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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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International Premier Tennis League
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What on earth is this all about ? In a word - MONEY http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/tennis/26388728 -- Edited by Madeline on Friday 5th of December 2014 09:08:03 PM
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University World Tennis Masters Championships - 2014 (Saint-Grégoire/Rennes)
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A quick 'shout out' for the GB Masters Uni World Champs team: Jess Ren, Alex Walker and Anna Fitzpatrick Nick Eeckalaers, Darren Walsh and Mark Whitehouse Good luck !!! (Britain won the bronze medal last year, beating France, behind Russia in silver and USA in gold)
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British Tour Prize Money
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Have heard that there will be at least 2 BT events during the first half of the year with an increased prize pot of just over £8K, giving the winners £1,500 each and the runners up £800. Perhaps this is part of the new approach to funding.
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County Cup 2014 - Bath 28-30 Nov
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The team sheets for the mens and womens county cups have been released and include: Aljaz Bedene, Richard Bloomfield, Liam Broady, Ed Corrie, George Coupland, Evan Hoyt, Josh Milton, George Morgan, David Rice and Dan Smethurst Emily Arbuthnott, Jasmine Asghar, Harriet Dart and Charlotte Pearce...
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Neil Harman - any news ?
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Ok so not one of my favourite tennis reporters, way too sycophantic for my tastes. But I haven't seen or heard anything of him since the downfall, just wondered what he was up to.
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Andy Murray vs Federer Tuesday 6pm?
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I know it is perilious to predict what the ATP World Tour Finals Tournament Directors will decide, but what do we think are the chances of Murray vs Federer on Tuesday at 6pm? I have two free tickets for this session up for grabs on my facebook site "Born To Win Tennis" if anyone is intereste...
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Professional players need to consider themselves as a business
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Although like the overwhelming majority of Dedicated GB tennis fans on this forum I think we are all in agreement that futures prize money needs at to at least double I still feel that too many of our top 50 players are expecting to get by on donations rather than earnings Pro tennis players ranked 151-2...
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University Project - Hard-Court Tennis Footwear
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Hi there, I'm new to this forum, my name is John and I'm currently studying towards a Masters degree in sports engineering at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. My main passion in life is sport, in particular football, golf, and my main sport of tennis. I was lucky enough to play with our very own Andy...
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LTA Team Aegon - "The Young Ones"
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Putting aside 1. the much older almost veteran Team Aegon 2013 singles players who received full funding, which arguably is preposterous (eg Anne K, Elena B, etc) 2. and the doubles specialist players who received funding, which arguably is not the appropriate focus for spending (eg Dominic I, Jon...
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