Entries Week 31 - 29/07/2013

Allan94 · Lower Club Player

RE: Entries Week 31 - 29/07/2013

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

anyone else slightly surprised Goodall is looking to go down the coaching route? I always heard he was a useful dubs player, would have thought he might have tried to pursue that for a while..

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The Knight wrote:
anyone else slightly surprised Goodall is looking to go down the coaching route? I always heard he was a useful dubs player, would have thought he might have tried to pursue that for a while..

Just my personal opinion : I think Josh has given professional tennis playing a good shot and, for whatever reason, things haven't worked out as he'd have hoped. I think he's had enough of living hand to mouth and always being 'disappointed' i.e. under-performing what he (and others maybe) think he's capable of. (NB this is not a criticism - things often don't work out as expected, there are so many factors).

So, I think trying doubles would just be the 'poor man's option' i.e. a second best, and probably just more of the same - same lifestyle, same hand-to-mouth etc. etc.

If that's true, then he'd be better off changing tack and coaching is an obvious choice IF (and it's a really important if), IF he's keen and motivated and believes he has the skills to be a coach.

Simply being a decent player has no bearing (or very little) on whether you're a good coach. If he's just falling into coaching because he can't think of anything else then that's a really bad idea (and he should look at completely different things).

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Can't be living that much hand to mouth he has just bought a chelsea season ticket

RJA · Hall of fame

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Can't be living that much hand to mouth he has just bought a chelsea season ticket

Yeah because I am sure that the £750 that he spent on that would have paid for several months on tour.

RJA · Hall of fame

Boggo out of Washington qualifying.

seagull · Hall of fame

Sam Murray in Main draw at Canada but Broady might need an SE. Lisa Whybourn out of $75K in Ukraine

James Ward is in Washington qualifying but may not get there in time so hopefully can squeeze into main draw at Vancouver.

RJA · Hall of fame

Ward would be unlucky not to make it into Vancouver. He is 1st alt with 2 SEs to clear. Alternatively if he beats Ito in the Lexington QFs he will get an SE for Vancouver anyway.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Nottingham 10K wildcards:

Eden, Freya, Brigit, Pippa and I think Sophie Watts

WCQ - Tiffany, Jasmine and Maia

paulisi · Tennis legend

Nottingham 15K could produce a record points haul for GB players.

Fitzy is still entered - 16 of the 18 direct acceptances are GB. Only Marcus Daniell and Hugo Nys the exceptions.

Should be 4 wildcards which should be GB players.(Lloyd Glasspool??)

George Coupland is first alt and should make main draw and nearly all the qualifying spots are filled by GB players

I can see 26 or 27 out of 32 will be GB players - not bad for a 15K