It looks like Naomi Broady is playing World Team Tennis this week, for the Philadelphia Freedoms.

Which should be a LOT of fun. And financially a VERY good idea !

I've always thought it sounded a great format (team tennis in 5 sets (to 5, I think) with one pairing of each sort of tennis playing each set i.e. Men's singles, women's singles, each doubles and mixed) and then add up the games.

Here's her team and schedule:

http://www.wtt.com/team.aspx?id=1

add: found a photo:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BIjSZG2h1R6/

Looks to me that Naomi lost her singles 4-5 against Pauline Parmentier

But aced the womens doubles 5-1 (playing with Sam Crawford)

And the Mixed doubles (with Fabrice Martin) 5-3

It goes on two weeks. Bravo, Naomi, for getting a spot. Brilliant initiative.

(NB John Lloyd is the coach for the San Diego Aviators)

PS Does anybody have any idea how much they get paid? A lot of the numbers I've seen are absolute telephone numbers, but more for 'star' players.

However, even the 'ordinary' players will get enough to swamp their normal earnings, I believe. If so, even MORE congrats to Naomi

Bob in Spain wrote:

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Wasn't this the competition where Neal Skupski won the "Rookie of the Year" award last year ?

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Correct 

Shame on you Coup   he was good friends with Andy Murray and often played doubles with him.  I think there was a story of Andy losing a bet and buying him a large TV for a wedding present but, I could be off with the fairies with that one.  I struggle for what I was doing last week, never mind 2008!