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LTA Funding and Participation


There have been a couple of articles out on the BBC website with regard to LTA Funding and participation targets.  They contain some interesting stats re number of courts, coaches, players etc along with comparisons with other countries.

The State of Elite and Grass Roots Tennis in Britain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/22912754

British Tennis needs a Big Summer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/22902803



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Really interesting. I've printed it out.

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Read the comments after each article,so many different points, really interesting.

This one was funny in answer to" the state of elite and grass roots tennis in Britain" !

 

"I went to a tennis court not long ago but Herbert & Cuthbert wouldn't let me play. Jolly good fun chaps. Tally Ho."

 

Some are of the opinion that this represents British Tennis and in some ways its hard not to agree. cry



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also thought this comment to be absolutely spot on !

 

"LTA should have its Sport England funding cut anyway as it has alternative funding streams through the sponsors it has attracted. In fact the LTA is sitting on a good asset base but lacks the management to release the money to where it is needed.
Sport England funding should go to sports that do find getting the money hard, as it will allow them to develop giving more choice of activites for all."



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So, today, the LTA have announced its participation rates for the year, and they're pretty disappointing . . .

The LTA had been threatened with further funding cuts.



www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/25346493

www.lta.org.uk/News/2013/December/2013-12-09/Active-People-Survey-7-Results/



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I think it needs to be seen in the wider context of overall disappointing numbers for all sports bar athletics and cycling, and the comments from Sport England who seem to be quite positive with the work the LTA have been doing to change things in the past few months.

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Participation in the UK


Sport England released its annual figures today and despite Murray winning Wimbledon, tennis has once again seen the number of people participating in the sport fall. I'm doing an assignment at university on participation levels in the UK and what effect Murray winning Wimbledon has had. So, the timing of Sport England releasing these figures has worked out quite well for me.

Wondering if people would be willing to take 5 minutes just to fill out this survey. Would be extremely grateful. If you have an additional comments just reply on here as well as they would also be very useful.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NY7M53W

 



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RE: LTA Funding and Participation


After some reasonably decent comments about the new LTA chair yesterday, the journos have been back to enjoying the bad news today, but this article by Russell Fuller is reasonably balanced http://bbc.in/1hPvymP 

As PaulM says, the figures need putting into context, and while the full report doesn't inspire me with much confidence about the methodology they use, it shows that more sports have seen big decreases than increases - including football, which requires much less expenditure than tennis and for which participation might therefore be expected to hold up better in a recession.



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Not quite sure where to put this but a good story about public (i.e. state) school tennis in NY City and the recent amazing success of a school with no tennis courts and mega cycle and subway commutes from the players just to get court-time.

www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/sports/tennis/beacon-school-tennis-is-used-to-commuting-and-to-winning.html

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That is a fascinating story, a tale of tough work and strong group ethic. Akin perhaps to a bunch of Bash Street scruffs from Liverpool, marshalled by their local boys' club leader, travelling south to duff up a posh team from Surrey in the stuffy atmosphere of the All England. There is undoubtably more to their success though than three hour trips on the N.Y. subway, humdrum facts around U.S.T.A. training support and competition that articles often overlook. I particularly liked this paragraph though:-

"Much of Beacons success is a credit to Carlos Maldonado, a sleeve-tattooed, tough-talking coach from East New York who wears T-shirts with skulls and has no patience for excuses. He has worked with the Beacon players Win Smith and Pickering, as well as some of their teammates, and eschews some of the establishment teaching methods. He plays 50 Cent loudly during practice sessions."

Try to repeat that in good old UK and you're more likely to have child protection officials crawling all over you, that's if you haven't already been thrown off the courts for training to the beat of rap music.



-- Edited by EddietheEagle on Thursday 5th of June 2014 07:01:39 AM

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Lots of articles, of course, about Bob Brett but some good points in this one about the system being 'too highly prescriptive' and the need for more grass-root participation, and the need to 'streamline' the LTA (smile)

www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/10887966/LTA-brings-in-Boris-Beckers-former-coach-to-find-young-British-prospects-to-carry-flag-in-post-Andy-Murray-era.html

Seemingly, we've got Umag's clay courts for three years too . . .



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 13th of June 2014 02:34:50 PM

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Does that mean they have dropped La Manga. I thought they had a long term deal there as an overseas base. Much as I enjoyed my DC experience in Umag, it's a bit too far to nip down for a couple of hours to watch. If they have moved lock stock and barrel, I wish they had consulted me first.

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Julien Hoferlein will, seemingly, be leaving the LTA in the next week.


He gives a polite, but pretty damning, recap of his 6 years here, the problems of the LTA and the problems of Dan Evans in particular.


www.rtbf.be/sport/tennis/detail_julien-hoferlin-je-m-en-vais-un-peu-decu


(There may well be English links too - happy to translate if anyone needs it).

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I'd rather coach a player who gave his all to fulfill his maximum talent of a top 200 place than coach a player capable of being well within the top 100 but who can't bring themselves to put in the necessary effort. I have no sympathy for Evo if this is true, which it certainly appears to be; and whilst I don't mean to be on the high horse, and will continue to support Dan in all of his future efforts, I think it's a great shame.

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If you listen to the interview (the link is below the article) he's actually slightly less negative at a few points than the supposed quotes would seem to indicate. For example, he talks about good times with players, colleagues and bosses, and says that the players are "perhaps probably too" spoiled, not "without a doubt" too spoiled. He also says that they [we] have two excellent women "who could hope to be top 10 some day" and two others who are in the top 100.



-- Edited by Spectator on Wednesday 25th of June 2014 05:36:33 PM

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