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January 2018
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What's everyone's favourite moments of January been (bar Kyle)? Mine has to be Alfie reaching world number 1!
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Australian Open - Womens
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I thought it might be interesting to see who folks think will win this most open of opens - Top 17 seeds, Heather and Naomi (as still alive in Qualies) as the other Brits, and AN Other for a catch all outsider! -- Edited by indiana ( poll ) on Saturday 13th of January 2018 04:53:54 PM -- Edited by JonH on Satu...
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Australian Open Predictions - men
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I thought it might be interesting to see who predicts who in the AO. Top 18 seeds listed, plus Kyle as the lone Brit, plus a more general others for those who see a real outsider stealing! -- Edited by JonH on Saturday 13th of January 2018 11:47:42 PM -- Edited by JonH on Saturday 13th of January 2018 11:48:...
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Zverev- over hyped rubbish
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Alex Zverev. Has now played 11 grand slams, and is yet to beat a top 50 player or go past the 4th round. In order to keep tennis current, ATP over hyped this kid, and tried to make him a poster boy. What a failure it has been.
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ITF livescores
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Fantastic! ITF have revamped their livescores page, and now offer direct links to livestreams. http://live.itftennis.com/en/live-scores/ http://live.itftennis.com/en/live-streams/ This is great news for tennis fans, and should make sponsorship of ITF tournaments and players a much mo...
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Richard Evan's book "Open Tennis"
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Tennis-First-Twenty-Years/dp/0747501750
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Margaret Court's Autobiography
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I was wondering whether anyone knows any way of getting hold of Margaret Court's new biography, which was released just over a year ago. As far as I know her new book is just that and is not a re-print of her original autobiography, which was completed over 20 years ago. It seems like McMillan Australia...
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Dewar Cup
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One thing I find fascinating is looking at the history of the tennis tours and some of the events that are now defunct. I hadn't realised that back in the early days of Open tennis, there was a UK based tour within the main Grand prix tour, called Dewar Cup. The Dewar Cup appeared to comprise of 6 events ar...
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Life on Tour
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2018/01/09/truth-behind-pro-tennis-away-elite-cheating-claims-financial/
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Papua New Guinea
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Hey all! A while back a few of you mentioned that you'd like to read articles from players from small nations so I thought I'd share an interview I've just complete with Abigail Tere-Apisah. She's 25 and Papua New Guinea's number one player on the WTA tour. Inside the top 350, she was one match away from w...
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GB Seniors Club Championships
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An email from the LTA yesterday alerted me to the fact that the GB Seniors hold an annual inter club competition to find the best age category team, O35, O40, O45 etc I couldn't find out much more about it, but the cool thing is the winners of the GB event progress to a European finals and I know we do pretty w...
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Master ‘U BNP Paribas 2017
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Congratulations to our GB college team who beat US in the final in Lille today. The team consisted of: Maia Lumsden Jonny O'Mara Jack Findel Hawkins Emma Hurst Pippa Horn Scot Duncan GB finished 3rd last year - USA had a team of Holt, Redlicki, Lahey and Shibahara
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Tennis Scotland Open Tour
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https://www3.lta.org.uk/in-your-area/Scotland/news/July-17/Tennis-Scotland-Open-Singles-Tour-Pilot--Entires-now-open/
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The LTA Appreciation thread
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How's about something different. A thread for the expression the things you value them for and think they do well. Or simply ways in which you recognise they've been improving.
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Champions tennis.
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The Champions tennis is back on  https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2017/champions-tennis/
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US College Signings 2015
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As CD points out on the other US thread, the circus is starting up again with recruits committing to colleges for next autumn. Thought it might be clearer to start a fresh thread. Boys signing for 2015 Sam Bird - Troy William Bissett - East Carolina Ryan Brough - Tyler Junior College (NJCAA) James Bru...
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Abolishing 17-32 seeds in slams in 2019?
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Just heard that along with the new proposals for the 25 second shot clock and players receiving 50% of their prize money if withdrawing before the first round of the slams, they are also looking at abolishing the 17-32 seeded positions in slams to 'increase the jeopardy for the top players'. http://w...
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The difficulties of coaching
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We all know how difficult it is for tennis players to make it big, but what about coaches too?! Especially in this country, where we don't always get the weather and facilities.. I know I've shared stuff on my blog in the past, but I've had a really good response from you all so far so massive thanks :) I hav...
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Is David Goffin the worst player to reach the WTF final?
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Does Goffin reaching the Final of the WTF confirm this era is the weakest it has been for many years. Goffin: Has won 4 titles ( 1x 500, 3 X 250) Never reached a Masters 1000 Final Never gone past the QF of a Grandslam (reached 2 x QF). He makes Davydenko and Nalbandian look amazing. Compare when Davydenk...
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Non-Tennis Players playing tennis
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Struck by the picture below, I thought I'd share it in what might become part of a very very very infrequent series: She may have been a peerless actress, but not so sure of Katharine Hepburn's tennis form: There are quite a few pictures of her playing though, mostly in the sports trousers ubiquitous at...
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TV rights
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According to press reports - the coverage of men's tennis, for which Sky had the UK rights, has been won by Amazon Prime.... BT Sport still have the women's rights and Eurosport some coverage and of course Wimbledon is on the BBC What a odd range of channels... I assume Amazon Prime is an internet/smar...
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Leon Smith
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Next week I will have the pleasure of meeting Leon Smith again here in Spain. He is coaching the "Adult Academy" at La Manga, all week. Whilst I cannot participate, I intend to make an appearance on a couple of days at least and then on Thursday Evening, their is a Gala Dinner where Leon will be doing a que...
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Nadal and Federer in World Tour Finals?
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taking a look at the in running points today, Nadal clearly hasnt officially qualified - Live Rankings has him a few hundred points off still. But since the Finals have been at the O2, the lowest 8th placed qualifier has had around 4400 points and as of today Nadal has 5200 or so. Pretty much a dead cert Na...
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Australian tennis
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I've been wondering for a little while what's gone wrong with Australian tennis ?
Men : No 1 = Lleyton Hewitt ( world ranked 14 ), No 2 = Peter Luczak ( 120 )
Women : No 1 = Samantha Stosur ( 55 ), No 2 = Nicole Pratt ( 133 )
I can remember the d...
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Byes in China Open
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I notice that three players have been given byes to the last 32 in the WTA China Open. They are Ashleigh Barty, Caroline Garcia and Jelena Ostapenko. They are far from being the top 3 seeds-in fact, Ashleigh is not even a seed! The obvious explanation is that they reached the semis in the previous week an...
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