The following players are currently receiving grants from Tennis First:

	Luke Bambridge born 21 01 1995 Luke won both the Prince Cup and the Eddie Herr international tournaments, and reached the round of 16 at the Orange Bowl (all 14 and Under events) in an outstanding trip to Florida in December 2009. Already 6 feet, Luke trains at the Mouratoglou Academy in Paris (whose successes include Baghdatis, Ancic and Mathieu). Getting started in tennis was no problem for Luke, as he had 2 older sisters who played to a high level. Although he is a full time tennis player, his studies are not being neglected, and he has already passed two GCSEs 2 years ahead of schedule through private tutoring. Ranked the GB No.1 and one of the top ten players in Europe in the 14 & Under division at the end of 2009, Luke was a member of the GB team which began the year by winning the Tennis Europe Winter Cup by beating France 3-0 in the final.
	Andrew Bettles born 18 01 1993 Andrew has been receiving his Tennis First grant via Reed's School for the past several years, and together with two other grantees (Oliver Golding and George Morgan) represented Great Britain in the Junior Davis Cup in Mexico. They achieved notable wins over France and Argentina to reach the final, losing to Australia. Andrew won a Grade 4 ITF tournament in Nottingham in April and another in Prague in July. He continued his good form into August when he became National 16 & Under champion by beating Morgan 6-2 6-4 in the final. At the end of 2009 Andrew was ranked Great Britain's No.1 16 & Under player and had achieved an ITF 18 & Under ranking of 239. His aims for 2010 is to improve his ITF mark to top 80 and gain his first ATP point, with his 3 year goal to break the 500 barrier
	Liam Broady born 04 01 1994 Luke secured his first ATP ranking point on the grass at the 2009 Felixstowe Futures tournament after qualifying for the Wimbledon junior event, where he lost a tough 3 setter in the first round. All this from a 15 year old! Liam comes from Stockport and a tennis playing family: father Simon is Liam's coach and sister and former Tennis First grantee Naomi won 3 ITF events at the back end of 2009 to take her to a career high ranking of 327. A former semi finalist at the 2008 Orange Bowl and winner of the European Masters at 14 & Under level, Liam continues independently of an Academy, but accesses Manchester Northern and the Mouratoglou Academy in Paris (whose successes include Baghdatis, Anicic and Mathieu).
	Lucy Brown born 11 01 1993 Lucy lives near Oxford but trained down the M40 at Bisham Abbey with WIN Tennis before moving to WIN's centre at Puente Romano in Marbella. She will use her grant to try to improve her already impressive ITF under 18 ranking of 133 (year end 2009). The winner of the Summer Clay Courts and the Nationals Doubles winner in 2008, Lucy represented Great Britain in the Tennis Europe Winter Cup 2009. She has represented GB at three Nike Junior Tour world finals and has won ITF singles events in Libya and Cyprus, and doubles titles in Tunisia and Turkey. Her short term ambitions are to improve her ITF ranking so that she qualifies for the junior Grand Slams and to get on the WTA ranking ladder.
	Freya Christie born 08 11 1997 Freya was the No.1 ranked Briton in the 12 & Unders at the end of 2009, having won the Winter Grand Prix and reaching the final of the Nationals. In the latter part of 2009 she was concentrating on 14 & Under events, winning in Leicester and Winchester before succeeding in two Indoor Series events in the autumn. Freya trains with the Midland Academy at Loughborough and home town Nottingham, and will concentrate on improving her Tennis Europe ranking in 2010. Her long term ambition is to achieve a world top ten ranking. She began her tennis doing mini red squads at age 5 (while Mum was working out at a keep fit class!) and off court enjoys swimming and cooking.
	Harriet Dart born 28 07 1996 Harriet won the Grade 2 Scottish Open U14 in Edinburgh in July 2009 to help her achieve a year end GB ranking of 4, with another year to go in the division. With another fine win in both singles and doubles in Dublin, she has improved her Tennis Europe ranking to 62. Since September 2008 Harriet has trained at the WIN Academy at Bisham Abbey and in 2010 intends to travel more extensively to Europe to achieve her ambition of a top ten Tennis Europe ranking.
	Eleanor Dean born 06 01 1996 Eleanor lives just round the corner from Wimbledon and trains at the NTC at Roehampton with national coach Richard Plews. In December 2008 she was a semi finalist in the U12 Orange Bowl. Strong showings in Tennis Europe events in May 2009 earned her the Aegon Junior Player of the Month award, and wins in Hungary and Bosnia saw her become the first junior player to repeat the award in successive months. In August she won the National Under 14 title, beating fellow grantee Katy Dunne in the final. All of which helped Eleanor achieve a year end Tennis Europe ranking of 27 at the year end, so with another year in the division she aims to achieve in the TE Grade 1 events in 2010 and looks set for a top ten ranking. All of which helped Eleanor achieve a year end Tennis Europe ranking of 27 at the year end, so with another year in the division she aims to achieve in the TE Grade 1 events in 2010 and looks set for a top ten ranking.
	Emma Devine born 16 12 1994 Emma has been at the Justine Henin Academy in Belgium since September 2008, and so spends little time in her native Edinburgh, and visiting her previous training centre at Stirling. The winner of 'The Road to Wimbledon' in 2008, Emma comes from a sporting family where all the menfolk play tennis and Mum is a former international volleyball player. She began playing at age 5 and lists her preferences for Black Eyed Peas and Hibernian Football Club – in common with another Scottish tennis player! The number 3 ranked Briton in the 16 & Under category with another year to go, Emma is aiming to achieve a top 100 ITF junior ranking by the end of 2010
	Katy Dunne born 16 02 1995 Katy won the Masters in February 2009 and reached the quarter finals of the Orange Bowl U14 in December, only losing to the eventual winner Yuki Chiang. Finishing the year as the No.2 ranked Briton in her age group, she was the highest ranked Brit in the Tennis Europe rankings at No.16. Katy started tennis in Hertfordshire, following her brother, and now trains at the HPC at Halton, where she has been full time since September '09. For 2010 she wants to achieve a top ten GB ranking in the 16s and to enter the ITF junior rankings (U18) for the first time.
	Kyle Edmund born 08 01 1995 Kyle is full time at the WIN Academy at Bisham Abbey. His family originates from South Africa, moving to Yorkshire in 1998, and Kyle achieved some early success as an athlete, winning the North of England long jump and 200 metres. He had an early year win at an Indoor Series U16 in March 2009 and became the Under 14 Clay Court Champion in May and the National Champion in August, achieving wins over Evan Hoyt, Christopher Pearce and Luke Bambridge (twice). These are an outstanding crop of 1995 born players, all ranked in the Tennis Europe top 20. But perhaps the two most outstanding results of Kyle's year were to reach the semi finals of the Orange Bowl and the final of the European Championships. In Florida, he beat No.1 seed Frederico Silva in the last 8 and finally lost a marathon match against American Mackenzie McDonald 4-6 7-5 6-4. As he enters his first full year of Under 16 competition, Kyle's goals are to achieve an ITF U18 ranking and longer term a top 100 ATP professional.
	Elisha Gabb born 26 01 1993 Elisha is already ranked 146 on the ITF junior list (the 8th Briton in the list) and 14th in Great Britain (headed by Heather Watson and Laura Robson) and still has two more years of competition left. She has already reached the quarter finals of a Grade 1 ITF event (Berlin: July 2009); the semi finals of a Grade 2 in Spain and the finals of a Grade 4 in Portugal. She will use her Tennis First grant to find as many opportunities as possible to play more high ranking international events in 2010. A left hander from Middlesex, Elisha trains with WIN Tennis at Bisham Abbey, where she also continues her education as she prepares for her A Levels. Leaving her aptitude for swimming and athletics reluctantly behind her, she loves listening to R & B and soul music.
	Oliver Golding born 29 09 1993 Oliver together with two other Tennis First grantees, George Morgan and Andrew Bettles, represented Great Britain in the Junior Davis Cup in 2009, reaching the finals. There they lost to Australia, but had two great wins against France and Argentina along the way. Oliver has a long term association with Tennis First as his Twickenham home is close to The Riverside Club where the Trust was born. In those days he divided his time between tennis, which he has developed independently from any Academy, and acting, appearing on stage in the West End. The No. 1 ranked player U18 in Great Britain and ranked 63 in the ITF world junior list, Oliver still has 2 years left as a junior. Having already competed in the Wimbledon Junior event in 2009, he wants to win a Grand Slam Junior title and is aiming for an ATP top 100 place.
	Evan Hoyt born 16 01 1995 Evan has followed Tim Henman as a pupil at Reed's School in Cobham, where he and another grantee Andrew Bettles are developing their tennis at the school's Academy. Evan was a member of the GB team which brought home the Tennis Europe Winter Cup in February 2009 (with Luke Bambridge) and sat at No. 7 in the Tennis Europe 14 & Under rankings at the year end. Coming from Llanelli, it is hardly surprising that Evan is an avid Scarlets rugby supporter and everyone in the family speaks Welsh apart from Tom, Evan's father, but he is excused as he is American! Evan's immediate ambition is to end 2010 with a top ten GB ranking in the 16 & Under category and will use his grant to help him travel to European clay court tournaments.
	Grace Lymer-Sullivan born 09 04 1995 Grace had lots of interests as a youngster, reaching Grade 5 at ballet as a 9 year old and winning netball and horse-riding competitions. Now concentrating solely on tennis she is part of the WIN Tennis set up at Bisham. In February 2009 she was a semi finalist in the Grand Prix at the National Tennis Centre and in May she was the runner-up in the U14 Clay Court Championships at Queenswood, losing to No.1 ranked Alice Keddie, with whom she teamed up to win the doubles. She was also selected to play for Great Britain in the European Championships. Grace has passed 5 GCSEs already and will sit some more in 2010, together with some AS level exams, and will use the Tennis First grant to help with her travel and mental abilities with the help of a sports psychologist.
	Katie Millar born 26 02 1995 Katie lives just round the corner from the East Devon Tennis Centre in Exmouth, although she has most recently been training at the Bath University Tennis Academy. In May Katie reached the semi finals of the Clay Court Championships, (Grade 1) losing to the eventual winner and 14 & Under No.1 Alice Keddie. In June she won the Grade 2 Clay Court event at Queenswood, and reached the quarter finals of the Grade 2 Scottish Open in July, where she won the doubles with Emily Dunne. Unsurprisingly she lists Man Utd as a favourite soccer team, together with Exeter City where her father Terry is a development coach. In 2010 she aims to improve so that she becomes an LTA matrix player.
	George Morgan born 07 02 1993 George had another year of significant progress in 2009. With 2 other Tennis First grantees Andrew Bettles and Ollie Golding, he helped Great Britain to a runners-up spot in the Junior David Cup in Mexico, scoring wins over Argentina and France along the way. With two years still to play as a junior, George won 2 ITF events in the summer at Nottingham (Grade 4) and in Turkey (Grade 5) and made his first appearance (in singles and doubles) at Wimbledon, where he performed creditably against the highly regarded 3rd seed Bernard Tomic. In 2010 he will be seeking to gain experience at other Junior Grand Slams as he strives for his longer term goal of reaching a top 500 place on the ATP Tour in two years time. A former winner of the U14 Orange Bowl, George has been a Tennis First grantee over several years. Home is in Bolton but training is at the National Tennis Centre, so part of the grant will be used for travel expenses.
	Joshua Page born 06 09 1994 Joshua was awarded his grant to help him progress to the next level. Thus far, despite being full time with the WIN Tennis Academy, he has had limited opportunities to travel abroad due to financial constraints. He ended 2009 with a final berth in the Winter Grand Prix at Nottingham, losing a tight match with Jonathan Cornish 7-6 7-6. Ranked 18th in the players born '94, his 2010 ambitions include a GB ranking of top 5 and to improve his ITF (U18) position to 250 or better. (He already has a 2009 ITF ranking with 3 more years of competition left)
	Jazzi Plews born 28 02 1998 Jazzi is the daughter of national coach Richard Plews and lives in Wimbledon. She trains at the National Tennis Centre at Roehampton and Sutton Academy. In 2008 she reached the final of the National 10 & Unders and spent the early part of 2009 remodelling her forehand and so competed little. However she reached the semi finals of the Clay Court Championships, losing to Lana Rush the eventual winner; and the quarters of the Grade 2 Queenswood Clay Court tournament. She ended the year with a fine win in the Winter Grand Prix in Swindon. Tennis First funding allows Jazzi to base her tournament schedule on Tennis Europe events and to train and compete in Florida for a month.
	Lana Rush born 09 02 1997 Lana lives in Wimbledon and trains at the National Tennis Centre and the Sutton Academy. She was the national 10 and Under champion in 2007 and in 2009 made a clean sweep at the Grade 1 Clay Court Championships and National Championships, winning singles and doubles (with Freya Christie). She ended 2009 as the No.2 ranked player (to Christie). In Europe she was a quarter finalist in the Stavanger (Norway) event, helping her to an U14 Tennis Europe ranking of 509 two years before she finishes with the category.
	Ruth Seaborne born 07 03 1993 Ruth needs Tennis First to enable her single parent Mum to meet the rising expenses incurred as Ruth seeks to fulfil her tennis potential. Ruth's outstanding performance at 2009's Nationals, where she lost to Amy Askew in the final, certainly got our attention with wins over Elisha Gabb and Sian Bayliss along the way. For the remainder of the year she has concentrated on senior events and reached the final of the Wrexham British Tour tournament in October, and the concluding Masters event (Grade 1) at Nottingham in December, losing a close match to Jessica Ren in 3 sets. In 2010 her goals are to improve her ITF ranking to 150 and beyond and to add to her WTA single point.
	Eden Silva born 14 03 1996 Eden is coached by the Californian Robert Lansdorp, who lists Pete Sampras, Lindsey Davenport and Tracey Austin amongst his successes. The runner-up in Nationals in her last year as a 12 & Under, Eden reached the quarters in her first attempt at the Under 14s, losing to Katy Dunne. Most of Eden's 2009 competitions have been Tennis Europe Under 14 events, reaching the quarter finals in Magaluf (Grade 3), and the round of 16 in Luxembourg (3) and Moscow (1). Home tutored, Eden has already passed 3 GCSEs in Biology, English Literature and Religious Education and off court enjoys music, reading and creative writing.
	Lucas Taylor born 06 01 1997 Lucas is the top ranked Briton in the Under 12 division, having won 3 Grade 1 events in 2009. First he won the Grand Prix at the NTC; then he won the Summer Clay Court Championship at Queenswood; and finally he won the Nationals at the West Hants Club. It's rare that players of this age win all three. Lucas trains at the Hackney City Tennis Club and attends The Bridge Academy School where he can enjoy football and athletics when tennis allows. He also enjoyed representing GB in the Summer Cup (the team came fourth) and the Queenswood International Invitational, where he won all his matches against Sweden.