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          Ar**hol*s,

- Doesn't look like pigs will ever fly there either.

- What are Brits nos. 2 and below doing for the next 3 months?
- Sitting about on their ar**hol*s waiting, slumming it in far continents in forgotten corners of the tennis universe?
- Dodging all that mudlarking around on clay courts, keeping their socks clean and laundry bills down?
- Hoping practice sessions will keep them match fit? For what?
Hoping for wild cards for Queens or Wimbledon?
- (Which of course is now like playing on a particularly slow green clay court anyway) -
- And all that so the same guys from Spain, Italy, France, Central and Eastern Europe or wherever,  who have been stacking points like Tesco coupons, and washing 4 pairs of sox nightly, can have them running around like headless chickens, all from a safe position 20 ft behind the baseline on court 14 in June?  
There must be a better way to keep our guys sharp and with more advantageous rankings and at least  give them some kind of a chance?
- I don't believe for a second that our guys are genetically inferior (tennis wise!) to the French, Spanish, Russians, Americans - or even the Aussies!
(Although I believe they too are currently the victims of some kind of "throw 'em in and see if they float" kind of experiment conducted by their Tennis Association - But perhaps they in particular are unlikely ever again to attract the volume and quality of entries required, given the uniquely prohibitive time/cost investment for foreign players to play there.).
The difference is that the others all provide high-level competition opportunities, week in - week out, mainly designed to assist their own players, to achieve and sustain the required rankings, and to stay competitive "en masse".  

What happens to that £30M Aegon sponsorship anyway?
£6M per year sunk into 3 "Elite" grass court events - for which British players (Murray excepted) can have no real impact, over the 5 year 'life' of the deal. 
The 'scraps' seem to cover 3 or 4 Challengers, and 13 or 14 Futures (often 'bunched together' at disadvantageous times during the year) - included almost as an afterthought.

We have to get it right ALL the way through.
Why does the LTA not stage 2 hard-court Challengers and one Futures per month here? Especially from February to June?
- Might not help at SW14 for a year or two. 
- But there should be a much earlier impact on qualification for, and performance at US hard court events, initially at least in Challengers ...Then the main tour?