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Stircrazy wrote:

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Hard to say, Phil.  There's two-page spread on tennis today.  The article from which I quoted above takes up all of the first page (that said, the bottom third of each page is taken up by advertising!), with a colour photo of Hev (with a rather despairing look on her face!), some comment on the match itself, an aside about JoKo ("an Australian-born player with pretentions [sic] to play for Britain some day"), a few words about Naomi B & a few more about AK's 2012 prospects.  The second page is taken up by a larger, not very flattering (she's grimacing as she reaches for a backhand!), photo of Laura & the follow-up to yesterday's report on Caroline Wozniacki's call for the powers that be to do something about the noise levels in women's tennis (as if they have the guts to do that!) under the heading "Azarenka delivers derisory snort to prospect of being told:  'Stop grunting'" (that inevitably mentioned Shriekapova, Shriekarenka & MLdB  ).

I rather wish OEM had checked his facts a bit better:  apart from the fact that he can't spell "pretensions", I think his use of the word was unintentionally (I think he actually meant "aspirations" - he's often guilty of malapropisms, I find) disparaging & potentially inaccurate (I thought I saw a post on here earlier this week to the effect that Jo was now officially a Brit).  The other obvious example is the spelling of Kotze (I copied "Coetze" letter for letter from the paper), about which, having checked, I think you're correct!

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I was shocked by "pretentions" this morning too - you don't expect to see spelling errors as bad as that in the Times - carry on like that and we'll hav to start calling it the Thnureder.  

I imagine that was the word OEM used, and I agree that 'aspirations' would have been better, but with the spellings, you never know whether it's the journo or an over-zealous/over-tired editor who has made the mistake. My guess would be that someone assumed Kotze was similar to (Amanda) Coetzer!

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Sadly, I'm so accustomed to that kind of typo now that I'm long past the "shocked" stage, although that doesn't stop me feeling like firing off an "Incandescent from North Finchley" e-mail to the editor when I spot a particularly egregious example (or some ugly Yank barbarism like "get sick", which has stuck in my mind since I read an article on an effective vaccine being developed against malaria, or a glaring grammatical error).  I never do because I'm sure all I'd get in reply, assuming I received a reply, that is, is a mealy-mouthed excuse to try & justify it!

"Thnureder"

Or (Jeff) Coetzee!

Domachowska beats Bychkov 76(3) 26 63 and will play Brit Anne Keothavong in Saturday's final.

Anne played Domachowska last year in the Midland tournament losing 6-4 5-7 3-6
At the time Anne was ranked 127 and Domachowska 135

F: KEOTHAVONG, Anne (GBR) 3 91 v DOMACHOWSKA, Marta (POL) 200

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Brilliant win, it's not easy to beat Mona Barthel once, let alone twice in less than a month

Whoever would have thought a few weeks/months ago that Anne had a hope of finishing the year ahead of Heather, especially with Heather still at a career high!

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 Yep well done Anne.

Loks like the British competition is doing them all good.

Anne now 3*-1 up after a Domachowska hold - bit of a rocket start by AK