‘Beyond gorgeous' – Professional model to make Wimbledon debut
A professional model will be making her debut at Wimbledon on Monday night.
Carson Branstine will take on tournament favourite and world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka on Court 1.
Branstine, 24, has gone through a different path than many tennis stars to reach South West London.
The Sun reported the Canadian is currently ranked world No 190 and has had to find other ways of financing her WTA tour career.
The brunette has been able to earn enough money through modelling to pay for her tennis expenses.
Branstine has opened up about juggling the two different jobs and insisted that she did not want a handout.
'I love being in front of the camera during a shoot. It's fun, I love fashion,' she said.
'It's been one of the reasons I've been able to pay some of my trips.
'I didn't want to ask my parents for anything. I wanted everything to come from me and from my tennis.
'I wasn't signed by these agencies because of my tennis, it was for my look.
'Modelling and tennis are weirdly similar: you are an object a lot, and people sometimes forget you're a person too.'
She reached Wimbledon through the qualifying rounds.
She won three matches, including a victory against Lois Boisson, who was a French Open semi-finalist.
Branstine will be up against it in her clash with top seed Sabalenka.
Reacting to the draw she took to social media and posted: 'Maybe one day I'll get a good draw LOL.'
Despite her lowly tennis ranking, she has still built up a strong fanbase of 20k followers on Instagram.
Her account is full of pictures from her tennis and modelling lives.
And fans are usually full of praise for her looks as she has been hailed 'beyond gorgeous.'
While other fans have called her 'Goddess of Olympus' and 'perfection'.
Branstine has seen her tennis career stall in the past due to injuries.
She endured five years on the sidelines as she needed surgeries on both hips and both knees.
The ace has also assisted a lawyer for a year and attended court cases in family law.
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