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Favourite International Player Vote - Group E
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So recently, I ran a favourite British player vote, which Jake Fearnley won. In Covid times, I ran lots of polls and one of them was to find the favourite International player - for the life of me I cant find who won it! But a lot has changed since then with the Big 3 and Serena all retiring. So, I thought I w...
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Favourite International Player Vote - Group D
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So recently, I ran a favourite British player vote, which Jake Fearnley won. In Covid times, I ran lots of polls and one of them was to find the favourite International player - for the life of me I cant find who won it! But a lot has changed since then with the Big 3 and Serena all retiring. So, I thought I w...
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JonH
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Favourite International Player Vote - Group C
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So recently, I ran a favourite British player vote, which Jake Fearnley won. In Covid times, I ran lots of polls and one of them was to find the favourite International player - for the life of me I cant find who won it! But a lot has changed since then with the Big 3 and Serena all retiring. So, I thought I w...
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The rise in African tournaments
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Apart from low level ITFs in Northern Africa there never use to be much in the way of tournaments in Africa, in recent years. Two years ago Rwanda started a challenger event,, this week Brazzaville in Congo has an event and Ive just noticed that two Challenger events in Ivory Coast have popped up on the...
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Daria Kasatkina
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News that Daria Kasatkina will be representing Australia in future. Not able to return to Russia.
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PTPA lawsuit
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So the surprising news that the PTPA is suing four of tennis's governing bodies: ATP, WTA, ITIA and ITF. https://www.ptpaplayers.com/legal-actions-filed/
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Yola Ramirez
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Yola Ramirez the Mexican tennis player passed away on 9th March 2025 aged 90. Ann Jones beat her in the French singles final of 1961. However she won the mixed doubles French title in 1959 with British player Billy Knight. She also beat Billie -King in Billie-Jeans first ever singles match at Wimbledo...
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Fred Stolle
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Fred Stolle former Grand Slam champion, coach and commentator passed away on 5th March. -- Edited by GAMEOVER on Thursday 6th of March 2025 10:26:40 AM
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Favourite British Tennis Player - Semi Final - Group Three
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Semifinal groups, all with 9 players in total, placed depending on where they finished in the previous roundVOTE WILL CLOSE FRIDAY EVENING AT 9PM - IF YOU VOTE PLEASE DO SAY WHO AND WHY AND TRY AND PERSUADE OTHERS TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE - THIS IS A NO HOLDS BARRED COMPETITION AND I WILL PROVIDE REGULA...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - Semi Final - Group Two
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Semifinal groups, all with 9 players in total, placed depending on where they finished in the previous roundVOTE WILL CLOSE FRIDAY EVENING AT 9PM - IF YOU VOTE PLEASE DO SAY WHO AND WHY AND TRY AND PERSUADE OTHERS TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE - THIS IS A NO HOLDS BARRED COMPETITION AND I WILL PROVIDE REGULA...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - Semi Final - Group One
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Semifinal groups, all with 9 players in total, placed depending on where they finished in the previous roundVOTE WILL CLOSE FRIDAY EVENING AT 9PM - IF YOU VOTE PLEASE DO SAY WHO AND WHY AND TRY AND PERSUADE OTHERS TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE - THIS IS A NO HOLDS BARRED COMPETITION AND I WILL PROVIDE REGULA...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - Round One - Group H
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Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - Round One - Group A
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Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - Round One - Group G
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Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - Round One - Group F
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Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - Round One - Group C
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Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - Round One - Group B
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Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - Round One - Group E
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Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - Round One - Group D
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Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
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Injuries and Illness - and good luck wishes
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It seems that we've had a couple of specific threads for certain players but that a general thread might also be a good idea, so it's bit more all-encompassing. Anyway, best wishes to Sam Murray who's just had her wrist operation today, I believe. Hoping you have a speedy recovery and enjoy a bit of dow...
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Favourite British Tennis Player - 2024 - FINAL
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So the final is here. Vote will close 2 days from now at 7.30pm, Saturday. Feels like it could be a close one! -- Edited by JonH comes home on Thursday 8th of February 2024 07:28:36 PM -- Edited by JonH comes home on Thursday 8th of February 2024 07:31:47 PM
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ITF increases investment into men's and women's tennis
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The ITF have announced today an increase in prize money and hospitality provided at women's ITF events and prize money at men's ITF events. For details see this press release. Headlines rize money at the two entry-level categories to be raised to provide an additional $5m of prize money (26% incr...
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Greatest Players of All Time - according to Tennis Abstract
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https://www.tennisabstract.com/blog/2022/02/01/introducing-the-tennis-128/
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Corruption - Umpires Now
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There are 3 stories and a video up on the Guardian... http://www.theguardian.com/sport/tennis
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Tennis on Sky Sports
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As we know Sky have the rights to the US Open and are expected to have the rights to the 2 tours from next year. If they do I suspect they'll announce it during the US Open. Looking at the schedules for next week and the 1st week of the main draw, Sky's coverage of the US Open is Qualifying: Each day from 4pm to m...
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