The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) has approached the body responsible for overseeing the majority of the country's Olympic disciplines in a bid to boost its chances of success in the build up to the London Games.

UK Sport confirmed the news at its Mission 2012 progress briefing today as it claimed British Olympic and Paralympic sports had never been better placed to succeed with just over two years to go before the Games.

Outgoing chief executive John Steele said: "It's about everyone being open and honest about where they think they are, what challenges need to be satisfied.

"And that's why tennis have now said, 'We want to be in the Mission 2012 process.'"

Andy Murray's failure to win Wimbledon earlier this month meant a British man has not won a Grand Slam singles title since Fred Perry won the US Open in 1936.

Wade was the last British woman to claim a Grand Slam title, triumphing at Wimbledon 33 years ago.

Britain's last Olympic medal in tennis came at Atlanta in 1996 when Tim Henman and Neil Broad won the silver medals in the doubles.

The last gold medals were won at Antwerp in 1920 when Oswald Turnbull and Max Woosnam claimed the men's doubles and Kathleen McKane and Winifred McNair the women's doubles.

The last British player to claim a singles title was Edith Hannam, who won the indoor event at Stockholm in 1912.

UK Sport's director of performance Peter Keen said tennis would be subject to the same scrutiny as the 27 other sports he currently oversees.

UK Sport employs a traffic-light system in which Olympic and Paralympic disciplines that meet their targets are rated green, with the rest tagged amber or red depending on the seriousness of the challenges. Britain finished fourth in the Olympic medals table at the 2008 Beijing Games, and second in the Paralympic table.

Keen said: "What the LTA have seen in this process is an ability to take what perhaps for them is a blurry picture of where they're at and take it apart into those 30 different pieces and have a serious look at what seems to be working and what isn't.

"And with our support, having the experience of looking at all the other sports in this way for more than three years now, we're able to encourage them to think, 'You may think that's where it needs to be but actually it could be a hell of a lot different'.

"It's early days but I think when they first saw the tool - the process that comes with this - and we impacted with them, their eyes lit up, because they could see a way of rationalising their thinking and their planning."

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