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steven · Tennis legend

LTA reports

Count Zero · Tennis legend

ahhh, the good old lta press department

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

with the emphasis on "old"

Malteaser · Junior player

If only we could get in there and sort out all their mistakes. It wouldn't take a genius, most of the things they get wrong are basic.

Plus a few of us would have one or two different ideas to shake it up a bit too.

In the mean time, I'll get back to the vain and desperate hope that another World Class British Tennis player comes "out of the blue" ala Murray. From somewhere nothing to do with the LTA.

Oh yeah, like James Ward maybe.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

I believe that those at the LTA responsible for these weekly reports are only 'doing a 9 to 5 job' and do NOT have a real interest in this level of tennis, they certainly do not have the enthusiasm and knowledge that most fans posting here have.

steven · Tennis legend

There must people in the LTA who are enthusiastic about tennis though, mustn't there? In fact, you'd think there would be rather a lot of them! Maybe they don't work at head office.

The thing is, it's good that they do these Friday summaries, but without putting wins and losses into any context, the reports just leave people cold, especially those who have a very sketchy knowledge of how each tournament fits into the big scheme of things in the first place, and I assume that's who these reports are aimed at. (surely it can't be aimed at people like us, because we know virtually all the news before they post it)

-- Edited by steven on Friday 1st of May 2009 07:43:46 PM

Josh · Challenger level

When I was watching the DC play-offs at the NTC quite a lot of the LTA staff were watching, presumably on their lunch break. It was quite alarming the number who had no idea about most of the players, and also those who thought they did know what they were talking about quite often had their facts wrong.

steven · Tennis legend

That's interesting ... and alarming. The second set of people are probably more dangerous than the first!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
"James Ward, who will meet Argentinean Mariano Puerta in the quarter-final, has qualified and reached the last eight without dropping a set at the $35k Challenger in Pereira, Colombia."

I noticed that single, soulless sentence, too, steven (not to mention the misspelling of Argentinian! wink

), & couldn't help feeling disheartened by it. cry

Cold, impersonal, apathetic, indifferent, dispassionate, detached (I could go on...) - & in stark contrast to the kind of report featured on the Livetennis.it site! Its piece on Paolo Lorenzi's defeat of the top seed (again! hmm

), Philipp Petzschner, to reach the singles final of the Tenerife Challenger is a case in point: describing a player as being "in tremendous (or oustanding) form" (in forma strepitosa) at least starts to add a touch of emotional colour to the bare, black-&-white facts, human interest, if you will.

I'm aware that, as a news, results & information site for fans, Livetennis.it is a completely separate entity from the one run by the Italian Federation & I'm not for one minute suggesting that the LTA should move to the opposite extreme, but there is a happy medium which would demonstrate that the people responsible for its news page actually care as much as we on here do about the fate of the lesser players on the pro circuit. Surely they could try taking a leaf out of its book by adding some context, as you suggest, & thereby turn 2D into 3D, if not black & white into glorious Technicolor!