“People are paying £200,000 a year for the kids to be coached in America,” 9-year-old prodigy Fletcher Davies selected to represent Britain faces tough reality check bearing the unforgiving expenses and unfair tennis

The youngster is standing tall against best-coached players.

“People are paying £200,000 a year for the kids to be coached in America,” 9-year-old prodigy Fletcher Davies selected to represent Britain faces tough reality check bearing the unforgiving expenses and unfair tennis

9-year-old Fletcher Davies (Image via Yahoo)

Tennis is an expensive sport but that does not stop passionate kids from pursuing a career in it. Fletcher Davies, a 9-year-old boy from Great Britain is on his way to making a big career for himself in tennis with his parents doing everything at their disposal.

While Davies does not need to spend on coaching as his mother Melissa is doing it for him, he still has to spend on traveling and equipment.

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Nevertheless, Davies’ parents are proud of their child for standing up against players who spend a hefty money on coaching. His father. Leighton says that they are happy about the support Davies is getting from his sponsors (Wilson) and other people which is eventually helping him compete against players who take world-class coaching.

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He also pointed out the unfairness in the sport referring to the level of coaching different players get. However, Leighton says that his son or they do not hold any grudge against those players who can afford to spend £200,000 a year on coaching.

[Tennis] is a nice journey, but it is very expensive. It's a very unfair playing field, too, in so much as how affluent a lot of people that play tennis are. We know people are paying sometimes £200,000 a year for the kids to be coached in America in IMG [Academy]. Credit to them - we've got no grudge. We just compete with them.
Fletcher Davies’ father pointed out. (H/T: Yahoo)

Fletcher Davis gets ready to represent Great Britain

Talking more about their son’s journey, Fletcher Davies’ parents revealed that the 9-year-old will be representing Great Britain in the under-11 age group against France in Nottingham in early May. Davies is one of the youngest players to have been selected for this tournament ever.

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Fletcher Davies (Image via Yahoo)

The 9-year-old gets enormous support from his parents as well as others around him. Davies was also gifted a racket by Stefanos Tsitsipas, one of his favorite players who wrote a special message for the young tennis star. Meanwhile, the 9-year-old wants to win all Grand Slam titles and his parents believe that he can go on to achieve new heights in the sport. 

That’s his ambition…we just support him. The big thing that we found with Fletcher…He picks anything up and he's just got to keep doing it until he perfects it. When he's under pressure, it doesn't affect him. He does the right things. The national coach says to him: 'You're the youngest here, but you're the gutsiest here.
Fletcher Davies father Leighton said

Davies seems to have great potential. The 9-year-old has played more than 320 matches and has won more than 250 of them. He also recently won the LTA Lexus Junior National Tour under-10 event in Bolton at the start of April. Now, the 9-year-old will hope to make the most of this new opportunity in Nottingham.

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