It's great for Olivia to be reviewed Nick and a good article. It will be interesting to see how she copes with the doubles only, in terms of her success in finding a path for it to pay, especially whilst her partners, including Beth, are still trying to play singles too. As you mentioned, she's partnered two people this year, and maybe she will have to go on having more than one partner, although she and Beth seem to be trying to give it a go as a pair.

One comment on the above reference to WCs, I assume you mean the practice of giving the established Brit singles players, doubles WCs too? That's a difficult question because several of them - Naomi, Heather, even Jo, are well up in the doubles rankings, and follow Anna S in the rankings. So if a singles player wants a doubles WC, and is higher up in the rankings, its a more difficult proposition to say no to them. On that score it is important that Olivia and Beth continue to play together through the grass season, and with luck they will at least get cards into the initial ITF tournaments, and after then it may depend on how well they fare.

Good luck Olivia

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She's been having problems for some time - it's good that it has been sorted and she's started rehab.

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 All the best to Olivia - I'd hate to add a double to that. - so many injured at the moment.

29/08/22

Shout out to Olivia Nicholls - an excellent WTA 250 title at Granby last week, playing with Lissey, following an ITF 100ktitle earlier in August.

Now GB number 2, and +16 places in the rankings to WTA 72

A shout out too, to the LTA's Player Coach programme that allowed her to play, and fund her playing, after she graduated from Loughborough.

I've no idea if this programme still exists - I rather think not - but Olivia says she couldn't have made it without the programme and it seemed very sensible to me

So changes to come. Lissey is playing with Maia this week .

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Ok , I had to read it twice ! So theyre splitting the partnership? Thats a shame but its that time of year and onwards !

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 Yes, so it appears. I'm glad I finally got to see them live at Surbiton this year, especially as I have been following their progress for some years - I think it was 2016 when I first saw Lissey play singles but hadn't seen Liv until this year.