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

Stan Smith
21.1%
Ilie Nastase
26.3%
Bill Bowrey
0.0%
David Nalbandian
10.5%
Wilhelm Bungert
0.0%
Alex Metrevelli
0.0%
Andres Gimeno
0.0%
Michael Stich
5.3%
Tom Okker
26.3%
Malivai Washington
10.5%
JonH comes home


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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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Groups spectacularly quickly put up, one after the other 



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Ah - ha ! I had opened ten windows and put each poll up in one window and then it was just pressing a button! Efficiency!

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Much as I hated him I loved him also! Nasty it is!

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JonH comes home wrote:

Much as I hated him I loved him also! Nasty it is!

After what he did at the Fed Cup with our players? 



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Michael D wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:

Much as I hated him I loved him also! Nasty it is!

After what he did at the Fed Cup with our players? 

 I know I know but that is what I loved about him! 

A little bit of me in there, that never ever came out!



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Interesting group. And another to come back to.



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Despite watching him in his tennis days, I just couldn't bring myself to vote for Nasty. Went for Washington as one of the trailblazers for black players on the circuit.

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I recall flying with BA to LAX one year, on a Monday . Rain had caused the Mens doubles final to be held over to the Monday, Stich and Mac played together, a packed out court 1. Mid flight , the Captain announced the score, it was a big deal! Stich beat Becker of course to win his WImbledon title, wingspan was his trick, also a great commentator!

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For reasons I forget I quite liked Tom Okker. That'll do

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Stan Smith (great shoes) and then a bit of a scrum!

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Smith leads from Okker and Nastase



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Smith leads with just 4 votes, very tight in this group, anyone could still make it

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Wilhelm Bungert is another  player who   frustrated British tennis. I am referring to Wimbledon 1967 when he beat Roger Taylor in the semi finals. He was well beaten in the final by John Newcombe and supposedly played in the final as if he  was just happy to reach the final. He was also a semi finalist at Wimbledon in 1963 and 1964. I notice he was born in Mannheim which is the birthplace of Steffi Graf. 



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Okker and Nastase now lead, from Smith, as the group moves around

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