THE Pan Caribbean Bank All-Jamaica Junior Tennis Championships serves off this morning and ends on Sunday at the Eric Bell Tennis Centre, Piccadilly Road. It starts at 9:00 each day.

Pan Caribbean Bank handed over a cheque of $1.6 million to Tennis Jamaica Limited to stage the All-Island Junior Championships.

The event will feature a number of the island’s top junior players to be staged in five categories for boys and girls, including singles and doubles.

This is also a tune-up for the annual International Tennis Federation (ITF) Jamaica Invitational Junior Tournament that will feature players from around the world vying for ranking points on the junior circuit, to be played from July 27-31.

Top seeds in the Boys’ and Girls 18 singles are Daniel Harris and Shantal Blackwood. However Harris, who is attending school overseas on scholarship, according to reports, will not be playing.

The tournament organisors have not received any entries from Blackwood and Shellita Hawthorne, who is the second seed in the Girls’ 18 singles. Both are attending KBC Learning Centre.

Andrew Bicknell is the second seed; Simon Levy is at three and William Berry at four in the Boys 18 singles. Other players vying for the title are Horace Ludford, Jevaughn Mullings of Jamaica College, Luke Therrion and James Cruise.

Michaelann Denton, who is based overseas, and Phadria Caple of Wolmer’s, are the other noted third and fourth seeds, respectively, in the Girls 18 singles.

Roger Lyn, who is also based overseas, is the top seed in the Boys’ 16, followed by Berry, Cruise and Jacob Bicknell of Hillel. Harris was last year’s winner of the singles.