April 2023 Player of the Month Nominations

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

April 2023 Player of the Month Nominations

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Half way point in the month, two weeks to go - nominations will close Sunday April 30th

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Roughly a week and a half left this month, 5 nominations so far. Nominations will close end of next week. That will include all next weeks play in ITF events or Challengers, and juniors, but leaves the slightly tricky question of Madrid. Madrid will be the first event weve had that cuts over a month end boundary and usually Ive tried to avoid that. But the dates dont work - if I left it, til the end of Madrid , the April period would run to May 7 and curtail May period to just 3 weeks; if I cut April at the end of this week, April would then be a 3 week period only. So neither are good; as it is Madrid only that does this, we will stick with end of April. What it means is not major. The main draw of Madrid wont get going until the Friday or weekend anyway, so any players who do noteworthy main draw things should fall into May as they will still be in action in Madrid end April. And any player who does well in qualies in Madrid would fall into April.

So in a rather long way, Im saying Madrid qualies results and performances should get counted in April ie this month and anyone doing well in Madrid main draw should have their performances assessed as part of May.

I probably made that harder than it needed to be , haha.

Meanwhile. April continues and nominations close April 30th.

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.

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

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
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.

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

Sonay narrative might be worthy of an update at the end of this week, note to whoever it was nominated her (sorry I havent checked back!).

SuperT · Futures qualifying

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.

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 for winning her first 2 matches at an adult tournament aged just 14. She also won the U16 National Championship and was runner up in the U18s.

-- Edited by SuperT on Friday 21st of April 2023 07:57:51 PM

the addict · Tennis legend

Hannah's U16 win and U18 RU in the Junior Nationals should be noted as well.

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.

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 for winning her first 2 matches at an adult tournament aged just 14. Won the under 16 nationals title and was RU in under 18 nationals in a successful month.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Dan has now reached two semis this month , in Barca and Morocco, both on clay. Hes now got 5-2 wins this month. If someone else doesnt, Ill pop him on this list once his week is over in Barca as he clearly deserves it!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Go one then. I will do it

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.

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 for winning her first 2 matches at an adult tournament aged just 14. Won the under 16 nationals title and was RU in under 18 nationals in a successful month.

7. Evo - for reaching his first ever ATP500 SF on Clay and having an all round good month.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Thank you Mr Bob

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.

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 for winning her first 2 matches at an adult tournament aged just 14. Won the under 16 nationals title and was RU in under 18 nationals in a successful month.

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.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Just spruced Dans entry up a little!

Frans entry may need an update as well?

Rich2310 · County player

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 for winning her first 2 matches at an adult tournament aged just 14. Won the under 16 nationals title and was RU in under 18 nationals in a successful month.

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.

Kennykoalabear · Lower Club Player

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