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Charities share profits from recycled tickets

WIMBLEDON MAKES every effort to ensure that tickets which are no longer needed on the show courts are recycled to fans, who are already in the ground.

The cynics might say that it’s just another way of making money but the club donates the profits to charity.

The official bank of the championships also donates a sum equal to the amount raised by the club in the resale scheme.

In 2008 the amount raised was €130,032 and after the bank chipped in the Dan Maskell tennis Trust and other charities shared €257,266. Not bad for second hand seats.

“I also understand why I am a rare success story at our home championships.”

It was not Fred Perry speaking from the grave but the one and only Jamie Murray in his column in the London Times. Jamie is the older brother of Andy.

In case you didn’t know he was referring to the mixed doubles event he won in 2007 with Jelena Jankovic. Somehow we don’t think the British public think that is the success story they’re looking for.

Dolan sets up own company

IRISHMAN JOHN Dolan is leaving the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) after 12 years of heading up the European Communications division of the organisation.

Cork-born Dolan is setting up his own company called Trinity, which is a subsidiary of Belgian outfit Golazo, which represents clients from the sports and entertainment world. Dolan will be managing Kim Clijsters, the former world number one and US Open champion, who is making a comeback to professional tennis in August.

Irish junior pair make early exit

IRELAND’S INTEREST in the junior Wimbledon tournament ended this week at the qualifying stage. Both John Morrisey and Sam Barry, Ireland’s highest ranking junior boys, lost their opening matches in the qualifying event at Roehampton, Morrisey exiting in three sets and Barry in two.

Not simply Andy's elder brother

ANDY MURRAY has a surprise in store. John O’Shea of Goal is going to have a chat with him after Wimbledon, hopefully from Goal’s point of view as the new champion. Murray is now a Goal patron but O’Shea hopes to get him more involved.

Other tennis players such as Mats Wilander, Peter Fleming and Pat Cash have all visited Goal’s theatres of operations in the past.