A beauty blogger has become a laughing stock after posing for a sexy shoot on a tennis court holding a mosquito zapper instead of a tennis racquet.

Influencer Tamiria Rodrigues, from Minas Gerais, Brazil, can be seen posing on the court in just a brief pink bikini.

But even the laziest line judge would be able to spot that that is no racquet she is cradling in her hands.

Instead, Tamira is holding a battery-operated pest controller.

Batteries in the handle deliver an electric current to the metal mesh, where a real racquet’s strings would be.

Then when they come into contact with a pesky insect, the mesh delivers a charge powerful enough to kill it.

The snaps first appeared on the model’s TikTok profile – where she has six million followers – a year ago.

But she suddenly started to get a flood of messages mocking her bogus kit after they hit the rounds on 29th December.

She said: “I woke up yesterday and found loads of pages tagging me in sending the direct messages, and went to see what all the fuss was about and discover these old photographs that I didn’t even remember any more gone viral.”

She added: “Personally, I rather like the photos and so I decided to leave them there.”

Among commentators flocking to make comments, one said she was well equipped to fight malaria if not a tennis match.