IT IS easy enough to imagine the scenario which brought about the picture of Laura Robson to the left.

While trying to practice, our young starlet has obviously been hailed by a Lawn Tennis Association blazer-wearing type swilling a Pimm’s while adjusting his cravat.

“What ho there! Young Miss Robson, I think you will find that you hold the bat thingy with the stringy end and hit the ball with the hard bit. Now do it properly or we will remove your funding!”

Fortunately British hopes of success at Wimbledon this year remain intact as Andy Murray is Scottish and has been genetically programmed over many generations to ignore upper class English buffoons.