The teenage wheelchair tennis star taking on the world's best

Alfie Hewett is a rising tennis star who's just made his debut at the Wheelchair Tennis Masters in London.

He's 18 and has already won two Paralympic medals and a Wimbledon doubles title.

Now he's competing against some of the world's best players in the Masters.

Alfie knows he is going to have to get past some "extremely tough" players in order to lift the title.

So has he got what it takes?

Game One - played well - LOST!

It's a tough draw for Alfie.

Game one was against defending champion Joachim Gerard... who won in straight sets.

But speaking to Newsbeat after the match out on centre court, Alfie was still upbeat: "At this level, no game is ever going to be easy.

"Jo is extremely good on this surface.

"I just need to win my next two matches and then there is the possibility to progress to the semi-finals."

Whatever happens at the Masters, Alfie is already planning for 2017.

He told us: "I want to focus on Grand Slams and qualify for all of them, something which I can do now I am in the top eight men in the world."

Soundtrack to success

Whether it be out on court or in training, music plays an important role in Alfie's match preparations. He says Closer by The Chainsmokers was the song he played before all of his matches at the Paralympics in Rio.

However, like most of us he does have that one song on his playlist that he would rather not have people know about.

His guilty pleasure is...

"It was Carly Rae Jepsen's song from years ago but I was in training and it played out to everyone.

"They all stopped and looked at me as if to say 'really' - I was so embarrassed."

Alfie partnered Gordon Reid in Wimbledon this year, winning the men's doubles title

Rush hour double act

Alfie has not just had success in singles competitions in 2016.

Alongside British number one Gordon Reid, he has also shown himself to be a strong doubles player and uses one of his favourite films to describe why the partnership works.

Alfie said: "I reckon Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in Rush Hour is definitely a good way to describe me and Gordon.

"Gordon loves to joke around but can also get the job done when he needs to whereas I'd say I was Jackie Chan as I'm a bit more of the serious, sensible one - but that's why we make such a good team."

There's something 'crackers' about Alfie

Off the court, Alfie says that he likes nothing more than to take advantage of his Norwich City season ticket and spend his time with family and friends enjoying a good movie.

But Alfie does also have some rather unique talents, including his party piece of being able to "demolish" a whole packet of dry crackers at "super-quick" speed without water.

He said: "I don't why or how I can do that but it's kind of like once I start I just can't stop."

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