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indiana


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Certainly, as baxi indicates, there is no big financial need to cut funding in the way the LTA have, in order to prioritise 'scarce resources'. The amounts we are talking about here are a very small fraction of the LTA's income and expenditure.

This seems more to do simply with their choice, 'tough love' or whatever you want to call it, though I don't see that much love. Hey, other countries with much more limited resources have more top players, so let's act as if we too have very limited resources, not help how we really could, and see what happens !

Re Stephane Robert, I would accept that he is an extreme example, but such as mid 20s players are not, and increasingly nit. I stand by my opinion that the LTA is too ageist in their funding allocations, and anyway there is more funding that could be made available if the will was there.

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Madeline wrote:

Do you have any source proving that the LTA continues to pay for any of Andy Murray's staff? They certainly don't pay for Mauresmo or Bjorkman, nor did they for Lendl. I understood that physios, fitness trainers are shared - i.e. they work for both the LTA and Andy, not that the LTA pays for them full-time and lends them to Andy free of charge.

 What source do you have that indicates the LTA dont pay for Mauresmo or Bjorkman ? You are wrong about Lendl ,unbelievable as it may sound - the LTA paid his salary !



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Kyle giving a short interview on ITV4 saying he didn't know Andy was watching his final qualifying match until he was serving for it and as we all know went on to drop his serve lol.



-- Edited by airsmashers on Sunday 24th of May 2015 06:40:04 PM

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indiana


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Andy is so supportive of other British players, both in words and actions

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My feeling is the guy loves tennis and has a lot of time for like minded players particular if they are British. Great role model for britsh tennis indeed Sportsman in general.

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Oakland2002 wrote:

My feeling is the guy loves tennis and has a lot of time for like minded players particular if they are British. Great role model for britsh tennis indeed Sportsman in general.

 

Yes, I agree.

He gave a great interview (someone on this forum will remember it) where the interviewer remarked that Andy was (slight shock horror) quite often seen watching WOMEN'S tennis matches. Andy looked a bit perplexed and said he was a fan of tennis, he didn't make a distinction between male and female tennis as such, tennis was tennis. And, yes, he supports the Brits wonderfully. But he also appreciates 'good' tennis wherever he sees it - he said he particularly like the girls who just hit the smithereens out of the ball - he had watched Caroline Garcia as a 17 year-old doing it and loved it, and Madison Keys, more recnetly, same story.

Andy really is a great ambassador for tennis. (His mother is doing a grand job too).



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