Interestingly this poll only has 12 votes so far (at about 11.30am) whereas all the others seems to have 14 so perhaps there is someone else like me who does not have any particular affinity to any in this group, so I decided not to vote in this one!

JonH comes home wrote:

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Anett Kontaveit seems to have a little fan club or is there a big Estonian grouping on the board?!

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Quite apart from the attractions of her gutsy style or thumping forehand, perhaps some remember her travails with Jess Ren back in the junior days (e.g. https://twitter.com/jessren94/status/639789530359447552 ). That made her seem almost an honorary Brit.
She also speaks most of the time with an almost indistinguishably acclimatised London accent, and has been often resident here.
Factors like that endear you to a player over those about which we see almost nothing of save for the odd few games on a highlights package every so often.

People also like to cheer for players from less established tennis countries that break the mold and trail-blaze for their nations, in the way that Anett has done for Estonian tennis.

Just noticed this group had Kanepi in it as well, Estonian dream group...looks like Kontaveit is favoured by us in the UK, would the Estonian ActiveBoard be voting the same (and do they have Jo and Heather in the same group over there!)