BOLTON'S young tennis players are planning to serve plenty of talent to add to the debate about the future of British sport.

Members of Lostock Tennis Club's junior section will spend Saturday morning being filmed by TV crews and will be featured in a broadcast discussion about the issue later next month.

Up to 40 children, aged eight to 17, will appear in the film, which will be part of Granada TV's Late Debate at 11.30pm on September 14 when experts and the audience will discuss the state of all sports.

Among those taking part are expected to be the tennis club's rising young star, 17-year-old John Lister.

The popular Regent Road club's junior chairman, Mrs Joan Hermida, believes there is much more that the sport can do to encourage and support talented young players to one day produce a future Wimbledon champion.

Lostock Tennis Club has already doubled the numbers of children taking up the sport over the last two years by offering parents easy payment terms for coaching and the loan of equipment.

And for two years in a row the juniors have won the Bolton Sports Federation Tennis League. But Mrs Hermida believes that in general young tennis talent is not being exploited.

"I think personally the Lawn Tennis Association should employ someone to go round the clubs full time identifying the promising young players," she said. "There should be free coaching for those who show potential."