2022 Player of the Season Wild Card Nominations Thread

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

RE: 2022 Player of the Season Wild Card Nominations Thread

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

1. Lloyd Glasspool - for reaching the World Tour Doubles Finals, being part of the top 6 teams in the world, from outside AO entry levels at season start
2. Talia Neilson-Gatenby - for being our highest ranked junior in the senior world rankings, at circa mid 500's including winning her first ITF title
3. Eliz Maloney-for spectacular ranking improvements in the past 12 months. From 1137 to 391 in singles and from 1066 to 388 in doubles.
4 Andy Murray for ....being Andy Murray. Still ranked in the top 50 after major hip surgery and continuing to be a brilliant ambassador for British tennis
5 Jamie Murray for reaching 500 match wins on tour
6 Anna Brogan who improved her ranking from 916 (I think) to 350 - a massive 566 places, and seemingly with little support from the LTA. Well certainly no wild cards!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

The good news is Cash and Patten are genuine contenders in a wide open Player of the Season field - votes for that coming up in a few days or so!! That should be fun, we just need these 2 more to round out the field and make sure no one worthy is missing from it!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
1. Lloyd Glasspool - for reaching the World Tour Doubles Finals, being part of the top 6 teams in the world, from outside AO entry levels at season start
2. Talia Neilson-Gatenby - for being our highest ranked junior in the senior world rankings, at circa mid 500's including winning her first ITF title
3. Eliz Maloney-for spectacular ranking improvements in the past 12 months. From 1137 to 391 in singles and from 1066 to 388 in doubles.
4 Andy Murray for ....being Andy Murray. Still ranked in the top 50 after major hip surgery and continuing to be a brilliant ambassador for British tennis
5 Jamie Murray for reaching 500 match wins on tour
6 Anna Brogan who improved her ranking from 916 (I think) to 350 - a massive 566 places, and seemingly with little support from the LTA. Well certainly no wild cards!

24 hours left folks to get those nominations in , if you have any.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
1. Lloyd Glasspool - for reaching the World Tour Doubles Finals, being part of the top 6 teams in the world, from outside AO entry levels at season start
2. Talia Neilson-Gatenby - for being our highest ranked junior in the senior world rankings, at circa mid 500's including winning her first ITF title
3. Eliz Maloney-for spectacular ranking improvements in the past 12 months. From 1137 to 391 in singles and from 1066 to 388 in doubles.
4 Andy Murray for ....being Andy Murray. Still ranked in the top 50 after major hip surgery and continuing to be a brilliant ambassador for British tennis
5 Jamie Murray for reaching 500 match wins on tour
6 Anna Brogan who improved her ranking from 916 (I think) to 350 - a massive 566 places, and seemingly with little support from the LTA. Well certainly no wild cards!
24 hours left folks to get those nominations in , if you have any.

Ok, just over 12 hours to get your thinking hats on and add anyone you come up with too our list above !

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
1. Lloyd Glasspool - for reaching the World Tour Doubles Finals, being part of the top 6 teams in the world, from outside AO entry levels at season start
2. Talia Neilson-Gatenby - for being our highest ranked junior in the senior world rankings, at circa mid 500's including winning her first ITF title
3. Eliz Maloney-for spectacular ranking improvements in the past 12 months. From 1137 to 391 in singles and from 1066 to 388 in doubles.
4 Andy Murray for ....being Andy Murray. Still ranked in the top 50 after major hip surgery and continuing to be a brilliant ambassador for British tennis
5 Jamie Murray for reaching 500 match wins on tour
6 Anna Brogan who improved her ranking from 916 (I think) to 350 - a massive 566 places, and seemingly with little support from the LTA. Well certainly no wild cards!

Maybe some of those listed on DF's Friday Feeling list deserve a nomination for a wildcard - those in bold arent on our Player of the Season list at this stage and as there isnt a PoM this month, perhaps this might be their only route through?? If you think so , add them to the nominations list above!

Fri 02/12

In singles Qf this week we have:

Jan in Portugal, Mark in Spain and Tiffany in Dominican Republic

and in doubles Sf we have:

Julian & Henry in Portugal (hurrah!), Mark with Eero in Spain, Alexis & Ryan and Emilie with Oane in Tunisia, Abigail with

Arabella in Austria and Tiffany with Melshe in Dominican Republic.

Mark and Tiffany are able to do the double. Hopefully they are inspired by Millie who managed to win in both singles and doubles last week biggrin

Elsewhere - in the Eddie Herr U18 tournament in the US Ella and Isabelle are through to the Sf.

Good luck to everyone smile

indiana · Tennis legend

Still just the 6 nominations which I think goes to show that the qualification process is pretty good for giving a route in to to the PoS final for the vast majority of possible contenders.

I certainly haven't been able to come up with any more.

Edit: though 12 seconds later 2 more are added to the list

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 2nd of December 2022 09:05:04 AM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Given there are lots of spaces available to fill, I have decided to open up nominations to no limit - if anyone who has already nominated (or hasnt)wants to add as many names as they wish to this list, feel free - only limit in fact will be a max of 20 total

So here are two more from me

1. Lloyd Glasspool - for reaching the World Tour Doubles Finals, being part of the top 6 teams in the world, from outside AO entry levels at season start
2. Talia Neilson-Gatenby - for being our highest ranked junior in the senior world rankings, at circa mid 500's including winning her first ITF title
3. Eliz Maloney-for spectacular ranking improvements in the past 12 months. From 1137 to 391 in singles and from 1066 to 388 in doubles.
4 Andy Murray for ....being Andy Murray. Still ranked in the top 50 after major hip surgery and continuing to be a brilliant ambassador for British tennis
5 Jamie Murray for reaching 500 match wins on tour
6 Anna Brogan who improved her ranking from 916 (I think) to 350 - a massive 566 places, and seemingly with little support from the LTA. Well certainly no wild cards!
7. Ben Bartram - for winning the US Open Juniors Singles and Doubles Wheelchair events, the first time Junior slams have been competed for. And reaching the NEC Masters Doubles Semifinals
8. Liam Broady - for a great run at Wimbledon this year and providing many hours of great watching. May he refind his form of earlier this year once more!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Still just the 6 nominations which I think goes to show that the qualification process is pretty good for giving a route in to to the PoS final for the vast majority of possible contenders.

agreed - nonetheless, lets see where this wild card vote take us!!

And thanks!!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

not long left now, looks like it will be a Handsome 8?

Any more nominations, though, get them in by 8 pm - the vote will go up later tonight and last through to Sunday evening.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Given there are lots of spaces available to fill, I have decided to open up nominations to no limit - if anyone who has already nominated (or hasnt)wants to add as many names as they wish to this list, feel free - only limit in fact will be a max of 20 total

So here are two more from me

1. Lloyd Glasspool - for reaching the World Tour Doubles Finals, being part of the top 6 teams in the world, from outside AO entry levels at season start
2. Talia Neilson-Gatenby - for being our highest ranked junior in the senior world rankings, at circa mid 500's including winning her first ITF title
3. Eliz Maloney-for spectacular ranking improvements in the past 12 months. From 1137 to 391 in singles and from 1066 to 388 in doubles.
4 Andy Murray for ....being Andy Murray. Still ranked in the top 50 after major hip surgery and continuing to be a brilliant ambassador for British tennis
5 Jamie Murray for reaching 500 match wins on tour
6 Anna Brogan who improved her ranking from 916 (I think) to 350 - a massive 566 places, and seemingly with little support from the LTA. Well certainly no wild cards!
7. Ben Bartram - for winning the US Open Juniors Singles and Doubles Wheelchair events, the first time Junior slams have been competed for. And reaching the NEC Masters Doubles Semifinals
8. Liam Broady - for a great run at Wimbledon this year and providing many hours of great watching. May he refind his form of earlier this year once more!

Do we reckon this is the final list? I will let it run til 8 as planned, look out for a voting poll coming out later on - please still add any potential Player of the Season Wild cards to the list above if you think of any!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

One hour left folks ! And then we will get a vote going a finals calls for nominations ?

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

I noticed where it states the number of visitors to the board. A week ago is showed nearly 1800. Today it is around 550. Massive drop off in a week!?

the addict · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
I noticed where it states the number of visitors to the board. A week ago is showed nearly 1800. Today it is around 550. Massive drop off in a week!?

It's been 1200+ on most days this week. But there's not a lot of action on court now, so it isn't surprising - although 550 is pretty low.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes, very little tennis, and lots of football, not to mention a bit of Christmas prep - I think people are focused on other stuff...