It’s of little marvel that Story discovered a expertise for tennis, together with his mother and father and two older siblings all sport fanatics.
“Apparently I used to be whacking a little bit plastic ball with a picket spoon across the kitchen in my nappy,” he stated.
“My Saturday mornings consisted of soccer, tennis after which swimming, and all through the week there could be all kinds of issues occurring.
“I used to be round 10 or 11 once I began to tone it down and by 12 it was just about simply tennis.”
Story began taking part in at David Lloyd Cardiff and Lisvane Tennis Membership earlier than progressing to a training programme at Cardiff Met.
At 14 he began working with Tennis Wales’ Chris Lewis, at which level Story says “it turned fairly full on”, with Lewis saying “we are able to make one thing of this”.
“Chris was in a position to take me to a world degree. There was numerous travelling on the junior tour, taking part in in Australia, America, India – I acquired to see a variety of locations and Chris was by my facet for lots of them.
“I performed Junior Wimbledon. In 2018 I made the semi-finals of the doubles after which in 2019 I beat the quantity two seed within the first spherical after which misplaced.”
Story additionally competed on the Junior Australian Open and within the US Open qualifiers.
“I’ve had a style of the Slams and I am hungry for extra. I actually loved Australia, it might be good to return, that was a depraved expertise.”