Tim Henman's great chance had come, I suggested, when he reached the semi-final in 2001 and took on Goran Ivanisevic, who was at the fag-end of his career.
"It's about four hours and you've got all these desperate musicians trying to go for a fag and they don't want you to leave your seats and it's kind of not fun, " he explains.
Liberal Democrat spokesman David Laws said the rights had been drawn up "on the back of a fag packet" and shadow schools minister Nick Gibb said the process was a "complete waste of time".