RISING tennis star Luke Turnbull is aiming for the top after bringing home three medals as he represented Great Britain for the first time.

The North Berwick High School pupil was part of Team GB, travelling to the INAS (International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability) World Tennis Championships in Paris this month.

The competition saw countries from throughout Europe, as well as Australia, compete, with Luke, a member of North Berwick Tennis Club, picking up three medals.

Mum Grace was hopeful that would be the start of an impressive career for the 15-year-old.

She said: “There is no reason why he cannot get to number one in the world.

“It would mean full-time training but the potential is there.

“There is nobody else coming through at his age and he will get bigger and stronger.

“Hopefully he can see a pathway and some hard work will certainly take him to the top three.”

Luke teamed up with Thomas Mellor, of Cheltenham, at the event, which is for athletes with an intellectual impairment.

Luke has auditory processing disorder, which affects about five per cent of school-aged children.

Youngsters with the condition cannot process what they hear in the same way as other children because their ears and brain do not fully co-ordinate.

The duo took bronze in the European side of the competition, with Team GB also clinching silver for the team event on the European side of the competition and bronze for the world.

Grace added: “It is an adult event and he was the youngest male to be picked.

“That was his first international and we were just back on Sunday.

“There were five people in the team, with one female and four males.

“Great Britain had a very, very strong team and all the other boys, they are in their 20s. It is a very, very high level.”

The competition has given Luke, of North Berwick’s Dall Hollow, a thirst to experience the international stage.

She added: “He did not realise how big and strong some of the players are.

“Some were 10 years older than him.

“One of the Australian boys trains full-time, six days a week, at a tennis academy.

“[Luke] is going to have to raise his game but he has got time on his hands.

“He was the youngest [male] by far – nobody else was under 20 years old.

“He has got an opportunity – if he gets his head round it. He has the potential of being number one in the world, certainly the top three.”