GB Player of the Month

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

GB Player of the Month

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Edit. Life got in way so will post polls later as planned

Assuming it's still 10 players nominated, I'll make it 2 groups of 5, random draw but trying to keep like players apart. Eg there are 3 women, so I'll make sure they arent all in 1 group, 2 doubls only nominations so I'll separate them as well. Other than that a random draw.

Top 2 from each group, plus any ties, will go to a final.

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 30th of August 2020 05:49:49 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Roll of honour to date

Player of Month winners to date are:

Jan - Joe Salisbury
Feb - Heather Watson
Mar - Sam Murray-Sharan
Apr - no play
May - no play
Jun/Jul - Arthur Fery

Only Joe up for this months vote.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

As an aside, here is the full list of all players that have been nominated for Player of the Month in Jan (no vote just an annointing) , Feb, Mar , Jun/Jul and Aug and the number of times they have been nominated: most of our top men on the main tour have had 2 nominations, in the women, just Emily Appleton and Emma Raducanu have had 2. But the only player on 3 nominations so far this year is Billy Harris. Not sure if Bob wishes to comment on that feat ?!

J. Salisbury 2
H. Dart 2
J. Draper 1
K. Edmund 2
D. Evans 2
GB U12 Girls 1
D. Inglot 1
H. Klugman 1
H. Patten 1
H. Watson 1
B. Harris 3
G. Houghton 1
B. Klein 1
S. Murray-Sharan 1
A. Rajecki 1
J. Hersey 1
J. Murray 2
A. Fery 1
E. Appleton 2
A. Barnett 1
J. Burrage 1
K. Boulter 1
C. Norrie 1
E. Raducanu 2
L. Johnson 1
L. Broady 1
D. Cox 1
N. Skupski 2
J. Clarke 1
J. Konta 1

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

I was thinking how to do player of the year awards and voting and wanted comment or feedback.

Starter for 10:

The monthly winners (max of 9 given the missing months and assining there may be some play in December, who knows), and of course we may have a duplicate winner or two.

The 6 british numbers ones ( ie atp and wta singles and doubles, and itf number ones) for gb. Max of 6 more but may be duplicates with monthly winners.

The 2 players with most monthly nominations, again avoiding duplicates.

This would give us a voting list of 10 to 16 I think.

Anyone got any alternative strongly held views or thoughts , I think this would capture anyone with a claim to player of the year though, could anyone outside the above criteria have a reasonable claim?

Thoughts welcomed...

the addict · Tennis legend

Sounds good to me. The only ones I might consider adding are runners-up in the monthly competitions if not otherwise already in. That would account for those who have been consistent over the period but fall through the net on the nominations count. Probably only one or two in this category anyway.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Sounds good to me. The only ones I might consider adding are runners-up in the monthly competitions if not otherwise already in. That would account for those who have been consistent over the period but fall through the net on the nominations count. Probably only one or two in this category anyway.

That works for me; I will keep a tally of who is in and if nothing else it should make for a robust vote!

I will need to go back to the votes to check - Joe of course was anointed in January, so no runner up that month but not a problem!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

I'm half expecting a September player of month nomination imminently...

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
I'm half expecting a September player of month nomination imminently...

George Loffhagen ?

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
I'm half expecting a September player of month nomination imminently...
George Loffhagen ?

Hahahaha

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Player of Month winners to date are:

Jan - Joe Salisbury
Feb - Heather Watson
Mar - Sam Murray-Sharan
Apr - no play
May - no play
Jun/Jul - Arthur Fery

Aug - Jo Konta

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

September nominations can start straight away, a reminder anyone can nominate players at any time, just do it here.

Period closes sunday 27th september and voting will take place as the French Open begins.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

OK, jonny boy - I'm nominating Fran - coz she's an amazing plucky and determined girl, I was worried she'd rather quietly vanished from the scene - and she hasn't! Coz she's doing great (the only one to do so) in Prague at the moment.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
OK, jonny boy - I'm nominating Fran - coz she's an amazing plucky and determined girl, I was worried she'd rather quietly vanished from the scene - and she hasn't! Coz she's doing great (the only one to do so) in Prague at the moment.

Cool, I thought something may come like this, so pleased to put Fran up as the first in the September list:

September Player of the Month Nominations:

Fran Jones

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JonH comes home wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
OK, jonny boy - I'm nominating Fran - coz she's an amazing plucky and determined girl, I was worried she'd rather quietly vanished from the scene - and she hasn't! Coz she's doing great (the only one to do so) in Prague at the moment.
Cool, I thought something may come like this, so pleased to put Fran up as the first in the September list:
September Player of the Month Nominations:
Fran Jones

Interesting week so far, lots of potential in US Open for players to come through and get a nomination , singles and doubles, and both mens and womens singles. And several players still in challenger and itf action that could go on a good weeks run.