Elena Vesnina joked that her surprise run to her first grand slam singles semi-final is due to #TheLendlEffect, a hashtag her mixed doubles partner Bruno Soares coined a few weeks ago on Twitter.

Ivan Lendl reunited with Andy Murray before the Queen’s tournament last month which led to the Scot winning a record fifth title there.

Soares, who plays doubles with Andy’s brother, Jamie, later took to Twitter, starting this exchange with Vesnina.

It is three weeks later and Vesnina finds herself in the Wimbledon semi-finals and ready to take on Serena Williams. She laughed when I reminded her of #TheLendlEffect.

“You see, I have it now. I need to speak about that with Bruno. That’s true actually. Good that you mentioned that. That’s definitely the Lendl effect,” she chuckled.

Explaining The Lendl Effect to the rest of the room, the Russian added: “That was Bruno Soares, my mixed doubles partner, he tweeted three weeks ago at the Queen’s tournament… there is a hashtag – Lendl effect – because he’s playing with Jamie Murray, who is brother of Andy Murray, who won Queen’s. They won, as well. They were winning some tournaments. There’s definitely a Lendl effect.

“I tweet them back ‘I’m your partner in mixed doubles, I’m your partner as well’. He said ‘you will see, you will get it’.

“I am in semi-final of Wimbledon. There is something in it.”

I passed Lendl in the hallway the other day, surely The Lendl Effect will reach me somehow, right?