Women who get double the attention

Kim Sears, the girlfriend of British tennis player Andy Murray.

Wives and girlfriends of tennis stars serve up the most headlines.

IN July, on a searingly hot day, as the tennis player Andy Murray closed in on a historic sporting achievement to be the first British man to win a Wimbledon singles title since Fred Perry in 1936 the BBC cameras kept shifting their gaze from one key character to another as the match entered what would be its final game.