The 20-year-old, who is 661 in the world, has been catapulted into the media spotlight after beating a player ranked nearly 550 places above him and winning a place in the second round.Eaton, who drives a battered Vauxhall Astra with one wing mirror covered in duct tape and strings his own rackets before each match, has been backed all the way by his parents.He still lives with Mike and Sue Eaton at the family's £750,000 house in the village of East Horsley, near Guildford. His 56-year-old father runs his own computer business. They were watching nervously as their son competed in his first ever Wimbledon on Tuesday and sitting beside them in the stands was blonde Emma Cowles, 20, a Sussex University and model.
British qualifier Chris Eaton's Wimbledon adventure ended with a second-round defeat at the hands of Russian 25th seed Dmitry Tursunov.Eaton's big serve had helped him beat seven players to reach this stage but it could not help him here.Tursunov needed a tie-break to take a close first set but quickly stretched away as the world number 661 faltered.The support of a vocal crowd on Number One Court could not turn things around and Eaton lost 7-6 (7-2) 6-2 6-4.
