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The elite tennis coach who sleeps in his car
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At any of the four Grand Slams, a few minutes from Centre Court or Arthur Ashe stadium, one will find a tired looking rental car parked by the side of the road. This is where Christian Filhol has slept every night during tennis premier tournaments for the past 23 years. Filhol, a 53 year old Frenchman wit...
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Prediction about wimbledon .. who will be the winner?
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i dont know.. but think its may be Roger Federer
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Low cost coaching
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I was shocked when I saw the price of coaching for my 5 year old, one club wanted £7.50 for a 45min session and another wanted £10/hour...for group coaching...8 kids per coach! The club near me who charge £10 session (this is outside of London on the Herts/Essex border) wanted £130 upfront for a block of...
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NTC set to close
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There is a big article in the telegraph today from Simon Briggs, suggesting the NTC is set to close as a national tennis centre and become administrative only. That would make sense now given a post on twitter by Harry. I think this will throw a few noses out of joint. The following players will have to fi...
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LTA Funding and Participation
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There have been a couple of articles out on the BBC website with regard to LTA Funding and participation targets. They contain some interesting stats re number of courts, coaches, players etc along with comparisons with other countries. The State of Elite and Grass Roots Tennis in Britain http://...
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Casting call - WIMBLEDON FANS
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I have been asked to post the following, in the hope that it will be of interest to some of you.I can't vouch for the company personally, but having looked at their website at http://www.k2productions.co.uk/#about-us, I have no reason to doubt that the request is genuine and Rebecca's emails to me ha...
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On Court Security
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What on earth was going on in Paris today after the Federer match. Security just stood by and allowed a young spectator to wander onto the court, tap Roger on the shoulder and ask him for a selfie. Apparently more kids were following on court before the security reacted. Federer was clearly angry abo...
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The Roland Garros Rant
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I have had a seriously bad day. If you don't like rants, or your blood pressure is a bit high, turn off now. Left the hotel at 7.15am and walked the 5km to the station. Got on the 8.15am train, due in Gard du Nord at 9.06am. Immediately told that there would be a delay to the service due to "signal failu...
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England vs Scotland - Home International
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Who wins? It struck me as an idea for a domestic competition/exhibition event that the LTA could arrange, which would attract more interest than any normal British Tour event. The headline match would perhaps look like a non-contest, but further down there are some intriguing match-ups. I've trie...
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eTennis League - Reinvented Flex Tennis League
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Registration for eTennis League has started. Register to play competitive tennis and play for cash prize and trophy. This league works as follows. In this league, you are choosing players against you want to play. There is no predetermined schedule, you are making your own schedule. When sea...
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My idea on ATP financial restructuring
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This was something i was thinking about the other day, prior to seeing the recent post on ITF prizemoney increases. The ATP should priotitize getting together and petitioning all the Grand Slams to contubute a small fixed % of their earnings to help fund Challenger level tournaments. Because the GS...
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Murray's suggestion on Futures Prize Money
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There is an article on the BBC site this morning where Andy Murray comments on the Futures level prize money and how the game is losing players through lack of funding. He is suggesting that the top players could help to fund the futures events. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/tennis/27496927 Oh. And d...
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Queens Tournament- 2015 British wildcards
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With the draw this year being reduced to 32, how many wildcards to British players are expected to be handed out? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/32602141 -- Edited by skibbarriz on Wednesday 6th of May 2015 06:34:50 PM
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Help me chose a string!
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Hi guys looking for some advice on which strings to get for my babolat pure strike tour and pure drive. on the pure strike i've still got the factory strings (xcel) so looking for an upgrade for summer tournaments and on the pure drive i currently have luxilon 4g but it has lost all play ability as i have to...
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Courtsiding
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Perhaps I need to be more careful when sending tweets from live matches I am attending http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32402945
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Tennismatch.com
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Tennismatch.com or Tennismatch.co.uk being a website that does not, to my knowledge, exist... The idea being prompted by the recent webcast with Mr Downey, in which the female presenter complains that she woud play a lot more, if only she could find an opponent of the right level. This has certainl...
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Michael Downey - The four year plan for British Tennis
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New Episode of David Law's 'The Tennis Podcast'. "Michael Downey - The four year plan for British Tennis" 27 minutes where the LTA CEO discusses his plans for the future I'll leave you each to form your own opinions.
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Irish Player Progress
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I don't know if any of you follow the progress of the irish players but Ireland's top 2, Louk Sorenson and Conor Niland are starting to make progress now with Conor reaching the final of the GB future last week and Sorenson WINNING Wolfsberg challenger a few weeks ago. Sorenson has improved over 100 ran...
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Racket Rally
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A new fantasy game set up by Ben Rothenberg. Still trying to get to grips with exactly what is going on but it's like playing the stock market. www.racketrally.com Could be fun! -- Edited by PaulM on Friday 16th of January 2015 08:58:56 AM
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The Great British Summer of Tennis (one more week)
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Right as always I will be taking off down the country for some spectating at the grass court events. This year we have 4 weeks for the 1st time, and much more choice of events. Been racking my brain as to which events to attend and have now come up with an initial itinerary ( may change when the acceptance li...
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ATP Masters Inspired Tennis Shirts
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ATP-World-Tour-Masters-1000-Tennis-T-shirt-/291414235910?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item43d9a45b06
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The Great ITF 10k Swindle
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http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.htm
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Young Seniors
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As some of you may know, there is a major "Seniors" tournament going on in Turkey at the moment. Our friend Beechy is representing GB in the M45 category and I am pleased to report that they have topped their group after the RR stage and are into the semis. So far they have beaten Finland and Ire...
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Off the court philanthropic/campaigning work by ATP and WTA professionals
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I was really struck by the ATP article on Aisam Ul-haq Qureshi going out to Yangon and speaking about the need for tolerance and how sport can promote it. (In case you hadn't seen, the Muslim community in Arakan State in Burma/Myanmar has recently been suffering from serious persecution) He then appa...
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Lack Of Players?
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There have been several posts on the forum recently commenting on how we seem to have less tennis to follow. Certainly there have been retirements as a result of the LTA funding and attitude change. Probably from those unlikely to be troubling the main tour in the future, but still in most cases with i...
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