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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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2014 earning GB players
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I though it would be interesting to look at earnings for the GB players after Wimbledon Numbers are in dollars and are taken from WTA/ATP site Watson 265,046 Konta 111,152 Broady 110,772 Robson 28,522 Murray 51,154 Moore 63,817 Dunne 12,704 Windley 12,263 Webley Smith 19,528 Carreras 1,807 Smit...
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Ashleigh Barty's tennis hiatus
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http://www.smh.com.au/sport/tennis/ashleigh-barty-gives-no-hint-of-return-after-walking-away-from-tennis-20140919-10ja2w.html
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Dave's Cup
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Hello Peoples. I back Today on television I watch Brazil play against country of my brother, Espaina. They play for Dave's cup. I hope Dave not mind too much. He must be very nice man. I not know many of Spain team. I think 1st team got on wrong flight and they have to send reserves instead. At least we no...
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Vaidisova to Return
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The often rumoured comeback finally seems legit this time: http://www.afp.com/en/node/2787899 Easy to forget just how good she was back then; she's still only 24! Be interesting to monitor how she goes.
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Nalbandian Retires
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Always a stylish player to watch, but sadly it appears his shoulder injury has got the better of him. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/24358285
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Wimbledon Invitational Mens Doubles question
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I'm just back having been invited by a friend to No1 court to see 2 mens' invitational matches and a mixed doubles semi-final. Mr Bahrami has a lot to answer for, watching Andrew Castle (sorry my pet hate) attempting to be funny was tough but he tried very hard bless him. An opponent retired injured in th...
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Grigor Dimitrov
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Don't know if anyone picked this up earlier in the week, but Grigor has parted ways with his new coaching set up, the "Good to Great Academy" in Sweden. The impact seemed to be immediate - he apparently practiced in the gloom and long nights of Scandinavia all through last year's off season (...
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Impromptu trip to London this weekend
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Just after a little advice. I and a few friends are up in London this weekend. Friday plans have fallen through, so looking at going to the tennis. What would be the chances of getting a day pass at Wimbledon and would it be a queue at 8am job? All advice would be welcomed and appreciated.
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Wimbledon-Related Miscellany
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A place for all those things relating to Wimbledon that aren't quite right for any of the normal threads? I don't know if others have seen or mentioned this before (for all I know someone on here wrote it!), but browsing in our local bookstore last week, I found "Analyzing Wimbledon: The Power of S...
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Ana Konjuh on the move again
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Having just turned 16 a few days ago, Ms Konjuh celebrated by beating Roberta Vinci quite comfortably in the end at the WTA in Auckland. This time last year she won the Eddie Herr, Orange Bowl and AO Juniors back to back in the space of a few weeks as a 14 year old, who turned 15 just before the AO. Quite a prog...
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Liverpool Invitational tennis tournament
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The tournament has moved from Calderstones Park to Liverpool Cricket Club this year and starts tomorrow I see Tara Moore is now playing as is Jodie Burrage (playing Bartoli) The Skupskis are advertised, but have bigger fish to fry (their dad is involved in running the event) Rusedski is also playing...
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Tennis racquets & bags for sale
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Hi everyone, Appologoes to the admin, I tried to post this at lunch time but it was taken down possibly as I had it in the wrong section? New on here as you can see. I have 10-12 top quality "like new" items of tennis racquets & baga ending today and tomorrow on eBay. I thought this may be t...
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Queens
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Qualifying starts on Saturday for the Queens event and continues on Sunday. Ive read that it is free to spectators but there is a limit of 500 people for health and safety reasons. Has anyone ever attended this before? Any tips would be appreciated (queue length/duration etc.).
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Why no entry charge for the Aegon Trophy & Aegon Challenge?
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No that I'm complaining and I know it is not a top tier event but why no charge at all. I realise you have got to encourage spectators which I presume is one one of the reasons - but nothing at all!
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GB Elite tennis: What's so special about Croatia and Serbia, and what can we learn?
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All of us are desperate to see GB success at the top table of international tennis, and many rightly talk about taking the learnings from Spain and France, who produce great players in large volumes. But as Tony Blair might say, perhaps there is a "third way". We've all been aware of both Cro...
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Tennis towel service
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Tennis is a wonderful sport but there is one ugly side of it which is getting kids to run after professional tennis players with their towels. It makes tennis players look like spoilt ego driven people. It's also demeaning for the ball boys and girls.One simple solution is for the ATP and WTA to ban tow...
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Max Clifford & The LTA
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Another tangled web unfolds ! The LTA showing their better judgement again in choosing to use Max Clifford to assist in "damage limitation" campaign ! I seem to remember that this was around the time they were securing the Aegon sponsorship deal ! Money comes first ? They just cant seem to m...
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Who will be the new CEO of the LTA ?
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Who will be the new CEO of the LTA ?
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Wimbledon Ballot?
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You may well have had this debate many times but I am one of these people that just hates the ballot in its current form? Unlike Wimbledon I don't think it is a fair way of distributing the tickets at all as I believe that many who follow the sport all year round and not just two weeks of the year, lose out. Wit...
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You know you spend too much time here when....
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1) You find yourself wondering how Faraz Siddiqui got on in his Futures doubles 1st round in Sweden when you should be completing an important report at work. 2) When you press b in your browser address bar, the only thing that appears on the drop down menu is a list of bt threads 3) You tell your friends it...
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Womens 25k-100K tournaments
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There was an interesting debate on one of the threads about the allocation of 25k-100K around the world and the limited numbers available this year. I'm halfway through looking at the nations that have female players ranked between 75 and 250 and comparing it to the number of tournaments they have...
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Article help
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I'm having to write a feature report for one of my sport journalism classes. I'm going to base it on the lack of depth in British tennis, the fact that we possess one of the richest tennis federations in the world... yet we still only possess a handful of top level players. (Not a TYPICAL Wimbledon fiasco...
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