Rising tennis teenager Charlotte Russell is continuing the good form she has shown over the past couple of weeks.

The 15-year-old, a pupil at High School for Girls in Gloucester, has powered into the quarter-finals of an under-18 International Tennis Federation clay court event at Bournemouth and is now set to play a girl from France for a place in the last four.

Charlotte couldn’t have made a better start to the tournament, winning her first-round match before defeating the number four seed and world ranked 453 in straight sets.

And she didn’t just scrape through as she walloped her luckless opponent 6-0 6-0 to fully justify the LTA’s decision to give her a wild card for the event.

Her dad Peter, a coach at David Lloyd Gloucester in Brockworth, said: “I was really pleased with the level of her performance today and the maturity she showed with her focus and concentration.”

Charlotte, who lives in Cheltenham, is certainly on something of a roll at the moment.

She competed in the 18&U GB National Championships in Edinburgh and won her first national title by clinching the 18&U doubles title with Hertfordshire’s Rachel Cranley and also reached the final of the singles competition.

She followed up her success by getting through the qualifying event of an 18&U ITF event, also in Edinburgh, to secure a place in the main draw where she went on to win her first main draw singles match. That brought with it her first 18&U world ranking points.

She took her excellent singles form into the ITF doubles event where she made it all the way to the final with Lily Hutchings from Lancashire.