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Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - Round One - Group C
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Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - Round One - Group B
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Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - Round One - Group E
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Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - Round One - Group D
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Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
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Injuries and Illness - and good luck wishes
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It seems that we've had a couple of specific threads for certain players but that a general thread might also be a good idea, so it's bit more all-encompassing. Anyway, best wishes to Sam Murray who's just had her wrist operation today, I believe. Hoping you have a speedy recovery and enjoy a bit of dow...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - 2024 - FINAL
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So the final is here. Vote will close 2 days from now at 7.30pm, Saturday. Feels like it could be a close one! -- Edited by JonH comes home on Thursday 8th of February 2024 07:28:36 PM -- Edited by JonH comes home on Thursday 8th of February 2024 07:31:47 PM
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ITF increases investment into men's and women's tennis
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The ITF have announced today an increase in prize money and hospitality provided at women's ITF events and prize money at men's ITF events. For details see this press release. Headlines rize money at the two entry-level categories to be raised to provide an additional $5m of prize money (26% incr...
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Greatest Players of All Time - according to Tennis Abstract
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https://www.tennisabstract.com/blog/2022/02/01/introducing-the-tennis-128/
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Corruption - Umpires Now
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There are 3 stories and a video up on the Guardian... http://www.theguardian.com/sport/tennis
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Tennis on Sky Sports
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As we know Sky have the rights to the US Open and are expected to have the rights to the 2 tours from next year. If they do I suspect they'll announce it during the US Open. Looking at the schedules for next week and the 1st week of the main draw, Sky's coverage of the US Open is Qualifying: Each day from 4pm to m...
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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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Coaches - GB coaches and foreign coaches of GB players
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There are TONS of potential people to note here. I'd been keeping a list but it's not complete and so I've given up.... So just a little shout out today to Andy Bettles who seems to be doing a great job in Svitolina's corner, at the Aussie open. Good to see him, as one of our college boys, making a good living...
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Richard Russell
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Richard Russell who passed away on 15th January 2025 was a Jamaican tennis player who played in all the Grand Slams in the 1960's and also the Davis Cup. However in the days before all these coaches etc, VIrginia Wade knocked up with him before her 1968 USOpen final against Billie Jean King.She wrote...
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Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard
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Can't post this in the individual players forum, even though it kicks off with comments from Jamie Murray, as he's not a Brit. His name has cropped up on a number of threads in the last year or so & he would have started this week's Nottingham Challenger as...
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Money Tournaments
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This is a duplicate from another thread but I suddenly thought it deserved a thread of its own, maybe even as a reference tool for British players (I talked to one a few months ago who had no idea of the scope of money available elsewhere in individual tournaments - team tennis gets quite a lot of press but...
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Funny tennis
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Gonna chase down that ball..... oops.... https://www.instagram.com/reel/DB9nSNnSEz6/ 
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United Cup 2025
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Teams announced and here is ours GREAT BRITAINJack DraperBilly HarrisJoe Salisbury 3516040* Katie BoulterYuriko Lily MiyazakiOlivia Nicholls
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British Tour 2024
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Congratulations to Charlie Swaine (2006) and Elizabeth Evans (2007) for winning the G2 in Hull this week Finals Charlie Swaine (2006) d. [4] Jamie Forrest 6-2 6-4 [5] Elizabeth Evans (2007) d. [4] Sarah Copley (2007) 6-2 1-0 ret.
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2024 Titles, Seniors & Juniors, Singles & Doubles
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Week 1 from 01/01/24 : Men's Singles ITF M25 Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg Jacob Fearnley Men's Doubles ATP 250 Brisbabe, Australia Lloyd Glasspool ( & Jean-Julian Rojer, NED ) ATP Challenger 75 Nonthaburi, Thailand Arthur Fery & Joshua Paris ATP Challenger 50 Oeiras, Portugal Ja...
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Transgender Men in Women's Tennis
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I put this in the Chat section but as it is Tennis now I've decided to start a thread here. Craig Tiley pushing for TiM (and TiF but not an issue as they will never be able to compete with the Men) to play the AO. Currently Tennis is still using the outdated and scientifically debunked 5nmol of testosterone...
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Para tennis 2024 thread
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The BBC news just finished with a section on Lily Mills, did anyone see it. Lily is in the AO in the Learning Disability event - I didnt know there was one. she lives for tennis, having suffered meningitis when young and being lucky to survive, but with learning disabilities through her life. good lu...
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Neale Fraser
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Sadly the Wimbledon singles champion of 1960 Australia's Neale Fraser passed away on 2nd December 2024 aged 91. He won the US singles Championships of 1959 and 1960. In the 1959 US Championships he also won the doubles and mixed and is the last man to win all 3 titles at the same Grand Slam. He won...
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European League Club Tennis
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As per the sensible request on the other page, (and as it concerns some of our best players), here is a thread exclusively for our GB players (men and women) who take part in the European club tennis leagues. (NB I don't follow the German leagues so if someone else does, please add it as this isn't meant to...
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Delpo farewell
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https://x.com/rishi45kumar/status/1861343333651546316?s=46&t=Bvtg7M7Hc8gNhFe9rQksUw
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