She'll have to put in a stellar performance to get to the final.
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Great win just now in the 1/4 final
Faces Venus in the semi final.
She'll have to put in a stellar performance to get to the final.
She's had a mercurial rise to the top.
How can anyone get any patriotic pride in an Australian stealing a British girls place?
my half bad she's lived in the uk since she was 14 but took citizenship in 2012 as you said. also hungarian parents, lived in the uk for 12 years qualifies her in my book, rugby and athletics have much shorter qualifying periods, also she's not holding back any uk born female talent
Moved from Australia initially to Barcelona, trained there before moving to Britain.
Colour me surprised but the same year she became British she received funding from LTA.
The decision to become British was purely for financial reasons - it was every bit as farcical as Zola Budd getting a passport of convenience.
She became a UK citizen. You might acknowledge that she has Australian (and Hungarian) in her too but she's British. I appreciate it might be easier to accept if she had come to the UK before she was 10, and harder to accept if she had done it having already played for Australia in the Davis Cup for example. I.e. there's s Slovenian Brit who is far harder to accept, and not because he's nowhere near as good.
Regardless of that point, which UK women's place is she stealing? I realise it matters little for the nationality question but there really is a lack of depth in UK tennis talent.
She represented Austrailia up until 2012 can you imagine Gareth Bale switching to england at the next world cup its not right, but the strawberries and cream crew are so so desperate.
Again, she became British 2012. She received direct funding from LTA in... 2012.
It's clear her family moving to Britain was due to the financial benefits for her career - so technically that was funding not going to a British native. Would someone else receiving that money have performed the same? We'll never know.
What is clear is the changing of nationality was nothing more than a cynical career move on the part of the family.
It was wrong when Zola Budd did it, it's equally as wrong now.
Some serious whooshing going on here