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Nice call on Jodie, Super T! And at the start of the year, before she got injured, Jodie also made it to the QF of a WTA500, so she was definitely showing some great promise in the early season. Maybe we can update her nomination to reflect that.

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 Done. 

As an aside, in the main Player of the season, I dont do narratives - just present facts (ranking change, win/loss, titles) and let people do their own research if they wish to!   

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Thanks for the update, Jon!

(And I checked what you did for PoS last year, because I was wondering if you needed to "crowdsource" narratives for that, but saw you were using stats -- much easier to compile! If people want to put a gloss on the stats, they can do that when they say who they're voting for.  )

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 Exactly - I think in a previous year I wrote my own narratives, but it puts my own spin on things and that felt unfair, partic for players I was less engaged with in their careers ie as a supporter. So stats seemed the way to go!  

Wildcard nomination and reason:

1 - Heather Watson - most nominated player for the player of the month who hasnt qualified - 7 times - and also won our favourite British player vote back in Feb. She must have done well this season to get so many nominations and be so popular! Seriously, she won a W50 title in Nottingham this season and is also our third best ranked doubles player 

2 - Paul Jubb - without having any really spectacular performances apart from reaching the semi final of the Mallorca ATP250, Paul has nevertheless consistently performed well over the year and raised his ranking from 793 at the end of last year to a career high of 180 by the end of November.

3 - Jodie Burrage - for sensibly entering end of season lower level tournaments after a long injury break and saving her PR for 2025. In doing so she has reached SFs at W35 and W50 level followed by the final of the W75 in Trnava thereby taking her ranking back into the top 250. Before injury struck, Jodie made the QF of a WTA 500 in early season, a season of great promise was derailed but she has come back well 

4 - Emily Appleton - for winning 5 doubles titles at at least W75 level ( 4 W75s & a WTA 125 ) with 5 different partners and entering the doubles top 100.  Also in July reached a singles CH 348

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the addict wrote:

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Jodie was actually at her CH of 85 back in March (equalling the CH first achieved in September 2023) before she dropped down to 332.

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 Thanks TA.  I've edited the nomination again to include this.  I should maybe have given this more thought before diving in!!

1 - Heather Watson - most nominated player for the player of the month who hasnt qualified - 7 times - and also won our favourite British player vote back in Feb. She must have done well this season to get so many nominations and be so popular! Seriously, she won a W50 title in Nottingham this season and is also our third best ranked doubles player 

2 - Paul Jubb - without having any really spectacular performances apart from reaching the semi final of the Mallorca ATP250, Paul has nevertheless consistently performed well over the year and raised his ranking from 793 at the end of last year to a career high of 180 by the end of November.

3 - Jodie Burrage - for sensibly entering end of season lower level tournaments after a long injury break and saving her PR for 2025. In doing so she has reached SFs at W35 and W50 level followed by the final of the W75 in Trnava thereby taking her ranking back into the top 250. Before injury struck, Jodie made the QF of a WTA 500 in early season and hit a CH of 85 before a season of great promise was derailed.   She has come back well 

4 - Emily Appleton - for winning 5 doubles titles at at least W75 level ( 4 W75s & a WTA 125 ) with 5 different partners and entering the doubles top 100.  Also in July reached a singles CH 348

5 - Madeleine Brooks - for having a breakout year, winning 4 titles during 2024 (a W50 and 3 W75s) with three different partners. Before this year, Madeleine had only reached (and lost) two finals at W25 level. Apart from winning those titles, she's consistently gone deep in other tournaments, reaching the final on 4 further occasions. As a result, she's raised her ranking from 287 at the end of 2023 to her current CH of 127.

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1 - Heather Watson - most nominated player for the player of the month who hasnt qualified - 7 times - and also won our favourite British player vote back in Feb. She must have done well this season to get so many nominations and be so popular! Seriously, she won a W50 title in Nottingham this season and is also our third best ranked doubles player 

2 - Paul Jubb - without having any really spectacular performances apart from reaching the semi final of the Mallorca ATP250, Paul has nevertheless consistently performed well over the year and raised his ranking from 793 at the end of last year to a career high of 180 by the end of November.

3 - Jodie Burrage - for sensibly entering end of season lower level tournaments after a long injury break and saving her PR for 2025. In doing so she has reached SFs at W35 and W50 level followed by the final of the W75 in Trnava thereby taking her ranking back into the top 250. Before injury struck, Jodie made the QF of a WTA 500 in early season and hit a CH of 85 before a season of great promise was derailed.   She has come back well 

4 - Emily Appleton - for winning 5 doubles titles at at least W75 level ( 4 W75s & a WTA 125 ) with 5 different partners and entering the doubles top 100.  Also in July reached a singles CH 348

5 - Madeleine Brooks - for having a breakout year, winning 4 titles during 2024 (a W50 and 3 W75s) with three different partners. Before this year, Madeleine had only reached (and lost) two finals at W25 level. Apart from winning those titles, she's consistently gone deep in other tournaments, reaching the final on 4 further occasions. As a result, she's raised her ranking from 287 at the end of 2023 to her current CH of 127.

6 - Johannus Monday - moving from a strong college career, JoMo really hit the pro ranks hard this summer and ended up taking 4 ITF M25 titles on US Hardcourts, backed up with 2 M25 doubles titles and a Challenger doubles title at Knoxville. Over the year, he has improved his ranking from 724 to a high of 369 this year and is one of our men players to watch in 2025  

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