Poor Johnny, the LTA will go into panic-driven management, and try to appease the bloodhounds. The root of the problem, as Muzzard points out, is deeper:
I'm away a lot of the time but I turn up at the National Training Centre in Roehampton, the multi-million pound headquarters of British tennis and no one is there. I'm often looking for a partner to hit with.
A large number of British players only practise half the days in the year. The LTA have built the facilities but the players don't make the best use of them. When I go to the gym there never seems to be anyone in there.
There is something wrong with the mentality and work ethic of most of the British players. There doesn't seem to be anyone who's brutally honest about it either.
Not sure what can be done about this, but somehow the British system does need to be made more cutthroat (and supposedly less country-clubbish). Then again the Brits have all these talented young athletes trying to play football like the young man above :)
Update: Tim Henman, who had been rumored to be a replacement, ruled out interest in the job. After all, as he points out: "[y]ou're still going to have the same players. A coach or a captain is only as good as the players he has, and we need to produce better players."
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