Monica Seles has given British teenage tennis sensation Laura Robson some
helpful advice ahead of her senior debut at Wimbledon next week.

The 15-year-old wildcard - who scooped the junior title 12 months ago - is
poised to become the youngest female to compete in the main draw since Martina
Hingis made her presence felt as a 14-year-old back in 1995.

Robson recently admitted that she would be under pressure, but she would just go
out and try her best, and nine time Gland Slam winner Seles, herself a teenage
prodigy, has now given some helpful words of advice to the youngster.

"She should go out there and enjoy it," said Seles.

Simplicity

"If she starts getting nervous just remember why you started playing tennis and
go back to that simplicity - that thought has helped me so much in my tennis
career.

"When you are on the world stage it's normal to get nervous and as Billie Jean
King said 'pressure is a privilege'."

But Seles, who rose to the top aged 17, said there is no manual available to
teach someone how to deal with all the attention.

"The only advice I ever got was just deal with it and go - in tennis you are
only as good as your last few tournaments - on the court you really don't have
much time to think so for me that was never really a problem," said the
American.

Fickle

Tennis is littered with players who never lived up to their early potential and
the 1992 Wimbledon finalist warned while all the attention can be intoxicating,
it can also be very fickle.

"After I got stabbed (at a Hamburg event in 1993) I got to see the other side
when I realised a lot of people didn't care about me once I wasn't number one,"
she said.

"It helped me learn who my true friends and supporters were."