In NO PRINCE CHARMING, Ella – the main character – appears on a cookery TV show based on a dinner party format. Her companions for the evening include a tennis player who won Wimbledon the previous year.
Want to help me name him?
Suggest your names below, and the best one will feature in the book (out Spring 2011, published by Orion Books), and I’ll give you an acknowledgment at the front.
Crowdsourcing. Doesn’t. Get. Better. Than. This.
Wicked!! I vote Tim Murray or Boris Agassi or something like that!!
Louis Spencer.
Why don’t you name him something foreign because a Brit isnt likely to win Wimbledon! How about something like Markus Maggnesson or something Scandinavian?
Dan Lewis.
Call him Austin Morgan
great name for a tennis player
A Wimbledon-winning tennis player is unlikely to be a Brit, so I’d go for something like a mainland European portmanteau of firstname and surname:
Gerard Blanche
Sebastian De Viet
Robert Bergsson
Yes, what nationality are we talking here? I suppose he could be American. My truly international suggestions: Adam Munro; Devon Hardaker; Ivan Marjanovic; Ryan Borowski; Sven Locke. x
Yeah, I’m guessing he wouldn’t be British … unfortunately! x
Gustav Sonneson.
Sylvain Bates, Jean-Pierre Piermont, or maybe…….Louis Bates!!!!!
Milan Savic, the sulky Slav. I do not see him as a charming dinner companion.
Clinton Mogridge
Spencer Curran
Christian Coxshall
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Drew – Chamberlain, Mackenzie, Hamilton or Bowman
Monty Milanovoch x
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Adam Swain x
I vote Petr Ronaldson.
French names work best.
Paul-Henri Durand
Bertrande Petit
Christophe Moreau
Laurent Dubois
HI,
James Forrester was the name that instantly came into my head. Sounds quite British but could pass as an American if shortened to Jim?
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It has to be a Brit winner, surely…..he would be called Christopher Ponsonby
Not sure where this came from!
Lewis Kespiski
Daniel Bragger or Christian Delfs
sound very tennis pros to me
Andrew Venning sounds perfect to me
HI,
James Forrester was the name that instantly came into my head. Sounds quite British but could pass as an American if shortened to Jim?
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