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The Knight


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James Auckland to retire at the end of the season
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Announced on LTA Twitter.

Real shame, got sidetracked for some much less talented doubles players and definitely deserved to be a solid top 50 doubles player

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oh i thought he was happy enough playin dubs challengers. what was his singles career high?

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Top notch guy...met and spoke to him a few times...will be a very good coach I feel.

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Not totally surprised by this, he is a married man and I guess he wants to start a family and wants to start earning a solid wage as I suspect he is not making much profit from playing challenger level doubles.

At the moment he is not that far away from making the top 100, so maybe if he gets some good results between now and the end of the season he will reconsider.

Will always remember when he qualified and reached the QF's at ATP Mumbai, and when he reached the final of a ATP doubles tournament (Delray Beach?).

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Did he not almost beat Tursonov in Mumbai ?

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yeh he lost like 6-3 3-6 6-3. Made QFs that week

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its always sad when a player opts to retire, but he is closing in on 30 and may feel now is the time to move elsewhere, the grind of the tour can eventually catch up and if you lose the passion then its time to stop. I'm guessing he will go into coaching with the LTA in some form as most of the ex-players seems to do.

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Matt (AKA Fitz) from AM.com has made a lovely little article about James, featuring excerpts from an interview with him and some quotes about his future.

http://doublesonlycourt.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/hanging-up-with-james-auckland.pdf

Just click on the newspaper icon above "hanging-up-with-james-auckland.pdf" to get to it


-- Edited by The Knight on Friday 2nd of October 2009 08:12:10 PM

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lovely article, thanks for posting. nice guy.

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and speaking of married doubles players, ken skupski has just got engaged as well.

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Aucks not in the Valencia draw (was hoping he and Andy would get a wild card) so it looks like he is gone for good now, and the farewell tourney with Andy is not going to happen. cry

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