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She is a superb mimic of nature’s aural realm — the sounds of animals, of a river, of trees in the wind, of rocks falling down a hillside.

But things spiralled rapidly for Boulter in set two as she struggled to find any rhythm, falling down a double break and struggling to find the answers.

A fall down the stairs at his home in County Tyrone left him paralysed from the chest down with limited use of his limbs.

She had fallen down the pecking order with Chelsea's Hannah Hampton looking increasingly likely to secure the number one spot for this summer's championship.

"They don't like the asylum seekers, they hit me in the back and I fell down," he says.