2016 Wimbledon Women's Singles First Round - Tara Moore beat Alison Van Uytvanck 6-3,6-2 and becomes first British woman to reach the second round Tuesday June 28,2016

There were plenty of moments during her tussle with Alison Van Uytvanck yesterday in which Tara Moore had to demonstrate mental fortitude - yet she prevailed each and every time.

Little wonder, then, that the British No 4 was effusive in her praise of her mental coach Tony Lekic after achieving her maiden Wimbledon win.

There is a growing trend of tennis players turning to such psychologists as they pursue the marginal gains - those imperceptible one per cent boosts - that they believe make all the different between success and failure.