With the European junior championships and the Wimbledon junior championships taking place in July, the majority of the 15 players featured this month come from past editions of those prestigious events. All 15 went on to reach the ATP or WTA Top 100, with their career-high ranking and the date achieved showing in italics.
2007
Tennys Sandgren
No. 1 in the USTA’s 16s rankings, Sandgren, of Gallatin, Tennessee, gave himself quite a birthday present—his first gold ball. Turning 16 on the day of the USTA Clay Court finals, Sandgren defeated Denis Kudla in straight sets, just as he had done with his previous six opponents.
ATP career-high 41; 1/14/19
2008
Grigor Dimitrov
The 17-year-old captured his first junior Grand Slam at Wimbledon in his first appearance there, capping a straight-set run through the opposition with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Finland's Henri Kontinen. Dimitrov is the first boy from Bulgaria to win a junior slam.
ATP career-high 3; 11/20/17
Petra Martic
The 17-year-old from Croatia hasn't played a junior event in over a year, concentrating instead on building her WTA ranking. After taking the title last month in a $75,000 Challenger in Zagreb and posting two wins at the Tier II WTA tournament in Slovenia, Martic has now cracked the Top 200.
WTA career-high 14; 1/13/20
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