At The Junior Championships, Wimbledon, second-seeded world No. 3, Arantxa Rus, advanced to the girls' singles third round at the expense of Jessica Yang (ITF 24) with a 6-3, 6-0 victory. Meanwhile, in the girls' doubles, Jessica and Thailand's Kanyapat Narattana went out in the opening round to No. 6 seeds Jessica Moore and Poloma Hercog, 6-3, 6-3.

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The International Tennis Federation announced earlier on July 2 the direct acceptance list for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Tennis Event. Spearheaded by world number ones Roger Federer (SUI) and Ana Ivanovic (SRB), 17 of the top 20 men and 18 of the top 20 women will compete in Beijing, making it the strongest field ever since tennis returned as a full medal sport at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

China's Sun Peng (ATP 485) and Japanese teenager Kei Nishikori (ATP 103) are among the half dozen men who received ITF Places for the tennis event at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. On the women's side, Chinese Taipei's Chan Yung-Jan (WTA 72) and Japan's 18-year-old Ayumi Morita (WTA 126) are the Asian recipients to secure their tickets to this year's Summer Olympiad.

Playing against a 15-year-old whose resume is clearly becoming more impressive by the day, Jessica Yang (ITF 22) put forth a flawless display to beat 56th-ranked Anna Orlik of Belarus, 6-2, 6-1, to set up a chancy rendezvous with second-seeded reigning Australian Open Junior Champion, Arantxa Rus (ITF 3), in round two of The Junior Championships, Wimbledon.

World No. 22 Jessica Yang has been drawn to face Anna Orlik (ITF 56) of Belarus in the opening round of the girls' singles at The Junior Championships, Wimbledon. The winner of this match will go on to face either Milana Spremo of Serbia or second-seeded reigning Australian Open Jr Champion, Arantxa Rus, of Holland in the second round.

Jessica Yang will be the territory's lone representative at this year's Junior Championships at Wimbledon where she will compete in both girls' singles and doubles. Only four of the world's Top-16 ranked players are absent from the girls' draw according to the AELTC's latest acceptance list.

At the picturesque Oakwood Country Club in Lynchburg, Virginia, last weekend, Martin Sayer (Radford) beat top-seeded touring pro and 2006 champion, Brett Ross, in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2, to win the USTA-sanctioned US$12,000 Genworth Financial CVITT men's open singles title.

World No. 23 Jessica Yang captured her fourth career girls' doubles title when she teamed up with Indonesia's Beatrice Gumulya to beat French No. 2 seeds Amadine Hesse and Kristina Mladenovic, in a third set super-tiebreak, 7-5, 3-6, [10-8], at the ITF Grade 2 Gerry Weber Junior Open in Halle, Germany.

Seeded second at the C10 Davos in Switzerland this week, Zhang Ling is ranked at a career-high No. 326 according to the latest Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Singles Rankings. Elsewhere, Jessica Yang, who is competing at the Grade 2 Gerry Weber Junior Open in Germany, has also reached a career-best No. 23 on the ITF World Junior Circuit.