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British Player of the Season 2020 - Round One, Group H
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Round one, opening groups. 4 players, top 2 (plus ties) go through.Summary of their seasons below - but don't rely on this information, please do your own checking and research!Poll will close c. 11.30am Wednesday QF groups will be posted Wednesday eveningHDan EvansFeb PoM RU, 3 PoM nominations;...
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British Player of the Season 2020 - Round One, Group G
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Round one, opening groups. 4 players, top 2 (plus ties) go through.Summary of their seasons below - but don't rely on this information, please do your own checking and research!Poll will close c. 11.30am Wednesday QF groups will be posted Wednesday eveningGJodie BurrageJuly PoM 3rd place, nomin...
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British Player of the Season 2020 - Round One, Group F
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Round one, opening groups. 4 players, top 2 (plus ties) go through.Summary of their seasons below - but don't rely on this information, please do your own checking and research!Poll will close c. 11.30am Wednesday QF groups will be posted Wednesday evening FKyle EdmundFeb PoM 3rd place. Won ATP 2...
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British Player of the Season 2020 - Round One, Group E
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Round one, opening groups. 4 players, top 2 (plus ties) go through.Summary of their seasons below - but don't rely on this information, please do your own checking and research!Poll will close c. 11.30am Wednesday QF groups will be posted Wednesday eveningEJo KontaAugust PoM; SF WTA Monterrey,...
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British Player of the Season 2020 - Round One, Group A
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Round one, opening groups. 4 players, top 2 (plus ties) go through. Summary of their seasons below - but don't rely on this information, please do your own checking and research! Poll will close c. 8pm Tuesday night Final 4 round one groups will be posted tomorrow evening, in case your favourite is mi...
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British Player of the Season 2020 - Round One, Group B
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Round one, opening groups. 4 players, top 2 (plus ties) go through. Summary of their seasons below - but don't rely on this information, please do your own checking and research! Poll will close c. 8pm Tuesday night Final 4 round one groups will be posted tomorrow evening, in case your favourite is mis...
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British Player of the Season 2020 - Round One, Group C
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Round one, opening groups. 4 players, top 2 (plus ties) go through. Summary of their seasons below - but don't rely on this information, please do your own checking and research! Poll will close c. 8pm Tuesday night Final 4 round one groups will be posted tomorrow evening, in case your favourite is mi...
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British Player of the Season 2020 - Round One, Group D
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Round one, opening groups. 4 players, top 2 (plus ties) go through. Summary of their seasons below - but don't rely on this information, please do your own checking and research! Poll will close c. 8pm Tuesday night Final 4 round one groups will be posted tomorrow evening, in case your favourite is mi...
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Who do you think was GB Player of the Month - Nov/Dec FINAL
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Winner takes all - top 3 qualify for Player of Season, if not already done so Liam BroadyRU ATP Challenger Parma, 4-2 win loss record (66.67%) Felix Gillas a junior, 4-4 on month (50.0%), beat Trungelliti in massive upset, Beat Ilhan on way to M25 Turkey SFHep OluwadareWinner J5 and RU J5 in Israel...
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GB Player of the Month
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Now Konta is out (sigh), who is everyone's player of the month for March? I think it's been a bit weird this season - the top 100 players (bar Kyle) aren't getting the results, but when you look outside the top 100 there's so much to be positive about! I've done a fun little vote https://thebigracket.org...
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Who do you think was GB Player of the Month - Nov/Dec Semifinal Group B
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Vote from the list below - top 2 plus ties into final. Voting closes at 7 pm Sunday evening.Charles BroomW M15 USA Doubles Title (singles and doubles record was 6-2 - 75% - win loss main draws )Lloyd GlasspoolRU ATP Challenger Eckenthal Doubles, ATP Challenger Maia (7-4 win loss record in doubles, 63....
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Who do you think was GB Player of the Month - Nov/Dec Semifinal Group A
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Vote from the list below - top 2 plus ties into final. Voting closes at 7 pm Sunday evening. Liam BroadyRU ATP Challenger Parma, 4-2 win loss record (66.67%) Jasmine Conwayas a junior, reached QF in W15 Egypt, 2-1 record in month (66.67%). Felix Gillas a junior, achieved pro level 4-4 on mo...
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When McEnroe played Connors at Craiglockhart
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Back in the 70s and 80s, a large number of pre Wimbledon events in places like Beckenham, Surbiton, Bristol, took place and one venue was Edinburgh's Craiglockhart club. the event wasnt always played (was it the Scottish Championships) and the quality of the field was up and down - the event didnt car...
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DENNIS RALSTON RIP
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Dennis Ralston runner -up in the singles at Wimbledon in 1966 to Manual Santana, passed away on 6th December 2020 aged 78. He was one of the members of "The Handsome 8 " who signed up to the Pro World Championship tennis. He is also the youngest man to win the men's doubles at Wimbledon. Aged 17 he teamed up...
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Esteban Carril quits LTA Academy
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-8966921/Esteban-Carril-coach-masterminded-Jo-Kontas-rise-quits-LTA-academy-year-opening.html
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Soto Tennis Podcasts
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https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/control-the-controllables/id1511047964?i=1000497557918
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QUESTION OF SPORT
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Greg Rusedski is appearing on Question of Sport 8.30 on BBC 1 Friday 6th November. Dare say there will be some tennis questions.
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Petition to "Allow outdoor tennis during lockdown 2"
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A friend phoned me this morning to inform me that Britain's number 2 grass court player Marcus Willis had tweeted his support for the above petition on Change.org. In the mild weather we have had the last few days it is possible to play outdoors, my local courts are being used, they just take a broom al...
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Who do you think was GB Player of the Month - October FINAL
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Winner takes all, please vote for player you think is October Player of Month. Vote will close at 5.30 pm Tuesday evening. Final WinsLossesAchievements Dan Evans 88SF in ATP 500 Vienna and ATP250 Antwerp, beating Khachanov and Dimitrov along the way. 6-3 singles record...
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Who do you think was GB Player of the Month - October Semifinal Group B
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Player with most votes from list below goes through to the final (and ties if there are any). Poll will close at 5.30pm Monday evening (2nd November) - overview of record below, if my records are incorrect please feel free to update/correct me!! B WinsLossesAchievements Ha...
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Who do you think was GB Player of the Month - October Semifinal Group A
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Player with most votes from list below goes through to the final (and ties if there are any). Poll will close at 5.30pm Monday evening (2nd November) - overview of record below, if my records are incorrect please feel free to update/correct me!! A WinsLossesAchievements K...
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Who do you think was GB Player of the Month - October Semifinal Group D
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Player with most votes from list below goes through to the final (and ties if there are any). Poll will close at 5.30pm Monday evening (2nd November) - overview of record below, if my records are incorrect please feel free to update/correct me!! D WinsLossesAchievements Ll...
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Who do you think was GB Player of the Month - October Semifinal Group C
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Player with most votes from list below goes through to the final (and ties if there are any). Poll will close at 5.30pm Monday evening (2nd November) - overview of record below, if my records are incorrect please feel free to update/correct me!! C WinsLossesAchievements Jodi...
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Petition to allow continuation of outdoors singles games during 1st winter lock down
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If you have the time and agree that singles games are safe outdoors and beneficial to health (both physical and mental) please sign this petition on change.org http://chng.it/7FLj9QtN
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British tennis players and Foreign academies
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If any one could add to this, I'd be interested in starting some sort of list showing which of our players (adults and junior) are attached to, or used to be attached to, a foreign academy and which one I'm meaning for at least a couple of years, not just summer programmes or whatever and including those a...
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