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FosseFilberto said:
I'll say - local kid (St Albans) Oliver Tarbet got through to the second round ... that was worth £99k but he can only have 10% of it because he's not yet turned pro - he's a 21 year old kid on a sports scholarship to a US University ... still... not a bad summer job ...

**** knows what you get for actually winning it <laugh>
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I was reading up on Virginia Wade the other day, when she first won some tennis event, her first major type of win, she turned down the £300 prize money for expenses paid instead. Although I doubt with her background she needed the money anyway.
 
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brb said:
I was reading up on Virginia Wade the other day, when she first won some tennis event, her first major type of win, she turned down the £300 prize money for expenses paid instead. Although I doubt with her background she needed the money anyway.
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Back in the day when all our tennis players were fathered by some Public school type whose only sporting prowess had been an ability to take a hot crumpet from behind with stoic impunity during freshers week ...

We did have one guy called Buster in the men's as I recall...
 
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Anyways - phone battery nearly out - so I'll pick up with you losers after Chelsea have won the Club World Cup and Saf has spent fruitless hours trying to locate anything that suggests our scholarship contracts aren't binding <cheers>
 
brb said:
I was reading up on Virginia Wade the other day, when she first won some tennis event, her first major type of win, she turned down the £300 prize money for expenses paid instead. Although I doubt with her background she needed the money anyway.
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US Open 1968 probs, the money was non existent then. She won 6 majors and was a jolly good person to boot.
 
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