brittak wrote:

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Thanks Jon for this.

Interesting that event 2 got 38 votes which is way ahead of any other poll that has been done. Might be something to do with the forum splitting between those that are more into mens and then womens tennis, so a combined poll would pick up both.

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 Yes,  that is what I thought. I always vote on every poll so dont quite get the mindset of voting men only or women only, even if i dont know the players much or have any passion, I still vote, but it has been obvious there is a sort of Venn diagram going on. By and large there is a slight bias towards the womens side on this board, from the general polls results, not always the finals but often in earlier rounds. I think this current poll will prove a) womens slightly preferred and b) will get close to that top poll, proving it's the players that catch the attention. 

 

The match play events haven't done so well, it seems the longer list "favourites" style ones get more interest. 

Players that have reached the last 4 / top 4 in any event:

Women:

Event 1 - Champion of Champions Event - 8 top women (most slams won ) went in head to head matches to determine the Champion of Champions:

Monica Seles, Serena Williams, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova

Event 2 - Favourite British Player - current players top women from mixed poll

Heather Watson, Beth Grey, Emily Webley-Smith, Amanda Carreras

Event 3 - Wimbledon Invitational - 16 top women played knockout fantasy event

Petra Kvitova, Elina Svitolina, Serena Williams (2), Ash Barty

Event 4 - Favourite WTA Players - current players British and Foreign

Heather Watson (2), Petra Kvitova (2), Katy Dunne, Jo Konta

Event 5 - Favourite Foreign womens players - current (non Brits)

Petra Kvitova (3), Ash Barty (2), Victoria Azarenka, Simona Halep, Garbine Muguruza , Monica Puig, Venus Williams

Event 6 - Favourite former British Players - women

Virginia Wade, Elena Baltacha, Ann Jones, Laura Robson

So far, 22 womens players have been in the top 4 of one of the events we have held (incl ties). Watch this space for why this is relevant in a week or so.

Event 7 - to be started Favourite former foreign player

Men

Event 1 - Champion of Champions Event - 8 top men (most slams won ) went in head to head matches to determine the Champion of Champions:

Rod Laver, Roger Federer, Bjorn Borg, Pete Sampras

Event 2 - Favourite British Player - current players men in mixed poll

Dan Evans, Andy Murray, Kyle Edmund, Joe Salisbury

Event 3 - Wimbledon Invitational - 16 top men played knockout fantasy event

Andy Murray (2), Roger Federer (2), Novak Djokovic, Stefanos Tsitsipas

Event 4 - Favourite ATP Players - current players British and Foreign

Andy Murray (3), Dan Evans (2), Kyle Edmund (2), Roger Federer (3)

Event 5 - Favourite Foreign mens players - current (non Brits)

Juan Del Potro, Nick Kyrgios, Jo Wilfried Tsonga, Dominic Thiem, Roger Federer (4),

Event 6 - Favourite former British Players - men

Tim Henman, Roger Taylor, Jonny Marray, Paul Hutchins, Marcus Willis

So far, 19 mens players have been in the top 4 of one of the events we have held (incl ties). Watch this space for why this is relevant in a week or so.

Event 7 - to be started Favourite former foreign player

TBD

Robin wrote:

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Hi Jon, the womens and mens winners are the wrong way round on event 6 ;)

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 You get the prize, Robin, I wondered when someone would spot that .

corrected !

 

Those whove read this thread will know next up will be ou poll of polls, favourites of favourites event.

I'll have around 48 or 49 player who qualify through past polls. But I'm conscious that some favourites won have actually had the chance to be voted on due to falling through the cracks.

I want 54 players in the event to form 9 groups of 6. So I've space for several wild cards, maybe 5 or 6.

So I'd like nominations in this thread. Players that could come to mind are:

Players still ranked but too lowly to have made the current players events who are effectively retired or injured and dropped down the ranks - sabine lisicki, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Jack sock might fall into this but I'd need to check

Players who are definitely retired but didnt reach a slam final or win a wimbledon match if british - and thus missed out on the Brits event.

Doubles players only who have been or are really popular - the brits in this where included in one of my earlier polls but players like the Bryan's or other specialists wont havebeen.

So please nominate your favourites for a wild card here today. By 10 pm. If they are valid and didnt take part in a previous poll, I'll include them - if there are too many I'll run wild card play off from among the nominees!

I wont nominate any so if you agree with the ones named as examples please formally nominate them. No limits on numbers per board member but please do it in this thread by 10 pm tonight and I'll set up a play off tomorrow if needed.

The draw for the actual favourite of favourites event will be up monday and run through to wednesday or Thursday evening.

...if I dont get enough wild card nominees I'll fall back onto my own list however and nominate myself!

Michael D wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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...if I dont get enough wild card nominees I'll fall back onto my own list however and nominate myself!

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Yes off hand it's certainly hard to know who hasn't been included in any of these polls Jon! And for me WCs might be close misses in some of these previous events...  

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 If you cant remember seeing them, then shout their name and I'll check later. 

 

Despite what I just said, I'll put Lisicki, Kuznetsova,  Sock, Bryan B and Bryan M up for starters then. That's 5! My feeling is I'll need 5 or 6 so if we dont add to this list they'll probably make the cut!