On the 22th of february (final on the 1st of March) some of the best juniors in Europe and the world will be taking the stage at the Royal Lawn Tennis Club and competing for the 110:th edition of Kungens Kanna and 66:th of Drottningens Pris.
The Tennis Europe Junior Tour circuit hosts 350 tournaments in total, where Kungens Kanna & Drottningens Pris is ranked as the third best tournament. It’s a category 1 tournament, the equivalent to junior Grand Slams. Europe is the leading continent in tennis and more than half of the top ranked 14-year olds are coming to Stockholm.
Europes number one, Timofey Skatov, and number four Ekaterina Makarova from Russia are coming to the tournament together with a very strong lineup featuring the top four boys and five out of ten top girls in Europe.
Swedish number one, Gustaf Ström, Bålsta TK and Victoria Carlsten, Fair Play TK (Malmö) are also in the main draw.
Ross Weibull from IS Göta (Helsingborg) was outstanding in Sweden during 2014 and made his mark by reaching the Orange Bowl finals in Florida. Ross is only 13, one year younger than his competition and is the top ranked Swedish player in the ITF-rankings.
Caijsa Hennemann, Ullevi TK (Gothenburg) is another interesting Swede. She is ranked number two in Sweden and has won just about everything you can win as a junior, including the prestigious SALK Open 2014.
– We know the tournament attracts many of the worlds top junior players. The tournament means a lot to them and many of our winners move on to become professional players on the ATP- and WTA tours. The Royal Tennis Hall has a qualified and experienced team and we have the ambition to make this tournament the premier junior tennis event in Europe. We’re looking forward to welcoming players, coaches and crowd to this years event says Joe Beaton, Tournament Director to kungenskanna.com
Kungens Kanna is one of the longest running tennis tournaments in history. It was first played in 1901 as a handicap tournament where juniors could compete with established players. 1908 the tournament had the same winner as Wimbledon, Arthur W. Gore. In 1971 Björn Borg won Kungens Kanna.