With the grass-court season returning on Monday, and the focus switching firmly to London, with Queens, Wimbledon and the Olympics all in a short space of time, I think the Future Winner's feature should focus on the young up-and-coming British players.
While it seems Britain does reasonably well in the juniors it is often that a lot of players get lost in the transaction from Juniors to the main ATP tour, one youngster who is trying to make a success of that transaction is Oliver Golding
Oliver Golding is a former child actor of stage and screen, but he retired from that in order to persue a career in tennis.
His Juniors career was very successful as he became the youngest ever junior British number one, and the 2011 U.S.Open Boys Champion.
He is also a Youth Olympic Games gold medallist, having won gold in the boys' doubles event in tennis at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics with Czech partner Jiří Veselý.
After winning the Boys US Open Golding turned pro in 2011, fittingly his first appearance as a non-junior was at the Aegon Championships last year, held at Queens Club. Golding was given a wildcard but was knocked out by 2007 finalist Nicholas Mahut!
Golding still continues to play in junior events and has been successful in both boys Grand Slams and in doubles, he seems to get on well with the other British boys on tour and has teamed up with fellow Brit Liam Broady for doubles.
We will be seeing Oliver mixing with the pros again at the Aegon Championship where he has once again been awarded a wildcard, he will surely be hoping to advance further than last year, and prove that British junior talent can make a successful transaction to the main tour as he improves his ranking and plays more tournaments.
What do you think of Oliver Goldings chances next week? Is he the next British hope?
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