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I often see people refer to "The LTA" as an organisation and want to know actually who it is at the LTA responsible for certain decisions. When board members post things like "The LTA scrapped most of the futures events" or "The LTA scrapped the bonus scheme" etc it must be a decision from either the Chie...
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Peter Lundgren
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Sad to hear of the passing at just 59 years old of Peter Lundgren. Former coach of Federer, worked at the LTA for a good while and did a great job before being let go. I cant recall exactly, was there some issue with drinking and id heard it may have blighted his career and life. by all accounts, a well liked...
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August 2024 Player of the Month Vote
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August PoM vote - 19 players this time. You know the drill. have a vote and then tell us who you voted for and why - you dont need to, but it makes more interesting for us all! VOTE WILL CLOSE AT 9.50 PM TUESDAY 27th AUGUST Nominations - sorry if the font looks big below, the cut and paste sometimes does weird...
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2024 British Tournaments
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Not sure if there is a thread for this years tournaments. I couldnt find one, having gone through the pages till I found the 2023 one. I notice the post Wimbledon ITF tournaments are now showing on the ITF calendar. Unlike last year they are all showing as Hard court tournament. real shame that we wont ha...
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Sir Andy Murray August 2024 Player of the Month Award - Nominations thread
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Here we go again, August nominations thread - this time, the period will end in 4 weeks on Sunday August 25th - which may seem early but a week later is mid way through the US Open, which starts in late August and so the cut off for this month will be Sunday 25th August. Nominations 1 2 3 4 etc
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ITF increases investment into men's and women's tennis
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The ITF have announced today an increase in prize money and hospitality provided at women's ITF events and prize money at men's ITF events. For details see this press release. Headlines rize money at the two entry-level categories to be raised to provide an additional $5m of prize money (26% incr...
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Feedback wanted: I built a site that helps tennis fans find hotels near ATP tournaments
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Hi guys! I've recently launched a website designed to help tennis fans who enjoy travelling find the best hotels near ATP tournaments worldwide. The site is called MyTennisTrip and you can find it here: https://mytennistrip.com I originally built it for myself, since I really enjoy watching live...
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Coaches - GB coaches and foreign coaches of GB players
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There are TONS of potential people to note here. I'd been keeping a list but it's not complete and so I've given up.... So just a little shout out today to Andy Bettles who seems to be doing a great job in Svitolina's corner, at the Aussie open. Good to see him, as one of our college boys, making a good living...
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Saudi Arabia - $1 bn offer - merger of WTA & ATP
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The Telegraph is reporting that there's a 90-day now-or-never offer from SA to 'buy' tennis and merge mens and womensSaudi Arabia launches tennis takeover with $1 billion take-it-or-leave-it offerExclusive: Saudi offer to merge mens and womens tours is apparently time-sensitive, with a 90-da...
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July 2024 Player of the Month Vote
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Here we go - players listed below - vote for your player of the month from this list. Poll will close 7.20 pm Tuesday 1. Sonay Kartal - as a qualifier beating Sorana Cirstea WR29 in R1 of Wimbledon, who was nearly 200 places above her in rankings. Followed that up by beating Clara Burel WR45 in R2 2. Jake F...
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Sir Andy Murray July 2024 Player of the Month Award - Nominations thread
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Anyone can name a player, add them to the list as the Month progresses and give your supporting reason. period closes on Sunday 28th July, so a 4 week period - note, this period does not include the Olympics which start on 27th July and go on into August. Nomination list: 1 2 3 etc -- Edited by JonH come...
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Congratulations
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More 'important' congratulations get their own thread (Andy and Kim's baby, Marcus' wedding etc.) which seems right but we didn't seem to have a general congrats thread, for all tennis players (rather like the remarkable non-GB performances, or best wishes re injuries). And good news is good news...
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2024 Olympic Tennis
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We have a few Olympic posts dotted around so I thought Id put a thread up - nearer the time, no doubt, individual threads will appear for the different events in the mens and womens section. Here is a decent and relatively simple overview of how the complicated qualification rules work. https://www...
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UTR Tennis Tournaments (in Britain or with British Players)
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So, Brighton is hosting a UTR tennis tournament with £1800 for the winner, decent money all the way down, prizes for the divisional winners, host families, etc. etc. It seems to be a men/women mixed event (based purely on UTR ranking), which is interesting. Is this a completely new thing? Or have I jus...
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BBC Wimbledon commentators
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There was a fair bit of discussion - inevitably - of people's favourites/pet hates on the Queen's thread last week generated by the Beeb's commentary team. I posted a link to Stu Fraser's report on Jack Draper's match against Carlos Alcaraz (& a little bit about Billy Harris's cracking win over...
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5 set tennis for women in grand slams.
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Just watched Barbora v Jasmine in the Wimbledon final. Wouldn't it have made a great 5 set match?
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King's Cup Tennis - can anyone help?
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I wondered if anyone could help. I love reading on the history of tennis. When I was younger (I was born in 1965), around that time and through to the 80's , there was an annual tennis tournament called the King's Cup. Given by King Gustav of Sweden in the post war years, it was an indoor event for national t...
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Vic Seixas
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Sadly the oldest living former Wimbledon singles champion Vic Seixas passed away on 5th July. He was 100 having been born on 30th August 1923. He won the Wimbledon singles title in 1953 and the US championship in 1954. He also won 5 doubles and 8 mixed doubles titles at the Grand Slams. He was a member...
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June 2024 Player of the Month Vote - Final
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Tennis Intelligence
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With all the talk about players tennis IQ and being to smart to need a coach and the current preoccupation with big data, I had a quick read to see what was out there -some interesting stuff, from improving your tennis IQ, to on demand streaming of Wimbledon, algorithms to track players and provide in-...
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June player of the month vote - semi final group two
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So here we are - 22 players in two groups of 11 - Ive tried to spread and balance the players, but apologies if your personal favourites clash. Top 3 plus ties go through to the final, however no Players with zero votes will progress. votes will close at 11 pm tomorrow , Sunday evening. The final will be p...
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June player of the month vote - semi final group one
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So here we are - 22 players in two groups of 11 - Ive tried to spread and balance the players, but apologies if your personal favourites clash. Top 3 plus ties go through to the final, however no Players with zero votes will progress. votes will close at 11 pm tomorrow , Sunday evening. The final will be p...
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June 2024 Player of the Month Nominations Thread
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June starts here, haha. 5 week period this time and we end of June 30th, the day before Wimbledon starts. Usual process, put a player in the latest version of the list below and a reason and post a new updated list etc etc Nominations List 1 2 3 4 etc
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US College Signings and General College Chat 2023/24
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New thread for Fall 2023 college signings as there seems to be a few currently happening '2023 commitsFollowing his recent official visit, Louis Bowden (UTR 12.85) has verbally committed to@BaylorMTennis and will join the Bears for the fall of 2023. The 18-year-old has an ITF juniors career-hi...
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Para tennis 2024 thread
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The BBC news just finished with a section on Lily Mills, did anyone see it. Lily is in the AO in the Learning Disability event - I didnt know there was one. she lives for tennis, having suffered meningitis when young and being lucky to survive, but with learning disabilities through her life. good lu...
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