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US Open Advice
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Hi Hope you don't mind me posting here but I'm looking for some advice and there is no better informed group of bods to ask. I might be in NY for a few days during the first week of the US Open. I'll be travelling on my own and I'm a female, ahem, not in the first (or even second) flush of youth. I'd like to see som...
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2013 rankings predictions
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Belatedly, time to get this years preditctions contest underway. The rules are almost the same as last year, with only the dates changing: 1. Predict the ranking of the current top 10 GB men's & women's players, and the ranking of 10 of our promising teenagers. 2. Predictions have to be made befo...
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John McEnroe says we should scrap doubles
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Please don't shoot the messenger (!) but there's a lot of discussion here about doubles, how much they should get paid, funded by the LTA etc. etc. So, instead of hijacking another thread, I've given John's new controversial opinion its own thread: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/tramlin...
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2014 Doubles Partnerships
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Here are some of next years new partnerships or old ones reuniting Nestor/Zimonjic Bopanna/Qureshi Fleming/Hutchins Lindstedt/Melzer Roger-Vasselin/Benneteau Rojer/Tecau no news on Miryni and Melo but Dodiq is apparently focusing on singles next year all the other main teams i think are...
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2013 Team AEGON announcement
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2013 Team Aegon Players Elena BaltachaLuke BambridgeLiam BroadyEleanor DeanKaty DunneKyle EdmundColin FlemingOliver GoldingEvan HoytRoss HutchinsDominic InglotAnne KeothavongJohanna KontaJonny MarrayJames MarsalekTara MooreGeorge MorganLaura RobsonJames WardJosh Ward-Hib...
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Tournament choices when transitioning from Juniors to Pros
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I've questioned a few tournament choices of some of the juniors and new pros in the past - for example the clay court tour of the US by a few of the boys/men earlier this year, where every $10k required 4 rounds of qualifiers. I've also wondered why our men seem to play so few Challengers. So I thought I'd ta...
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The curious case of Victor Troicki
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I am one of the most aggressively unsympathetic people imaginable for drug cheats in sport. And have posted on this forum on the topic in the past. Athletes are responsible for the substances in their body, and I rarely accept the traditional argument that illegal PEDs have somehow found there way in...
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A long term prediction "competition"
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2013 marks the 5th year since the 1990 boys "graduated". As someone who kind of specialises in the careers of tennis players born in 1990, one thing that I can tell you is that if you predicted back in 2008 that the only 1990 boys in the top 50 after 5 years would be Raonic, Janowicz and Pospisil...
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"George Hillyard - the man who moved Wimbledon"
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Hi, all. My name is Bruce Tarran. I have a book coming out on June 1st but available now from the publisher. It features early tennis history, and some unique and never seen photos from tournaments more than 100 years ago. Mark Cox kindly wrote the foreword. You can read 2 free chapters and the foreword...
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Help needed for university questionnaire please!
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Hi, Sorry to clogg up this forum but I am currently in my final year of university and need help with some consumer research. I'm currently studying Active Sportswear with my final project being based on creating a fashion/design orientated womens performance range for Nike (please note this pro...
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Help me identify the background
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I think this has been doing rounds in my head for many years, but somehow I have never bothered to ask others about it. Can someone help me identify the background in Goodall's profile picture? There was a time when literally dozens of players, female and male, had profile pictures with the same backg...
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Tennis Hall of Fame
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Has anyone been to the Hall of Fame in Newport? I'm in Rhode Island for a couple of says, and was wondering if it was worth paying a visit to.
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changes to pro tournament bonus scheme 1/10/2013-30/9/2014
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increased bonus-womens 25k increase in bonus for futures 10k & 15K -small increase but £5000 ceiling once ceiling hit could still claim bonus for challengers and above new bonus doubs SF 50k challengers -£150 SF ,650 ru ,1000 winner £300 bonus for FQR atp challenger + £500 if Q NEW £500...
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Roger Draper is going to be a tough act to follow
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I have been fortunate to meet many talented CEOs during my career to be honest i would find it difficult to remember one with more natural charisma , expert people skills and refreshing down to earth attitude than Roger Draper .There were criticisms of his salary c £400,000 including Bonus to be hon...
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Overseas training camps
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I'm not sure if this a new phenomena or not, but the LTA seem to be promoting overseas training camps based around tournaments in the area. Obviously there are quite a few Brits in California at the moment(most would not normally have gone out) and it looks like the younger lot have something similar ou...
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Poll who would be willing to contribute say extra £10 to club membership for a player performance fund ?
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Who would be willing to contribute £10 to a player performance fund a large club with 500 members could eg generate £5000 for their no1 player . I know that I could help more players but i am now over budget and a queue of deserving cases not just in tennis .wealthy tennis clubs need to start putting their...
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feedback on my tennis blog?
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hey,i've just started a tennis blog as i always been a big fan of tennis and i tought i try blogging to see how well/bad it goes. can i post my website in this thread and ask for feedback or is this against forum rules?
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Tennis Celebrity Endorsement
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Technical Issue
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OK. Need to know if anybody else is having the same problem. Whenever I click the link to "Andrew Murray Message Board" to the right of "Link Back" at the top, hoping to get back to the main menu, it gives me the following URL but a blank page http://britishtennis.activeboard.c...
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Ross Hutchins talking
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Apologies for the shameless plug but am hosting a chat show with Ross Hutchins next month. It is a really small venue so not many seats but thought I would out it on here as going to be chatting lots about his career, his current treatment and his friendship with Andy. At the end there will be questions fro...
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Swingball Crisis!
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Our Swingball Pro [serious stuff!] finally went to plastic toy heaven in the sky yesterday due to excessive use over the last few years, peaking over the last 2-3 weeks. 2 warnings to everyone. 1. My smallest kid has just been bought a Head Youtek Speed Graphene (Novak Djokovic), and this resulted in t...
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Rafa and Novak's Wimbledon prep.
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I was looking to see where these guys played before Wimbledon, but couldn't find them. Can anyone shed light on this - and Ferrer?
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Unreal - Roger Drapers salary!!
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/20773530 No wonder the comments are so bad. What would our top players, not funded at all, make of this?
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Is Men's Tennis Boring?
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Bugger! I just spent three hours writing this and when submitted it disappeared!! ANY ADVICE? -- Edited by WD40 on Saturday 1st of June 2013 04:46:34 AM -- Edited by WD40 on Saturday 1st of June 2013 04:49:50 AM
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Neil Harman's Book - Court Confidential. Doping and the LTA
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My copy of the above arrived from Amazon when I got home last night, and I have read the appendix chapters on doping and the LTA. I'll not give too much away as I suspect that many forum members will want to read it themselves in the coming weeks. Suffice it to say, Neil is both insufferable (name-dropping...
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