Who is your favourite post 1968 & not currently ranked GB player? MEN - R2 - Group D

brittak · Satellite level

Who is your favourite post 1968 & not currently ranked GB player? MEN - R2 - Group D

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Felt Roger T would have enough support without me, so voted tactically for Andy Jarrett!

indiana · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Felt Roger T would have enough support without me, so voted tactically for Andy Jarrett!

You're learning

brittak · Satellite level

No tactical voting from me here - sticking with Roger T.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Paul Hutchins, sadly recently died, was the Davis Cup captain of my younger days and took us to the final versus the US in 1978, when John Lloyd and Buster Mottram, with Mark Cox and David Lloyd in doubles, where beaten by a John McEnroe led team, with Brian Gottfried, and Stan Smith and Bob Lutz, played in the desert in Palm Springs. Shown live on BBC.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

brittak wrote:
No tactical voting from me here - sticking with Roger T.

Same with me The top male player of my youth. Interesting that Greg Rusedski is struggling for votes.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

ROSAMUND wrote:
brittak wrote:
No tactical voting from me here - sticking with Roger T.
Same with me The top male player of my youth. Interesting that Greg Rusedski is struggling for votes.

Greg is an interesting one - how liked really was he, I think Tim always had the popularity edge, whether that was due to Greg's Canadian background or personality, probably a mixture of both I feel.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

JonH comes home wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:
brittak wrote:
No tactical voting from me here - sticking with Roger T.
Same with me The top male player of my youth. Interesting that Greg Rusedski is struggling for votes.
Greg is an interesting one - how liked really was he, I think Tim always had the popularity edge, whether that was due to Greg's Canadian background or personality, probably a mixture of both I feel.
Yes I was wondering about his Canadian background not helping. At the moment he is losing out to Andrew Fitzpatrick who one associates with being on the coaching teams at some stage of Johanna Konta and Sloane Stephens rather than his playing career.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

ROSAMUND wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:
brittak wrote:
No tactical voting from me here - sticking with Roger T.
Same with me The top male player of my youth. Interesting that Greg Rusedski is struggling for votes.
Greg is an interesting one - how liked really was he, I think Tim always had the popularity edge, whether that was due to Greg's Canadian background or personality, probably a mixture of both I feel.
Yes I was wondering about his Canadian background not helping. At the moment he is losing out to Andrew Fitzpatrick who one associates with being on the coaching teams at some stage of Johanna Konta and Sloane Stephens rather than his playing career.

I think for the those who have been on this board a long time, Fitzy is also popular here because during his playing days, he was a regular poster on this board, regaling us with match reports and stories of his trials and tribulations such as being stuck in Tokyo airport for 4 days when his host family failed to show up, causing him to miss a tournament.

I have even been tempted to tweet him and suggest he might want to return here so that he can vote for himself wink

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, Bob, I imagine that's what has mostly pulled in the votes for Fitzy and he got mine. Though I would have voted for Greg before Tim.

brittak · Satellite level

Roger T and Fitzy out in front with the rest playing a bit of catch up and hoping to secure some of the last votes.

Bob - Fitzy might not vote for himself of course!!! Nothing in the rules to stop him though!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

brittak wrote:
Roger T and Fitzy out in front with the rest playing a bit of catch up and hoping to secure some of the last votes.

Bob - Fitzy might not vote for himself of course!!! Nothing in the rules to stop him though!

Having had the pleasure of meeting him several times, I can assure you he would vote for himself biggrin biggrin

Sorry Fitzy. Just kidding, if you are reading this.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Fitzy heading through here, as a Qualifier.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Greg obviously not a favourite polling less than Chris Eaton .

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Interesting to see Paul Hutchins come through as well here, wasnt sure how well known or how much support he would have. Pleased though.

Surprised re Greg also - I think in general (and I have been musing on this) that some of our non GB born players that come to the country in later life, dont tend to gather that much support in these things. I think the nature of folks on this board is that we are generally tennis fans who often follow players through their careers, in juniors, college, ITF events and that they grow with many of us and become our favourites. A lot of folks on this board go to ITF or Challenger events and are genuinely keen on the lesser ranked, up and coming players etc.

Someone like Greg (or Jo, Brydan, Jan Choinski, Aljaz Bedene and others) get respected and followed but perhaps dont build up that "love" that some of the longer established, brought up through the ranks players end up getting?

Just my thoughts...