Benjamin Richard Edwin Cawston, known as Ben Cawston, is a Racquets (Rackets) player currently ranked no.1 in the World (March 2022) along with being champion of the world (April 2023).
[3] Cawston previously was the youngest player in history to win the British Amateur Singles Championship in 2017 (Aged 18) and played at the Queens Club, a tournament dating back to 1888.
Following this win, he was denied entry to the doubles tournament after professionals from the 14 top private schools voted narrowly to exclude state school players.
David Makey, a professional at Tonbridge School who chairs the Rackets Professionals Association (RPA), said the reason was that state schoolboys did not play in inter-school doubles matches on which the national seedings are based.
However, some insiders believe the real reason for the ban was that certain professionals feared that their own 'star players' might lose to Cawston and his doubles partner, Thomas Foster.