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Nix wrote:

I completely take your point Oakland. It's just that he e level of adjustment could be tiny and still make a difference. If they just reduced the amounts given to the finalists and semi finalists of grand slams, for instance. So based on the Wimbledon prize money for 2018. If the singles winners got £2 million rather than £2.25m, the runners up £1m rather than £1.25m and the semifinalists £500k rather than £562k, and then extrapolated that across the other grand slams it would free up £4k for a thousand tennis tournaments across the men's and women's games.

If you then shaved off a bit from the masters series, then there really could be a little bit of a trickle down effect. The thing is the people at the very, very top might argue that they have very expensive entourages to maintain, but they also attract very lucrative sponsorship deals too. I should imagine just one of those could cover a large part of their expenses. And realistically despite the short career argument, would Djokovic, Murray or Williams really miss the sums mentioned? In practice, people who win the finals of slams reach the semifinals multiple times. I doubt if any of these players would notice the drop in income if they couldn't check it with their accountants.


-- Edited by Nix on Saturday 2nd of February 2019 10:00:17 AM

This reminds me of the story told last year about Tommy Fleetwood, the golfer. He won a tournament last year worth around $1 mill, and his winnings somehow got paid into the bank account of another Tommy Fleetwood in the US. It was this person who then said, I'd love the money but don't think it's mine... at which point the golfer said, oh, I hadn't even noticed I hadn't received the amount... Just $1 million that's all. Mind you, after all the Judas' with their $1 million appearance fees for playing in Saudi this week and to pretend that they know nothing about politics and are really just sports players.. don't think I will be caring much about that sport for a while... 



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Stircrazy wrote:

QF:  Daniel Evans WR 163 defeated (ITF) Roman Safiullin (RUS) WR 331 by 3-6 6-3 7-6(1)  biggrin

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SF:  Daniel Evans WR 163 vs (2) Ugo Humbert (FRA) WR 91 (CH = 84 last November)

Humbert has a wild card into the main draw in Montpellier & will play another wild card (& compatriot), Sugar's dad. 



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Tsonga?



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Tsonga?

Yep.  The man with the appallingly poor taste in children's names.  disbelief



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Stircrazy wrote:
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Tsonga?

Yep.  The man with the appallingly poor taste in children's names.  disbelief

 I'm normally pretty live and let live about names (while reserving the right to poke light-hearted fun). 

But I agree with you on this one - it's bad, plain and simple no

I do think - clutching at straws - that it's possibly better for a boy (as in this case) than a girl, where it would be really wrong.

But all the same ......



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All I can say is tiger honey drew

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JonH wrote:

All I can say is tiger honey drew

I think it's actually Tyger Drew-Honey (if anything, even more cringeworthy) & it's a bloke!  rolleyes.gif  I wonder if CD is any more relaxed about the names with which Jamie Oliver's saddled his unfortunate brood (*take a very deep breath*  Poppy Honey Rosie, Daisy Boo Pamela, Petal Blossom Rainbow, Buddy Bear Maurice & River Rocket Blue Dallas, the last being a boy!   vomit2.gif )  Apparently., they're thinking about having a sixth.  Can hardly wait to hear what they choose to call that poor little bugger!  disbelief



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Actually, I've no problem with those because basically the kids are called Poppy, Daisy, Petal , Buddy and River. The first two are fine, the third a bit naff but fine, River I think is quite an attractive 'hippy dippy' name and Buddy is just about bearable.

Sugar (and said with a French accent) is just horrible.....

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Coup Droit wrote:

Actually, I've no problem with those because basically the kids are called Poppy, Daisy, Petal , Buddy and River. The first two are fine, the third a bit naff but fine, River I think is quite an attractive 'hippy dippy' name and Buddy is just about bearable.

Sugar (and said with a French accent) is just horrible.....

Chacun à son goût, I suppose...



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Here we go then. Back to the tennis.

livestream.com/ATP/events/8548952

Hoping Dan can make it through and preferably without the torment of another 3rd set breaker.

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Good start anyway -up a break

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Dan on fire in that game. Some great passing shots and an unbelievable lob to take the BP and go up a double break at *3-0

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Bob in Spain wrote:

Here we go then. Back to the tennis.

livestream.com/ATP/events/8548952

Hoping Dan can make it through and preferably without the torment of another 3rd set breaker.

 Just a little 'naming' diversion until Dan started the main show smile

(NB Don't like the name Ugo, either, especially without an 'H', but at least it's a real name. Dan certainly wins in the name stakes though)

And he's started really well  - and Ugo looks a little nervous.

Quite a big crowd - trying to get their man started.....

(Hopefully no third set, as you say, Bob - partly coz people want to watch the rugby !) 



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Bob in Spain wrote:

Here we go then. Back to the tennis.

livestream.com/ATP/events/8548952

Hoping Dan can make it through and preferably without the torment of another 3rd set breaker.

 Just a little 'naming' diversion until Dan started the main show smile

(NB Don't like the name Ugo, either, especially without an 'H', but at least it's a real name. Dan certainly wins in the name stakes though)

And he's started really well  - and Ugo looks a little nervous.

Quite a big crowd - trying to get their man started.....

(Hopefully no third set, as you say, Bob - partly coz people want to watch the rugby !) 

Rugby ?  With Leeds v Norwich on the other channel ?  They must be mad biggrin

Dan now 4-0* up.



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First chance I've had to watch Dan for abit. I'm so glad he's playing well. I just hope he can keep it up and get an easy W after the last two games.
4-1, oops hope I haven't jinxed him.

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