Under 12s tennis champion comes from Marbella

SPAIN has a great record in recent years for both male and female tennis success and it was just recently that Manolo Santana was recognised locally for his success 50 years ago at Wimbledon.

Now a new force in Spanish tennis, Emma Sanchez from Marbella, has won a flurry of under-12s titles within Spain and this talented young woman will continue to take the Spanish tennis world by storm.

So far this year, she has won tournaments in Barcelona, Seville and Valencia as well as the prestigious Madrid Open.

Training on a daily basis at the Tennis Brothers Club in Nueva Andalucia and coached by Bernard and Frank Frances, Emma has shown great promise and as she gets older, so it is hoped that she will start to enter international tournaments as well.