Yes, I know what you mean. It's so fun speculating, but we know diddly squat so it's all worthless, which is partly why it's fun ......

Seem to remember reading somewhere that Oli was working as a coach at his mother's tennis centre. Which did make me think that maybe the Alexis thing was more possible. And obviously Alexis didn't work out with Josh (and quite quickly too). And - I'm sorry Josh, I know you read this, and it's only my opinion, which is worth precisely diddly squat squared - but when I saw Josh G and Alexis together at a British Tour event, I wasn't impressed - Josh seemed to rather 'old-fashioned' in his approach, and not sure about the dynamics between Josh and Alexis' dad either.
It's possible that Oli, with all the amazing amount of coaching thrown at him by the LTA, has a better range of tools at his disposal - and is younger and more 'open'.
Oli certainly submitted some business plan quite recently to (very roughly) transform old public tennis courts into a more modern complex - but they got rejected by the LTA. I think his wife is an ex-tennis player too (although might be wrong). So the business of tennis is still up there.
But, net net, I certainly agree, I would love to see Oliver Golding give pro-tennis another go, now that he is still young/very young but more settled, and that bit more adult.

L32:  Jonathan Gray WR 799 (= CH) defeated (WC) Maksim Zubkou (BLR) UNR by 1 & 1 

And the boys performed to order !

FQR:

Oli G won 7-5 6-3

and Alexis won 7-5 6-1

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 7th of August 2017 01:49:00 PM

freerider wrote:

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I seem to recall oli's partner is russian or belarussian? perhaps that would explain why he is in the area.

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 Now THAT'S smart - yes, that makes perfect sense.

And, to be honest, however much Oli doesn't like playing competitive tennis, it might still rank as better than trotting the baby round all the friends and relations, sitting there with people chatting on and you understanding nothing.....

Yep, says Oli, a tennis tournament on and a few Brits ...

Stircrazy wrote:

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L32:  Jonathan Gray WR 799 (= CH) defeated (WC) Maksim Zubkou (BLR) UNR by 1 & 1 

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L32:  Daniiar Duldaev (KGZ) WR 876 (CH = 607 in July 2014) vs (Q) Alexis Canter WR 1478 (CH = 1413 in March)

L32:  Lény Mitjana (FRA) WR 805 (CH = 794 last December) vs (Q) Oli Golding UNR

L32:  (Q) Tyler Hochwalt (USA) WR 1463 (CH = 532 in November 2013 - he's now 28) vs Joshua Paris WR 899

That's no way to address SC