So, the following players have made it through the semis.
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Finalists 3 Isabelle Lacy - qualifying for Surbiton 100k and beating top 100 Madison Brengle in the MD, followed by Golubic at Ilkley
8. Katie Swan - playing superb tennis the whole week at W100 Surbiton, beating the #1 seed (WR67) and reaching the biggest final contested by a British woman for a year or so.
14. Andy Murray - Andy returns to the top.40 for the first time since 2018 and no doubt the first top 40 singles player with a metal hip, after his Surbiton and Nottingham challenger titles.
15. Katie Boulter - for winning her first WTA 250 title at Nottingham as a wild card, the first all British WTA final for 46 years, in the process re-entering the top 100 for the first time since 2019 and reaching a career high of WR77. It also consolidated her new position as British #1, which she became for the first time by reaching the Surbiton SF the previous week.
16. Jodie Burrage - for being runner up for the first time in a WTA250 at Nottingham as a wild card, which was also the first all British WTA final for 46 years.
20. Anna Brogan - reaching the final round of Wimbledon qualifying despite little support from the powers that be and beating the 5th seed
21. Oliver Tarvet - winning the Tunisia M15 title, thus regaining his ranking ( at a CH in the top 1000 to boot ), winning eight matches - in qualifying (three) and the main draw (five), while dropping just one set all week. It was his first tournament of the year.
-- Edited by JonH comes home on Monday 3rd of July 2023 08:21:18 PM
But Peter did get me thinking more about Jodie. I hadn't appreciated that she had beaten 5 top 100 players in the month, which is actually 5 more than Katie B.
But Katie B got the Nottingham 250 title and top 100 spot, beating Jodie in the final. So I have stuck with her, ahead of a number of good candidates.
No player has won more than one player of the month vote yet this season and that trend looks likely to continue. Indeed the top 2 are likely to be new faces to the podiums this year.
It really is a season with no standout player so far but that also makes it very interesting as we pass over into the second half of the year.