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WORLDS APART

- BY NEIL MCLEMAN Tennis Correspond­ent @Neilmclema­n

to take her up to the brink of the top 100. “I don’t feel any pressure,” said the Leicester City fan, 21. “I’m the underdog. I’m just going to go out there and enjoy every second of it.”

The duo lost in the doubles last night to No.14 seeds Lucie Hradecka and Taiwan’s Su-wei Hsieh 6-3 6-2. KYLE EDMUND’S Swedish coach is backing the British No.1 to claim his first ever title at Wimbledon.

But Fredrik Rosengren insists England will not win the World Cup.

Yorkshire’s Edmund faces American qualifier Bradley Klahn today with the potential prize of a third-round clash against Novak Djokovic up for grabs.

The world No.17 has never won an ATP title and only registered his first victory at the All England Club last year.

But his career took a huge leap by reaching the Australian Open semifinals in January.

And Rosengren said: “When I see Kyle during the year playing good tennis, I know he can easily play amazing tennis on grass.

“The surface doesn’t matter. He has to go to the tournament­s and think he can win.

“And absolutely he can win Wimbledon.

“We really think and believe that he can beat everybody. There’s absolutely no reason to think he can’t, for me. Because it is much more about the mental game.

“I think he has the strokes, all the tools that it takes to be very, very successful on this surface.”

Rosengren said Edmund benefited psychologi­cally from beating Andy Murray for the first time in Eastbourne.

And the Swede said his positive body language in his first match showed he is bearing the burden of being the home favourite this summer.

“We talk so much about these things and you could see he loved going on court,” said the 58-year-old.

“Not with his head down but with his chest out and saying, ‘I want to play here! I want to play in front of my home crowd. I enjoy playing. I want to show them how good I am’.”

Edmund admitted in Mirror Sport earlier this week (above) that he was thinking about the World Cup.

Rosengren said the banter had already started about Saturday’s quarter-final – and he reckons Sweden’s counteratt­acking style will snare England.

“We will be friends for a couple more days and then we see!” he laughed.

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