philwrig wrote:

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Someone just posted this picture of Laura on twitter, and if you look at it there is an ugly looking protection on her right wrist:

twitter.com/Rikki_Patel/status/364850607061876736/photo/1

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 At Niagara Falls I think.  Good for her, getting out and doing something positive. Modern wrist supports always look a bit dramatic anyway. (Comfrey poultice is what she needs really. Works miracles)  

Fitzy wrote:

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hey guys,

hope everyone is well.
I see i was caught on the tv or something today. im out here with sloane for a while, for this week, cincy and then the two weeks of the us open and go from there.
Go time for me to recover, earn some money and also be around a great environment and keep my level.
Her coach is not there this week so i took that role, next week i will be the hitter and step in if asked to and needed.
We are getting on really well and she responds to what i say.
I dont have a girlfriend but we are not an item or anything like that, she is an awsome girl and mum is great too.

you all know i do what ever i can to earn some money and try different things. Really enjoying seeing into the top flight of tennis again and experiencing it.

So ill be popping up all over the place im sure over the next month.

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That's excellent news Well done for making such a good impression at Wimbledon and for grabbing the opportunity here - it's hard to imagine a more constructive way for you to spend the time when you can't really be playing with full intensity. I see I guessed right too (about what capacity you were out there in, I mean - the less said about the idle speculation, the better! )

If she actually responds to what you say, she must be a lot more fun to coach than most of the WTA (I say that only in the sense that most of them seem to totally ignore their coaches after calling for them or give them that 'if looks could kill' stare)

Anyway, have a great time and I hope it inspires you to great things when you have recovered enough to play at full intensity again.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 8th of August 2013 10:33:27 PM

Interesting.

Fitzy was Sloane's hitting partner at Wimbledon (paid job) and she had a good run.
So maybe she's asked him to come and work with her some more ?

I don;t want to sound the death knell on his playing career but with health issues and serious money issues it seems to me coaching would be a serious career posssibility - I can see Fitzy being an excellent coach (not so sure about Josh G . . . .)

Ok well I'm now officially rooting for Sloane.

(PS Just putting it out there, no basis, but here's us all thinking of him going as hitting partner and 'spare' coach but is it just possible that the two of them are an 'item' ???)

steven wrote:

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You terrible gossip LOL (the thought had crossed my mind too, but based on ... er, absolutely nothing LOL)

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 Ditto (probably crossed the mind of all of us  LOL).

hey guys,

hope everyone is well.
I see i was caught on the tv or something today. im out here with sloane for a while, for this week, cincy and then the two weeks of the us open and go from there.
Go time for me to recover, earn some money and also be around a great environment and keep my level.
Her coach is not there this week so i took that role, next week i will be the hitter and step in if asked to and needed.
We are getting on really well and she responds to what i say.
I dont have a girlfriend but we are not an item or anything like that, she is an awsome girl and mum is great too.

you all know i do what ever i can to earn some money and try different things. Really enjoying seeing into the top flight of tennis again and experiencing it.

So ill be popping up all over the place im sure over the next month.