Locals Noah Rubin and Jamie Loeb Headed to Roland Garros for the French Open Junior Championships

Two John McEnroe Tennis Academy Students bound for Roland Garros

May 14, 2013 | By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
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Locals Jamie Loeb of Ossining, N.Y. and 17-year-old Noah Rubin of Rockville Centre, N.Y. will participate in the 2013 French Open Junior Championships, June 2-8 at Roland Garros in Paris, France. Both Rubin and Loeb train out of the John McEnroe Tennis Academy in Randall’s Island. Rubin, who has been ranked as high as number six in the world junior rankings, reached the quarterfinals of last year’s French Open Junior Championship. Another New Yorker, 16-year-old Louisa Chirico of Harrison, N.Y., who trains at the USTA Training Center–East in Flushing, N.Y., was accepted for the French Open Junior qualifiers draw.

Seventeen-year-old Taylor Townsend of Chicago, the number one-ranked junior in the world at the end of 2012, will play in her first junior event of 2013 at the Roland Garros French Open Junior Championships. Townsend finished last year as the top-ranked junior in the world, becoming the first American girl in 30 years to hold that distinction. She remains number 10 in the ITF world junior rankings, despite thus far having played only professional tournaments in 2013. In her first WTA-level main draw match, Townsend beat then-number 57 Lucie Hradecka in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., in March.


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