Tennis:Youngster with a bright future

Tennis:Youngster with a bright future

For the LTA recognise the talent that has won him major championships this season, including the final of the Fred Perry Postal Tournament (Junior Championships) in Basingstoke in August.1,800 junior tennis players take part in this national competition, which is divided into a north and southern section, and Scott (and his parents) had to go to the UK seven times, for seven matches, before he won his final.Even that wasn’t as easy as it should have been, for Scott was part of a Channel Island junior team competing at Aldershot that same day, and his mother, Gill, had to rush him to his final, believing it would be over in around two hours before she could drive him back to Aldershot for the county competition.As it was, it took over three hours to finish the match although Scott quickened the pace towards the end as he won 6-2, 3-6, 6-0.Immediately afterwards the De La Salle student was ferried back to Aldershot where, according to his dad, Steve, ‘he played some of his best tennis ever in beating the Surrey No 1, 6-2, 6-0.’There were still the doubles to play – which he and his partner also won – culminating in an exhausted Scott, with three wins under his belt in one day, enjoying a long night’s sleep.It is no wonder, therefore, that the LTA are interested in him for their futures programme; and although only nine, his pedigree goes back six years when, at the age of three, he first picked up a racket.

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