French player Adrian Mannarino has complained about Wimbledon’s famous ball boys and girls being treated with undue reverence - after he was penalised for barging into one of the youngsters during a match.

The 29-year-old was yesterday fined £7,000 after he bumped into the ball boy while walking back to his chair during his second-round victory over Japan's Yuichi Sugita.

Serbian umpire Marijana Veljovic judged the collision to be deliberate and docked Mannarino a point for “unsportsmanlike conduct”.