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Jan · Hall of fame

June 2024 Player of the Month Vote - Final

JonH · Tennis legend

Thanks Jan! Always a pleasure!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

I know I'm biased, but this month Billy really did deserve this title.

JonH · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
I know I'm biased, but this month Billy really did deserve this title.

Agreed! And most people also agreed!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

JonH wrote:
16. Katie Boulter - for winning Nottingham for the second consecutive year, coming from a set down 3 times to beat Dart, Raducanu and Pliscova ( 5 sets on finals day ), enhancing her position as British #1 and almost certainly earning a Wimbledon seeding in the process. First British woman to defend a WTA title since Virginia Wade ( Bournemouth 1973-4 ), following up with a quarterfinal in Eastbourne.

13. Jack Draper - for winning his first ever ATP title winning the ATP250 in Stuttgart, taking out his career high ranking in the process, becoming GB Nº1 and hopefully getting himself seeded at Wimbledon. Followed up with reaching the last 8 at Queens including a stunning win over Carlos Alcaraz for a career best win in the last 16.

14. Jake Fearnley - for winning the Nottingham Challenger 125 as a qualifier. In the process, he beat Jubb, Shang (WR 96) and Charlie Broom, and reached 7 wins in the first two events of the grass season, the most wins of any man or woman from GB (and possibly internationally). Rises to GB number 12 and a WR of 274, a new CH by a country mile, having started the week at WR 525. His full sequence of wins was against one top 100 player, two top 200 players and 4 top 300 players. Oh, and let's not forget that, for the coin toss before his match with Jubb, he had to comfort the little girl scared by the LTA's mascot!

10. Billy Harris - for reaching semifinals in consecutive weeks in the two UK based grass court challengers - wins included WR 96 Shang and WR 135 Kukushkin (twice). Topped this by reaching the last 8 at Queens 500 for his best ever week, including beating Etcheverry WR 32 for his best win in terms of rankings and then Perricard WR 67. Followed up that best ever week with another best ever week for an ATP tour as he reaches the semis of Eastbourne 250, beating Cabolli WR 49 in the QF,. All has combined to take him to an end of month CH 116, having ended last month at WR 201. Been a month of topping the past week and still going! Oh, and maybe unsurprisingly, he has the most wins by a Brit on grass this season.

21. Paul Jubb for reaching the semifinals of the ATP250 in Mallorca, beating number 1 seed and WR 14 Ben Shelton to get there, for a first ATP semi and a career best week, having got through qualies to get there. Will move back into the top 200 as a result.

12. Amelia Rajecki - Ranked 794, smashing her career high win (436 at Surbiton and 627 prior to this month) by beating two top 80 players (WR72 and 77 - the 6th and 9th qualifying seeds) in Birmingham as a qualifying wild card to qualify for her first WTA tour level main draw; followed up by qualifying for Wimbledon qualies through the wildcard playoffs

With Shelton about to play for the US Grand Slam title tonight, worth remembering Paul Jubb's player of the month nomination for having beaten him

JonH · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
JonH wrote:
16. Katie Boulter - for winning Nottingham for the second consecutive year, coming from a set down 3 times to beat Dart, Raducanu and Pliscova ( 5 sets on finals day ), enhancing her position as British #1 and almost certainly earning a Wimbledon seeding in the process. First British woman to defend a WTA title since Virginia Wade ( Bournemouth 1973-4 ), following up with a quarterfinal in Eastbourne.

13. Jack Draper - for winning his first ever ATP title winning the ATP250 in Stuttgart, taking out his career high ranking in the process, becoming GB Nº1 and hopefully getting himself seeded at Wimbledon. Followed up with reaching the last 8 at Queens including a stunning win over Carlos Alcaraz for a career best win in the last 16.

14. Jake Fearnley - for winning the Nottingham Challenger 125 as a qualifier. In the process, he beat Jubb, Shang (WR 96) and Charlie Broom, and reached 7 wins in the first two events of the grass season, the most wins of any man or woman from GB (and possibly internationally). Rises to GB number 12 and a WR of 274, a new CH by a country mile, having started the week at WR 525. His full sequence of wins was against one top 100 player, two top 200 players and 4 top 300 players. Oh, and let's not forget that, for the coin toss before his match with Jubb, he had to comfort the little girl scared by the LTA's mascot!

10. Billy Harris - for reaching semifinals in consecutive weeks in the two UK based grass court challengers - wins included WR 96 Shang and WR 135 Kukushkin (twice). Topped this by reaching the last 8 at Queens 500 for his best ever week, including beating Etcheverry WR 32 for his best win in terms of rankings and then Perricard WR 67. Followed up that best ever week with another best ever week for an ATP tour as he reaches the semis of Eastbourne 250, beating Cabolli WR 49 in the QF,. All has combined to take him to an end of month CH 116, having ended last month at WR 201. Been a month of topping the past week and still going! Oh, and maybe unsurprisingly, he has the most wins by a Brit on grass this season.

21. Paul Jubb for reaching the semifinals of the ATP250 in Mallorca, beating number 1 seed and WR 14 Ben Shelton to get there, for a first ATP semi and a career best week, having got through qualies to get there. Will move back into the top 200 as a result.

12. Amelia Rajecki - Ranked 794, smashing her career high win (436 at Surbiton and 627 prior to this month) by beating two top 80 players (WR72 and 77 - the 6th and 9th qualifying seeds) in Birmingham as a qualifying wild card to qualify for her first WTA tour level main draw; followed up by qualifying for Wimbledon qualies through the wildcard playoffs
With Shelton about to play for the US Grand Slam title tonight, worth remembering Paul Jubb's player of the month nomination for having beaten him

And Paul is in an M15 this week in Egypt. I hope somehow he gets back up the rankings, this above shows how starkly the fortunes have varied for these guys