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Post Info TOPIC: Who is your FAVOURITE of FAVOURITES? Round One , SURBITON GROUP
Vote for your favourite player below [26 vote(s)]

Casey DELLACQUA
11.5%
Novak DJOKOVIC
3.8%
Stefan EDBERG
38.5%
Tommy HAAS
26.9%
Elina SVITOLINA
7.7%
Stefanos TSITSIPAS
11.5%


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Who is your FAVOURITE of FAVOURITES? Round One , SURBITON GROUP


The big one, 6 players, only 2 qualify.

Poll to close at 9.30 am TUESDAY morning. 

If there is a tie to qualify for the next round, a tie break play off will take place later on Tuesday

Vote for your favourite player, on whatever basis you like!



-- Edited by JonH comes home on Monday 18th of May 2020 04:18:39 PM

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Big foreign group!

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The winner ( or even a finalist? ) ain't coming from this group. But can Novak even get a vote here?



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Second swedish vote for me.

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Djoko behind as Haas and Edberg lead the way.

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Struggled with this group but decided to go with classical Edberg

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Wildcard Haas is one of 3 WC holders going well, lisicki and hantuchova also going strongly.

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Weakest group this, no favourite for me

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Michael D wrote:

Weakest group this, no favourite for me


 I guess it depends on weakness definition?! It has probably got some of the best players right now in the game (Djoko , maybe the GOAT; Svitolina; Tsitsipas); an all time Wimbledon great (Edberg) , Haas and Dell'Aqua (who both came through as wild cards). Cant find anyone to your taste?! 

But it is all about favourites , in this poll, so no worries - i agree that some of the personalities in this group lag behind the others in terms of appeal!  

 



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I actually found this one of the easier groups! Edberg for me. Loved his style of play.

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And some background info for SURBITON GROUP:

Casey Dellacqua - Casey Dellacqua (born 11 February 1985) is a retired Australian professional tennis player.[4] Dellacqua's best singles results on the WTA Tour have been semifinal appearances at the 2012 Texas Tennis Open and 2014 Birmingham Classic, a quarterfinal finish at the 2014 Indian Wells Masters and fourth round appearances at the 2008 Australian Open, the 2014 Australian Open and the 2014 US Open; she has also won 22 ITF singles titles.

Dellacqua's career highlights, however, have all come in doubles. She has won seven WTA doubles titles, 23 ITF doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title at the 2011 French Open. She has reached the finals of all four Grand Slam events in women's doubles, appearing in seven major finals from 2008 to 2017, however has yet to win a major title.

Novak Djokovic - (Serbian: , romanized: Novak okovi, pronounced [nôak dôkoit] (About this soundlisten);[5] born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 1 in men's singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Djokovic has won 17 Grand Slam singles titles, the third-most in history for a male player, five ATP Finals titles, 34 ATP Tour Masters 1000 titles, 14 ATP Tour 500 titles, and has held the No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for over 280 weeks. In majors, he has won a record eight Australian Open titles, five Wimbledon titles, three US Open titles, and one French Open title. By winning the 2016 French Open, he became the eighth player in history to achieve the Career Grand Slam and the third man to hold all four major titles at once, the first since Rod Laver in 1969[7] and the first ever to do so on three different surfaces.[8] He is the only male player to have won all nine of the Masters 1000 tournaments.[9][10] Djokovic was also a member of Serbia's winning Davis Cup team in 2010 and in the 2020 ATP Cup. Djokovic is the first Serbian player to be ranked No. 1 by the ATP and the first male player representing Serbia to win a Grand Slam singles title. He is a six-time ITF World Champion and a five-time ATP year-end No. 1 ranked player. Djokovic has won numerous awards, including the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year (four times)[11] and the 2011 BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award. He is also a recipient of the Order of St. Sava, the Order of Karaore's Star, and the Order of the Republika Srpska.

Stefan Edberg - Stefan Bengt Edberg (born 19 January 1966) is a Swedish former world No. 1 professional tennis player (in both singles and doubles). A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles between 1985 and 1996. He also won the Masters Grand Prix and was a part of the Swedish Davis Cup-winning-team four times. In addition he won four Masters Series titles, four Championship Series titles and the unofficial Olympic tournament 1984, was ranked in the singles top 10 for ten successive years, and ranked 9 years in the top 5. Edberg began coaching Roger Federer in January 2014, with this partnership ending in December 2015.[1]

Tommy Haas - Thomas Mario Haas (German pronunciation: [tmi has]; born 3 April 1978) is a German former professional tennis player. He competed on the ATP Tour from 1996 to 2017. After breaking into the world top 100 in 1997, and reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 in May 2002, his career was interrupted by injuries: Haas twice dropped out of the world rankings due to being unable to play for twelve months.[1] His first period of injury saw him miss the whole of the 2003 season, and he did not return to the world's top 10 until 2007. He also missed over a year's tennis between February 2010 and June 2011, but afterwards returned to play on the tour. He returned to world No. 11 in 2013, after reaching the quarterfinals at the French Open for the first time in his career. Haas reached the semifinals of the Australian Open three times, and in Wimbledon once. He reached the quarterfinal stage of each of the Grand Slam events. He won 15 career titles in singles, including one Masters tournament (Stuttgart) in 2001, and has a silver medal from the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Elina Svitolina - Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina (born 12 September 1994) is a Ukrainian tennis player. Having turned professional in 2010, she reached her career-high ranking of world No. 3 on 11 September 2017, and again on 9 September 2019. Svitolina has won 14 WTA singles titles, including the 2018 WTA Finals and three of five Premier 5-level tournaments in 2017: the Dubai Tennis Championships, the Italian Open, and the Canadian Open. At the 2015 French Open she reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal, where she was defeated by former champion Ana Ivanovic. In February 2017, after winning the title in Dubai, Svitolina became the first Ukrainian woman to break into the top-10 rankings. Svitolina would finally reach her first Grand Slam semifinal at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships and followed it up with a second consecutive semifinal at the 2019 US Open.

Stefanos Tsitsipas - Stefanos Tsitsipas (born 12 August 1998) is a Greek professional tennis player. He is the youngest player ranked in the top 10 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and has a career-high ranking of No. 5 in the world, making him the highest-ranked Greek player in history. Tsitsipas is the reigning champion at the ATP Finals, and is the youngest winner of the year-end championships in eighteen years. He has won five singles titles and reached ten finals on the ATP Tour.


H2H wise - Djoko played Haas 9 times, for a 6-3 record. and he has played Tsitsipas 5 times, with a 3-2 winning record

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Edberg and Haas leading comfortably here

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Tommy Haas' career in 2002 was interrupted due to his parents being in a severe car accident. I think he took time off to help them? He is married (US) model/actress Sara Foster.

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Current leaders:


1. Edberg 8 votes
2. Haas 6 votes
3. Dellacqua 4 votes






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JonH comes home wrote:

Current leaders:


1. Edberg 10 votes
2. Haas 6 votes






 Edberg and Haas look comfortable. 



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