England v Holland squad announcements

[chrisroe]

The squads for the England-Holland tour have been announced on the BA of E website (extract below).

The Yehlex England-Holland Tour - Squads
England:Manager: Finn Traerup-Hansen
Men’s singles: Colin Haughton (Lancs), Aamir Ghaffar (Middlesex), Andrew South (Notts).
Women’s singles: Tracey Hallam (Staffs), Julia Mann (Warks).
Men’s doubles: Nathan Robertson (Notts), Anthony Clark (Notts), Robert Blair (Leics), Simon Archer (Worcs).
Women’s doubles: Gail Emms (Herts) & Donna Kellogg (Derbyshire), Ella Tripp (Cheshire) & Jo Wright (Lancs).
Mixed doubles: Robertson & Emms, Blair & Natalie Munt (Herts), Archer & Kellogg.
Holland
Manager: Eric Bakker. Coach: Martijn van Dooremalen
Men’s singles: Eric Pang, Gerben Bruijstens.
Women’s singles: Brenda Beenhakker, Judith Meulendijks.
Men’s doubles: Tijs Creemers & Jurgen Wouters.
Women’s doubles: Brenda Beenhakker & Judith Meulendijks, Lotte Bruil
Mixed doubles: Chris Bruil & Lotte Bruil.

Chris.

[sponsford]

Thanks Chris.

Where is Mia Audina in the Ladies Singles? Is she not playing?

Good Luck ENGLAND

[danbelcher]

it promises to be a very competitve and even tour. I am looking forward to supporting england. Remeber Anthony Clarks thread sometime ago about making some noise? so let's get behind them. I think the venues should give out those plastic clapper things free like they did at the world champs

[dlp]

England have named their strongest squad, which is good for the fans.

I think without Mia playing England should have the edge. Mia would have played first singles and /or first doubles. We should be favourites to take mens doubles whichever pair we play, and possibly have the edge in mixed and ladies doubles , both Singles will be up for grabs. All the matches except probably mens doubles though could go either way.

A much more even and unpredictable tour than the previous china events where we lost almost every womens singles and doubles and often mens singles and often won the md and mixed.

[ronaldshipton]

I think the main thing we can get from this is experience. They should play a younger squad in some of the matches but judging by the selections this isn't going to happen.
What about Eleanor cox and Andy smith to play some of the Singles if they are not injured.
In the matches that are not that important, pick like Sven erickson thats what i say and build for the future aswell as playing the older players who deserve it.

[archerfan]

We should absolutely play all our best players as this is our opportunity to bring in the crowds and sell the sport. The results need to be the right result and this will only happen if we play our best team.

[Grover]

Agreed Paul - must be the top players, everyone complains when we get beat by the Chinese, we need to win a few matches against reasonable opposition to get the crowds out.

[archerfan]

thanks grover, I have just joined the forum. Speaking to the one and only Simon Archer he told me I should join.
It is difficult for the younger players and I do understand when people say we should play them, But our sport is not receiving massive t.v. coverage. You are right , the chinese tour last year did us no favours in the non playing public eye.

[Lewisio]

One thing to bear in mind, when we win, which should happen. It won't be the greatest victory ever.

The young Chinese squad brought over were future stars. Non of the Dutch squad have won any major tournaments, their highest pair is Bruil and Bruil, who play an awful lot of tournaments and invariably lose early.

Also what Sudirman Cup group are Holland in? Not the top group, so no excuse for England not to win, especially when we are playing our best players. We might be crap in comparison to China, Denmark, Korea, Indonesia etc. But Holland, without their World class (imported) player. Should be a resounding 5-0 five times over. Then we should look for a better challenge next year.

[sonnyjim]

Dan i agree 100 percent. Thing is though i would like to see us learn from it and give some of our younger players who have earned it the chance to get some experience just like the chinese that you have mentioned.

If the chinese are fielding weaker teams that need experience then why don't we win the first two matches, then field a mixed younger team so we get something out of it aswell.

Thing is iam not sure that the BA of E are confident that we will win.