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

Nick Gould
5.3%
(WC) Joshua Ward-Hibbert
42.1%
Sean Cole
15.8%
Leighton Alfred
5.3%
Tony Lloyd
15.8%
(WC) Iain Bates
5.3%
(WC) Alexander Slabinsky
5.3%
Keith Wooldridge
5.3%
(WC) James Nelson
0.0%
brittak


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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 10:19:41 PM



-- Edited by brittak on Thursday 30th of April 2020 10:38:06 PM

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Struggled a bit with this one but went for Nick Gould

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Tony Lloyd, the 3rd of the Lloyd brothers, first televised tennis I can remember was him playing with John in doubles at Wimbledon, obviously better doubles than singles. The Essex boys!

Leighton Alfred, the Welsh top man for a while, was my close second in this group

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Didnt Nelson play with Trotman and win Wimbledon juniors...I think? My memory is poor these days!

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JonH comes home wrote:

Didnt Nelson play with Trotman and win Wimbledon juniors...I think? My memory is poor these days!

 Funnily enough I remember Trotman but not Nelson.



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I was close, Nelson won the US Open Juniors with Lee Childs...hopefully he comes up in the main draw?

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JonH comes home wrote:

I was close, Nelson won the US Open Juniors with Lee Childs...hopefully he comes up in the main draw?

 He does indeed - he won a match!

and also qualifies as a Davis Cup player



-- Edited by brittak on Thursday 30th of April 2020 11:44:18 PM

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I've just seen that Ward-Hibbert holds the record for fastest serve as a junior at Wimbledon, 133 mph in 2011. He became a basketball player instead of tennis.. I remember reading about that when he switched.

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Michael D wrote:

I've just seen that Ward-Hibbert holds the record for fastest serve as a junior at Wimbledon, 133 mph in 2011. He became a basketball player instead of tennis.. I remember reading about that when he switched.

 He was a loss to tennis for sure !



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With apologies to Slabba here, I have gone for JWH who is currently rocking it up on the basketball court in Leicester.

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My choice has to be Sean Cole purely because he is the only one who I have played and beaten. Need to point out, however, that it was a mens dubs. Sean was partnering his Dad and was only 13!

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Josh Ward-Hibbert seems to have been the biggest scoring player in the qualies, good for him - shame he gave up tennis. the best basketball player in this event!

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Given JWH's popularity, it may be a little late to "bump" this thread, but while we are dealing with memories, I thought I would throw this pic into the mix.

La Manga training camp again.

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Is that Liam serving?

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brittak wrote:

Is that Liam serving?

Yes.  I spent a few days down in La Manga with the guys watching them train about 5 or 6 years back.  From memory, the 8 players were Liam, JWH, Alex W, Milts, Luke Bambridge, Toby Martin, Oli Golding and Evan Hoyt. There were three coaches on duty.  Leon, James Trotman and Hilts - which is why I am sure there is a pic of Hilts in there somewhere.  I will track it down in the end.

Having said that, I have been down there to several training camps to watch so I may be mixing and matching a bit here.



-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Saturday 2nd of May 2020 10:07:41 PM

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