Australia's best tennis coaches have set up a camp for 27 promising juniors to flourish in Queensland – and many are already among the best in the world for their age.
Chris Mahony oversees the team providing these future stars with a year-round training base while competing on the world junior circuit."They do six days a week here. They're typically on court, three to four hours a day."
"If you can get into there, that's the start of your career, and then you know that prize money allows you to reinvest in yourself and hire your own coach and your own team."Ranked 111th in the world, that's the fight currently facing 24-year-old Queenslander Kim Birrell, an alumnus of the development program.
"I'm hopefully going to make my dreams come true and get into the top 100 and then after that, I will definitely be shooting for the top 50," she said.Gold Coast siblings Hayden and Emerson Jones already have a taste of it, the teenagers sitting 35th and 23rd respectively in the world junior rankings.
The family plans to continue travelling the circuit this year as the children compete at the junior French and US Opens, as well as Wimbledon."I don't really like being away from home too much, too long, so when Mum, Dad and Emerson are there, it makes it easier for me, I enjoy it a lot more," Hayden Jones said.
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