25/01/2018 Newsround

Good morning - you're watching

Newsround with me, Ricky.

First today, we're talking

about Kyle Edmund -

the tennis player from Yorkshire

who's about to step out

onto the court to play

in the semi-finals of

the Australian Open Grand Slam.

These kids from Kyle's old school

have been sending their support...

We would all like to give you a

really good luck and I hope you do

well in this semifinal.

Good luck,

Kyle, playing in the semifinals. I

hope you have a good time.

It's

really inspiring because I'm in the

same class and feet as him. So I

just feel really inspired and really

grateful that someone hours but was

famous came to our school as well.

I

feel really proud because he came

here and now I'm here and I might

become a good sports but unlike him.

Good luck, Kyle. Our teachers are

really looking forward to you doing

it!

Go, Kyle! You are doing really

good. And you were so kind to, and

spent a day at our school and come

and sign 380 tennis balls. We have

kept all the tennis balls. Go, Kyle!

Good luck!

Well that lot are all backing him.

But what about the experts?

The BBC's Russell Fuller

is in Australia, so we asked him

what he thinks about Kyle's

chances...

No British man other than Andy

Murray has reached this stage of the

Australian open for over 40 years.

Kyle Edmund is fairly quiet, fairly

reserved. He loves his football and

is a big Liverpool fan. He's also

into Formula 1 and motorbikes. He is

an underdog but playing with a lot

of confidence and hits his forehand

more powerfully than virtually any

other man on the tour.

In other sport news,

Arsene Wenger's side took a big step

closer to League Cup victory last

night after Arsenal beat Chelsea.

Chelsea started well

when Eden Hazard put them ahead.

But Arsenal levelled

after a double deflection resulted

in an Antonio Rudiger own goal.

The winner came at 60 minutes

when Granit Xhaka secured his team's

place in the finals at Wembley

in a month's time.

The victory is a boost

for the Gunners who've dropped

to sixth place in the Premier

League.

They're hoping to win their first

trophy in five years.

Next, we're talking

about young carers.

These are young people who have

to look after parents or siblings

who struggle to care for themselves

because of illness.

Tens of thousands of children

in the UK care for an adult

in their life and Newsround has been

hearing from kids who care

for relatives suffering

from mental illness.

This is Charlotte's story.

One of the first elements I remember

about caring for my mum was that she

never really used to be able to do

things other mums would do. Every so

often, things would get way too much

for her and she'd have to go and lay

down or withdraw herself from

situations and as a kid, that would

make me feel really bad so I'd try

to make our feel happy or do things

for her or draw things for her to

lighten the mood. I see other mums

lifting up their kids and going

running with them and stuff and I'd

be like, why can't man do that for

me? There was an absence of this

kind of fine blubbing -- fun loving

mum that I used to know, really. But

she couldn't help it. I didn't blame

her for it but I knew something

wasn't right. A certain teacher

helped me realise that something

really was wrong. She's one of the

first people that I ever told and I

got the support that I needed. I

just break down in tears. I wasn't

sad, it was just kind of the

realisation that that was was wrong

and at that point it was, oh, my

God, that's what's wrong. And she

nodded at me. And she said, you know

what, that's OK. We are going to

work three days. It sounds really

cliched, but at that moment, I

didn't feel like I was completely

alone any more. There's a lot of

experiences to be had and some of

them will be good and some bad.

That's OK because being a young

carer have definitely made me who I

am. I wouldn't be half as resilient

if I hadn't gone through that. I

know how to deal with the

disappointments or the anxieties

because I've seen my mum go through

it for one and I've had to go

through it with her.

Head online where you can find

more about what it means

to be a young carer.

We will be joined by a young care --

a young carer live in the studio in