BBC News, West Midlands
Family photoA British teenager, who had started playing at the age of four, said that it was a dream to appear in Wimbledon because he was a little boy.
Warwickshire’s Ferran Redza is due to participation in the doubles tournament in Junior Wimbledon on Monday after receiving the wildcard for the event.
After winning the doubles event at the National Championship in London, the 17-year-old qualified with his playing partner, Felix Bankaelman-Evans.
His coach, Gary Notton said: “It cannot be with a good boy.”
Redza said that when he first started playing “I had nothing to think about tennis”, but he got stuck with it and when he was nine years old, he had to make an option between chasing tennis or playing football.
“Since then it really enjoyed playing tennis,” he said.
Family photoRedza currently ranks sixth in the UK at the Under -18 level and has recently been selected to play for Great Britain at an event in Romania.
Shri Notton said that he was “very proud” on him and said: “This is one thing that has talent, but the next thing is that you have morality behind that desire and work.”
His mother, Fifi, said that he was “working and working hard” to be ready for Wimbledon and had received a four -year tennis scholarship at Santa Clara University in California, starting in January 2026.
