How much has injury been a factor in Marcus not capitalising on his weight loss?

Also did others expect to see him do a bit better on the grass this year than he did? It seemed to me that he was perhaps a bit too tight/excited at the close stages in the sets where he had chances to go ahead against higher ranked players in the grass season - an easy pitfall if you're in that 'I think I can do it, now's my chance to prove it to everyone else' kind of match.

Anyway, as I said then, it looked to me from watching his matches than his main problem was that he throws in too many weaker shots amongst all the amazing ones and while that's to be expected a bit more if you prioritise diverse variety of strokes and unpredictability, you only have to throw in a slightly weaker one once per rally every other point and a good player will usually take advantage and win half those points. I think if he tightened up in that aspect his serve would be so much harder to break for a start.

Marcus did though have the investment and advice of someone who did ( does ? ) consider him a future Davis Cup doubles player and certainly doubles top 100, and Gary also loves his doubles and is keen to see good all British partnerships.

Of course, it is great the time and investment Gary gives, and Marcus made great initial strides in the singles rankings, something like 900s to 300s with seeming scope to push on much further still, having been previously hugely underranked as against his talent. He certainly seemed to have maybe been drifting a bit before linking up with Gary so could use help and encouragement. The stalling in the last couple of years has been a pity.

But over the last few years there have been mixed and changing messages about whether or not he was going to really concentrate on singles for a while. At some stage I feel Marcus has really needed to more go for it in singles, to be all he can be, but I do sometimes wonder how much of a "go for it" guy he is ...

I actually don't particularly think Andy is a great example as from early on he was always going to make it at singles and those are young ages accompanied by injury issues which varies his progression.

With Marcus though, yes, I do wish that he had before now really gone for it more in singles. There is some real ability there, but also issues to work on and the priorities and skill sets required do vary a fair bit between singles and doubles.

To try and progress both singles and doubles simultaneously for the period he has, in his early to mid twenties, actually unclear as to which is the priority, seems to me to be an extremely bad idea.

Was being nosey on Twitter and I see he says he hopes to play again in June/July. I assume it's an injury unless he is committed to coaching till then.

Marcus Willis @Willbomb90 Jul 15

Pumped to be part of the line up this year at Kalamazoo!Game on! @directorkzoo @MRusselltennis #america #teamcurlers

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So Marcus is a 'sensation' now? And doing professional exhibitions?

Luv ya' Marcus, and you deserve it, and the money must be good, but are you going to play a bit too ?

And just to add to the Hollywood plot, Marcus has stated via Instagram account that he has popped the question and Jenny has said "Yes". Don't you just love a happy ending - or is that a happy beginning in this case.

Congratulations to both Marcus and Jenny.

I can also report that Marcus is hoping to get back on court ASAP. He has a couple of injury niggles at the moment though.

Puzzled by Marcus' plans and has he really got married already or do they mean 'engaged'?

www.tennisworldusa.org/news/news/UK_Tennis/35683/marcus-willis-comes-back-to-be-a-tennis-teacher/