2024 Player of the Month and Season overview thread

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

2024 Player of the Month and Season overview thread

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

And Katie is added to our PoM roll of honour, with her second title ever
2020
Winner
Jan Joe Salisbury
Feb Heather Watson
Mar Sam Murray-Sharan
Apr no play - Covid
May no play - Covid
Jun/Jul Arthur Fery
Aug Jo Konta
Sep Fran Jones
Oct Fran Jones (2)
Nov/Dec Hep Oluwadare

2020 Player of Season Joe Salisbury

2021
Winner
Jan Fran Jones (3)
Feb Dan Evans
Mar Neal Skupski
Apr Dan Evans (2)
May Cam Norrie / Hannah Klugman (tie)
Jun Katie Swan
Jul Emma Raducanu
Aug Emma Raducanu (2)
Sep Emma Raducanu (3)
Oct Cam Norrie (2)
Nov/Dec Beth Grey/Billy Harris/Sonay Kartal (tie)

2021 Player of Season Emma Raducanu

2022 Winner

Jan Hannah Klugman (2)
Feb Sonay Kartal (2)
Mar Harriet Dart
Apr Jay Clarke
May Sonay Kartal (3)
Jun Ryan Peniston
Jul Cam Norrie (3)
Aug Alicia Barnett/Olivia Nicholls
Sep Katie Swan (2)
Oct Emily Appleton
Nov Julian Cash/Henry Patten

2022 Player of Season Jack Draper

2023 Winner

Dec/Jan Andy Murray
Feb Cam Norrie (4)
Mar Jodie Burrage
Apr Fran Jones (4)
May George Loffhagen
Jun Katie Boulter
Jul Henry Searle
Aug Dan Evans (3)
Sep Dan Evans (4)
Oct Billy Harris (2)
Nov Joe Salisbury (2)

2023 Player of the Season Joe Salisbury (2)

2024 Winner

Dec 23 Hannah Klugman (3)
Jan 24 Kyle Edmund
Feb 24 Katie Boulter (2)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Interesting to see the voting progression like for like over the past 4 years of PoM, using just Jan and Feb as a consistent comparison (just for final votes as use of semifinal groups is inconsistent as numbers of nominations have varied)

2021 - 61 votes in the Jan/Feb POM final votes combined

2022 - 76 votes in Jan / Feb (25% increase on 2021)

2023 - 86 votes in Jan/Feb (13% improvement on 2022)

2024 - 99 votes in Jan/Feb ( 15% improvement on 2023)

So really steady increase and involvement from people, long may it continue to increase!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Updated roll of honour - Lily takes her first ever PoM title this month, whilst Fran becomes the first player to take their 5th title - is Fran Jones the PoM GOAT!!??
2020
Winner
Jan Joe Salisbury
Feb Heather Watson
Mar Sam Murray-Sharan
Apr no play - Covid
May no play - Covid
Jun/Jul Arthur Fery
Aug Jo Konta
Sep Fran Jones
Oct Fran Jones (2)
Nov/Dec Hep Oluwadare

2020 Player of Season Joe Salisbury

2021
Winner
Jan Fran Jones (3)
Feb Dan Evans
Mar Neal Skupski
Apr Dan Evans (2)
May Cam Norrie / Hannah Klugman (tie)
Jun Katie Swan
Jul Emma Raducanu
Aug Emma Raducanu (2)
Sep Emma Raducanu (3)
Oct Cam Norrie (2)
Nov/Dec Beth Grey/Billy Harris/Sonay Kartal (tie)

2021 Player of Season Emma Raducanu

2022 Winner

Jan Hannah Klugman (2)
Feb Sonay Kartal (2)
Mar Harriet Dart
Apr Jay Clarke
May Sonay Kartal (3)
Jun Ryan Peniston
Jul Cam Norrie (3)
Aug Alicia Barnett/Olivia Nicholls
Sep Katie Swan (2)
Oct Emily Appleton
Nov Julian Cash/Henry Patten

2022 Player of Season Jack Draper

2023 Winner

Dec/Jan Andy Murray
Feb Cam Norrie (4)
Mar Jodie Burrage
Apr Fran Jones (4)
May George Loffhagen
Jun Katie Boulter
Jul Henry Searle
Aug Dan Evans (3)
Sep Dan Evans (4)
Oct Billy Harris (2)
Nov Joe Salisbury (2)

2023 Player of the Season Joe Salisbury (2nd PoS title)

2024 Winner

Dec 23 Hannah Klugman (3)
Jan Kyle Edmund
Feb Katie Boulter (2)
Mar Lily Miyazaki / Fran Jones (5)

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Wednesday 3rd of April 2024 07:29:57 AM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

This is our first PoM tie for top place since 2021, it has only happened twice before - the two entries suggesting a tie in 2022 were actually a doubles pair winning it, so not a tie at all (Liv/Lissey, and Julian/Henry).

Ties are not very common it seems! 3 ties in 45 votes, so roughly 6 or 7 % of the time in total

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Updated list of PoS qualifiers with Lily and Fran making it 11 now confirmed

Ref 2024 Player of Season Qualifiers
Player Name
1 Dec 23 PoM Hannah Klugman (1)
2 Dec 23 PoM RU Jack Draper (2)
3 Australian Open Men's Wheelchair Doubles Alfie Hewett/Gordon Reid (3)
4 Australian Open Quad Wheelchair Doubles Andy Lapthorne (4)
5 Jan PoM Kyle Edmund (5)
6 Jan PoM RU Luke Johnson (6)
7 Feb PoM Katie Boulter (7)
8 Feb PoM RU Julian Cash (8)
9 Feb PoM RU Marni Banks (9)
10 Mar PoM Lily Miyazaki (10)
11 Mar PoM Fran Jones (11)

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Wednesday 3rd of April 2024 07:55:23 AM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Here is the updated view of voting profile each month in the past few years, Jan through March (2020 excluded due to Covid)

2021 - 88 votes in PoM final Jan through March

2022 - 115 votes (31% increase on 2021)

2023 - 128 votes (11% increase on 2022)

2024 - 140 votes (9% increase on 2023)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Some folks may have spotted a post i made back in January that I would be looking to hopefully hand over the running of player of the month and season to someone else who is interested; my desire is to see this season out for both PoM and PoS , PoS taking place in early January 2025. There is a long time before then but, as we get closer to that point, drop me a line on a PM if you think you could be the person to take it on in 8 months or so.

Dont need anyone to own it now, but please keep it in mind if this could be something that interests you!

meanwhile, Im enjoying the open nature of the 2024 season and looking forward to seeing how the months and season unfolds. I cant believe we are just 5 weeks away from grass season and Surbiton !

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Saturday 27th of April 2024 08:26:38 AM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Updated roll of honour -

Emma takes her 4th and Mika her first title

2020

Winner
Jan Joe Salisbury
Feb Heather Watson
Mar Sam Murray-Sharan
Apr no play - Covid
May no play - Covid
Jun/Jul Arthur Fery
Aug Jo Konta
Sep Fran Jones
Oct Fran Jones (2)
Nov/Dec Hep Oluwadare

2020 Player of Season Joe Salisbury

2021
Winner
Jan Fran Jones (3)
Feb Dan Evans
Mar Neal Skupski
Apr Dan Evans (2)
May Cam Norrie / Hannah Klugman (tie)
Jun Katie Swan
Jul Emma Raducanu
Aug Emma Raducanu (2)
Sep Emma Raducanu (3)
Oct Cam Norrie (2)
Nov/Dec Beth Grey/Billy Harris/Sonay Kartal (tie)

2021 Player of Season Emma Raducanu

2022 Winner

Jan Hannah Klugman (2)
Feb Sonay Kartal (2)
Mar Harriet Dart
Apr Jay Clarke
May Sonay Kartal (3)
Jun Ryan Peniston
Jul Cam Norrie (3)
Aug Alicia Barnett/Olivia Nicholls
Sep Katie Swan (2)
Oct Emily Appleton
Nov Henry Patten/Julian Cash

2022 Player of Season Jack Draper

2023 Winner

Dec/Jan Andy Murray
Feb Cam Norrie (4)
Mar Jodie Burrage
Apr Fran Jones (4)
May George Loffhagen
Jun Katie Boulter
Jul Henry Searle
Aug Dan Evans (3)
Sep Dan Evans (4)
Oct Billy Harris (2)
Nov Joe Salisbury (2)

2023 Player of the Season Joe Salisbury (2nd PoS title)

2024 Winner

Dec 23 Hannah Klugman (3)

Jan Kyle Edmund

Feb Katie Boulter (2)

Mar Fran Jones (5) / Lily Miyazaki

Apr Emma Raducanu (4) / Mika Stojsavljevic

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Updated list of PoS qualifiers with Emma and Mika making it 13 qualifiers now confirmed

Ref 2024 Player of Season Qualifiers
Player Name
1 Dec 23 PoM Hannah Klugman (1)
2 Dec 23 PoM RU Jack Draper (2)
3 Australian Open Men's Wheelchair Doubles Alfie Hewett/Gordon Reid (3)
4 Australian Open Quad Wheelchair Doubles Andy Lapthorne (4)
5 Jan PoM Kyle Edmund (5)
6 Jan PoM RU Luke Johnson (6)
7 Feb PoM Katie Boulter (7)
8 Feb PoM RU Julian Cash (8)
9 Feb PoM RU Marni Banks (9)

10 Mar PoM Lily Miyazaki (10)

11 Mar PoM Fran Jones (11)
12 Apr PoM Emma Raducanu (12)

13 Apr PoM Mika Stojsavljevic (13)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

In terms of the voting patterns, I have calculated the average vote for the final in each month of the year to date to show how votes are progressing year on year:

Average Votes Change
2020 25
2021 28.5 14.00%
2022 37.5 31.58%
2023 42.5 13.33%
2024 49.75 17.06%

This year has seen votes per months final increase to almost 50 per month, which is amazing and a 17% increase on last year. Votes have doubled on average since we started this in 2020, although the first few months of 2020 got impacted pretty quickly by Covid!

Nonetheless, I can recall Steven of these parts going onto his twitter account to try and drum up votes to take us to 40 for the first time. To now be reaching 59 (last month was 41!) is amazing and long may it continue

Word of caution - May is regularly the slowest month voting wise. Consistently. Something to do with a month of out and out clay, vote starting as the FO starts and it is also the end of May bank holiday, so votes get reduced accordingly, I guess.

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Tuesday 30th of April 2024 10:06:07 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

I am not going to be around the board too much next week or so - I have a business trip taking me overseas for 10 days (to Jamaica, someone has to do it!) and so will be busy on a different time zone and , although I will check in, I presume the threads around May PoM nominations will survive quite nicely without me!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

wrong thread

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Tuesday 30th of April 2024 10:16:39 PM

the addict · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
I am not going to be around the board too much next week or so - I have a business trip taking me overseas for 10 days (to Jamaica, someone has to do it!) and so will be busy on a different time zone and , although I will check in, I presume the threads around May PoM nominations will survive quite nicely without me!

Do you have permission from the board ?

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
I am not going to be around the board too much next week or so - I have a business trip taking me overseas for 10 days (to Jamaica, someone has to do it!) and so will be busy on a different time zone and , although I will check in, I presume the threads around May PoM nominations will survive quite nicely without me!
Do you have permission from the board ?

Dang, I forgot ! Heck!