So, here we go. 3 semifinal groups of 5 players. Top 2 (and any ties) go through to the final.
Vote the player you think is June Player of the Month from these 5 below.
Little bios shown, please add if you feel I have missed any information of value!
Vote will close at just after 7 pm Monday night
Players listed in order they were nominated. I have split mens singles, womens and doubles evenly across the groups.
Dan Cox
Qualified for and won round in ATP 125 Nottingham Challenger, beating a top 200 player (Gaio) in Rd 1, and won a round in ATP125 Ilkley Challenger
Harriet Dart
1st WTA QF at WTA 250 Nottingham, saving 3 MPs on her way to beating the WR 26, Camilla Giorgi; beat WR 57 Madison Brengle WTA 500 Eastbourne, beat WR 23 Jill Teichmann Eastbourne R2
Jack Draper
Best win of career over WR 14 Taylor Fritz at Queens and breaking into the Top 100 for the first time. Beat WR 15 (Schwartzman) and WR 34 (Brooksby) in ATP250 Eastbourne in reaching SF round.
Ranah Stoiber
The 17 yo qualifies for the Ilkley W100 MD and then beats the WR 215 in R1 to soar into the WTA rankings top 1000.
Lloyd Glasspool
Making the final at ATP 500 Queens have taken out the top players in the WR on the way (Joe and Rajeev); QF in French Open Doubles. Reached top 40 doubles rank and new CH
-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 26th of June 2022 06:14:31 PM
Yes that needed much thought re Jack vs Harriet. But I have gone for Jack with these terrific wins in successive weeks and Eastbourne SF. And keeping pushing up his CH.
TA said that group C was the hardest to decide but I disagree - this one's much tougher. It feels like trying to decide who your favourite child is. In the end I chose Harriet. It feels like she's been around so much longer fighting to get into the top 100. Jack is going to be around for a long time and I think will climb much higher so I'm expecting to get lots more chances to vote for him in the future.
But remember, the more votes we get the more authentic and representative the final result will be. Id love it if the final this month breaks that 40 barrier - why not 58 as voted in the most grass court wins vote ! Thats my ambition!
I would normally have gone for harriet but Jack seems to have raised his head above the parapet in terms of stiffer opposition and has survived! Well done to him.