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British_is_Best


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He is also a handy doubles player (ranking of around the 120 mark I believe) which would be very interesting if we managed to get to a level at which Andy felt it worth playing at. A combination of Andy, Dustin and Flemski or possibly Andy, Dustin, Boggo and Hutchins/Jamie M. I maybe getting a little carried away as Dustin is currently still very much Jamaican....!

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Why do we want a journeyman pro who is in the latter part of his career representing GB. Are we that desperate ?
If he was top 50 or much younger I would be seriously interested.

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He's hardly coming to the end of his career. A year ago he had never been ranked inside the top 400 but will be top 100 very soon. I'd call him a journeyman who is just reaching the peak of his career and could well stay in the top 100 for a number of years. As has been mentioned quite a few times Gicquel didn't make the breakthrough until he was even older and he's now been a solid 50-70 ranked player for about 3 or 4 years. No reason Dustin can't match or even better that.

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philwrig wrote:

a journeyman pro who is in the latter part of his career representing GB.



A term which could equally apply to Boggo, and yet it's widely acknowledged that Boggo is our best player bar Andy Murray and I for one think that getting Boggo back on the DC team would be a considerable improvement over our current situation. I doubt that Dustin Brown would ever make the world's top 50, and it's true he's in his mid to late 20s now, but that doesn't mean he couldn't make a valuable contribution. Now, if we were in the situation that Spain is in, one might question whether we really need to take on a player like Dustin Brown.

Granted though, if he was another Andy Murray then that would definitely be an opportunity to grab!



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philwrig wrote:

Why do we want a journeyman pro who is in the latter part of his career representing GB. Are we that desperate ?
If he was top 50 or much younger I would be seriously interested.


In all honesty yes I think we probably are! As others have said Dustin is in his mid 20s and has made a big jump in the last year or so. He probably has another 5 or so years and having a player ranked consistently between the 80-120 range say would be of serious help to us in my opinion

 



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Following on from what LT said:

- surname begins with B
- born in central Europe in 1984
- but now plays for an island on the fringes of the Atlantic Ocean
- pretty laid back but can have a serious edge
- CH in the 99-108 range
- hadn't reached the top 100 by the time he turned 25
- has never won a MD singles match at Wimby but has had the odd good result at Queen's
- and has won Challenger titles (*)
- has played legendary Brit-basher Stéphane Robert in a Final (+)
- gave an interview to the BBC this week which gave an insight into life as a journeyman pro
- hasn't played for his country in DC for a little while
- may have fallen out with his national federation

They could be twins! biggrin

(*) 2 for DB, 9 for AB
(+) DB lost to him Jo'burg 2010, AB beat him Wrexham 2006


-- Edited by steven on Friday 11th of June 2010 10:47:47 AM

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Give him a wimbledon WC and sign up up tomorrow.

(We can get a WC to a grade 4 junior tournament in Kinston as recompense if it doesn't work out)

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Having seen the references to Boggo as PMG perhaps, given that Dustin would be a foreign player crossing over to play for GB he could be called PMR (Poor Man's Rusedski)....wink

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steven wrote:

Following on from what LT said:

- surname begins with B
- born in central Europe in 1984
- but now plays for an island on the fringes of the Atlantic Ocean
- pretty laid back but can have a serious edge
- CH in the 99-108 range
- hadn't reached the top 100 by the time he turned 25
- has never won a MD singles match at Wimby but has had the odd good result at Queen's
- and has won Challenger titles (*)
- has played legendary Brit-basher Stéphane Robert in a Final (+)
- gave an interview to the BBC this week which gave an insight into life as a journeyman pro
- hasn't played for his country in DC for a little while
- may have fallen out with his national federation

They could be twins! biggrin

(*) 2 for DB, 9 for AB
(+) DB lost to him Jo'burg 2010, AB beat him Wrexham 2006


-- Edited by steven on Friday 11th of June 2010 10:47:47 AM



biggrin An interesting set of coincidences!

If I recall correctly, slightly off-topic here, but Boggo shares a birthday with both Jurgen Melzer and former countryman Novak Djokovic - 22nd May. And of course we almost poached Nole when he was 18. Just random coincidences.

Ironically I was wondering the other what if Boggo had never come to Britain and had stayed in Serbia? It seemed so very weird to imagine him as "Alex Bogdanovic of Serbia"... I consider him a Brit through and through!



-- Edited by LadyTigress on Friday 11th of June 2010 12:16:06 PM

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Dustin had huge problems with the Jamaican federation. You can read a bit of it here - http://www.sportsjamaica.com/read_article.php?id=17161


I don't have a problem with him representing GB, of course.

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Things have got that bad have they? we are going to steal a poor mans gail monfils who is 28 or something and a challanger pro! we are desparate.

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It's Gael Monfils, Dustin is 25, and yes we are desperate.

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SMC1809 = Legend.

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SMC1809 wrote:

It's Gael Monfils, [...]


Actually, it's Gaël... wink


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SMC1809 wrote:

It's Gael Monfils, Dustin is 25, and yes we are desperate.



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