Who is your favourite post 1968 & not currently ranked GB player? WOMEN - R1 Group 6

brittak · Satellite level

Who is your favourite post 1968 & not currently ranked GB player? WOMEN - R1 Group 6

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Sara Gomer was an early days Naomi Broady for me, got my vote.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

JonH comes home wrote:
Sara Gomer was an early days Naomi Broady for me, got my vote.

She got my vote as well but I think she was a better player than Naomi. She did at least win a WTA singles title in 1988 and it was another 24 years before a British player(Heather Watson) matched this achievement.

brittak · Satellite level

Sara Gomer - same thinking as Rosamund on this one.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Melanie South comfortable in this group.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Looking at this group Sara Gomer, Valda Lake and Karen Cross were all born in Devon. There are an amazing number of female players running from 1968 to probably the start of the 21st century who were born in Devon. Without checking fully apart from the above 3, Sue Barker, Corinne Molesworth, ,Jackie Fayter, Penny Moor ,Lucie Ahl and Judy Congdon all come from Devon. I think there was the Arthur Roberts influence somewhere along the way. We could have had one group of just Devon born players.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Sunday 3rd of May 2020 07:35:28 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

ROSAMUND wrote:
Looking at this group Sara Gomer, Valda Lake and Karen Cross were all born in Devon. There are an amazing number of female players running from 1968 to probably the start of the 21st century who were born in Devon. Without checking fully apart from the above 3, Sue Barker, Corinne Molesworth, ,Jackie Fayter, Penny Moor ,Lucie Ahl and Judy Congdon all come from Devon. I think there was the Arthur Roberts influence somewhere along the way. We could have had one group of just Devon born players.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Sunday 3rd of May 2020 07:35:28 PM

Torquay used to host a big event each year at the Palace Hotel as well, was it the Dewar Cup, and an annual under 21 event that was effectively the u21 world championships.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

JonH comes home wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:
Looking at this group Sara Gomer, Valda Lake and Karen Cross were all born in Devon. There are an amazing number of female players running from 1968 to probably the start of the 21st century who were born in Devon. Without checking fully apart from the above 3, Sue Barker, Corinne Molesworth, ,Jackie Fayter, Penny Moor ,Lucie Ahl and Judy Congdon all come from Devon. I think there was the Arthur Roberts influence somewhere along the way. We could have had one group of just Devon born players.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Sunday 3rd of May 2020 07:35:28 PM
Torquay used to host a big event each year at the Palace Hotel as well, was it the Dewar Cup, and an annual under 21 event that was effectively the u21 world championships.
Arthur Roberts was coach at the Palace Hotel for many years. Yes the Dewar Cup was held there . It was supposed to be a favourite venue of the players.

I had omitted an 11th Devon player, Jo Louis who was born in Hitchin but represented Devon.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Sunday 3rd of May 2020 08:15:45 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

ROSAMUND wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:
Looking at this group Sara Gomer, Valda Lake and Karen Cross were all born in Devon. There are an amazing number of female players running from 1968 to probably the start of the 21st century who were born in Devon. Without checking fully apart from the above 3, Sue Barker, Corinne Molesworth, ,Jackie Fayter, Penny Moor ,Lucie Ahl and Judy Congdon all come from Devon. I think there was the Arthur Roberts influence somewhere along the way. We could have had one group of just Devon born players.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Sunday 3rd of May 2020 07:35:28 PM
Torquay used to host a big event each year at the Palace Hotel as well, was it the Dewar Cup, and an annual under 21 event that was effectively the u21 world championships.
Arthur Roberts was coach at the Palace Hotel for many years. Yes the Dewar Cup was held there . It was supposed to be a favourite venue of the players.
I had omitted an 11th Devon player, Jo Louis who was born in Hitchin but represented Devon.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Sunday 3rd of May 2020 08:15:45 PM

Where there any Devon men or was it all women?

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

ROSAMUND wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:
Looking at this group Sara Gomer, Valda Lake and Karen Cross were all born in Devon. There are an amazing number of female players running from 1968 to probably the start of the 21st century who were born in Devon. Without checking fully apart from the above 3, Sue Barker, Corinne Molesworth, ,Jackie Fayter, Penny Moor ,Lucie Ahl and Judy Congdon all come from Devon. I think there was the Arthur Roberts influence somewhere along the way. We could have had one group of just Devon born players.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Sunday 3rd of May 2020 07:35:28 PM
Torquay used to host a big event each year at the Palace Hotel as well, was it the Dewar Cup, and an annual under 21 event that was effectively the u21 world championships.
Arthur Roberts was coach at the Palace Hotel for many years. Yes the Dewar Cup was held there . It was supposed to be a favourite venue of the players.
I had omitted an 11th Devon player, Jo Louis who was born in Hitchin but represented Devon.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Sunday 3rd of May 2020 08:15:45 PM

Seems he coached angela Mortimer and Mike Sangster also

http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/discovering/famous/angela_mortimer.shtml

SuperT · Futures level

The Devon discussion is interesting. Although not in this group, surely Sue Barker came from Devon as well.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

SuperT wrote:
The Devon discussion is interesting. Although not in this group, surely Sue Barker came from Devon as well.

Yeah, rosamund mentioned sue b in the narrative a few posts back.

Seems Arthur was a massive influence of his time

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Not sure about Devon men. Mike Sangster was definitely the best.

SuperT · Futures level

JonH comes home wrote:
SuperT wrote:
The Devon discussion is interesting. Although not in this group, surely Sue Barker came from Devon as well.
Yeah, rosamund mentioned sue b in the narrative a few posts back.

Seems Arthur was a massive influence of his time

Sorry I missed that. Have just worked my way through voting in all the rounds so feeling a bit gaga. Probably time I logged out and got some rest from the screen!!

indiana · Tennis legend

ROSAMUND wrote:
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I had omitted an 11th Devon player, Jo Louis who was born in Hitchin but represented Devon.

Yes, I was going to say

Interesting stuff.