Laura Robson wants to see more participation from the public in order to improve the standard of British tennis.
Youngster expects improvement from British players
Laura Robson believes that greater participation amongst the general public would improve the standard of professional British tennis.
The 16-year-old is currently the nation's brightest prospect in the sport having won the Junior Wimbledon title two years ago.
And along with the already established Andy Murray, she is considered Britain's brightest hope of ending a grand slams singles drought across both the men's and women's game that stretches back to 1977.
Robson thinks the standard amongst British women has been improving recently, but stated that more people need to play the sport in order to achieve long-term success.
"The girls are doing really well," she told
PA Sport.
"The boys could be better but we've still got Andy doing extremely well as usual. I'm sure everyone will start to do a bit better, particularly as most of them love playing on grass.
Public courts
"But I think more people playing would be the main thing (to improve British tennis).
"At the moment you don't really see that many people on public courts, you mostly see them playing football.
"Football is a good sport but so is tennis."
Robson recently spent a month in America playing on the ITF Tour, where she reached the semi-finals of the event in Dothan.
The youngster says she is pleased with the progress she has been making.
"It's so far so good," she added.
"I've just played four senior tournaments in America that went quite well and I've got a few more clay tournaments coming up and then the grass season.
"It's getting better and my ranking's getting better.
"I'm going to start getting into senior tournaments on my own ranking now rather than needing wild cards so that's going to help a lot. I've been enjoying it."
