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At Lawn Tennis Association headquarters, Roehampton.

It's appropriate that has become the latest young player to put a smile back on the face of British tennis - she rarely stops grinning herself.

The bubbly 17-year-old, , is on a rare trip back to the UK as she prepares to turn professional and continues the launch of her senior career.

She will become a pro on her return to America next week; the next chapter in a story that began when she won the Guernsey under-eight and under-nine short tennis titles in 2000.

Watson's promise at tennis led to her moving at the age of 12 from the Channel Islands to on the west coast of Florida, where she has lived ever since. That may sound idyllic, but it meant leaving her friends and most of her family behind - and a lot of hard work on and off the tennis court.

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