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easyTennis......is the future orange????
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It seems Stelios Haji-Ionnou if easyJet has an interest in tennis and has launched an app called easyTennis to match players of similar abilities on local courts. Apparently he describes it as a Tinder for tennis without the selfies!!!!!!
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The Optimist
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WEAK ERA- INCOMING
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This week has been very sad for tennis. Hasse reaching a Masters semi among other things. With Murray, Novak, Warwinka missing, the draws have opened up and clowns are going deep into draws. I feel we are about to enter a 2000-2003 era, where Agassi, Hewitt and Safin won slams against clowns (cleme...
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Scandinavian Tennis?
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This is a genuine question and is probably aimed at Vandenburg although anyone can answer. I just wondered what had happened in Swedish tennis since the halcyon days of the 80s and 90s and why there was no real presence. We all recall Borg, Wilander, Esbjerg, Nystrom, Sundstrom, Pernfors, Joha...
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County Week
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Always wish I was a better tennis player at this time of year, would love an excuse to play 6-9 sets of tennis each day for 5 days in a row! Here's a link to the county groups and there is a link from within that to results, the usual mixture of pro players, coaches and part time players. https://www.lta.org...
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Peter Doohan
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Sorry to report Peter Doohan has died at just 56, from motor neurone disease. Many will remember Peter beat Boris Becker as defending champion in 1987 in one of Wimbledons greatest shocks. Sad to see his passing, sympathy to his family and friends
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JonH
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Tennis to Golf
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At a much lower standard I did the same thing, swapping tennis for golf around age 15. After numerous beatings at tennis individually (but good team success) I loved the advantages of golf over tennis: a) you could compete and win from day one against much better playersb) you could practice much more...
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ATP Ranking Points
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Does anyone know why some challenger events carry more ranking points than others at the same or even higher prize money bracket. i.e. $85k the winner gets 110 points but at a $100k you might only get 100 points, but some $100k do offer 110 points. Similarly at 75k sometimes the winner gets 90 points, ot...
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Serve-and-volley. Is still alive?
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I try to understand why do so few players add the serve-and-volley to their game, virtually none of the top players? This style definitely seems be the easiest, surest way to win a point at the net. http://wp.me/p2iyrR-6M
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The Wimbledon Men's Singles Champion 2017 will be ...
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This looks truly hard to call this year with many reasons why not for just about all the top contenders, but someone has to win. I have listed the current 6 bookies' favourites in seeding order. Who do you think will be champion ? -- Edited by steven on Saturday 1st of July 2017 07:21:13 PM -- Edited by stev...
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New Competition Idea
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http://www.corporatetennis.co.uk/residential-court.html
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What will Brexit mean for GB Tennis?
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Today strikes me as a fairly depressing day in British Politics and our life in general. I started thinking about the impact it will have on foreign travel, flight and accomodation prices, inflation, interest rates, house prices, food costs etc. Then I thought about Sport. Probably one of our most v...
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The Wimbledon Women's Singles Champion 2017 will be ...
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Similar to the men I have set up a poll for the women. This is even more open with the bookies and I have this time listed the current leading 10 in the odds, again in their seeding order.
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What should the LTA change to be more effective?
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There seems to be an overwhelming majority of pros, ex pros, pundits and members on this forum that think the LTA needs to change. This is what I think the LTA's main problems are. Problem 1 - Too much focus on getting people playing tennis Though I respect that it is good for the future of British Tennis...
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World Cup of Tennis - anyone?
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https://www.daviscup.com/en/news/264157.aspx So it looks like it will happen. Next season, the Davis and Fed Cups will end in a World Cup of tennis in November in Geneva in front of 18,000 screaming fans (yey!). It looks like the DC Semis and Final and Fed Cup Final and maybe the semis will take pla...
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New LTA Chief Executive
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http://www.odgersberndtson.co.uk/gb/executive-opportunities/opportunity-detai...
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Rules for missing mandatory tournaments for age and good behaviour.
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I have found this on Master exempts (from 2015), and understand that a player cannot miss the same Masters two years on the trot unless they are exempt from all Masters. But I can't seem to find the rules on missing Premier Mandatories or GSs. Please can someone help me on this. (for men and women). A pla...
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Emojji in draw lists
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I was wondering if we could have a debate on something. And I'll preface by saying the work by people posting draw lists is very valuable, appreciated, and key for the forum. But i have one minor gripe. The use of emojji when listing tournament draws. Because I wish to be able to develop my own impression...
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Shrieky grass wildcards.
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I was just wondering if any one has heard whether any of our tournaments are giving Shrieky a wild card? I'm hoping not but as the top clay tournaments have. 
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12 years
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Hi guys, I know I rarely post these days, but still monitor the forum regularly. This month marks 12 years, since I started this website. Back then in June 2005, a young 18 year old called Andy Murray ranked 300ish in the world had just made the third round of Queens before cramping against Thomas Johans...
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ATP Ilkley Trophy Entry List
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http://www.menstennisforums.com/19-challenger-series/904769-week-25-ilkley-great-britain.html
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ATP Nottingham Challenger Entry List
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Overall a weaker entry for Nottingham than Surbiton, only 4 top 100 and lower cut off by 40 places. But one big name at the top of the list in Dan Evo! Clearly looking at a week on grass after RG, and before presumably playing Queens, Eastbourne and then Wimbledon. Good that Dan is going for the grass sea...
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ATP Eastbourne Entry List
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Each of Kyle, Dan and Aljaz make the MD list for Eastbourne. It is actually a v good list - no real stars at the top end but v solid entry through the 20-60 rankings and an initial cut off of 59 is good. Several good grass court players as well. Pity Eastbourne is around 350 miles from where I live Entry d...
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Piqué's World Cup of Tennis
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http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis/barcelona-gerard-pique-davis-cup-andy-murray-novak-dj...
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ATP Queens Entry List
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https://www.lta.org.uk/major-events/aegon-championships/aegon-championships-entry-list/
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2017 Davis Cup QuarterFinals - BEL v ITA; AUS v USA; SRB v ESP
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I thought it might be worth having a separate topic to cover anyone wanting to comment on the other ties as opposed to GB v FRA which has its own thread of course! Apologies if I got this wrong! AUS v USA draw is out already - no changes to line ups and Jordan Thompson leads off v Jack Sock and then Nick K is up ag...
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