Andy Murray defends his Wimbledon championship Virginia Wade describes Mauresmo appointment as a 'joke' Tennis is part of a sporting landscape in which only 31 per cent of coaches are women By Laura Williamson Follow @@laura_mail The most remarkable aspect of Andy Murray beginning the defence of his Wimbledon gentleman’s singles title is not that he is the first British man to do so for 77 years, but that there will be a female coach in the players’ box on Centre Court. Amazing, isn’t it? You wait all this time for a British men’s champion and then he turns out to be a groundbreaker in more ways than one.
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Andy Murray defends his Wimbledon championship
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Virginia Wade describes Mauresmo appointment as a 'joke'
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Tennis is part of a sporting landscape in which only 31 per cent of coaches are women
@placeholder, maybe still slightly irked that her 1977 Wimbledon triumph has been overshadowed by a British man doing the business, thinks it ‘a joke’, while others resort to pig-headed sexism when considering Murray’s revolutionary act.