If there is one thing you can guarantee from the two-week media frenzy that is the Wimbledon Championships, it is that on more occasions than I would like to admit my fellow scribes are a source of acute embarrassment.

I’m not referring to the insight they offer from courtside - after all who could resist sneaking a peek over the shoulder of Simon Barnes to see what romantic flourish he is penning while watching Andy Murray?

But rather the peculiar beast that is the SW19 press conference, where a pack of journos crowd an oft just-beaten player and bully him into submission with a volley of inane or just plain mystifying questions.

Take poor Ivo Karlovic for example - not only was he blown away by Roger Federer on Wednesday, but after fielding the first question, ‘Was it a shock to be broken in your second service game?’ he was asked, barely a minute later, ‘Was it a bit of a shock to get broken so quickly today?’ Little wonder the poor Croatian looked lost for a moment before mumbling something about deja-vu.

So in honour of these enlightened moments, and in no particular order, come our best of the worst questions served up at Wimbledon this year.

To Victoria Azarenka (after she had just lost to Serena Williams) ‘So, did you get to see Venus play while you were in the locker room?’ - the point exactly?

To Laura Robson: ‘Do you think we should come up with a new name for Henman Hill, like Robson ridge or something? (shot down by Robson with the return ‘It’s not really a ridge is it? And I think at the moment it’s Murray’s Mound isn’t it?’ To Serena Williams: ‘There are many new names in the game, many not from America. Is it hard to know who’s who?’ - our good old American colleagues coming dangerously close to slipping into ‘not American = unimportant’ mode.

To Roger Federer: ‘When is the baby due?’ (response ‘I’m not saying’), followed by ‘The one thing you haven’t told us is when the baby is due.’ (response ‘I won’t tell you.’), followed by ‘Is it this fortnight?’ (response ‘What did I just say?’) To Andy Murray: ‘Did you know that Miss Scotland was coming to watch you?’ (Murray’s response: ‘No I didn’t.’) To Serena Williams: ‘Do you think fans are getting value for money in the women’s game this year? Three quarter-finals combined didn’t last as long as the Andy Murray night match.’ - yeah, come on Serena, can’t you drag these games out a bit longer, maybe even drop a set to spice things up a bit?

Add to these the fact that every female player who made it past the first round will be asked about Serena or Venus Williams (regardless of who they are playing next - heck even Murray was asked about them Wednesday), and every female player will at some stage be asked about grunting, their outfit, equal prize money etc and there is a horrible sense of deja-vu about the whole thing.

I’d like to say things will be better next year, but I wouldn’t count on it.