mjd wrote:

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helki wrote:

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Do any of the guys who play in these Futures get funding from  the LTA? I must admit I assumed they did after reading about the two youngsters who had their funding taken away for poor behaviour.  I can't see how they can manage to survive if they aren't funded. It's no wonder it's perceived as a 'rich-man's sport' if they have to pay their own way.

 Congrats to Bloomers and Skups on their win. Fingers crossed for Bloomers in the singles final.

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I dont know if things have changed under the new regime but it was the case that only those at junior level got LTA funding apart from a select few (eg Boggo), and that is why Tim Henman annoys me when he talks such rubbish, he too obviously believes they get funded by the LTA and then go out on the town. The new setup appears to have at least made coaching  available to those previously not eligible.
Oh yes, I forgot, the LTA did used to hand out performance bonus when players reached certain ranking milestones of 500, 400, 300 and 200 but that was the first thing that David Felgate abolished when he took over, but the number of £1000 & £1500 pounds they handed out then was peanuts compared to the money that is sloshing around now on new HQ and foreign coaches etc, so where did the £millions go back then?  (They certainly wouldnt have been handing out many bonuses in the last couple of years! or would they if they still existed?)



-- Edited by mjd at 22:31, 2008-01-18

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