At Wimbledon Golf Club, Caroline Weir’s face is being powdered, her hair looped in giant neon pink rollers. The Manchester City and Scotland midfielder is chatting animatedly, relaying how envious her younger brother is about who she will be meeting today. Moments later, Andy Murray ambles in and says hello. Weir shakes his hand serenely while he asks about her trip to London, before introducing himself to everyone in the room.

I ask if it is the first time Weir has met Murray. She nods, laughing at the absurdity of it all and pointing to her rollers. “I was trying to play it cool,” she jokes.

Despite Weir’s nerves, this is a meeting of two major players in Scottish sport. One is already legendary, the other up and coming, but both are now joined through more than their country of birth. Here, in Telegraph Women’s Sport, the pair exclusively announce their new partnership, as Weir becomes the first female footballer to sign for Murray’s sports agency.

Growing up playing football in Dunfermline, Weir has always known the power of a male ally. From the boys on her first team when she was aged five, to her father who acted as her taxi driver when she played for Hibernian in her teens, right up to the male coaches at her Women’s Super League clubs, who helped mould her into one of the country’s most- feared midfielders.

Now the 24-year-old can count Murray on that list, too, in joining the three-time grand-slam champion’s 77 Sports Management team. Murray says he was inspired ahead of last year’s women’s football World Cup, seeing the build-up to the tournament, and growing hype around the women’s game. He advised his team to scout out “the best” potential signings and Weir, a two-time FA Cup winner, was their top choice – despite her self-deprecating quip that the rest of the best “were probably all busy”.

Minutes after meeting, Weir and Murray are thrust into a joint photo shoot. But, despite being virtual strangers, they quickly develop an easy rapport.