So, remember , nominations for the wild card vote close at 8 pm this evening now. The vote itself will take place from Tuesday-Wednesday evenings, after the PoM vote has completed and in time to feed the WC winners into the Player of the Season which starts Thursday evening.
List of current nominees below - if you want to add a name (max of 20) then please write a note below and why you are nominating them. No player will be rejected UNLESS they are already into the PoS field (see 2nd post in this thread)
NOTE: already qualified players not eligible for wild card vote are listed in second post of this thread
WILD CARD VOTE NOMINATIONS (20 Max)
Number Name Nominator
1 Jo Konta - JonH Comes Home
2 Beth Grey - Brendan
3 Katie Boulter - Gameover
4 Ken Skupski - Flamingowings
5 Jodie Burrage - Christine
6 Ryan Peniston - Indiana
7 Andy Murray - SuperT
8 Millen Hurrion - Spireman
9 Charlie Broom - Emmsie69
10 Eva Shaw - Gameover
11 Matilda Mutavdzic - JonH Comes Home
12 Mingge Xu - Lambda
13 Felix Gill - SuperT
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Ok, here's two - do with them what you will - I'd wanted to nominate Arthur Féry coz he's doing so well at college tennis AND is one of our two top 2002-ers, and 2002 is my year for picks, so him and Felix are great.
BUT I nominate Ali Gray instead - because he's got a single backhand No, that's not the reason, but he's a really nice guy, always liked his play, and 'came out of nowhere' in that he's been at college and off our radars a bit and so it's always exciting when someone re-surfaces in such a dramatic way.
And I nominate Jay, coz otherwise Yasmin will have conniptions (only joking, Yaz, but given we've got the world and his wife here, Jay should at least be on the list, he's made a final this year, provided a lot of matches to follow, and been working hard)
Anton Mat would be on my possible list too - thanks to his excellent run at Wimbly qualis. Tara is another - not only for perseverance, and some very good tennis at times, but because she is a leader amongst players in calling out issues and not being scared to be heard (such as Peng).
And I could go on...... But I'll stick to Ali (and Jay as an ALT or extra, depending on your space).
Thanks CD, and I will in fact add Anton in there as he won the UK Pro League FInals week as well. Tara is already qualified for PoS through doing well in the January PoM poll!
WILD CARD VOTE NOMINATIONS (20 Max)
Number Name Nominator
1 Jo Konta - JonH Comes Home
2 Beth Grey - Brendan
3 Katie Boulter - Gameover
4 Ken Skupski - Flamingowings
5 Jodie Burrage - Christine
6 Ryan Peniston - Indiana
7 Andy Murray - SuperT
8 Millen Hurrion - Spireman
9 Charlie Broom - Emmsie69
10 Eva Shaw - Gameover
11 Matilda Mutavdzic - JonH Comes Home
12 Mingge Xu - Lambda
13 Felix Gill - SuperT
14 Ali Gray - Coup Droit
15 Jay Clarke - Coup Droit
16 Anton Matusevich - Coup Droit/JonH Comes Home
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19
20
I wasnt sure , CD, if in your post above you had nominated Arthur Fery - and as we have space and no one else is jumping forwards, then Arthur can get into this list quite happily!
WILD CARD VOTE NOMINATIONS (20 Max)
Number Name Nominator
1 Jo Konta - JonH Comes Home
2 Beth Grey - Brendan
3 Katie Boulter - Gameover
4 Ken Skupski - Flamingowings
5 Jodie Burrage - Christine
6 Ryan Peniston - Indiana
7 Andy Murray - SuperT
8 Millen Hurrion - Spireman
9 Charlie Broom - Emmsie69
10 Eva Shaw - Gameover
11 Matilda Mutavdzic - JonH Comes Home
12 Mingge Xu - Lambda
13 Felix Gill - SuperT
14 Ali Gray - Coup Droit
15 Jay Clarke - Coup Droit
16 Anton Matusevich - Coup Droit/JonH Comes Home
17 Arthur Fery - Coup Droit
18
19
20
so these are the final wild card nominations for the vote on Tuesday. If any of them come in the top 2 of the PoM vote before then, Ill take them out of this.
Ill know how many places are allocated to wildcards before the vote and make it clear when I post the poll!
WILD CARD VOTE NOMINATIONS Number Name Nominator 1 Jo Konta - JonH Comes Home 2 Beth Grey - Brendan 3 Katie Boulter - Gameover 4 Ken Skupski - Flamingowings 5 Jodie Burrage - Christine 6 Ryan Peniston - Indiana 7 Andy Murray - SuperT 8 Millen Hurrion - Spireman 9 Charlie Broom - Emmsie69 10 Eva Shaw - Gameover 11 Matilda Mutavdzic - JonH Comes Home 12 Mingge Xu - Lambda 13 Felix Gill - SuperT 14 Ali Gray - Coup Droit 15 Jay Clarke - Coup Droit 16 Anton Matusevich - Coup Droit/JonH Comes Home 17 Arthur Fery - Coup Droit
-- Edited by JonH comes home on Friday 10th of December 2021 08:06:27 PM
The way things are playing out, we are almost certainly looking at 1 or max 2 wild cards now. Possibly one or two of the list above will get taken out as they are in the PoM final (Beth, JoKo, Ryan, Charlie, Felix) , lets see how the results go in PoM!!
So, remember the wild card vote will go up this evening, 16 or 17 players in it, 1 or 2 spots (to be confirmed) up for grabs.
No rules - vote for whoever you want, for whatever reason , to put them into the player of the season vote. Can be for any reason, like real wild cards - someone you think deserves it or will add to the pool of players in the PoS vote already, maybe they fill a spot of a type of player you think is not represented enough, or they had a defining high week sometime in the year, or deserve it to recognise their overall achievements.
You decide!
Numbers of players tbc after PoM closes, and number of wildcards up for grabs to be determined also