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Favourite British Tennis Player - 2024 - Round One Group D
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Last done 12 months or so ago and run several times over the past 4 years.This our quest to find the boards favourite British player 64 players - 8 groups of 8 in total. Sorry if your faves are all in one group, luck of the draw!! Groups include 4 men and 4 women, a mix of singles and doubles players (I hav...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - 2024 - Round One Group B
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Last done 12 months or so ago and run several times over the past 4 years.This our quest to find the boards favourite British player 64 players - 8 groups of 8 in total. Sorry if your faves are all in one group, luck of the draw!! Groups include 4 men and 4 women, a mix of singles and doubles players (I hav...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - 2024 - Round One Group A
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Last done 12 months or so ago and run several times over the past 4 years.This our quest to find the boards favourite British player 64 players - 8 groups of 8 in total. Sorry if your faves are all in one group, luck of the draw!! Groups include 4 men and 4 women, a mix of singles and doubles players (I hav...
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January 2024 Player of the Month Vote - FINAL
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Here we go - final group of 7 in the final, bios below in nomination orderVOTE WILL CLOSE WEDNESDAY EVENING AT 6.40PM5 - Katie Boulter - for beating Jessica Pegula World No 5 in the United Cup.7 - Jack Draper - for reaching the final the the ATP 250 in Adelaide and beating 3 top 32 players, including the top...
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2023 - Who is your favourite British Player? Final
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So heres our final - the winner will be crowned at 10pm thursday night. just vote for your favourite - simples! -- Edited by JonH comes home on Wednesday 15th of March 2023 10:03:14 PM
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Apparently next year is the last in Singapore and the WTA wish to bring the Tour finals to Europe. Prague, St. Petersburg and Manchester are the venues touted. Personally, living in Yorkshire, Manchester would be very appealing, presumably the MEN arena is being considered for it. The article wa...
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Week 1 - United Cup, Perth/Sydney, Australia - Hard Outdoor
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GB is in group C with USA and Australia, playing group matches in Perth. The format is the #1 singles players in men and #1 singles women play each other followed by a mixed doubles. Ranking points available, with the number dependent on their opponents ranking. The GB team is C Norrie, D Evans, N Skupsk...
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January 2024 Player of the Month Vote - Semifinal Group 2
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Here we go - 2 groups of 11; top 3 from each group will go to the final. Full list of 22 below in nomination order, so you'll need to read through to look at players bios VOTE WILL CLOSE MONDAY EVENING AT 6.30PM, THE FINAL WILL BE POSTED SHORTLY THEREAFTER 1 - Alastair Gray - for breaking back into the Top 500 h...
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January 2024 Player of the Month Vote - Semifinal Group 1
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Here we go - 2 groups of 11; top 3 from each group will go to the final. Full list of 22 below in nomination order, so you'll need to read through to look at players bios VOTE WILL CLOSE MONDAY EVENING AT 6.30PM, THE FINAL WILL BE POSTED SHORTLY THEREAFTER 1 - Alastair Gray - for breaking back into the Top 500 h...
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January 2024 Player of the Month Nominations Thread
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First month of 2024 and lots of action already. All this weeks events count incl United Cup. Closing date for nominations is Sunday 28th January anyone can nominate, just put the name and reason in the list by quoting the last post with the latest list and adding your nomination to it: Nomination List...
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Alan Mills
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Alan Mills former player and Wimbledon Referee passed away on 18th January.
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Some terrible news. Mike Dickson, daily mail tennis correspondent, has passed away while working at the Australian Open. posted on his Twitter account: We are devastated to announce that our wonderful husband and Dad, Mike, has collapsed and died while in Melbourne for the Aus Open. For 38 years he...
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Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario
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Another former hero of the sport getting herself in criminal trouble https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/68005954 Fraud conviction for concealing assets - sounds familiar - although this one linked to an initial tax fraud similar to those many footballers (Messi, Ronaldo, Mourinho) have be...
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Not so great news about Alexander Zverev on the internet today , with an ex-girlfriend alleging domestic violence and a more recent ex-girlfriend announcing she's carrying his baby , but opting for sole custody. There hasn't been a lot of positive news about him in the media of recent unfortunatel...
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British ITF events 2024
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Not sure if there is a wider document setting out the events for the 2024 season, but just noticed this on ITF calendar. Apologies if this is posted somewhere else! Women January Week 2 ( think it is week 2) - W35 Loughborough Week 3 - W35 Sunderland February Week 6 - W50 Edgbaston Week 7 - W50 Roehampton Me...
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Netflix BreakPoint
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Just wondering if anyone watched this and what they thought? Ive not yet but BBC sports programme last night gave it very mixed reviews from Laura, pat cash and Russell fuller. In essence it was too vanilla and stayed away from interesting topics - Fuller said too much tennis and not enough about life o...
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Draw Maestros
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A big thanks to those of you that post the draws for our players. We do appreciate the effort particularly when there is an itf tournament in the UK and some random UK players are included. I'm completely in awe that you take the time to get the information and post it
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December 2023 Player of the Month Vote
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Here is the last one of the year, or is it the first of the year? I dont know but its the vote for December 2023, usual rules apply, anyone can vote and please say if you vote and who for and why, just to make it more interesting. vote will close at 10 pm Tuesday 2nd January. Nominations 1. Hannah Klugman - fo...
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December 2023 Player of the Month Nominations Thread
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By popular demand - or demand at least - here is a thread for Dec 23 nominations. I see quite a few from week one that might be added. I believe News Years eve is a Sunday, so the nominations period will end Sunday 31st December and the vote will go up shortly thereafter - I will need to decide if it goes up New...
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2023 Titles, Seniors & Juniors, Singles & Doubles
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Week 1 from 02/01 : Men's Singles ITF M25 Malibu, CA, USA Arthur Fery Women's Singles ITF W60 Canberra, Australia Katie Boulter Men's Doubles ATP 250 Adelaide 1, Australia Lloyd Glasspool ( & Harri Heliovaara, FIN ) Juniors J100 Bromma, Sweden BD: Viktor Frydrych (16) ( & Albert Saar,...
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British Tour 2023
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The first event of the 2023 season took place this week, a G1 in Loughborough Men SF George Houghton [4] d. Roan Jones 6-2 5-7 10-8 Pheonix Weir [8] d. Sean Hodkin [2] 6-4 7-5 F Pheonix Weir [8] d. George Houghton [4] 6-3 6-2 Women 3 of the 4 reaching the SF were 15 year olds. SF Maria Ustic (2007) d. Summer Yar...
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Year end Tour Finals and Cups
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Just because it normally interests me, I felt like jotting down the various year end finals on different tours that appear to be taking place in the next few weeks and wondered if I had missed any? ATP/WTA/Top Pro level ATP Finals - Turin WTA Finals - Cancun ATP Next Gen Finals - Saudi Arabia WTA Elite Tro...
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Wheelchair tennis and PoM/PoS - have your say
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I wanted to discuss this topic with the board. Many will know I am a big supporter of wheelchair tennis and follow it quite closely. I am aware though that isnt the case with all people on the board, for a variety of good reasons. At the moment, for Player of the Season, we treat wheelchair tennis as just an...
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United Cup
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Hopman Cup mark 2 - based on this will Cam get us in? Or Cam/Emma joint ranking? If at all...UNITED CUP TO LAUNCH 2023 SEASON The worlds best players will unite to compete side by side at the United Cup, a stunning new team event set to launch the global tennis season in 2023. The United Cup, an ATP-WTA even...
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2023 PLAYER OF THE SEASON VOTE - FINAL
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Here we are, then, the FINAL. 4 players remain and one will be crowned player of the season. After some incredibly close votes, the 4 finalists are the winners of the 4 opening round groups; I think we can safely say, then, that they are the right 4 for the final. Vote from one of these, the vote will close a...
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