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Listed below are comments made by mikeswann between Monday, 21st July 2008 and Tuesday, 20th October 2009.

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LTA must carry the can for failure 7:41pm on 20 Oct 2009 Hi Jonathan,

A good summary of the "dire straits" of British Tennis. Whatever you say about the reasons for our continued poor performance, why is that some countries with little or no resources manage to produce world class players.

The situation has been somewhat smoke screened over the last ten or more years by having one really good world class player available to aid the cause.

Without Henman or Murray god only knows what level we would have played at.

The reality is a bit like the economic situation during the same period.

A lot of money thrown at people who do not have the ability or desire to produce a return. This includes not only the players but the administrators as well.

Under performance by all of them. In a non sporting environment and subject to an annual review of what they had achieved, they would have all have been sacked.

Jonathan makes reference to the reduction in juniors coming into tennis -not exactly a "no brainer". People want to be successful - who as a youngster would think of tennis as a route to success!

More than likely they see the achievements of Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton and the other GB cyclists and think on your bike might be the way to achieve things.

Ultimately it comes down to hunger - none of the current players or officials have desire for it - all far too comfortable in their own little words.

No excuses - they are all under achievers

time will tell but no finger crossing of GB reaching the upper heights

Fingers crossed that we could get 2 or 3 in the top 100 - the girls seem to be showing the way - where are the boys to follow their example.

Mike
Five batsmen not enough for England 8:32pm on 21 Jul 2008 Why is it that England have opted for consistency for the last few matches and then decide because the game at Headingley is totally unpredictable to draft in some totally unknown like Pattinson who a few months ago was wanting to play for Australia having lived there most of his life.

What sort of message is that to someone like Chris Tremlett who has worked hard on his game and been on the fringe for several seasons.

Yes we were outplayed by the Sprinboks but yet again the selectors came up short with their choice of a "one match wonder" and undermined the whole team's confidence.

Stick to the squad is the motto - it works for the Aussies - our guys never seem to get the message though and we have paid the price

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