Semifinals set for French Junior Championships

Both the boys' and girls' top seeds have made it to the semifinals, and today Eleanor Preston spoke with Thiemo De Bakker of the Netherlands about his play during the clay court season. De Bakker was also the top seed in Australia, but didn't survive the third round there. He takes on Philip Bester of Canada, who is unseeded. Another unseeded surprise semifinalist is Martin Klizan of the Slovak Republic; he will meet No. 8 seed Petru-Alexandru Luncanu of Romania.

Another unseeded player making waves is Katerina Vankova of the Czech Republic, who has made her way to the semifinals, where she will meet No. 2 Agnieszka Radwanska, the 2005 Wimbledon Junior winner who has a victory over Myskina this spring. No. 1 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova will meet No. 3 Yung-Jan Chan of Taipei in the other semi.

The Croatian boys were something of a disappointment in singles, but they make up half of the doubles teams in the semifinals.
Emiliano Massa, who last year teamed with fellow Argentine Leonardo Mayer to win the championship, is back, this time with Kei Nishikori of Japan. There are one of three unseeded teams left.

As is true in the singles, the girls have gone much more to form in doubles, with all four teams seeded, and both Pavlyuchenkova and Radwanska have an opportunity to win both singles and doubles, as Hungary's Agnes Szavay did last year.

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