ITF Strategy

Born2WinTennis · Club Coach

ITF Strategy

Born2WinTennis · Club Coach

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/50513604

Article on the BBC about the ITF's plan to add a ladies event to Davis Cup, a new Hopman Cup mixed event and a potential winner takes all prize money event.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Born2WinTennis wrote:
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/50513604

Article on the BBC about the ITF's plan to add a ladies event to Davis Cup, a new Hopman Cup mixed event and a potential winner takes all prize money event.

The interesting point here is the end -

"Gerard [Pique] really wants to be innovative, he wants to really provide an incentive for the players to come and do something different, which is not week in week out on tour events.

It reads like Pique and Kosmos have all of the rights to take these forwards, have they got the ITF sewn up?

The winner takes all event, where on earth does that fit? It feels like it is going back to the 70's and the time of WCT and the various "Shoot Outs" , "Caesars Palace Challenge" "$100,000 winner takes all h2h (Connors v Newcombe, Connors v Rosewall), the Pepsi Grand Slam (4 player event in Boca Raton between the 4 slam winners or slam winners and invited other big name if not 4). All about TV and money. All interesting, dont get me wrong, but none survived and had longevity and all meaningless in the anals of tennis history...

EddietheEagle · County player

Sewn up for 25 years by the looks of it.

www.itftennis.com/news/281842.aspx

the addict · Tennis legend

Looks like the ITF are updating their website today. It wouldn't load at all for a while, but now I'm getting a homepage, but not tournament lists. Have to wait and see !

-- Edited by the addict on Tuesday 3rd of December 2019 11:44:09 AM

EddietheEagle · County player

If this doesn't make you laugh, you have no sense of humour!

www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2019/12/10/betting-doubts-circle-tennis-player-loses-every-single-point/

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

It's a great story but I really don't see what the 'betting problem' is here.

Bet365 got the odds wrong. Other punters didn't bet enough to correct the odds.

There was no hidden trick, or cheating.

I often bet (my mega 20ps!) on qualifiers because the whole point down at that end is that the rankings aren't correct and you can have a strong opinion on what players rankings 'should' be. It's more than whether they're on form on not, or whether they like that surface or not (i.e. the more normal things that matter when you're betting on guys in the top 250, say). And it's often on 'inside' knowledge insofar as you've seen them play a Tour event, say, and other people (not surprisingly) haven't.

There was never any chance of that guy winning, it wasn't staged, he's just a complete beginner. If other punters didn't know that they can't complain.