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Vote for your favourite player below [15 vote(s)]

Thomas Enqvist
0.0%
Manuel Orantes
13.3%
Tomas Berdych
6.7%
Nikola Pilic
0.0%
Thomas Muster
0.0%
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
13.3%
Roy Emerson
40.0%
Mariano Puerta
0.0%
Victor Pecci
13.3%
Nicola Pietrangelli
13.3%
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Decided to get the mens going so I can focus on the womens polls closing shortly

Vote for your favourite player below! 

Poll to close Wednesday evening around 6 pm. 

Top 3 go through - any ties for a qualification place will go into a qualification play off Wednesday evening



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you have to be called Thomas to get into this group!

But Victor Pecci wowed me at Queens Club one year and also won a Davis Cup match v the Czechs indoor, on wood, in Asuncion - totally non SOuth American in style, great player

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Another group to come back to.

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Rifled my way through this group. wink



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Kafelnikov is a star poker player these days, a real personality in his time!

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indiana wrote:

Another group to come back to.

 I suspect that this will be my men's pass group. 



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JonH comes home wrote:

Kafelnikov is a star poker player these days, a real personality in his time!

Well, that's not going to get him my vote! I don't have a clue here either.  



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I think I'll pass on this group as well. Seen a couple of them play live, not enthralled !

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I think I'll focus some late evening colour write ups on this group! Others have started very well in terms of votes, this is the laggard!

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Emerson and kafelnikov lead the way here.

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Thomas Enqvist had his best season in 1999, reached number 4 at year end and at the start of that year, he lost in the Australian open final to Kafelnikov, who of course he also Dave's here in this poll. He won 3 Masters Series events in his career.

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Manuel Orantes won the 1975 US open, beating Connors, was a semi finalist at Wimbledon in 1972 , despite being a clay courtier, and won the Masters (Tour finals) on carpet in Houstom in 1976.

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Recently retired Berdych was Wimbledon runner up in 2010 and reached 4th in the World in 2015. He won the Paris Masters in 2005 and took the Czech team to the 2012 and 2013 Davis Cup titles.

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Nikola Pilic was a Croatian (represented Yugoslavia) who won the 1973 French Open. Part of the initial WCT handsome eight, his refusal to play Davis Cup in 1973 led to being banned by the Yugslav federation and the ILTF, and thus not being able to play Wimbledon. This caused the famous 1973 boycott by the top mens players.

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Thomas Muster is the 1995 French Champion, won Master series events in clay, hard outdoor and indoor, and was possibly the best clay court player of his era.

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