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Bob in Spain


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Madeline wrote:

If he attended a citizenship ceremony, the paperwork must have gone through. I've attended a few of them - the chorus I used to sing in supplied the entertainment at them. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't stand there swearing allegiance to the Queen if the paperwork wasn't all in order.

I am guessing Phil means that the paperwork still has to go through the ITF/ATP machine, which is what I thought may be the case. So Aljaz is British by citizenship but still Slovenian from a tennis perspective.



-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Tuesday 31st of March 2015 06:30:19 PM

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I think that Bob might be right.
Sorry Madeleine couldn't resist the temptation to pull up Bob on what he thought someone might pull he up about ;)

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philwrig wrote:

Welcome Mr Bedene, the more he gains support from other British players the better, he will also hopefully take some weight off our other potential 100 players. You never know in 12 months time he might become my favourite GB player ;)

 A very good way of looking at it, I would say. 



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philwrig wrote:

I think that Bob might be right.
Sorry Madeleine couldn't resist the temptation to pull up Bob on what he thought someone might pull he up about ;)

Always like to know who my true friends are LOL.



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While I don't have the same enthusiasm for supporting Bedene as I do for our "home grown" players I will certainly pay more attention to his results and wish him success in the vast majority of his matches.

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RJA wrote:

While I don't have the same enthusiasm for supporting Bedene as I do for our "home grown" players I will certainly pay more attention to his results and wish him success in the vast majority of his matches.

 

You've got a point but, to be honest, so many of our born-and bred Brits have spent so much time at foreign training academies, learning their craft, that they're hardly home grown. In fact, given Bedene has trained at Gosling for the last 6 years, he may well have done more 'home-growing' and hit more 'UK' practice tennis balls than a good chunk of the others.



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He pays for his own courts and coaches and hasn't leant on eight Wimbledon wildcards in a row either. What's all the fuss about? Apparently 70% of Brit DNA is German origin anyway!

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Naturally GB players in general won't welcome the competition for support from LTA , selection for domestic WC , or Davis cup I welcome his change of nationality 



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The competition is all fair and square, they just have to up their game, and we'll be glad to see some more winners!



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Yeah Shrewsbury's not the best in terms of viewing the courts. Two nearest the bar/social area are the only two you can watch properly.

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Always a bit ironic when those who have such a problem with other folk's views are those who often choose to be rather vocal about tolerance / equality etc etc. I am not particularly talking about this forum, though it does happen occasionally.

I will certainly be behind Aljaz, just how much will now be much down to him as with other British players. But chucking in UKIP and related nicknames into the discussion when folk have just honestly aired some hardly very unreasonable personal thoughts is a bit silly.

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indiana wrote:

Always a bit ironic when those who have such a problem with other folk's views are those who often choose to be rather vocal about tolerance / equality etc etc. I am not particularly talking about this forum, though it does happen occasionally.

One of my really big pet hates in Spain is the British expats who sit around in bars and moan about the immigrants who move to Britain and make no attempt to learn English. When I ask those expats how their Spanish is coming along, the answer is usually "But that's different. We don't need to learn Spanish to live here". The hypocrisy never surprises me but seems to go straight over their heads.



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philwrig wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:

So GB finally has 2 players in the top 100, well for 6 days at least. Next Monday, Aljaz will drop out of the top 100 although I am sure this will only be temporary.

I am also sure that someone is going to tell me that until he has processed his citizenship papers with the ITF/ATP, he is technically still playing for Slovenia.

 Hate to point this out Bob, but until the paperwork has actually gone through technically he's still Slovenian.

Well, it's official now as the ATP Rankings page is showing Aljaz as GBR.  In fact, that is a bit embarrassing for them as on the Challenger page, he is their feature player of the week under the title "Bedene leads Slovenian Charge".  smile



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Just bumping this thread up the page, as I for one did not know it had been reopened (or that it had been closed even). I've been very busy this week and haven't been on the forum much.

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Yes, Welcome to Aljaz :)

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