A junior tournament in memory of Trey Swan, a talented player who died in 2002 at the age of 19 marks its tenth anniversary with this year’s event.

The Cadbury Open started at the W. E. R. Joell Tennis Stadium yesterday and will continue until next Friday, involving some of the Island’s top juniors. Swan was an avid player who travelled to Van Der Meer University in South Carolina with his coaches Brent Smith and Mackie Burgess to do skills training.

After his graduation from Berkeley Institute in 2000, Swan travelled to Nancy, France, as an international exchange student with an organisation called Youth for Understanding. He completed his postgraduate year at Lycee Jacques Callot, living with a host family and becoming fluent in written and spoken French.

When he returned to Bermuda, Swan’s immediate goals were to complete a business degree, build his own house and qualify as a tennis coach for juniors. He was a Duke of Edinburgh bronze and silver medal awardee and received merit badges for both expeditions. He completed his silver expedition in Aberdovey, Wales.

Swan was a summer student at the Bank of Bermuda for four summers and worked construction on Saturdays with a family friend. When he died, the Bank of Bermuda flew its flags at half-mast, an honour normally reserved for board members and senior management. The family friend with whom he worked on Saturdays, named his home “Trey’s Vision” in honour of the teenager whose parents described him as “an outgoing, very responsible and goal-centred young man who loved life, loved people and loved tennis”.

“He set goals and then went about achieving them,” his family said.

At the time of his death, he was a freshman at Bermuda College.

Cadbury has been the main sponsor for the tournament since its inception and Brent Smith, the director of Manders’ Island Tennis Academy, has been the driving force with funding from the Trey D. Swan Memorial Fund.