Milevskaya Advances to Roehampton Final

Since winning April's USTA International Spring Championships in Carson, Ksenia Milevskaya of Belarus has added two more Grade 1 titles to her resume and on Friday she'll go for one on grass to add to the two on clay and one on hard courts. This story from the ITF's junior website gives details of her come-from-behind win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, the world's no. 2 ranked player. Trailing 1-5 in the third, Milevskaya eventually prevailed 8-6 and now faces her good friend Kristina Antoniychuk of the Ukraine in the final. I was wowed by Milevskaya in Carson, but as I had only seen her that one tournament, I could only guess how she might adapt to the different surfaces. But with the variety and subtlety I witnessed, I'm not surprised she's done so well on first the clay and now the grass.

It's dangerous to predict Wimbledon on the basis of the one or two grass events prior, but I imagine when the Wimbledon Junior preview comes out, it will mention Milevskaya as one to watch.

And speaking of Wimbledon, the wild cards have been announced, and apparently Donald Young hadn't initally entered, but requested a wild card, because he is in the field with the "W" next to his name. If you go to wimbledon.org, and click on the full story link on the Entry list at the top, the boys and girls fields will appear via a pdf file, minus the qualifiers.