The lack of tennis champions here in Britain has become a major issue. It is a well known fact that a British Tennis player has not won Wimbledon since the seventies. why? There could be several reasons .
The first is that tennis itself has not been heavily promoted in comparison with other sports, resulting in a 23% loss in people playing once a week, with this culminating in Sports England cutting its funding dramatically.
People wanting to join tennis clubs are also being discouraged, the reasons being examined in this article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/05/tennis-cheap-friendly-thrilling-few-playing
Tennis also has to rid itself of its old stereotyped image of being elitist and being a "posh toffs " game. This would enhance the kudos of tennis as a whole and therefore encourage the masses to take up the game.
A further issue may be the state of the structure of tennis itself in the UK and how the system moulds Tennis players as discussed in this article: http://lupine-rob.hubpages.com/hub/Shambolic-state-of-British-Tennis
PS I never mentioned the great British weather-that would just be an excuse would it not?
so lets hope this problem is resolved soon.
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