Wimbledon Bits:THEY WERE trying to shake up Rafa Nadal yesterday before his game against Andy Murray.

One newspaper ran a headline “Andy’s rival today? A mummy’s boy who is afraid of the dark.”

Nadal reportedly lives in an apartment block in Majorca with his uncle Toni’s family, his sister and his mother.

He also appears to have an obsessive compulsive disorder because on court he lines up his drink bottles in a straight line with the labels facing the right way. Rafa is also afraid of the dark and sleeps with the light and television on, while he has a recurring nightmare that he is struck by lightning on court.

Mercer rues Robson remarks

PORTLY BBC commentator David Mercer has landed himself in some trouble after saying the darling of Britain’s juniors, Laura Robson, needs to lose some puppy fat.

The 60-year-old was forced to apologise to the 16-year-old for his live broadcast on the BBC’s red button service. Never mind the eating disorder charities that are on his case, Robson’s mother is also fuming.

“She doesn’t have any fat to lose. She is still growing. You can’t touch her weight at that age,” said Mrs Robson.

“I don’t know him. He doesn’t know us.”

Why Murray is English

THE SUNnewspaper helpfully explained to their readers yesterday why Andy Murray is English and not Scottish.

His “gran” is from Newcastle and he is “very close” to her. He claims to hate the taste of alcohol, which proves he couldn’t be Scottish. He wears Fred Perry clothes. He lives in Surrey. His girlfriend Kim Sears is English and so is her dad, Nigel. Once he said “I am not anti-English.”

Murray Mints are made by Bassett’s a firm founded in Sheffield.

He eats sandwiches daily.

Clear as daylight, then.