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Quick note from Bakerboy
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hi craig, dont think i will be in dallas this year. ranking has dropped as i have missed most of last year. would love to be there. hope you are well and all the preparations are going smoothly, Jamie Doesn't look like we'll have a big field from players across the pond this year. Unfortunately. As y...
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Target for this year
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We know that the LTA like to set targets that they don't ever seem to achieve, so last year I said an achieveable target was 12 Britsh male players in the top 500. We got 10, but it was close up to the last couple of months. Next year, this is my target that I think the LTA should strive for ... 8 British male pla...
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Effects of points changes
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Unlike the main tour, in challenger and futures level events from 2009, the main increase in points will come in the tournament winners, more so than the other rounds. eg: in a 10k future, the semis finalists pts increase from 4 to 5, the runner-ups pts from just 8 to 9 where as the winners go from 12 to...
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New ATP site
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Wow! That took me by suprise http://www.atpworldtour.com/1/en/home/default.asp
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Happy New Year
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Happy New Year to all users. Let's hope 2009 is even better than 2008. Up the Brits.
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Entries Week 1 - 5/1
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ATP Doha $1,110,250 (Outdoor Hard) - Andy Murray - Doubles - Murray A/Hutchins Brisbane $484,750 (Outdoor Hard) - Doubles - Murray J CHALLENGERS Noumea, New Caledonia $75K+H (Outdoor Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic, Josh Goodall (Slabinsky...
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BRITISH SUCCESSES 2008
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TOURNAMENT VICTORIES Week 01: Andy Murray DOHA OPEN 01: Jamie Delgado BRAZIL CHALLENGER doubles 03: Richard Bloomfield SUNDERLAND 10K F1 03: Richard Bloomfield and Ken Skupski SUNDERLAND 10K F1 doubles ...
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Forum Members Awards
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Its that time of year again where we reflect on the memories and achievements of the past 12 months, and following the success of last year's Forum Awards, here is your chance to get your voice in recognising the many members who visit this board. This year's categories are: 1. Funniest Poster of the Ye...
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Live streaming (??) mentioned on LTA survey
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Has anyone else here completed the LTA survey? (can't find it on their site, but I got emailed about it with a link that looks like it might be unique to the email address it's sent to so I probably can't post it here) The reason I ask is that one question asks you "Which of these benefits pof British Te...
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Player of the Year Polls - Best Male
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Thanks to Johnnylad for preparing this section : Best Male Player of the Year 2008 Andy Murray became one of the big 4 this year. Back to back Masters Series titles, a maiden Grand Slam final and some fantastic wins over Nadal, Federer and Djokovic. He has added extra bulk to his physique, zip to his serv...
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Predictions for 2008
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How close will we come with our ranking predictions ? Andy Murray: 5 Boggo: 100-150 Baker: 100-150 Bloomfield and Goodall: 200-250 Slabba: 250-300 Kasiri and Marray: 350-400 Ward: 300-350 Skupski: 350-400 Seator, Morgan Phillips and Matt Smith: 500-550 Blake: 550-600 Cox and Evans: 600-700 Rus...
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Happy Holidays to all....little announcement
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Hope everyone has a nice and safe Holiday. We(TBarM) just finished our pre-qualifier wild card doubles tourney this weekend and it was a huge success. 28 very high quality teams with a great tournout of fans. We have upgraded our coverage for this years Challenger and we tested new things out this...
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Anyone for a bit of Boggobash ?
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No this is not some new boardgame from Mattel this christmas to give to the weans...its the continuing saga of Alex Bogdanovic getting his ass-whipped by the media...shame on you OEM !!! Alex is the top of the 'losers' section of Neils piece. He does say its a bit harsh...a bit !!! cmon Neil at least you c...
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Week 51 - Futures F6 ($15,000) - Opava, Czech Republic (carpet)
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Looks like a repeat of last week: Jonny Marray in the MD & the usual three suspects (Colin Fleming, Josh Milton & David Rice) in the qualies.
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British Tour - Waste Of Space?
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The masters of the British Tour are on (good to see Fitzy there). Its not the strongest line up though, only one or two ranked players ever compete in most events during the year. Yet that is how the LTA describe it, "an important stepping stone between juniors and senior ranking events". ...
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Player of the Year Polls - Top Male Doubles Player
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Nominations : 1) Jamie Murray - current GB No 1 made a career high of WR28 this year with a decent start to the season but fell away in the second half. 1 ATP title. 2) Ross Hutchins - Breakthrough year for Ross with both ATP and challenger titles. Ended the year on a career high of WR44. 3) Jamie Delgado - end...
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Player of the Year Polls - Most Improved Male
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Most Improved Male Player...by Johnnylad / Drew James Ward has navigated one of the difficult barriers of men's professional tennis. Moving from 500 to 275 in one year has been a hard slog with tournament appearances nearly every week, but where in the past he may go deep one week and straight out the n...
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Week 51 - Futures F5 (10K) - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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It looks like the Wardninator hasn't turned up here either (Jamie Baker having pulled out a few days ago) because he's not in qualifying and the top seed in qualifying was one place above him on the Alt list. QR1: Joe Cooper UNR v Andrew Ochotta (CAN) UNR - a 15-year-old who lists one of his hobbies as Poke...
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Centre Court Roof Event in May!
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7785732.stm Has to be an exhibition I think -- Edited by seagull at 14:29, 2008-12-16
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Week 50 - Futures F5 ($15,000) - Frydland Nad Ostravici, Czech Rep. (hard)
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Judging by the entry list on the ITF site (no sign of even a qualies draw!), Jonny Marray will be in the main draw & Colin Fleming, Josh Milton & David Rice in the qualies.
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Entries Week 51 - 15/12
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ATP None CHALLENGERS None FUTURES Czech Rep F6 $15K (Indoor Carpet) - Jonny Marray (Fleming, Milton, Rice) Dominican Rep F5 $10K (Hard) - (Ward A, Pauffley, Pritchard) WTA Dubai $75K (Hard) - (Webley-Smith) POINTS DEFENCES THIS WEEK: Singles 8 - Slabinsky Doubles 24 - Slabinsky 6 -...
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Winter training - Ross Hutchins
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Some of you may already be aware, but Ross is taking the off-season very seriously - he's following much the same training schedule as Muzza in Miami, see e.g. http://www.andymurray.com/news/article/466 http://www.andymurray.com/news/article/467 http://www.andymurray.com/news/arti...
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Week 50 - Futures F4 ($10,000) - Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep (hard)
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Jamie Baker would appear to be sticking to his guns here. No main draw on the ATP site yet, but going by the ITF entry list (last modified yesterday), he could be the 7th seed. Qualies draw is on the ATP site & there are currently four Brits in it: Q1: Joe Cooper UNR vs John Valente (USA) UNR Q1: (q4...
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Draper plans to make big changes
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From Sporting Life:
The Lawn Tennis Association's new chief executive Roger Draper is keen to ring the changes in British tennis.
Draper, talking today at the Surbiton Trophy, is determined to improve the fortunes of the game in this country.
He said: "I knew it was going to be a big job a...
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2009 AO qualifying - who might make it in
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The subject of who might get into AO qualifying has been brought up on three different threads so far, so I think it makes sense to create a dedicated thread for it so that posts on the subject can more easily be found. First a recap, with some of the numbers updated ... As far as I can tell, the qualifying c...
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