Michael D wrote:

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And Heather's SF loss is on the aforepictured BBC tennis page ABB. 2nd article after the Murray and Inglot lead.

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The point being, they never reported the QF win to make the SF, in preference to all those other stories.
They did report the R16 win. But was Coric's hotdog, or Hewitt's self-selection, or Steph Curry's tennis opinions, or a $15K win for a 16yo (which they did not deem interesting enough when Raducanu achieved it earlier in the year), really more important to GB tennis fans than a GB player making a tour level singles SF, only the third such GB women's tour singles SF of the year for any player?

As the BBC, you either have the GB angle in the coverage - as evidenced by the Davis Cup focus, and Draper - or you don't.

I'm sure, yet again, there will be plenty of reasons why, apparently, yes, all those things were far more important, just like there were when Heather was not covered in her Acapulco title win earlier in the year.

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flamingowings wrote:

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Parmentier won 7-5, 6-2

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amazing late bloomer from pauline parm
18 years a pro and never won a WTA singles almost text book jurneywoman just ploding along ||| edit oops she won bad gastein in 2008 still a great year after a decade in newtral
now has 2 wta titels this year!!! and back into top 50 off this win
at 32 still plenty life in the old girl yet

-- Edited by TomTraubert on Sunday 16th of September 2018 05:26:05 PM

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PP's CH 40 dates from age 22 in 2008. And she has spent most of the time since in the top 100 ( indeed been top 100 at some point in every year since 2007 ). I suggested certainly consistent, plodding along if you want, not rated if others want. But she's played a long time in pretty high level competition and made a good career for herself. Certainly while a title is novel no particular late blooming rankingswise.

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AliBlahBlah wrote:

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Michael D wrote:

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And Heather's SF loss is on the aforepictured BBC tennis page ABB. 2nd article after the Murray and Inglot lead.

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The point being, they never reported the QF win to make the SF, in preference to all those other stories.
They did report the R16 win. But was Coric's hotdog, or Hewitt's self-selection, or Steph Curry's tennis opinions, or a $15K win for a 16yo (which they did not deem interesting enough when Raducanu achieved it earlier in the year), really more important to GB tennis fans than a GB player making a tour level singles SF, only the third such GB women's tour singles SF of the year for any player?

As the BBC, you either have the GB angle in the coverage - as evidenced by the Davis Cup focus, and Draper - or you don't.

I'm sure, yet again, there will be plenty of reasons why, apparently, yes, all those things were far more important, just like there were when Heather was not covered in her Acapulco title win earlier in the year.

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 I've long given up with the Beeb tennis reporting. I don't even have them book marked any more. They show so much favouritism, and are not even that accurate that I would rather come here for my information. Most of us on this forum know loads more than their writers and presenters about what's going on in British tennis today.

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 It seems that since the ''Williams incident'' nobody is allowed to have their say on anything to do with tennis on the BBC site.