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Post Info TOPIC: September 2023 Player of the Month Vote - Semifinal B
Vote from list below [32 vote(s)]

Mingge Xu
3.1%
Jeremy Gschwendtner
0.0%
Joe Salisbury
37.5%
Andy Lapthorne
0.0%
GB Davis Cup Team
18.8%
Liam Broady
40.6%
Freya Peet
0.0%


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September 2023 Player of the Month Vote - Semifinal B


21 players , split into 3 groups of 7. Top 2 make it to the final (plus any ties).

 

Vote will close at 9:05 am Tuesday morning and the final will be Tuesday through Wednesday.

Please say who you vote for as it makes it more interesting and also encourages others to vote.

All 21 players records listed below, so please pick through for the 7 in this group 

1. Mika Stojsavljevic (born 2008) - for qualifying for the US Open Juniors at age 14 and beating the top qualifying seed on the way, and then winning a round in the main draw.

2. Mimi Xu (born 2007) - for doing the double, at the J300 in Canada. Singles and doubles title winner.

3. Josh Paris - for winning his first Challenger level title in Mallorca, winning the doubles unseeded.

4. Jack Draper - For his US Open breakthrough reaching the last 16 and showing he is ready for the next big step up. Re - entered the top 100 on the back of RU Challenger position in Orleans

5. Hannah Klugman (born 2009) - doubles winner and singles RU at the J300 in Canada. Then at the US Open Juniors she reached the QF of both singles ( beat the JWR 5 in R3 ) and doubles ( with Mimi Xu ) but then had to retire from the singles and withdraw from the doubles due to illness.

6. Jeremy Gschwendtner - Getting a singles world ranking for the 1st time after an MD win in Romania having come through 3 rounds of qualies

7. Andy Lapthorne - causing three upsets in total in reaching singles semis and doubles final of quad wheelchair events at US Open

8. Joe Salisbury - for winning the US Open with Rajeev Ram for the third consecutive year.

9. Dahnon Ward - won the US Open Junior Wheelchair title, beating the top seed in the final and he did the double as he won the doubles with Joshua Johns!!

10. Alfie Hewett - for winning the US Open mens singles wheelchair title, his 9th career slam singles title and second slam singles title this season.

11. Katie Dyson - completely unranked and unheralded, Katie is age 26, never had any WTA ranking of any kind, and yet has just won the doubles title in the 15k in Monastir. One for the 'They also serve.....' category

12. Harry Wendelken - for winning the M25 singles title in Portugal and breaking into the Top 500 in the live rankings. Should be confirmed next Monday.

13. Felix Mischker - for gaining his first ATP ranking point have come through 3 rounds of qualies without dropping a set and following up with another straight sets win in R1 of an M25 in Tunisia

14. Oliver Okonkwo - for also gaining his first ever World Ranking point with a 1st round win as a WC in Champaign USA

15. Dan Evans : Reached the L32 at the US Open, losing to Carlos Alcaraz in 4 sets. Then in the Davis Cup Finals group.stage in Manchester won his 2 singles matches and 2 out of 3 doubles matches ( with Neal Skupski ), saving 4 MPs in an ultimate third set TB decider vs Mahut & Roger- V of France, with some amazing play by both. Dan on court for nearly 5 hours on that final day.

16. GB Davis Cup Team - For getting through to the finals in Malaga in the most dramatic fashion.

17. Liam Broady - For finally cracking the Top 100 in the ATP rankings by reaching the final of the Challenger 125 in Saint Tropez

18. Giles Hussey - 2 September M15 singles titles ( in Hungary and Sweden ) and 10 wins in a row. Back into the top 500, not far off his CH.

19. Tom Hill - for coaching Maria Sakkari, for a long time, having endured awful trolling on social media, with Maria being cast as the ultimate choker, about to quit - and sticking with it, helping her finally win a big title - coaches are often unsung heroes, so well done Tom.

20. Freya Peet - born 2008, she's just won the singles in the J60 in Botswana, and was runner-up in the doubles.

21. Hollie Smart - born 2009 - playing just her third ever ITF event - has won the title in the J60 in Greece. It's a name that going to be high up of the GB interest list for years to come.



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I was torn between Joe and Liam, Liams efforts deserve applause but in terms of player of the month, Joe winning the US Open after all his travails, gets my vote

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8 early votes, again an early leader here but could be an interesting group

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I was disappointed that Liam and Joe are in the same group as they are are my two favourites for this month. I hope they can both make the final. Liam has had lots of (well deserved) publicity this month which should boost his cause, but Joe always seems to fall under the radar, so I voted for him. Winning the US open for the third consecutive year was a huge achievement, especially after such a difficult year for him and Ram.

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14 votes and looking like a 3 way competition - sorry how the players landed SuperT, I tried moving around several players to align it better but it all got very complicated and , hopefully, it all ended up aligning reasonably fairly across the groups!

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JonH comes home wrote:

14 votes and looking like a 3 way competition - sorry how the players landed SuperT, I tried moving around several players to align it better but it all got very complicated and , hopefully, it all ended up aligning reasonably fairly across the groups!


 I was trying to align Dan, Jack, GB Davis Cup, Liam and Joe...Dan and Jack couldnt go against GB Davis Cup team as it would have been a conflict of interests, so to speak. So Liam and Joe came out against the DC team. Also trying to spread out the female players, juniors and wheelchair players evenly whilst keeping it aligned to the order in which nominations arose, as best I could, I think brought these three (Liam, Joe and GB ) together. 

I guess all cant win so no bad thing if at least one gets knocked out in this round! We have to make voting decisions between favourites at some point and it all ends up with a winner at the end of the process!   



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Real dog fight between top 3 opening up here

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Voted for Liam, because breaking the top 100 barrier and dealing with the mental pressure of approaching that number is a big deal. But I do hope Joe makes it through as well.

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Waa great to see Joe so rise to the occasion again at the US Open with Rajeev. But out of this group, for me it's a vote for Liam.

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24 votes and looking like a 3 way battle

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JonH comes home wrote:

14 votes and looking like a 3 way competition - sorry how the players landed SuperT, I tried moving around several players to align it better but it all got very complicated and , hopefully, it all ended up aligning reasonably fairly across the groups!


 No need to apologise Jon.  I'm sure it must be really difficult trying to balance the groups and you do a great job.  There are many contenders this month and we all have our own favourites, so you could never please everyone.



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28 votes here and two nominees opening up a gap

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29 votes and it looks like at halfway time wise, top 2 are signed and sealed.

But you can vote through until 9 am tomorrow morning, so why not give it a go?!

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Order is

1. Liam
2. Joe
3. DC Team
4. Mimi

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A 30.th vote comes in, cant tell where it went! Do let us know who you vote for!

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