Mika Stojsavljevic

indiana · Tennis legend

Mika Stojsavljevic

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
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Gosh, the 3 of those you mentioned are well ahead, Alex Yee coming in 4th at 40s.

quite stunned how clear Keely is tbh, there you go.

indiana · Tennis legend

I put an 80/1 each way ( place 1 or 2 ) on James Anderson when he retired from test cricket ( Stuart Broad was 2nd last year though of course that was a non Olympic year - Mary Earps won it which I had already forgotten with KJT 3rd ).

Barefoot · Lower Club Player

Ridiculous she didnt make the long list. Did someone just forget to put her forward?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Barefoot wrote:
Ridiculous she didnt make the long list. Did someone just forget to put her forward?

I seem to remember that Henry Searle didn't make it either - and he won Wimbledon !

Deucebag · Intermediate Club Player

I dont see what the surprise is with Keeley Hodgkinson when she wins this.
She was the only athletics gold medallist for GB in the Olympics and the 800 m is such a huge event.
As for Mika Its just a junior event. Im sure all the other nominated athletes won world junior events and also didnt get nominated.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Deucebag wrote:
I dont see what the surprise is with Keeley Hodgkinson when she wins this.
She was the only athletics gold medallist for GB in the Olympics and the 800 m is such a huge event.
As for Mika Its just a junior event. Im sure all the other nominated athletes won world junior events and also didnt get nominated.

I guess my surprise with Keely is two fold. One that she appears such a clear favourite, not that she is one of the candidates so much; but secondly, I always personally see this as a mix of being a great sportsperson and having a big profile and I just didnt see that Keely has that sort of profile at large - but that maybe just me not really watching a lot of TV!!

scottie1 · Futures level

JonH comes home wrote:
Deucebag wrote:
I dont see what the surprise is with Keeley Hodgkinson when she wins this.
She was the only athletics gold medallist for GB in the Olympics and the 800 m is such a huge event.
As for Mika Its just a junior event. Im sure all the other nominated athletes won world junior events and also didnt get nominated.
I guess my surprise with Keely is two fold. One that she appears such a clear favourite, not that she is one of the candidates so much; but secondly, I always personally see this as a mix of being a great sportsperson and having a big profile and I just didnt see that Keely has that sort of profile at large - but that maybe just me not really watching a lot of TV!!

The BBC have fallen in.love with Keely Hodgkinson she is a fantastic athlete but sometimes the likes of Steve Cram builds her up with so.much you wonder why the rest of the field run.

Keeleys achilles heel is her 400 metres flat speed is not up to the standard of Athing Mu

indiana · Tennis legend

Deucebag wrote:
I dont see what the surprise is with Keeley Hodgkinson when she wins this.
She was the only athletics gold medallist for GB in the Olympics and the 800 m is such a huge event.
As for Mika Its just a junior event. Im sure all the other nominated athletes won world junior events and also didnt get nominated.

Tennis though is clearly one of the most widely played sports in the world, played to a pretty competitive level by most countries, and many sports certainly can't say that. Though yes of course senior / open success is generally more worthy than junior success for similarly competitive sports.

Just as I don't equate similar titles within tennis ( ie. a similar title is generally not such a stand out to me in each of senior singles, senior doubles, juniors or wheelchair, with as a starting point senior singles leading the way and wheelchair lagging - much as I admire its competitors and our winners ), then being say a world champion doesn't equate for me between different sports - it would for me be a mixture of the competive nature of the different sports and the individual stories.

Jajon · Club Coach

scottie1 wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Deucebag wrote:
I dont see what the surprise is with Keeley Hodgkinson when she wins this.
She was the only athletics gold medallist for GB in the Olympics and the 800 m is such a huge event.
As for Mika Its just a junior event. Im sure all the other nominated athletes won world junior events and also didnt get nominated.
I guess my surprise with Keely is two fold. One that she appears such a clear favourite, not that she is one of the candidates so much; but secondly, I always personally see this as a mix of being a great sportsperson and having a big profile and I just didnt see that Keely has that sort of profile at large - but that maybe just me not really watching a lot of TV!!
The BBC have fallen in.love with Keely Hodgkinson she is a fantastic athlete but sometimes the likes of Steve Cram builds her up with so.much you wonder why the rest of the field run.
Keeleys achilles heel is her 400 metres flat speed is not up to the standard of Athing Mu

Good thing her 800m PB is quicker than Mus then wink

indiana · Tennis legend

Re general SPOTY discussions above after Mika was not on the Young SPOTY shortlist, the main award shortlist has been aannounced:

Bellingham, Hodgkinson, Littler, Root, Storey, Yee

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/ce328g87g9vo

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Re general SPOTY discussions above after Mika was not on the Young SPOTY shortlist, the main award shortlist has been aannounced:

Bellingham, Hodgkinson, Littler, Root, Storey, Yee

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/ce328g87g9vo

for me, Id vote for Alex Yee - but thats a personal bias as I love triathlon, and think Alex is a great ambassador for sport and a good personality as well as a lovely guy. won a gold medal in an epic finish and also the world triathlon series (so world champion) as well.

LordBrownof · Futures level

Agreed. Alex for me too. The triathlon was the highlight of the Olympics for me - that finish!!

indiana · Tennis legend

Alax has managed to hide his personality pretty well in the limited amount I have seen him being interviewed. Seems quite a shy lad but no doubt a very nice guy

Whatever, much much more to the Sports Personality award. than personality

I'll be going for either Alex or Keely..

indiana · Tennis legend

LordBrownof wrote:
Agreed. Alex for me too. The triathlon was the highlight of the Olympics for me - that finish!!

Well, maybe after Tom Pidc0ck's finish in the mountain biking! Both guys all out for it ( after Tom came back from a puncture ) and what a pass whereas there was an element of the leader falling back into Alex's grasp.

Still, great attitude and perseverance from Alex after he felt he went through a rough patch, and he put himself in position. And great year overall.

And indeed, as I say, I may well vote for Alex.