It's been another successful week for Britain's rising teenage stars on the women’s tennis circuit. Okay, we are only talking junior success but many of the world’s top players have used this circuit during their early years to gain experience and develop a winning mentality.

This week a whole host of British youngsters took part in the Yucatan World Cup in Mexico. The tournament is officially rated as a Grade 1 tournament on the junior circuit; therefore a number of the world’s best players took part in order to gain valuable points towards their junior rankings.

The talented Tara Moore reached the singles third round before falling to the tournament's top seed and later losing in the doubles final with her Canadian partner. Hanna James, aged 17, gained a few notable victories against higher-ranked opponents to reach the quarter-finals.

The big success of last week, though, came from Heather Watson, a 16-year-old from Guernsey in the Channel Isles. Before the tournament Watson was ranked 84 in the junior world rankings, but due to her tournament victory has risen 50 places to number 34 and seems to be on the way to making a name for herself on the junior circuit before entering more senior events in 2009.

Watson lost only two sets during the whole week and came up against a number of seeded players, including junior world No.5 Ana Bogdan of Romania in the final. Watson succeeded where Moore failed in coming from a set down to overwhelm her talented opponent and gain her first ever Grade 1 event.

She has had considerable success in other junior tournaments such as a semi-final appearance in the Junior Open der Stadt Wels and a finalist at the Grade 3 event in the US Junior International Hard Court event this year. She has also had considerable success on the doubles circuit with regular partner Hannah James.