It’s been ages since my last post, and clearly way too much has happened in the world of sport to mention here. So I won’t. <br />
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Instead, I’ll share something else with you. In my job (at the FT) we get tons of PR email. Now and then one just sticks out for it’s sheer D-list beauty. Here’s one.<br />
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<i><b>RBC Capital Markets and Alex Bogdanovic to promote youth tennis</b><br />
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Alex Bogdanovic joined forces with RBC Capital Markets to encourage participation in sport at the grass roots level, and to help address the differences in access to sport across ethnic groups and social classes. The UK fourth-ranked tennis player coached a group of 7- to 11 year-olds from four different schools in the London Borough of Hackney on the mornings of the 5th and 6th July.<br />
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Alex is enthusiastic about this project: “I hope this sort of event will encourage more organisations to lend their support to similar initiatives across a wide variety of sports.”</i><br />
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Ahh, nice. And there’s a pic of Alex with all the kids.<br />
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But really, couldn’t they have got someone else? Henman? Murray? And, more pertinently, do they know what a journeyman Bogdanovic is? <a href=”http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/3309829.stm”>He once had his LTA funding withdrawn for being, well, rubbish</a>. Is this a good example with which to motivate the youth of Hackney to become champion tennis players? Although he has supposedly improved, his status as “one of Britain’s brightest prospects” sounds like crap. <br />
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<a href=”http://www.atptennis.com/en/players/playerprofiles/default2.asp?playersearch=bogdanovic”>A quick look at his career record</a> shows that Bogdanovic (which just sounds like Bogged-down-a-bit to me) is not setting the pace. He’s 22. Murray is 19. Say’s it all, really.