1 - Jodie Burrage - for reaching the quarter finals of the WTA500 in Linz from qualifying, including getting through some tough moments with composure.

2 - Felix Gill - for reaching the semi final of an ATP Challenger 75 - on clay - beating 2 seeds & other higher ranked players on the way.

3 - Lily Miyazaki - for winning the tournament at Andrezieux-Boutheon; some great wins, including beating the top seed in the SF.

4 - Heather Watson - for a timely reminder that she can still mix it with the top players. At the Abu Dhabi WTA 500, she reached the final in the doubles (with Linda Noskova), resulting in her rocketing up the doubles rankings. In singles at the same event, she came through qualifying and then won her first round match against the world number 16. She followed this up in the week after by reaching the final of the singles at the Roehampton W50, which will take her singles ranking up to around 125.

5 - Harriet Dart - for coming through qualifying and making the semi-final of a 250K event for the first time, beating WR 56 on the way. Also for making the final in doubles.

6 - Mark Ceban - age 14 - won the single title at the J60 Tunisia. This will boost him to about JWR 350, and take him to third best player in the world for his age.

7 - Great Britain 12U girls team - crowned Tennis Europe Winter Cup champions.

8 - Charlie Robertson - for getting his first ever rankings points and for doing it in style in the Glasgow Challenger, coming through qualies and then taking out a Top 500 player in the 1st Round MD. Charlie enters the rankings at number 1141.

9. Emile Hudd - won the ITF doubles event in Egypt with David Stevenson, reaching the singles QF stage as well; followed up with a SF singles and final of the doubles (with David) in week commencing 12th Feb, to make a really strong month.

10. Paul Jubb - for coming through qualifying and making the final of the Challenger 50 event in Glasgow. This is the first Challenger final he has reached since returning from injury last summer.

11. Julian Cash - for winning the doubles at the ATP250 in Delray Beach with Robert Galloway, defeating the much higher ranked number 1 seeds in the final. This is Julian's first title at this level and will give him a new career high.

12. Hephzibah Oluwadare (born 31 Oct 2007) - for achieving her first WTA singles ranking (1189) after picking up a point at the Roehampton W50. This follows on from winning a J200 in Germany earlier in the month.

13. Greg Slade - Britain's #2 ranked Quad wheelchair player, unseeded he won the Bolton Indoor ITF Series 3 event, beating World ranked #10, top seeded Brazilian, Silva, in the final. Also won the doubles title, again Unseeded. Followed up with the doubles title in the ITF Series 2 event the following week, also in Bolton.

14. Henry Searle - for reaching his first Challenger level QF and beating WR 286 player Jiri Vesely. Also finished runner up in the doubles with Kyle Edmund as WCs.

15. Marnie Banks - for winning her first senior tournament at a W35 in Australia. She is also set to hit a new CH around 280 on Monday week.

16. Edie Griffiths - age 14 - for winning the J60 in Norway - her first singles final, her first singles title - and a very good one, given her age.

17. Katie Boulter - for her performances in winning at WTA 500 San Diego, including beating Haddad Maia WR 13. And for reaching a further CH. Her first WTA 500 title, she beat 5 top 50 players this week and reached a CH ranking of 27. 

18. Flora Johnson (age 16) - for winning the J100 in South Africa (and being runner-up in doubles). Her first singles title for three years.

19. Jack Draper - for his performances at ATP 500 Acapulco, reaching the semis at time of posting, including beating Tommy Paul WR 14. And for reaching a further CH (live 37 at time of posting)

20. Amelia Rajecki - who has taken the number 1 spot at NC State in style, undefeated at national indoor championships where she was selected at position 1 in all tournament team , also beating former national number 1 Fiona Crawley. Rising to number 3 in division 1 national college rankings.

21. Marcus Willis - ATP Challenger 50 and 100 doubles titles ( the 100 being a career best title ), in Glasgow partnering Scott Duncan and in Lille partnering Christian Harrison respectively. Ends the month at a further new CH, live ranked 129.

22. Olivia Nicholls - for winning (with Olivia Gadecki of Australia) her second career WTA250 title in Austin TX.

23. Billy Harris - For reaching a new career high of either 181 or 182, depending on tomorrows results.

24. Eric Lorimer - born 2010 - for winning the sinlges of the Cat 1 Tennis Europe event in France and winning the doubles in the Super Cat Tennis Europe event in Stockholm

25. Mika Stojsavljevic - for winning the Girls J200 in Nonthaburi in Thailand aged 15

26. Damian Rodriguez - from Cobham - ex-ITF player, good junior, and Princeton player - now age 25 - and (most importantly) Katie Boulter's hitting partner which seems to be clicking SO well - he also does great videos of the two of them (he does all the music himself, I think) - but, seriously, he seems to be an excellent element of her team

27. Jake Fearnley - for going 6-1 since the beginning of February at the 1 position for TCU during which he defeated the current #1 NCAA Div 1 player (having not beaten him in 5 previous matches), current #7 ranked Johannus Monday, having match point against current #9 ranked player unfinished, defeating the #1 ranked team Ohio State's 1 position 1&0 in the ITA Team Indoor Championships final and being named at the 1 position in the ITA Indoor Team Championships All-Tournament team.

28. Alfie Hewett - won 2 ITF series 1 events, Rotterdam and Georgia, going unbeaten in the month and beating the WR1 player Oda in the Georgis final 

 

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 so Katie and Liv win well deserved titles overnight, if someone is able to update the narratives for them both, please ( as I wont do it justice in terms of context or insight) before around 8.30, that would be really appreciated - just quote the above list, edit the relevant words, and re post. 
polls will be going up somewhere close to 9 am.