Thongsbridge Tennis Club’s Barney Fitzpatrick is the Scottish Junior Indoor champion.
He travelled to Scotstoun Tennis Centre in Glasgow as the No3 seed and proved his selection for the GB team well deserved.
Fitzpatrick won his Round of 16 and quarter-final matches in straight sets, dropping only four games on the way.
His hardest match was in the semi-finals against his teammate Matthis Ross, Fitzpatrick eventually came out on top 6-4 6-1 but it was a tough encounter.
He then completed the successful trip by overcoming local talent Charlie Miller 6-2 6-0 in the final and becoming the Scottish champion.
Meanwile, Gabriella Lindley, one of the up-and-coming stars at the Thongsbridge club, won the 9-and-under Lancashire County Tour event at South Ribble Tennis Centre.
She was the No2 seed and was in great form on the day.
Gabby played six matches in a round robin competition, winning all of them without dropping a set and collecting the winner’s medal.
British No2 Dan Evans has risen to a career-best world ranking of 123.
The 23-year-old from Birmingham, who played in his maiden ATP semi-final last week, moves up from 147 in the world rankings.
The top 100 claim automatic entry to the main draw of all Grand Slams.
Other than current world NO6 Andy Murray, the last British player to approach the top 100 was Alex Bogdanovic, who climbed to 108 in 2008.
Evans made the main draw at last week's tournament in Zagreb only as the ‘lucky loser’, having lost to Germany's Bjorn Phau in the qualifying rounds. However, when Radek Stepanek withdrew with a heel injury, he seized his chance. He eventually lost in the semi-finals to top seed Tommy Haas, who came back from a set down to win 5-7 6-4 6-3.
Last year Evans reached the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time at the US Open, made the third round at Queen’s Club and played in the GB victories against Russia and Croatia in the Davis Cup.
However, after losing in qualifying at the Australian Open in January, he was left out of the GB Davis Cup squad in favour of teenager Kyle Edmund.
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