-Belgian affair for the girls’ champs, with Noor Ceulemans & Hannelore Daniels lifting the trophy.

Hradek Nad Nisou (CZE) | 20th Euroregion Nisa Cup | 16&U Cat3
It was a Czech whitewash in both singles finals with all four finalists hailing from the home nation: Matej Novak defeated Philippe Jourden 7-5 7-6 in the boys’ decider for his first singles title of the year, while the girls’ championship match was won by Beata Maresova over Karolina Stochlova 7-5 6-1. With this win, Maresova collects her first 16&U title, adding to the three 14&U she has already amassed this year.

Yerevan (ARM) | Roza Prudnika Memorial Cup | 12&U Cat2
Tunisian Hedi Ksouri has now won his fourth singles title on the TEJT, by defeating Mateo Dzutsev 6-1 6-1 in the final. Meanwhile the girls’ final saw Evangelina Shingaleeve allow Taisiia Ermakova even fewer games than in the boys’ final, winning 6-0 6-1 for her second title overall on the TEJT.

ITALIANS RIGHT AT HOME IN ROME

Rome ATP/WTA 1000:

• “It’s incredible to have this trophy in my hands. Thanks to those who have always supported me in the good in the bad! I don’t know what to say… it’s a dream for me. I remember being a kid and watching this tournament and never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win it.” Those were the emotional words of Jasmine Paolini after her singles final win and a fantastic two weeks on home soil, making both the singles and doubles finals. Yesterday, she was too strong for a tired, error-prone and seemingly dejected former TEJT #1 Coco Gauff, taking the biggest win of her career, poetically, at the colosseum of Italian tennis, with a 6-4 6-1 win.
• The doubles final saw Paolini and Sara Errani defeat Elise Mertens (BEL) & Veronika Kudermetova. Coming back from 0-4 down in both sets, the Italians dug deep to claim both sets, taking the match and the title 6-4 7-5.
• Paolini has become the first Italian woman in 40 years to win the title and first Italian finalist since her doubles partner Errani made the 2014 final, falling to Serena Williams.
• Upon his return from a three-month suspension, local favourite Jannik Sinner had a fantastic run to the final. He reignited his rivalry with Carlos Alcaraz, but it wasn’t to be for Sinner as the Spaniard took the match and the title 7-6(5) 6-1. In his post-match interview, Alcaraz was beaming, “I’m really happy with my win in Rome. Hopefully it’s not going to be the last one. It was very difficult with the injury, so that makes it quite special.”
• The men’s doubles title went to Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) & Mate Pavic (CRO) who posted a thrilling 6-4 6-7(8) 13-11 win over the French pair of Sadio Doumbia & Fabien Reboul.

Click here for more Junior Tour results.

14&U Cat1, Piestany (SVK)

Rafael Pagonis’ run of form continues, as the Greek #1 racks up a second title in as many weeks and third for the year.

In the championship match it was a third meeting against home favourite and doubles partner Max Lorincik with Pagonis now forging ahead to a 2-1 lead in their head-to-head encounters. Maintaining a clean sheet en route to the final, Pagonis was true to form in the final posting a 6-3 6-3 win in a stoush between the top two seeds. Look out for Tuesday’s Race update, where the Greek player looks to moves from #4 and cast a warning signal to French players Mario Vukovic and Samuel Dakessian who have had a stranglehold on the top 2 spots for months. Read more about Pagonis in this month’s feature interview here.

Estonian Elizaveta Anikina has now played in five finals this year, one of which was a 16&U event. In Piestany, the third seed was ruthless, not giving up on her quest for a fourth title. A break in each set was all that was required as she would not be denied, dashing the hopes of Konstantina Volonaki (GRE) of a third TEJT title and her first outside of her homeland. It was not to be as Anikina secured a 6-4 6-3 win that will elevate her from #10 in the Race upon the next update.

Victory in the boys’ doubles went to Rafa García Domenech (ESP) & Stefan Shangichev while the British combination of Hermione Korpanec Davies & Milica Sakamoto Milojevic were the girls’ doubles champions.

IMG Future Stars

12&U Invitational, Athens (GRE)

The IMG Future Stars event at the Tatoï Club in Athens, Greece was back for a fourth year. Some of the world’s top 12&U players were invited to play at this phenomenal sports venue with Jakub Kyncl (CZE) and Tina Jansone (LAT) being crowned champions. The Latvian beat Anna Chuchilina 6-4 6-4 in their final, while Kyncl posted a 7-6 6-3 win over Max Hodkinson (GBR) and secured the match with a seemingly impossible cross-court tweener on match point to secure the title.

This event is more than just a tennis tournament and, as they did last year, the organisers went big. This year, the players had their welcome event at the Nike Distribution Centre and were kept busy with games and more organized by Wilson. Sam Smith and Carlos Ramos ran the draw ceremony while trick-shot expert Stefan Bojic kept everyone entertained in his own inimitable style.

Top players to send inspirational words of wisdom via video included Madison Keys, Mirra Andreeva, Jack Draper and Carlos Alcaraz, while Ajla Tomljanovic was on site to speak to the players. Our partners at Baseline Vision also hosted a mini competition and players were treated to a tour of the Acropolis as an added bonus to an already packed schedule.

Due to the invitational status of the tournament, no points are awarded on the Tennis Europe rankings, however it is an amazing stage nonetheless for European youngsters to experience tennis of such calibre against players from other continents at an event of this stature.

Elsewhere on the TEJT this week:

BELLEVUE CUP, 12&U Cat2, Ulcinj (MNE)
Local Matija Stankovic, the Development Championships runner-up, notched his much-deserved first-ever win on the TEJT with a gruelling 7-6 6-7 11-9 win over Swiss Julian Lubina. Polina Car (CRO), was the girls’ champ, posting a 6-1 7-5 win in the final over Amajla Kadric (BIH).

ZLTC BRNO CUP, 16&U Cat2, Brno (CZE)
Patrik Semenic (SLO) and Anna Idaszewska (POL) have both made their long-awaited debut on the winner’s podium this season. This means that Semenic has won his second career TEJT title, while the Pole has now accumulated an impressive fifth title on tour.

MARIA LANZENDORF OPEN, 14&U Cat3, Maria Lanzendorf (AUT)
Julius Feldmann (GER) and Greta Carrara (ITA), pulled off double wins, with both players taking home the winners’ trophies in singles and doubles.

For a full list of this week’s winners, click here. For access to our 2025 photo galleries, click here.