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Vote for your favourite GB player below [19 vote(s)]

(WC) James Trotman
0.0%
Oliver Golding
31.6%
Richard Bloomfield
15.8%
(WC) Ed Corrie
10.5%
James Turner
0.0%
Michael Collins
0.0%
John de Mendoza
15.8%
Nick Weal
0.0%
John Barrett
26.3%
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As a reminder, the qualifying round is for players who played singles at Wimbledon but did not win a match in this period. I have included a number of wild cards to bring the totals up to 45 for men and women.

There are 5 groups of 9 players with a random draw.

Those with the highest number of votes (with a maximum of 16 players) across all the 5 groups will qualify for the 1st round proper.

Please feel free to provide reasons for your choices along with any memories that you may have of them.

! am planning to close the polls at around 10.00 on Saturday morning.



-- Edited by brittak on Thursday 30th of April 2020 10:18:31 PM

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Apologues to Nick Weal - he should not be showing as a WC as he did play in the singles at Wimbledon. Now amended



-- Edited by brittak on Thursday 30th of April 2020 10:18:48 PM

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Ive voted for John Barrett for nostalgic reasons really. I vaguely remember seeing him play but of course he was very much the voice of Wimbledon for many years alongside Dan Maskell. He was also responsible for writing and collating many of the tennis reference books that I have.

If I could place a 2nd vote, I would go for Olli Golding. I always followed him and really thought that he could have made it to the very top.

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I voted for Oli as I saw him at my local tournament when he was 18(?) with his girlfriend, and he was one of the ones that just got on with it whereas quite alot of the brits were really ****y privileged and loudmouthed.

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John Barrett for me, didnt he also marry Angela Mortimer as well, she will come up in the ladies event

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JonH comes home wrote:

John Barrett for me, didnt he also marry Angela Mortimer as well, she will come up in the ladies event

 He did - but no she wont as she didnt play in the period in question!



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brittak wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:

John Barrett for me, didnt he also marry Angela Mortimer as well, she will come up in the ladies event

 He did - but no she wont as she didnt play in the period in question!

 that is a shame!



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JonH comes home wrote:
brittak wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:

John Barrett for me, didnt he also marry Angela Mortimer as well, she will come up in the ladies event

 He did - but no she wont as she didnt play in the period in question!

 that is a shame!

 Perhaps another poll in the future!!



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Richard Bloomfield I also like, Derbyshire I think, got to final in Newport RI (or semi, I forget) as a qualifier one year completely out of the blue!

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Richard Bloomfield I also like, Derbyshire I think, got to final in Newport RI (or semi, I forget) as a qualifier one year completely out of the blue!

 Yes I remember that too and he was close to a vote from me here although a distant 3rd



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brittak wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:

Richard Bloomfield I also like, Derbyshire I think, got to final in Newport RI (or semi, I forget) as a qualifier one year completely out of the blue!

 Yes I remember that too and he was close to a vote from me here although a distant 3rd

 Richard Bloomfield was a Norfolk lad in fact, born in Norwich. That I do remember as I was at university there, but it's Oli Golding that gets my vote too. He could have been a very good player, but decided the scraping for a living wasn't for him. 



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Michael D wrote:
brittak wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:

Richard Bloomfield I also like, Derbyshire I think, got to final in Newport RI (or semi, I forget) as a qualifier one year completely out of the blue!

 Yes I remember that too and he was close to a vote from me here although a distant 3rd

 Richard Bloomfield was a Norfolk lad in fact, born in Norwich. That I do remember as I was at university there, but it's Oli Golding that gets my vote too. He could have been a very good player, but decided the scraping for a living wasn't for him. 

 That's right,  I though norfolk after I wrote it!



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Easy one for me here. Has to be Oli Golding. Terrific talent. Just a shame that the tour lifestyle didn't suit him.

First met Oli when he was training in La Manga and coincidentally was being coached by James Trotman at the time.



-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Friday 1st of May 2020 08:48:11 AM

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My vote here goes to John De Mendoza. He had been a high ranking player in the early-mid 60's but then retired. He returned to his club in the late 70's and practiced daily against the wall for several hours from 7 am. John entered the club tournament and I had the privilege of playing him in the first round. After a predictably short match, I congratulated him and enquired about the fact that he had played with a wooden racquet with no grip. He informed me that it was 'the only pure way to play tennis'!

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telstar wrote:

My vote here goes to John De Mendoza. He had been a high ranking player in the early-mid 60's but then retired. He returned to his club in the late 70's and practiced daily against the wall for several hours from 7 am. John entered the club tournament and I had the privilege of playing him in the first round. After a predictably short match, I congratulated him and enquired about the fact that he had played with a wooden racquet with no grip. He informed me that it was 'the only pure way to play tennis'!

 Good story, which club was that, telstar? 



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