Watson: 'I can win a Grand Slam'

HEATHER WATSON showed how confident she is ahead of Wimbledon by warning her rivals that she will go into the championships believing she can become a Grand Slam winner.

Watson has enjoyed a meteoric rise over the last 18 months, climbing from 588th in the women's rankings to break into the world's top 100.

The 19-year-old has adapted well since stepping up from the junior ranks, reaching the quarter-finals of events in Auckland and Memphis before breaking Britain's 17-year wait for a woman to claim victory in the main draw at the French Open.

The Guernsey-born player, who moved to Florida at the age of 12 to train at the Nick Bollettieri academy, showed she is not short of self-belief when she claimed that she can be the first British woman to win Wimbledon in 34 long years.

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