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9 players in this group - just TWO and ties into the final. 5 men and 4 women NOTE - groups based on round one finishing spots - so no complaints about all your faves being here! Vote will close around 7.10PM on THURSDAY
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Favourite British Tennis Player - 2024 - Semifinal Group Two
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10 players in this group - just TWO and ties into the final. 5 men and 5 women NOTE - groups based on round one finishing spots - so no complaints about all your faves being here! Vote will close around 7.10PM on THURSDAY
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Favourite British Tennis Player - 2024 - Semifinal Group Three
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10 players in this group - just TWO and ties into the final. 6 men and 4 women NOTE - groups based on round one finishing spots - so no complaints about all your faves being here, again (Judy) ! Vote will close around 7.10PM on THURSDAY
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Favourite British Tennis Player - 2024 - Round One Group H
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Last done 12 months or so ago and run several times over the past 4 years.This our quest to find the boards favourite British player 64 players - 8 groups of 8 in total. Sorry if your faves are all in one group, luck of the draw!! Groups include 4 men and 4 women, a mix of singles and doubles players (I hav...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - 2024 - Round One Group G
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Last done 12 months or so ago and run several times over the past 4 years.This our quest to find the boards favourite British player 64 players - 8 groups of 8 in total. Sorry if your faves are all in one group, luck of the draw!! Groups include 4 men and 4 women, a mix of singles and doubles players (I hav...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - 2024 - Round One Group E
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Last done 12 months or so ago and run several times over the past 4 years.This our quest to find the boards favourite British player 64 players - 8 groups of 8 in total. Sorry if your faves are all in one group, luck of the draw!! Groups include 4 men and 4 women, a mix of singles and doubles players (I hav...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - 2024 - Round One Group C
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Last done 12 months or so ago and run several times over the past 4 years.This our quest to find the boards favourite British player 64 players - 8 groups of 8 in total. Sorry if your faves are all in one group, luck of the draw!! Groups include 4 men and 4 women, a mix of singles and doubles players (I hav...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - 2024 - Round One Group F
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Last done 12 months or so ago and run several times over the past 4 years.This our quest to find the boards favourite British player 64 players - 8 groups of 8 in total. Sorry if your faves are all in one group, luck of the draw!! Groups include 4 men and 4 women, a mix of singles and doubles players (I hav...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - 2024 - Round One Group D
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Last done 12 months or so ago and run several times over the past 4 years.This our quest to find the boards favourite British player 64 players - 8 groups of 8 in total. Sorry if your faves are all in one group, luck of the draw!! Groups include 4 men and 4 women, a mix of singles and doubles players (I hav...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - 2024 - Round One Group B
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Last done 12 months or so ago and run several times over the past 4 years.This our quest to find the boards favourite British player 64 players - 8 groups of 8 in total. Sorry if your faves are all in one group, luck of the draw!! Groups include 4 men and 4 women, a mix of singles and doubles players (I hav...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - 2024 - Round One Group A
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Last done 12 months or so ago and run several times over the past 4 years.This our quest to find the boards favourite British player 64 players - 8 groups of 8 in total. Sorry if your faves are all in one group, luck of the draw!! Groups include 4 men and 4 women, a mix of singles and doubles players (I hav...
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January 2024 Player of the Month Vote - FINAL
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Here we go - final group of 7 in the final, bios below in nomination orderVOTE WILL CLOSE WEDNESDAY EVENING AT 6.40PM5 - Katie Boulter - for beating Jessica Pegula World No 5 in the United Cup.7 - Jack Draper - for reaching the final the the ATP 250 in Adelaide and beating 3 top 32 players, including the top...
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2023 - Who is your favourite British Player? Final
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So heres our final - the winner will be crowned at 10pm thursday night. just vote for your favourite - simples! -- Edited by JonH comes home on Wednesday 15th of March 2023 10:03:14 PM
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WTA Finals next venue
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Apparently next year is the last in Singapore and the WTA wish to bring the Tour finals to Europe. Prague, St. Petersburg and Manchester are the venues touted. Personally, living in Yorkshire, Manchester would be very appealing, presumably the MEN arena is being considered for it. The article wa...
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Week 1 - United Cup, Perth/Sydney, Australia - Hard Outdoor
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GB is in group C with USA and Australia, playing group matches in Perth. The format is the #1 singles players in men and #1 singles women play each other followed by a mixed doubles. Ranking points available, with the number dependent on their opponents ranking. The GB team is C Norrie, D Evans, N Skupsk...
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January 2024 Player of the Month Vote - Semifinal Group 2
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Here we go - 2 groups of 11; top 3 from each group will go to the final. Full list of 22 below in nomination order, so you'll need to read through to look at players bios VOTE WILL CLOSE MONDAY EVENING AT 6.30PM, THE FINAL WILL BE POSTED SHORTLY THEREAFTER 1 - Alastair Gray - for breaking back into the Top 500 h...
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January 2024 Player of the Month Vote - Semifinal Group 1
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Here we go - 2 groups of 11; top 3 from each group will go to the final. Full list of 22 below in nomination order, so you'll need to read through to look at players bios VOTE WILL CLOSE MONDAY EVENING AT 6.30PM, THE FINAL WILL BE POSTED SHORTLY THEREAFTER 1 - Alastair Gray - for breaking back into the Top 500 h...
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January 2024 Player of the Month Nominations Thread
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First month of 2024 and lots of action already. All this weeks events count incl United Cup. Closing date for nominations is Sunday 28th January anyone can nominate, just put the name and reason in the list by quoting the last post with the latest list and adding your nomination to it: Nomination List...
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No male player born in the 90s will ever win a grand slam
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For definition purposes, based on birth year. No player born in the 90s has won a slam, and it is 2019 now!. I feel a whole generation, the 'lost gen' and maybe 'current gen' could possibly never win a slam. Next gen seems very strong. The lost gen will rank amongst the worst generation of tennis player...
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Alan Mills
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Alan Mills former player and Wimbledon Referee passed away on 18th January.
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Mike Dickson
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Some terrible news. Mike Dickson, daily mail tennis correspondent, has passed away while working at the Australian Open. posted on his Twitter account: We are devastated to announce that our wonderful husband and Dad, Mike, has collapsed and died while in Melbourne for the Aus Open. For 38 years he...
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Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario
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Another former hero of the sport getting herself in criminal trouble https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/68005954 Fraud conviction for concealing assets - sounds familiar - although this one linked to an initial tax fraud similar to those many footballers (Messi, Ronaldo, Mourinho) have be...
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Not so great news about Alexander Zverev on the internet today , with an ex-girlfriend alleging domestic violence and a more recent ex-girlfriend announcing she's carrying his baby , but opting for sole custody. There hasn't been a lot of positive news about him in the media of recent unfortunatel...
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British ITF events 2024
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Not sure if there is a wider document setting out the events for the 2024 season, but just noticed this on ITF calendar. Apologies if this is posted somewhere else! Women January Week 2 ( think it is week 2) - W35 Loughborough Week 3 - W35 Sunderland February Week 6 - W50 Edgbaston Week 7 - W50 Roehampton Me...
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Netflix BreakPoint
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Just wondering if anyone watched this and what they thought? Ive not yet but BBC sports programme last night gave it very mixed reviews from Laura, pat cash and Russell fuller. In essence it was too vanilla and stayed away from interesting topics - Fuller said too much tennis and not enough about life o...
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