In the absence of any outdoor running....

[Seafront Plodder]

Yes she won Junior Wimbledon a couple of years ago age just 14 (against 18 year olds), and is our big hope of getting a Brit into the top 50 sometime soon. A sad indictment in itself considering her age.

As soon as she won JW, you guys (well Pat Cash anyway) tried to claim her as she was born in Oz.

I've been watching The Hopman Cup too. Caught Laura and Murray in the mixed recently which was quite a novelty. She looked totally out of her depth at the net, but Murray's a class act and they saw off an Azerbaijan (sp) pair in 3 sets.

She's not the first girl to mature very early as a tennis player; think Capriati, Hinges and (remember) Tracey Austin? but she seems level-headed and if she continues to improve could be top 10 in a couple of years. Let's face it outside of her and Murray we've got no one else who can compete with the seeds.



Bring on the Aussie Open, at least that'll (...insert some anti-cricket remark here...)