Luke Saville is an Australian junior tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player. Saville is most famous for winning the boys singles at the Wimbledon Championships, and was also runner up in the boys singles at the Australian Open

Australian Open

The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...

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Junior career

Saville had no titles at the start of the Australian Open 2009 beating Greivis Valadziemer but losing to Dino Marcan in three sets.

In the 2010 Australian Open he beat Vadik Munshaw, but lost to Arthur De Greef.

Saville had a great start to the 2011 with a run against Adam Pavlesk, Dominic Thiem, Nikola Milojevic, Lucas Pouille, Roberto Carballes to reach the final of the 2011 Australian Open

2011 Australian Open

The 2011 Australian Open was a tennis tournament featuring six different competitions, and part of the 2011 ATP World Tour, the 2011 WTA Tour, ITF Junior Tour and the NEC Tour, as tournaments for professional, junior and wheelchair players were held...

 losing to Jiri Vesely

Jiří Veselý

Jiří Veselý is a tennis professional player.Veselý is ranked number two in the ITF junior rankings. In 2011, Veselý won the Boys' Singles title at the Australian Open, defeating Australian Luke Saville in straight sets...

in straight sets: 6–0, 6–3.

At the Roland Garros (French Open) he had a loss only getting to the first round losing to Kaichi Uchida in three sets: 7–6, 5–7, 6–4.

Saville then won the junior 2011 Wimbledon title beating Lucas Vrnac, Evgyny Lovskiy, Thiago Moura Monteiro, Joris De Looreand and Kaichi Uchida on his way to the final. He then defeated home player Liam Broady

Liam Broady

Liam Broady is a junior tennis player who in 2010 won the Boys' Doubles at Wimbledon partnered with fellow Briton Tom Farquharson.-Personal life:...

 in three sets.

External links

• Luke Saville at the Australian Open
  Australian Open
  The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...
  
  
• Luke Saville at the French Open
• Luke Saville at The Championships, Wimbledon
  The Championships, Wimbledon
  The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...