Teenage British tennis starlet Laura Robson sported a rainbow hair band during her first round exit on Margaret Court Arena at the Australian Open yesterday, less than a week after tennis legend Court’s controversial and homophobic comments about gay marriage.

The 17-year-old took to the court to face Jelena Jankovic wearing a rainbow coloured headband that she had improvised with multicoloured fabrics having entered the grand slam aware of the recent comments made by Court – now an evangelical Christian pastor – where she accused gay relationships of being “unhealthy, unnatural unions”.

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