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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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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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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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Zverev
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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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Draw Maestros
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A big thanks to those of you that post the draws for our players. We do appreciate the effort particularly when there is an itf tournament in the UK and some random UK players are included. I'm completely in awe that you take the time to get the information and post it
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2023 Titles, Seniors & Juniors, Singles & Doubles
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Week 1 from 02/01 : Men's Singles ITF M25 Malibu, CA, USA Arthur Fery Women's Singles ITF W60 Canberra, Australia Katie Boulter Men's Doubles ATP 250 Adelaide 1, Australia Lloyd Glasspool ( & Harri Heliovaara, FIN ) Juniors J100 Bromma, Sweden BD: Viktor Frydrych (16) ( & Albert Saar,...
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British Tour 2023
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The first event of the 2023 season took place this week, a G1 in Loughborough Men SF George Houghton [4] d. Roan Jones 6-2 5-7 10-8 Pheonix Weir [8] d. Sean Hodkin [2] 6-4 7-5 F Pheonix Weir [8] d. George Houghton [4] 6-3 6-2 Women 3 of the 4 reaching the SF were 15 year olds. SF Maria Ustic (2007) d. Summer Yar...
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Year end Tour Finals and Cups
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Just because it normally interests me, I felt like jotting down the various year end finals on different tours that appear to be taking place in the next few weeks and wondered if I had missed any? ATP/WTA/Top Pro level ATP Finals - Turin WTA Finals - Cancun ATP Next Gen Finals - Saudi Arabia WTA Elite Tro...
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Wheelchair tennis and PoM/PoS - have your say
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I wanted to discuss this topic with the board. Many will know I am a big supporter of wheelchair tennis and follow it quite closely. I am aware though that isnt the case with all people on the board, for a variety of good reasons. At the moment, for Player of the Season, we treat wheelchair tennis as just an...
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United Cup
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Hopman Cup mark 2 - based on this will Cam get us in? Or Cam/Emma joint ranking? If at all...UNITED CUP TO LAUNCH 2023 SEASON The worlds best players will unite to compete side by side at the United Cup, a stunning new team event set to launch the global tennis season in 2023. The United Cup, an ATP-WTA even...
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Womens ITF name/ WTA ranking points changes
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The ITF finally released the first tournaments of 2024. It's unusual for them to be released this late, but it seems it's because they are renaming the levels. W25 becomes W35 W40 becomes W50 W60 becomes W75 But the prize money seems the same: W35 Sunderland has 25k prize money W50 Edgbaston has 40k pri...
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2023 Player of the Month and Season overview thread
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Just going to use this thread to update and summarise over the season our player of the month winners and results and those qualifying for player of the season. qualifying criteria for player of the season 2023 will be: Jan to Nov PoM and PoM runner ups over the season British # 1 ranked players in res...
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2023 PLAYER OF THE SEASON VOTE -SEMIFINAL Group 2
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Here we are, the semis. 6 players in each group. The top 2 players only will progress to the final. If there is a tie for a qualifying place, there will be a tie break vote. This vote will close MONDAY 11th DECEMBER at 9.30pm in the evening. If there is a need for a tie break vote, it will run from just after 9...
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2023 ITF Wheelchair Tour
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Starts this next couple of weeks with firstly the Victorian Open (Series 1 event with $32k prize money- series 1 is like an ATP500 of which there are 9 currently on the calendar) Following that is the Melbourne Open, a Super Series event with $45k prizeMoney. Super Series is like a Masters 1000 and ther...
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2023 PLAYER OF THE SEASON VOTE -SEMIFINAL Group 1
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Here we are, the semis. 6 players in each group. The top 2 players only will progress to the final. If there is a tie for a qualifying place, there will be a tie break vote. This vote will close MONDAY 11th DECEMBER at 9.30 pm in the evening. If there is a need for a tie break vote, it will run from just after 9...
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