Five young English talents are joined by athletes from Jersey and Scotland at the first European WTT Youth Contender of the year in Linz starting tomorrow.

Brothers Kacper and Jakub Piwowar, fresh from tasting victory at the Cliffedale Chandlers 4* at the weekend, will compete alongside Abraham Sellado, Ella Pashley and Dimitar Dimitrov – the latter was also a category winner at the 4*.

Kacper and Abraham are in the under-17 competition and are highly ranked, with Kacper the seventh seed and Abraham 12th.

Kacper will face the host nation’s Seung Chen and Hungary’s Simon Zsigmond in his group, with Abraham (pictured above) up against Svit Kadunc of Slovenia and Andrei Tibirna of Romania.

Jakub is one of the lower ranked players in the under-19s, which features four top-50 ranked juniors, headed by Portugal’s Tiago Abiodun, a bronze medallist at the European Youth Championships. The draw has yet to be made for this age group.

Ella is also in the under-19 age group, which features eight top-50 Juniors. Ella is ranked just below halfway in the field and has been drawn in Group 3, where she faces third seed Maria Berzosa of Spain and Vivien Tamas of Romania.

Meanwhile, Dimitar will compete in both the under-13 and under-15 age groups. He is the third seed in the under-13s and has four other players in his group.

As well as singles competitions, Pashley & Jakub Piwowar form a pair in the Under-19 Mixed Doubles

Also taking to the court in Austria will be GB pathway players Hannah Silcock of Jersey (under-19s) and Scotland’s Kiishi Adekola (under-15s and under-17s). Kiishi is third-ranked in a group of four in the Under-17 Girls’ Singles, against opponents from Austria, Romania and Czechia. Silcock is in Group 2 in the Under-19s and will face second seed Nina Guo Zheng of France and Iarina Precup of Romania.

Draws

Under-19 Boys’ Singles
Qualifying group 20
Jakub Piwowar v Uros Ninkovic (SRB)
Piwowar v Lukas Wang (GER)

Under-19 Girls’ Singles
Qualifying group 3
Ella Pashley v Maria Berzosa (ESP)
Pashley v Vivien Tamas (ROU)

Under- 17 Boys’ Singles
Qualifying group 7
Kacper Piwowar v Seung Chen (AUT)
Piwowar v Simon Zsigmond (HUN)

Qualifying group 12
Abraham Sellado v Svit Kadunc (SLO)
Sellado v Andrei Tibirna (ROU)

Under-15 Boys’ Singles
Qualifying group 11
Dimitar Dimitrov v Vojtech Lastovka (CZE)
Dimitrov v Mikolaj Pilch (POL)

Under-13 Boys’ Singles
Qualifying group 3
Dimitar Dimitrov v Denis Fonariuc (ROU)
Dimitrov v Michael Zhang (AUT)
Dimitrov v Filip Bednar (CZE)
Dimitrov v Juraj De Miguel (SVK)