FROM Wimbledon to Warrington.

If today's announcement of the former head of tennis in this country as the new man at the helm of The Halliwell Jones proves anything, it is that the Wolves ambition to be at the very top of the game shows no sign of slowing down.

Roger Draper's appointment as replacement for Andy Gatcliffe as chief executive is a serious statement of intent.

The Wolves are looking to not just be at the head of the game in England, but to be the top club across the world.

Not that the club's ambition has really ever been in doubt.

Just last year Emirates came on board as shirt sponsor in by far the biggest deal in the sport in this country.

While the ill-feted Tru Vape e-cig deal further shows the pulling power in the club. One look around the advertising hoardings shows there is barely a space left to sell.

On the field, the players enjoy the best too.

Pre-season this year took them to Tenerife while two of the previous three seasons saw them winter in Australia for three weeks.

The new indoor centre at the club's University of Chester training base in Padgate is a sight to behold and the envy of the league.

And Tony Smith, a man not known for his long tenures in coaching but recognised as the best in the UK game, is still at Warrington six years after joining.

There is also little doubting over the ability to lure the best playing talent - this year reigning Man of Steel Daryl Clark and NRL's form prop Ashton Sims have joined following on from capturing high-profile internationals like Adrian Morley and Matt King in the recent past.

But it is off the field where Draper will be expected to shine.

The club currently turns over £6million a year and Draper will be tasked with making that grow.

One quick search on Google will show that here is a man who drew mixed reactions while at the Lawn Tennis Association.

His £640,000 a year salary was criticised in Parliament while the failure to produced any top 100 elite players in the men's game outside Andy Murray also took up many a column inch in the national newspapers.

But off court, turnover doubled and commercial revenues rose by three-and-a-half times.

And in his previous jobs at Sport England he helped win the bid for London to host the 2012 Olympics.

Warrington Guardian: The London Olympic Stadium, pictured during the 2012 event

And it is this that will have impressed the brains trust of club owner Simon Moran, chairman Steven Broomhead and acting chief executive Norman Summers when they decided to appoint him.

Although it is understood his salary is nowhere near the level when he was at the LTA.

He will takeover full time in March, five months before Warrington's penultimate away game of the regular season at Wakefield.

Why does that matter?

Well on the same July 12 date is the Wimbledon men's singles final.

And after 77 years, Andy Murray won that famous trophy when Draper was still in charge.

Warrington Guardian: Andy Murray celebrates winning his first Wimbledon title.

Could October 10 see Warrington finally win the league title after a 60 year wait?