April 2023 Player of the Month Nominations

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

April 2023 Player of the Month Nominations

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Looking at todays action, we have finals including Hollie Smart, Amarni Banks, Heather Watson and Mark Whitehouse/Dan Little . I may have missed one or two, not sure, but it basically looks like these will all be finished by around 2-3 pm. So I will set 5pm as the close of nominations for any stragglers, and post the voting poll sometime this evening .

Remember, 5 pm.

I think narratives are all up to date but if you spot any that dont adequately represent someones success this month, please feel free to update it.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

1. Fran Jones - on the comeback trail beating the current world #80 Nuria Parrizas Diaz in the first round of WTA 250 Bogota and now current world #101 Laura Pigossi to reach her first main tour semi final.
Also reached the final of W25 Guayaquil, Ecuador Clay.

2. Luke Hooper (born 2006) - doing the double - winning the singles AND doubles titles in the J60 event in Dublin

3. Sonay Kartal - winning Italy W25 title, including beating W25 expert Arantxa Rus WR 108 in the QF, and will now have a French Open Q ranking.

4. Isabelle Lacy - age 16 - winner of the UK National U18 championships - and also made the SFs in a 15k

5. Luca Pow - winner of the UK National U18 championships for the second year in a row

6. Hannah Klugman - age 14 - for winning her first 2 matches at an adult tournament, beating two top-400 players. Won U16 nationals title and was RU in U18 nationals. Won the J200 Aldershot title.

7. Dan Evans - for reaching his first ever ATP500 SF on Clay in Barcelona and having an all round good month, having reached the semis in ATP250 Morocco. Beat Khachanov and Cerundolo in the process in Barca.

8. Jamie Murray - for winning the ATP Banja Luka title with Michael Venus and winning his first clay court tournament since 2015.

9. Giles Hussey - for breaking into the Top 500. Also won UKPL Week 5 and at time of writing into M25 semis in Nottingham

10. Henry Searle - born 2006 - did the double in J200 Aldershot - singles and doubles

11. Alisha Ndukwu - age 13 - won the singles title AND the doubles title in J30 in Ghana - just her second ever tournament
12. Naiktha Bains/Maia Lumsden - winning back to back titles , ITF 40 in Calvi, and ITF25 in Nottingham.

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 30th of April 2023 09:42:34 AM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Ok, so Dan Little and Mark Whitehouse have just finished, so just in case anyone considering either or both of them, lets extend the nominations through a bit.

I will be aiming to post the poll now sometime later this evening, lets make the nominations cut off 6 pm now.