Anyone up for a gently, meandering word game?

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Anyone up for a gently, meandering word game?

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Harold Solomon (runner up to Panatta in Paris 1976) and Louise Grundy (British player at Wimbledon 1959 and 1960)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Alexander Zverev (we all know him) and Peter Fleming (doubles champ with Mac) .

As an aside, Peter Fleming married a girl from my school, name of Hudson, and they got married in the local Roman Catholic Church down in Wetherby. Small church right in centre of town. John McEnroe was the Best Man! The crowds! This was when Mac was at the height of his fame, it would be like Federer coming to town now. Might have been a bad choice of best man as literally thousands of people came to see just McEnroe, it took over the wedding event. Wetherby had a population of around 10000 then, it probably doubled for this one event.

I believe Fleming and (I think it is Jennifer Hudson, not THE Jennifer Hudson of course!) are still together many years later and Fleming always strikes me as a very nice chap

ROSAMUND · Futures level

ROSAMUND wrote:
Harold Solomon (runner up to Panatta in Paris 1976) and Louise Grundy (British player at Wimbledon 1959 and 1960)

Missed the point here I think. I've done a pun on surnames.

DF · Tennis legend

Xiaodi You & Andreeva Mitu

You Xiaodi is a Chinese tennis player. On 16 March 2020 she reached her best singles ranking of world no 166.
Cristina-Andreeva Mitu is a professional tennis player from Romania. On 8 June 2015 she reached her career high singles ranking of no 68.

(for JonH - you and me)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

DF wrote:
Xiaodi You & Andreeva Mitu

You Xiaodi is a Chinese tennis player. On 16 March 2020 she reached her best singles ranking of world no 166.
Cristina-Andreeva Mitu is a professional tennis player from Romania. On 8 June 2015 she reached her career high singles ranking of no 68.

(for JonH - you and me)

Ha! I got that one! I am slow but not THAT slow biggrin

DF · Tennis legend

Alexa Noel & Maxime Janvier

Alexa Noel is a 17 year old American tennis player. She has reached a career high WTA singles ranking of 794.
Maxime Janvier is a French tennis player. He reached a career high ATP singles ranking of 170 on 30 September 2019.

(christmas and...january smile )

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Still no sign of SQ around here - he posted several times a day and always in this thread each day, so it is rather worrying now that he hasnt been around . I didnt get any response to a PM I sent him a week or so ago.

Hope he is ok, keep him and any other forum members who might be struggling in our thoughts.

DF · Tennis legend

Mike Walker & Simon Carr

Michael 'Mike' Walker is a former professional tennis player from Wales who competed for Britain and Hong Kong. He was given a wild card into
the 1986 Wimbledon Championships and lost his opening round match, which went to five sets. to Swiss player Claudio Mezzadri.

Simon Carr is a 20 year old Irish tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of 541 achieved on 12 August 2019.

DF · Tennis legend

Salvatore Caruso & Austin Rapp

Salvatore Caruso (27) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of 93 achieved on 6 January 2020.
Austin Rapp (23) is a tennis player from USA who has a career high doubles ranking of no 328.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

DF wrote:
Salvatore Caruso & Austin Rapp

Salvatore Caruso (27) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of 93 achieved on 6 January 2020.
Austin Rapp (23) is a tennis player from USA who has a career high doubles ranking of no 328.

I like this one!

DF · Tennis legend

Andy Ram & Jim Shepherd

Andy Ram (born 1980) is a retired Israeli professional tennis player. He was primarily a doubles player and competed in three Olympics.
James Shepherd (born 1940) is a former Australian professional tennis player.

DF · Tennis legend

Abigail Spears & Kay Stammers-Bullit

Abigail Spears(38) - She is a professional tennis player from the United States. She achieved a singles ranking of 66 in the world on June 6 2005. Her highest doubles ranking was world no 10. In February 2020 she was given a 22 month doping ban. It was reported that this followed an investigation into the results of a urine sample she provided on 31st August 2019 which was found to contain a number of banned substances.

Kay Stammers Bullit - Kay Stammers (1914-2005) was a female tennis player from Great Britain. She was trained by Dan Maskell and reached a career high ranking of world no 2 in 1939. She attracted more than the usual interest from the press and the public. While visiting the west coast of the United States Srammers visited Hollywood studios and had a screen test. She dated John F Kennedy. She married twice. Her second husband was Thomas Walker Bullit.

(spear and bullet)

-- Edited by DF on Tuesday 19th of May 2020 09:12:31 AM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

DF wrote:
Abigail Spears & Kay Stammers-Bullit

Abigail Spears(38) - She is a professional tennis player from the United States. She achieved a singles ranking of 66 in the world on June 6 2005. Her highest doubles ranking
was world no 10. In February 2020 she was given a 22 month doping ban. It was reported that this followed an investigation into the results of a urine sample she provided on 31st August 2019 which was found to contain a number of banned substances.

Kay Stammers Bullit - Kay Stammers (1914-2005) was a female tennis player from Great Britain. She was trained by Dan Maskell and reached a career high ranking of world no 2 in 1039. She attracted more than the usual interest from the press and the public. While visiting the west coast of the United States Srammers visited Hollywood studios and had a screen test. She dated John F Kennedy. She married twice. Her second husband was Thomas Walker Bullit.

(spear and bullet)

I like the word play! Stammers of course, being world number 2 in 1039, would have been in our Fed Cup Squad just before those pesky Norman's started to dominate the game in the mid 11th Century.

DF · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
DF wrote:
Abigail Spears & Kay Stammers-Bullit

Abigail Spears(38) - She is a professional tennis player from the United States. She achieved a singles ranking of 66 in the world on June 6 2005. Her highest doubles ranking
was world no 10. In February 2020 she was given a 22 month doping ban. It was reported that this followed an investigation into the results of a urine sample she provided on 31st August 2019 which was found to contain a number of banned substances.

Kay Stammers Bullit - Kay Stammers (1914-2005) was a female tennis player from Great Britain. She was trained by Dan Maskell and reached a career high ranking of world no 2 in 1039. She attracted more than the usual interest from the press and the public. While visiting the west coast of the United States Srammers visited Hollywood studios and had a screen test. She dated John F Kennedy. She married twice. Her second husband was Thomas Walker Bullit.

(spear and bullet)
I like the word play! Stammers of course, being world number 2 in 1039, would have been in our Fed Cup Squad just before those pesky Norman's started to dominate the game in the mid 11th Century.

Oops!