If Murray's career hadn't clashed with three of the all time greats, he would have won 8-10 Grand Slams. A great player who deserves all the credit.
The same can be said for Tim Henman - his career coincided with Sampras and Agassi flattening all and sundry which, coupled with him being pretty much useless on clay or hardcourt, meant his chances of winning were more reliant on somebody being injured than his own talents.
I can remember another British tennis player who was pathetic.Blonde hair,left handed and walked a little bent over.Can't remember his name. But that why we rarely had many good tennis players,unlike the Americans.I think because it was all lovey,dovey,club elites who played it,not the average "working man". I think in America it didn't matter who you were if you had a bit of talent you were in!!!!? Not sure if things have changed in Britain today......
Sounds like Mark Petchey to me. The problem with British tennis is that so many of the various no-hopers get wildcards for Wimbledon every year, yet none of them make the third round - but they get handsomely rewarded for their mediocre displays. I'm going to make a wild presumption and say the Australian, French and US Opens aren't stuffed with no-hopers from their respective country every year.
Just went to have a look at the tennis board to see what they were saying. It appears that, for them, the tennis season finished at the end of Wimbledon!.
I wonder where that $325,000,000 will come from.....and that's only ONE player! Don't tell Adebayor about that one or he will ask for a bigger contract promising to try harder!!!!!!!!?
Cox to a man. John Lloyd was decent, if fragile. Lovely one handed backhand, and very fast around the court.
Malky Mackay got the Wigan job. I'm all for second chances but if I were a player I wouldn't want to play for him.
He was always going to get that second chance, it was just a question of which club would be the first. Nothing Whelan does surprises me, he is his own man and sod what anyone else thinks.
If he can get Wigan back into the Prem, I don't think his players are going to care too much about anything else. Yes, he made some silly Neanderthal comments, but he did a good job for Cardiff and deserves another chance, IMO.
The Championship looks very strong this season so it will be a tough ask. I just meant that as a player, or anyone who has to work with him, I'd have reservations about it because of the cruel and offensive comments he was making behind people's backs. It's hard to respect to someone who is clearly very disrespectful and crude.
P Saying things behind someone's back that you wouldn't say to their face i would call cowardly. But, let's be honest, most of us have made some pretty crude, awful comments about women to mates in a pub, or somewhere. Things that we think are just between mates, not for general consumption.
You know if we didn't know better this would seem like the summer with all these international breaks! Is it me or is it getting worse. I'm not terribly interested in these international games anyway. I bet the managers are ticked off with them,especially when their players come back crocked.....
Could be worse, a manager could kvetch about international games tiring out their players...and then their players get injured in training for their clubs during an international break.
