Hmm, well I must say I have on accasions felt that folk writing nonsense in LTA news articles have little real feel for tennis ! 

Such as was it in a 10K tournament, the article mantioning the title winner winning err 10K and a lazy Grand Slam article indicating Andy had a really tough draw from what I could see apparently only because there were somehow some highly ranked players in his half  ( I got a kinda apology when I wrote complaining about the second one )

stevemcqueen wrote:

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steven wrote:

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OEM tweeted earlier today:

"If the article in Charlie Sale's diary in Mail today is true ( and he's never wrong he tells me) heads must roll at LTA. They should anyway"

What it says, right at the end of http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1333516/Charles-Sale-World-Cup-2018-bid-masks-FA-leadership-scrap.html is:

"Only the Lawn Tennis Association, who are helping to fund this weeks ATP World Tour Finals at the O2, could explain to a rejected job applicant: We want people who are passionate about the LTA, not about tennis.

You have to hope this isn't true or has been somehow twisted ... if it was, it wasn't a poster here that they said this to, was it?!

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It is hard to imagine anybody at the LTA showing such ineptitude.  I'm sure Charlie Sale will have had sight of the letter, or he wouldn't have written about it.  

What a strange mindset they have.  I feel sure that other parts of the media will pick up on this, they certainly should anyway. Or perhaps they are not sufficiently passionate about tennis?

How can anybody be passionate about an administrative body and not the entity it supports?  

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Yes, but surely this was said to someone (and probably came out wrong), not written in a letter - even the LTA can't be that inept, can they?

If what they meant to say was that they need someone passionate about British tennis rather than tennis in general, I could understand it a bit more.

 

Also not from The Times, but from a newspaper . . . on the eve of the Davis Cup, Le Monde has an article on the French system of talent development that may be of interest to some -- other countries' models of development having been the topic of discussion in this thread at times!  http://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2010/11/30/la-france-en-finale-de-coupe-davis-la-consecration-du-modele-de-formation-hexagonal_1446586_3242.html. (Got to love those short URLs, no?)

Spectator wrote:

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Also not from The Times, but from a newspaper . . . on the eve of the Davis Cup, Le Monde has an article on the French system of talent development that may be of interest to some -- other countries' models of development having been the topic of discussion in this thread at times!  http://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2010/11/30/la-france-en-finale-de-coupe-davis-la-consecration-du-modele-de-formation-hexagonal_1446586_3242.html. (Got to love those short URLs, no?)

This is a good article.  Google translates it pretty well.

steve

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A BBC article about Dimitrov. I was about to comment "Bah humbug" when I saw he's now ranked 106, winning a trio of challenger titles late on in the year

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chrisbevan/2010/12/following_in_federers_footstep_1.html

Still I find the consistent Federer comparison and attention Dimitrov gets slightly irritating (especially since Berankis is ranked higher at the same age and beat him easily in Helsinki -why no article for him?). He is undoubtedly highly talented (having watched those matches against Nadal and Simon last year) but seriously, why the ridiculous attention? Especially when Nadal was a slam winner at the same age and Djokovic and Murray were top 20 players?

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Article from the Daily Mail looking at our best 6 prospects.
Most interesting note is that Martijn Bok is now helping out Eleanor Dean.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-1340612/George-Morgan-eye-ball.html?ito=feeds-newsxml