Lithgow's Emerson Banning pushes her way up through the tennis ranks

The rising tennis star won her way through to the NSW All Schools Championships in Bathurst on Monday and Tuesday, March 25 and 26, after participating at the NSWCCC Tennis Championships in Sydney.

Banning said she had played tennis for almost five years and loved everything about the sport.

"I love everything about it, like being by myself, it's just me out there on that tennis court," she said. 

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She said she hoped to get more match experience out of the All Schools Championships as she was up against good players.

"It's a good pathway for me and I think I was pretty prepared heading into the games," she said.

Banning had trained three nights a week in Sydney and as much as she could in Lithgow before the All Schools Championships, and now waits to see if her hard work has paid off.

"If I do well at the All Schools the next stage is School Sport Australia in which I will get to travel to Adelaide and compete in May," she said.

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