What hope in there for British tennis in the short-term future?
“Andy Murray is the best British player in the open era. He is a potential world number one and a potential Wimbledon and multiple Grand Slam champion. A player like Laura Robson will rise fast. She is arguably the best female junior in the world and the fact that we were gutted when, at the age of 15, she lost narrowly to Daniela Hantuchova, a top 30 and former top 10 player, on her Grand Slam main draw debut says it all. In Anne we have a woman who is close to the top 50 and there are a few others close to breaking into the top 100. Many other countries would do anything to be in our position. Q. None of the 10 Brits in this year’s boys’ singles reached the tournament via their ranking – eight were wildcards and two came through qualifying. With only one of those boys reaching round three, is this another generation lost? “Absolutely not. We have a big pool of 16 and 17-year-olds and we’ve got to work with them for four or five years before we will know if they’ve got a reasonable ch
