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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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Bob in Spain
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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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US College Signings
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Signing season opened a couple of days ago for new US college recruits. So far these are the Brits who are heading Stateside this summer: Boys Julian Cash - Mississippi State Josh Coulthard - Lincoln Memoria (Div 2) James Defusto - Saint Leo (Div 2) Josef Dodridge - Wisconsin Jamie Gibson - Charles...
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Farris Gosea
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Couldn't find a thread on him. http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/27944307 Interesting article. Seems to have done really well over in the states and they think very highly of him.
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Definition of Amateur Tennis in the UK
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Could anyone help me with a definition for what amateur tennis means in terms of UK competition? For instance I work full time in a non-tennis job, but I could still enter a minor tournament and win some money - so the definition can not solely be about earning money. Take a top50 uk player who competes...
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Tebbutt's Annual Tennis Quiz
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http://www.tenniscanada.com/index.php?title=TEBBUTT:-GENIUS/JOKER-QUIZ-2014&pid=6164
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Week 1 Hopman Cup
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How formal is the Hopman cup? For example if Hev beats Radwanska does it count as a career best win? Do the single results count in W/L for the year, or is it treated as an exhibition?
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Something for the Statisticians (ITF/Challenger Changes)
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Results of global ITF survey http://www.itftennis.com/media/194256/194256.pdf -- Edited by The Optimist on Friday 9th of January 2015 08:08:18 AM
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Training groups/Academies
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Any ideas who belongs to which training group/academy? There arew some obvious ones about: Soto - Fitzy, JWH Bolton Academy - Hewitt
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John Millman
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After a recent streak of being pretty much invincible in challengers and torturing Liam, Kile and Wardy in the process the has Milkman just acquitted himself quite impressively by taking Federer to 3 sets in Brisbane! One to keep an eye out for sure. -- Edited by bartman2099 on Thursday 8th of Janua...
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Schedule for next year - ITF & challenger
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Any ideas when we will see a schedule for next year on ITF & challengers for GB tournaments? All I can see on the ITF website is two ITF tournaments for the ladies a 10K and a 25K in Jan/Feb I'm interested to see the split as we have funny groupings. Men - 10-15 challenger/15K 10 - 15k/10K ...
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British tennis players union
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Oli Golding has after almost 200 years since the tolpuddle martyrs formed the first trade union suggested the idea of a GB tennis players union it's never too late ! Now let's hope Russell brand loves tennis and we can start the Revolution. !
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