Tennis ace Georgia nets GCSE exam success

ONE of UK’s brightest tennis prospects, from Leeds, has proved you can combine high-level sporting achievement with academic success by achieving seven A*s and two As in her GCSEs.

By The Newsroom

Published 25th Aug 2011, 14:33 BST

Georgia Craven, 16, who lives near Leeds, is currently Britain’s No 1 under-18 female tennis player.

The Leeds Grammar School pupil described how she had to combine intensive training for the qualifying rounds of Junior Wimbledon with her revision.

“I’m really pleased,” she said.

“Wimbledon was just after my exams finished so I was training for it and trying to work for my exams at the same time.

“Sometimes it is tough because I have to make sacrifices, especially with my social life.”

But she added: “It’s worth it though because I love my tennis.”

Now Georgia is heading for the sixth form at the independent West Yorkshire school and seems intent on keeping the pressure on herself with A-level choices of maths, further maths, physics and economics.

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