BLESSED with Hollywood looks and a 6 feet 2 inch frame, Naomi Broady has been turning heads since her teens but not necessarily for the right reasons.

The 24-year old made headlines seven years ago after a posting a picture of herself on Facebook posing provocatively in a minidress next to a condom machine in a nightclub toilet.

Girls might want to have fun but not when they are just 17 and receiving lottery funding, according to the Lawn Tennis Association, who issued an angry response and dropped her from their programme.

Her property developer father sold the family home to fund her ambitions and Broady carried on alone, travelling without a coach to tournaments around the world.

The row even fractured the family, to the point Broady’s brother Liam, and his father are no longer on speaking terms.

It seems far too high a price to pay for success but the guaranteed £43,000 she will bank for reaching the second round will still come as a welcome relief – and should keep her in the sport.

Broady produced a fine comeback to beat Hungary’s Timea Babos – world number 94 – 2-6, 7-6, 6-0 to reach a Grand Slam second round for the first time.

It was a gritty performance of resilience and determination, qualities Broady has required in recent years. Just 12 months ago she was on the verge of quitting tennis to become an au pair.

“It quite went over my head, the whole incident with the picture,” she recalled.

“It’s not really disrupted my tennis other than financially.

With tennis, it’s for you to go on court and win, and no one else is going to change that. It’s not because you’re not funded that you can’t win a match.”

“I quite like it because I’m boring,” she added. “I quite like that people are intrigued by my naughty side, which doesn’t exist. That’s great.’’