Laura Robson
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, Sep 21 2012 03:40 PM
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Posted 21 September 2012 - 03:40 PM
...has just become the first British female player to reach a WTA final since Jo Durie in 1990!
"Journalists are meant to be neutral, for God's sake." - Stephen 'Wiggy' Jones
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
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Posted 21 September 2012 - 03:52 PM
...has just become the first British female player to reach a WTA final since Jo Durie in 1990!
Bravo! She has great potential.
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Posted 21 September 2012 - 03:54 PM
Which foreign country does the British girl come from? 
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Posted 21 September 2012 - 03:57 PM
Which foreign country does the British girl come from?
Depends who you ask; a Scot, an Englishman or an Australian...
"Journalists are meant to be neutral, for God's sake." - Stephen 'Wiggy' Jones
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
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Posted 21 September 2012 - 04:02 PM
She is a citizen of the world in Churchillian terms.
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Posted 21 September 2012 - 05:19 PM
She is a citizen of the world in Churchillian terms.
"Entitled to live where the hell she likes!"
"There are now more pandas in Scotland than Tory MPs."
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Posted 21 September 2012 - 05:20 PM
Is she the one who won silver in the mixed doubles?
"There are now more pandas in Scotland than Tory MPs."
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Posted 21 September 2012 - 06:38 PM
Quit carping. She's nearly as English as Rangi Chase.
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Posted 21 September 2012 - 07:15 PM
"Entitled to live where the hell she likes!"
Truly.
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Posted 23 September 2012 - 09:52 AM
Laura Robson
Which makes her......British of course
- Born: January 21, 1994, in Melbourne, Australia
- Lives: London (family left Australia for Singapore when she was 18 months old and moved to the UK when she was six)
- Height: 5ft 11ins
- Weight: 10st 8lbs
- Junior Grand Slam best: Wimbledon champion (2008)
- Senior Grand Slam best: US Open 4th round (2012)
- Career-high ranking: 74 (September 17, 2012)
Which makes her......British of course
Swinton RLFC est 1866 - Supplying England with players when most of your clubs were in nappies
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Posted 23 September 2012 - 10:39 AM
Laura Robson
Which makes her......British of course
- Born: January 21, 1994, in Melbourne, Australia
- Lives: London (family left Australia for Singapore when she was 18 months old and moved to the UK when she was six)
- Height: 5ft 11ins
- Weight: 10st 8lbs
- Junior Grand Slam best: Wimbledon champion (2008)
- Senior Grand Slam best: US Open 4th round (2012)
- Career-high ranking: 74 (September 17, 2012)
You did see the bit that says
moved to the UK when she was six
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Posted 23 September 2012 - 02:04 PM
Yes, I posted it. Do you think she speaks with a Singapore accent, or an Australian one, do you think she moved to England at 6 years old to get expert training in tennis? Or maybe she is a natural tennis player? Are we going to start critisising her because she wasn't born here? I bet she didn't start playing tennis until just before she left Singapore, and even then if her parents were really driven to have a tennis star in their blood, they would've gone back to Australia where there is much more tennis training funding for juniors.
She is British. Leave it at that. Thats who she chooses to represent. She could choose Singapore and be there number 1 tennis player, but no, she feels British enough to claim us as hers.
She is British. Leave it at that. Thats who she chooses to represent. She could choose Singapore and be there number 1 tennis player, but no, she feels British enough to claim us as hers.
Swinton RLFC est 1866 - Supplying England with players when most of your clubs were in nappies
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