Woodbridge won his first Challenger Tour event in Hobart in the late ’80s, his first ATP doubles tournament a couple of years later with Simon Youl, and now sees Youl’s charge, Harry Bourchier, as representative of the future of Australian tennis.

Nineteen-year-old Bourchier was runner-up at the Mildura Grand International last week, having made the semi-final of the Launceston International in February.

‘‘I’ve seen him play a lot coming through our development programs,’’ Woodbridge said.

‘‘Harry is an excellent talent that still needs time to pull everything together.

‘‘He is a great ball striker who can really play, but the whole package is also having physical and mental ability.

‘‘Harry is maturing and working hard on that and coping with the travelling, expectation and pressures.

‘‘He reminds me of [Yevgeny] Kafelnikov or [Marat] Safin in the way he plays, that is what he is capable of.

‘‘He is certainly going to be another contender for us in Australian tennis.’’

Woodbridge retained fond memories of teaming up with Youl to win the 1990 Moroccan Open in Casablanca, the first title of his 83 career doubles titles.

‘‘He was an excellent doubles partner,’’ he recalled.

‘‘It was only back issues which stopped him from achieving a super-high ranking but he was a quality player, and that was an opportunity for me to play with an established player.

‘‘We were going to partner up more after that, but his back stopped that.’’