How not to be a tennis parent
Pushy parents are well documented in tennis - BBC Sport looks at when things get out of hand and asks if the system is to blame.
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Sport InsightHow not to be a tennis parentPublished19 minutes agoImage source, BBC Sport/Getty ImagesByKatie Gornall, BBC Sport correspondent and Kieran Fox, Senior journalistBy the time Ellie-Rose Griffiths was nine, she had left school to train full-time. That was when tennis stopped being just a game and became her life.The former top-ranked junior player would go on to compete alongside some of the top names in British tennis including Katie Boulter, Emma Raducanu and Harriet Dart before stopping playing at 19 because she was burned out and not enjoying it any more.When the 27-year-old looks back now, it is not just the tennis she remembers.
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