Oliver Golding
Oliver Golding (born 29 September 1993) is an English tennis player and former child actor. He was the youngest junior British number one, and the 2011 U.S. Open Boys' Champion.
Golding is a Youth Olympic Games gold medallist, having won gold in the boys' doubles event in tennis at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics with Czech partner Jiří Veselý, with whom he participated in the boys' doubles at the 2010 U.S. Open. On 11 September 2011, he won the Junior Boys' Singles US Open championship.
Golding became a professional tennis player in 2011 after winning the US Open junior championship.
Tennis
Early career
In 2004, Golding began playing tennis for the Esporta Riverside Club, Chiswick, and later that year went to Wimbledon, under the Lawn Tennis Association's "Ariel Champions of the Future" scheme, to meet former professionals Martina Navratilova and Todd Woodbridge.
On 27 November 2005, in the first ever Aberdeen Cup tennis match, Golding was selected to represent England in one of the junior matches, beating Scotland's Scott Lister 11 games to 4 in their "tie-break" style rubber, to square the match however, Jamie Murray and Elena Baltacha won their subsequent doubles game, to secure a Scottish victory. It was claimed on the Guardian Unlimited website that Golding had "impressed Andy Murray when he played for England against Scotland".