It certainly could be the honours board at the bottom of centre court, but don't quote me on that....

I love this thread lol

That would be best, I'd start a Twitter account for this, but it'll be better if an older acquaintance does it. But yeah, not today, let's wait till the tournament is over. I'd survive a few more days (or even weeks) without knowing, I'm sure.

Josh gave me a perfect lead-in to ask the question:

joshua goodall: Have u seen @Willbomb90 has copied my hair cut @seanthornley31 ? #trendsetter

Marcus Willis: @joshuagoodall @seanthornley31 exactly. I said can I have a notorious Joshy Goodall roof please. #style #bigcheesemondays #chop

joshua goodall: @Willbomb90 @ Marcus it's Tuesday not Monday. I need to find out from @seanthornley31 what haircut is in season atm #topshoptrends

me: @joshuagoodall Talking of dodgy haircuts someone on the forum asks where your ITF pic was taken (the 1 in front of writing of some kind)

joshua goodall: hahahahaha! That was back in the day when Eminem was my idol. Taken in Milan. The bleach look. With a Roddick Visa. #🙈

me: Ah! So what is it you're standing in front of? Somebody though it might be a Wimbledon honours board but clearly it's not

joshua goodall: no it's the Milan clubs winners board I think. Who knows! I've asked itf to take that photo down actually. Nice to see they didn't

Salmon wrote:

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You may be correct, the colours certainly match with this - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Wimbledon_Gentlemen's_Singles_champions.jpg


But I am not sure if the text does. If you zoom into the picture, you can make out these combinations quite clearly - 

a) DEA on the top left; and probably with an I before it, so maybe IDEA
b) TIV on the top right, with what looks like an O after that; and that's an E/F before TIVO
c) TOR at the bottom right

Now, none of those combos occur in the names of the Men's Singles winners, so at least it cannot be that part of the honours board. I checked the other winners' lists, too, and the only matches were VicTORia Azarenka (wasn't a winner when this pic was taken) and Daniel NesTOR (can be counted out because it won't fit in the Goodall pic)


The second one is most interesting. I don't think the combination -TIVO exists in English, and one possibility is that this could be part of the Spanish word OBJETIVO, or something else from a Romance language.

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The Milan club's Coppa Lambertenghi champions (see http://www.tcmbonacossa.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35&Itemid=279 - yes, I was sad enough to look LOL) include:

R. VaIDEAnu women 2002, i.e. just before Josh was there)
Francesca BenTIVOglio (women 1989)
EtTORe Fontana (men 1967) ... & winners from TORino tennis clubs

However, I'm not sure the positions on the board make sense (e.g. the fact that the most recent women's winner is on the top left rather than at the bottom - then again, maybe this is the doubles board and one of R. Vaideanu's parents won that some years earlier or a juniors board and she won that when she was younger!) and the letter before TOR looks like it is probably an A, so maybe it will have to remain a mystery 

 

 

Thank you! I can sleep properly tonight. Also, kudos to Josh for playing along (and for having a good memory!).

Salmon wrote:

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I think this has been doing rounds in my head for many years, but somehow I have never bothered to ask others about it. Can someone help me identify the background in Goodall's profile picture? There was a time when literally dozens of players, female and male, had profile pictures with the same background (I faintly recall Kerber or Goerges having it) but the pictures change with time, particularly for the higher ranked players.

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I have finally thought of a way to dig out the old profile pics. 

a) go to Google Images and search with the player name
b) Go go Search Tools > Size > Exactly; and enter 114x152 (standard size for all the profile pics).

So I entered "angelique kerber" and got...

 




Okay, now you guys know how much time I have on my hands.