EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Robertson Aiming High As The 17-Year-Old Looks To Use New York And A Summer With The Murrays As The Springboard To Success

Life comes at you fast. Charlie Robertson is only 17, but he has already traveled far and fast and has no intention of slowing down or limiting his horizons.
At three, he was hitting tennis balls against a wall at Arbroath Tennis Club. This summer, he was hitting balls with World No. 9 Grigor Dimitrov and helping Andy Murray prepare for his Olympic swansong.
If the summer of 2024 is the most spectacular moment in the young Scot’s highlights, there is the promise of more to come. Robertson, whose pace across the pitch is clear, is a young man in a hurry.
“It all happened quite quickly,” he says of his relationship with the Murray brothers. “It’s a bit strange to be so close to players who were and still are your idols, but it’s also absolutely fantastic.”
It is also an extraordinary boost at a time when Robertson needs it, as he moves from the stability of funding to the wider, less certain world of trying to find his way in a sport that demands much of its aspirants.