British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

JonH · JonH

According to some analysis by Forbes the top 10 comprises 8 tennis players - Serena gets most of her income from endorsements. I have heard of Danica Patrick of course, she will get a lot of money from non prizemoney as she does a lot of modelling etc, but PV Sindhu, I had no idea who she is. She is a badminto...

paulisi · paulisi

Seems to be back - inaugural event in Belfast. Morgan Cross and Elinor Beazley representing Wales.

The Optimist · The Optimist

Thought posters might be interested in this article in Forbes re wildcards particularly as it quotes the thinking of Kyle E's agent in relation to the recent WCs awarded to himhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelmorales/2014/04/17/wild-cards-tennis-free-lunch-may-cause-indigestion/...

Ned · Ned

Why does it seem so difficult to get a foot in , when your son is top 50 in the uk, works his but off is a 2.2 with out a single match play, but gained from tournaments only. the new player pathway also excludes him as the old one missed him, and the next hoop to jump through is to try and get into top 150 itf in a yea...

AliBlahBlah · AliBlahBlah

Is this draw in the current $15K in Kazan, Russia, unique? A full 32/32 are domestic players. I can't remember that, at leasst not for a very, very long time. There were only two non-Russians in the 32 place qualifying draw, too (an Iranian & a Ukranian) The doubles draw is unsurprisingly also all-...

Oakland2002 · Oakland2002

One of the greatest pleasures of following British Tennis on this board is watching the younger plays transitioning from juniors ideally on through futures and challengers to the main tour. There have been many debates as to markers of progression that would suggest a young player was destined for...

Sally · Sally

Interesting article in an Australian newspaper today: Women net top money from a little tennis WELL, thank you Martina Hingis for coming back and showing us everything there is to know about women's tennis. First, by not picking up a racquet for almost three years and then cruising straight i...

paulisi · paulisi

I know there is very little about at the moment, but where there is can anyone explain how it works please. Do the LTA pick up all tabs? - travel, accommodation, coaching costs and other expenses during tournament week(food/entertainment etc) If the competitor picks up prize money - do they get to kee...

Stircrazy · Stircrazy

Just seen this on the Beeb's London News page; 17:56 Anyone for tennis in Gunnersbury Park?Local Democracy Reporting Service Eight new state-of-the-art tennis courts will be available to use at Gunnersbury Park from 1 August. The new macadam courts are the first phase of the Gunnersbury Park Spor...

JonH · JonH

Having seen the grass court weeks play out and tracking the wins of our players in singles, doubles and qualies, I thought it would be interesting to see who folks on the Forum thought had been our player of the grass court season overall - singles and doubles, everything and every week taken into accou...

Helen40 · Helen40

I've been pondering the above question, and wonder if anyone has more information on it. This is as far as I've got. This year both Jack Draper (age 16) and Emma Raducanu (age 15) got QWCs into Wimby seniors, and both lost in QR1. Emma had a tight three setter, losing to someone who then beat two players r...

Helen40 · Helen40

What do people think of the new timing rules and stop clock? There will be a visible 25 second stop clock for player's serving time. It seems like there has still got be some umpire discretion on when this clock starts (I mean we've seen it when there's been a great rally, the crowd won't calm down), for...

Stircrazy · Stircrazy

A post I made on the Jay Clarke thread in the Individual players forum seems to have sparked a bit of discussion entirely unrelated to Jay, hence this new thread here. The post in question was: And with Wimbledon looming, we're spoilt for choice [tennis articles in The Sunday Times] today: the Jay ar...

Helen40 · Helen40

I was wondering whether someone has any stats for what ranking players are when they win tournaments at various levels, from lowly ITFs to GSs, and how this varies (if at all) between men and women.

Fix British Tennis · Fix British Tennis

I am doing some research into how the LTA's headline '£250 million' TBTT investment aimed in doubling the number of kids playing tennis and doubling the number of times infrequent adults play is going one year post launch. I am hearing stories that the LTA is driving club volunteers who are trying to a...

seagull · seagull

How many of you out there already subscribe to this? I shall start it in September for the US Open and with the recently announced Premier League package they have won (on top of the ATP tour events from next year) looks like they mean business on the UK sports front. Now means forking out for BT, NOW TV (Sk...

Coup Droit · Coup Droit

Ok, so we do a fair bit of linguistic navel-gazing on this site so I thought I would throw out this: I seem to be the only person who goes for 'qualis' - everyone else (here and on twitter) is a fan of 'qualies'. Now, I'm not sure if there's a right answer here but my reasoning is: If qualifications ever gets s...

A1 tennis academy · A1 tennis academy

Best teenager seen since 2012 when regularly visiting futures in uk & abroad

blob · blob

Very much saddened and shocked to hear of the passing of Jana Novotna from cancer at the age of 49. A lovely player and person. Remembered especially fondly here for her determination, frailty and humanity in exploits at Wimbledon; and, of course, triumphing over it all in glorious fashion in 1998. S...

Bob in Spain · Bob in Spain

Enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1M6Oqw9IF8

Born2WinTennis · Born2WinTennis

Very random question, but this popped into my head last week. Who would win a world championships to find the best player without an adult world ranking. The types of contenders could be: 1) An up and coming youngster yet to win his first ATP point 2) An ex-world ranked pro recently retired from the cir...

seagull · seagull

Detail here: PRESS RELEASE 30 March 2017 ITF announces major restructuring of entry level of professional tennis The ITF Board of Directors has approved a major restructuring of professional tennis at its entry level. The reform programme of changes will include a radical reduction in the number...

Oakland2002 · Oakland2002

Match fixing at the lower levels of tennis is about to drive a reduction in the number of ranked professional tennis players to 500. How will that work? What do you think is the best structure? A qualifying school as in golf? Could it result in the development of a rival tour? Perhaps an Under 23 tour? Wi...

seagull · seagull

Sorry if this is not really appropriate but before I try elsewhere just thought I would offer to true tennis fans on here: I have a hospitality package for Queens on Saturday June 23rd (Semi-Finals Day) that I now can't make as I have to run a junior match at my local club. This package is for 2 East Stand ti...

JonH · JonH

https://www.harrogateadvertiser.co.uk/news/yorkshire-castle-to-host-tennis-garden-party-featuring-wimbledon-champion-1-9107228

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Top Earning Women Sports Stats ( 1 2 ) (Preview) According to some analysis by Forbes the top 10 comprises 8 tennis players - Serena gets most of her income from endorsements. I have heard of Danica Patrick of course, she will get a lot of money from non prizemoney as she does a lot of modelling etc, but PV Sindhu, I had no idea who she is. She is a badminto...	JonH	15	4472	Aug 23, 2018 by seagull
	Home nations tournament (Preview) Seems to be back - inaugural event in Belfast. Morgan Cross and Elinor Beazley representing Wales.	paulisi	0	1151	Aug 18, 2018 by paulisi
	Wild Cards ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 15 ) (Preview) Thought posters might be interested in this article in Forbes re wildcards particularly as it quotes the thinking of Kyle E's agent in relation to the recent WCs awarded to himhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelmorales/2014/04/17/wild-cards-tennis-free-lunch-may-cause-indigestion/...	The Optimist	224	27263	Aug 15, 2018 by Helen40
	Starting itf as a British player on low income ( 1 2 ) (Preview) Why does it seem so difficult to get a foot in , when your son is top 50 in the uk, works his but off is a 2.2 with out a single match play, but gained from tournaments only. the new player pathway also excludes him as the old one missed him, and the next hoop to jump through is to try and get into top 150 itf in a yea...	Ned	17	2882	Aug 12, 2018 by Otto
	Week 32 2018 - $15K Kazan (Preview) Is this draw in the current $15K in Kazan, Russia, unique? A full 32/32 are domestic players. I can't remember that, at leasst not for a very, very long time. There were only two non-Russians in the 32 place qualifying draw, too (an Iranian & a Ukranian) The doubles draw is unsurprisingly also all-...	AliBlahBlah	0	763	Aug 5, 2018 by AliBlahBlah
	Young British Tennis players in transition: Top 20 ATP/WTA Tennis players by age ( 1 2 ) (Preview) One of the greatest pleasures of following British Tennis on this board is watching the younger plays transitioning from juniors ideally on through futures and challengers to the main tour. There have been many debates as to markers of progression that would suggest a young player was destined for...	Oakland2002	20	3658	Aug 2, 2018 by Oakland2002
	Equal pay for women ( 1 2 ) (Preview) Interesting article in an Australian newspaper today: Women net top money from a little tennis WELL, thank you Martina Hingis for coming back and showing us everything there is to know about women's tennis. First, by not picking up a racquet for almost three years and then cruising straight i...	Sally	15	2546	Jul 27, 2018 by Coup Droit
	LTA funding ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 9 ) (Preview) I know there is very little about at the moment, but where there is can anyone explain how it works please. Do the LTA pick up all tabs? - travel, accommodation, coaching costs and other expenses during tournament week(food/entertainment etc) If the competitor picks up prize money - do they get to kee...	paulisi	126	25460	Jul 25, 2018 by Kolohead
	Tennis in Gunnersbury Park (Preview) Just seen this on the Beeb's London News page; 17:56 Anyone for tennis in Gunnersbury Park?Local Democracy Reporting Service Eight new state-of-the-art tennis courts will be available to use at Gunnersbury Park from 1 August. The new macadam courts are the first phase of the Gunnersbury Park Spor...	Stircrazy	3	884	Jul 20, 2018 by Oakland2002
	Who was the British player of the Grass Court Season? ( 1 2 ) (Preview) Having seen the grass court weeks play out and tracking the wins of our players in singles, doubles and qualies, I thought it would be interesting to see who folks on the Forum thought had been our player of the grass court season overall - singles and doubles, everything and every week taken into accou...	JonH	27	2593	Jul 19, 2018 by Oakland2002
	Is the jump from boys to mens bigger than the jump from girls to womens? ( 1 2 ) (Preview) I've been pondering the above question, and wonder if anyone has more information on it. This is as far as I've got. This year both Jack Draper (age 16) and Emma Raducanu (age 15) got QWCs into Wimby seniors, and both lost in QR1. Emma had a tight three setter, losing to someone who then beat two players r...	Helen40	25	1627	Jul 18, 2018 by Strongbow
	25 second stop clock at Aussie Open and new warm up rules. (Preview) What do people think of the new timing rules and stop clock? There will be a visible 25 second stop clock for player's serving time. It seems like there has still got be some umpire discretion on when this clock starts (I mean we've seen it when there's been a great rally, the crowd won't calm down), for...	Helen40	10	1342	Jul 13, 2018 by the addict
	Grand Slams: number of seeds to be reduced from 32 to 16 (Preview) A post I made on the Jay Clarke thread in the Individual players forum seems to have sparked a bit of discussion entirely unrelated to Jay, hence this new thread here. The post in question was: And with Wimbledon looming, we're spoilt for choice [tennis articles in The Sunday Times] today: the Jay ar...	Stircrazy	8	1415	Jul 1, 2018 by Helen40
	Ranking to win at each level. (Preview) I was wondering whether someone has any stats for what ranking players are when they win tournaments at various levels, from lowly ITFs to GSs, and how this varies (if at all) between men and women.	Helen40	12	940	Jun 27, 2018 by Strongbow
	LTA's 'Transforming British Tennis Together' (Preview) I am doing some research into how the LTA's headline '£250 million' TBTT investment aimed in doubling the number of kids playing tennis and doubling the number of times infrequent adults play is going one year post launch. I am hearing stories that the LTA is driving club volunteers who are trying to a...	Fix British Tennis	0	776	Jun 13, 2018 by Fix British Tennis
	Amazon Prime (Preview) How many of you out there already subscribe to this? I shall start it in September for the US Open and with the recently announced Premier League package they have won (on top of the ATP tour events from next year) looks like they mean business on the UK sports front. Now means forking out for BT, NOW TV (Sk...	seagull	5	942	Jun 8, 2018 by brittak
	Qualis or Qualies ? (Preview) Ok, so we do a fair bit of linguistic navel-gazing on this site so I thought I would throw out this: I seem to be the only person who goes for 'qualis' - everyone else (here and on twitter) is a fan of 'qualies'. Now, I'm not sure if there's a right answer here but my reasoning is: If qualifications ever gets s...	Coup Droit	14	1914	May 22, 2018 by thejester
	Quentin Halys (Preview) Best teenager seen since 2012 when regularly visiting futures in uk & abroad	A1 tennis academy	4	1163	May 21, 2018 by Coup Droit
	RIP Jana Novotna (Preview) Very much saddened and shocked to hear of the passing of Jana Novotna from cancer at the age of 49. A lovely player and person. Remembered especially fondly here for her determination, frailty and humanity in exploits at Wimbledon; and, of course, triumphing over it all in glorious fashion in 1998. S...	blob	14	2844	May 10, 2018 by blob
	Shot Selection (Preview) Enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1M6Oqw9IF8	Bob in Spain	3	1493	Apr 30, 2018 by The Optimist
	The Best Non-Ranked Player in the World (Preview) Very random question, but this popped into my head last week. Who would win a world championships to find the best player without an adult world ranking. The types of contenders could be: 1) An up and coming youngster yet to win his first ATP point 2) An ex-world ranked pro recently retired from the cir...	Born2WinTennis	9	2487	Apr 30, 2018 by christ
	ITF announce major changes from 2019 ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview) Detail here: PRESS RELEASE 30 March 2017 ITF announces major restructuring of entry level of professional tennis The ITF Board of Directors has approved a major restructuring of professional tennis at its entry level. The reform programme of changes will include a radical reduction in the number...	seagull	34	8197	Apr 28, 2018 by EddietheEagle
	What is the best structure to limit professional tennis to 500 ranked players? (Preview) Match fixing at the lower levels of tennis is about to drive a reduction in the number of ranked professional tennis players to 500. How will that work? What do you think is the best structure? A qualifying school as in golf? Could it result in the development of a rival tour? Perhaps an Under 23 tour? Wi...	Oakland2002	12	1450	Apr 26, 2018 by Etienne
	Queens Hospitality Package (Preview) Sorry if this is not really appropriate but before I try elsewhere just thought I would offer to true tennis fans on here: I have a hospitality package for Queens on Saturday June 23rd (Semi-Finals Day) that I now can't make as I have to run a junior match at my local club. This package is for 2 East Stand ti...	seagull	0	1096	Apr 25, 2018 by seagull
	New Exhibition Event in June (Preview) https://www.harrogateadvertiser.co.uk/news/yorkshire-castle-to-host-tennis-garden-party-featuring-wimbledon-champion-1-9107228	JonH	5	1249	Apr 11, 2018 by scottie1
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