A week has sped by since the world watched, enthralled, as Roger Federer became the greatest accumulator of grand slam titles in the history of the sport, as record crowds poured through the gates to enhance Wimbledon's position of tennis privilege, since when we anticipated a positive, meaningful response to its success from Britain's bosses and how they would energise a nation that followed the Championships in their millions. What have we heard? Nothing as yet.

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Roger Draper, the LTA chief executive, was very keen to let those fortunate few who met him at Wimbledon - the press was denied that happenstance because he did not come in to the media centre and was extraordinarily low key throughout - understand that the Championships were jointly run by Ian Ritchie, the All England Club's chief executive and himself. Early indications are that this was a bumper Wimbledon, recession notwithstanding, so the teamwork was obviously of an excellent order.

The only press conference held by the LTA during the fortnight (there has been not a squeak from them since) came on the third day when - in Draper's absence - Steve Martens, the player director, Paul Annacone the head coach of the men's game and Nigel Sears, the Fed Cup captain tried to explain away a barrage of British defeats and the one thing we did learn from it was that Martens, the Belgian, assumed total responsibility for the dearth of results.

Many people inside the sport here wonder why someone with an unremarkable track record should have been handed such a powerful position in the first place. The feeling among a number of the most respected coaches - those who have walked the walk and can thus talk the talk - is that the situation in Britain has never been worse. And individuals of the integrity of Tony Pickard and Billy Knight are the lifeblood of our sport, two men who should have a part to play in it now.

The lack of authority in British tennis is not something that simply troubles the Net Post. There are many vastly experienced sports writers who plunge into tennis for two weeks a year and are bewildered at what they discover. Take an old friend Oliver Holt, formerly of The Times and now the award-winning chief sports writer at the Daily Mirror. Holt pulled rank and wanted to go into the LTA briefing to see for himself what happened there. He wrote this the day after: "It would be nice to tell you today that the LTA was seething about Britain's worst showing at The Championships since 1968. It would be nice to tell you they were depressed. Or angry. Or dispirited. Or hopping mad. Or bewildered. Or dismayed. But actually, they were none of those things. Instead they seemed really rather chipper. We are certainly top seed at something: excuses."

Things did not get an awful lot better, but maybe it is just as well, for it limited the focus on whether there is an infrastructure wedded into place that could have coped with the clamour for courts should Murray have lifted the singles title. The results throughout lacked real sparkle - Laura Robson was beaten in the quarter finals of the girl's singles, the boys had a couple of first round winners but only one among them, Tom Farquharson, reached the last 16. It was all a bit embarrassing when, at the presentations on Centre Court after the men's and women's finals, Derek Howorth, the new LTA president, was afforded the time-honoured opportunity to meet and greet the champions and runners-up, and yet, when he tried, the players either ignored or didn't seem to notice him.

The week since has hardly covered anyone in glory. Anne Keothavong, the British No.1 did not see eye-to-eye with the organisation when Carl Maes was head of women's tennis and has, the Net Post hears, fallen out with the governing body again, this time over her desire to allow her father to help coach her. It has got to the stage where she prefers not to train at the National Tennis Centre - hardly a marketing success for a £40 million building - and does not want to wear a patch advertising AEGON, the LTA's new lead sponsor.

Jocelyn Rae, the 19-year-old striving to make the transition from junior to senior ranks and who lost in the semi finals of the Felixstowe tournament on Saturday, has also decided that she does not want to train at the NTC and has returned to her old coaching set up in Nottingham. Rae was among a worrying number of players who suffered leg injuries in the past six months.

The head of sports science, Ann Quinn, the Australian who, according to reports, earns over £200,000 a year, has been made a part-time employee after spending four months out of the country at the start of the year because she could not get her UK visa renewed. Her replacement, Kevin Stiles, will also work part-time. Can the LTA not find anyone who is prepared to work 52 weeks a year in British tennis? Why is all this part time employment being sanctioned?

After all the fanfare and fantastic achievements, we are back to the same old grim realities every which way you look.

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