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Anyone up for a gently, meandering word game?


Billy Knight & Kayla Day

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Billy Knight was a British tennis player who played on the amateur tour in the 1950's and 60's. As a Junior he won both the 1953 Wimbledon
and 1954 Australian Championships Boys' Singles tournaments.
Kayla Day is an American professional tennis player. She won the Junior US Open in 2016.

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Filippo Baldi & John Newcombe

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Filippo Baldi is an Italian tennis player currently ranked 249.

John Newcombe is a former Australian tennis player who attained a world no 1 ranking in both singles and doubles and

is a multi Grand Slam Champion.

 



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Irina Falconi & Corinne Molesworth

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Irina Falconi is an American professional tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is world no 63.

Corinne Molesworth is a former British tennis player who competed in the 1960's and 70's

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Still no sign of Status Quo who started this thread - hope he is well. I sent him a PM to check, but no response, sent that over the weekend

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Yes, thanks Jon, I do hope SQ is well.

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It is worrying. If you see any of these messages SQ, please check in and let us know you're OK.

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DF wrote:

Irina Falconi & Corinne Molesworth

(falcon and mole)



Irina Falconi is an American professional tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is world no 63.

Corinne Molesworth is a former British tennis player who competed in the 1960's and 70's


 

I'm not always able to work word games out either but I usually enjoy having a go, so am wondering if there is a way of putting the solution in 'spoilers'.  Not sure if it is possible here. 

Liking all the info on the tennis players smile



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diana wrote:
DF wrote:

Irina Falconi & Corinne Molesworth

(falcon and mole)



Irina Falconi is an American professional tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is world no 63.

Corinne Molesworth is a former British tennis player who competed in the 1960's and 70's


 

I'm not always able to work word games out either but I usually enjoy having a go, so am wondering if there is a way of putting the solution in 'spoilers'.  Not sure if it is possible here. 

Liking all the info on the tennis players smile


 Welcome to the board diana. The board usually looks at all things tennis from a British point of view but as there is no competitive tennis due to Covid 19 we are also distracting /entertaining ourselves by eg this game and the various tennis polls which I recommend that you look at and maybe cast your vote.

We are living through uncertain times and hoping for a future.



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John Hawkes & Robert Wrenn

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John Hawkes was an Australian tennis player who won the singles title at the 1926 Australasian Championships and was ranked no 10 in the world
in 1928.
Robert Wrenn was the first left-hander to win the US National Men's Singles Championships in 1893. He won the US singles championship four times.

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Betty Hilton & Nicolas Mahut

Remember to sound the final t!

(Betty Hilton was a British tennis player. She reached the Women's Doubles Final at the 1949 French

Open alongside Joy Gannon, She is 100 years old.)


 Betty Hilton died on 3rd July 2017 .Source the 2018 Wimbledon compendium.



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Robin White and Arthur Ashe

We've had Robin before - she was a US tennis player on the WTA tour from 1983 to 1995, and won two singles titles - but not with Arthur.

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Welcome diana

I'm in agreement with you re not explaining reasoning for pairs, at least not in the first instance ( useful service though it may be for Jon ) or putting behind a spoiler. I do think part of the fun is sometimes not initially getting the adversarial connection.



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Welcome diana

I'm in agreement with you re not explaining reasoning for pairs, at least not in the first instance ( useful service though it may be for Jon ) or putting behind a spoiler. I do think part of the fun is sometimes not initially getting the adversarial connection.


 ...very seldom getting the connection!biggrin



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Andy Fairweather Low (Welsh guitarist and songwriter) and Dustin Brown (middle name and first name)

Andy Fairweather Low and Fred Astaire..

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Greg Holmes (an American player of the 80's who played at Wimbledon) and Heather Watson. Looking at the first page I think it should have been enemies not friends . However it could be Greg Holmes and Ross Moriarty the Welsh Rugby player. 



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