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Who is the Player of the Season from those listed below? [55 vote(s)]

Andy Lapthorne
3.6%
Jacob Fearnley
50.9%
Jodie Burrage
1.8%
Lily Miyazaki
0.0%
Olivia Nicholls
12.7%
Luke Johnson
3.6%
Mika Stojsavljevic
27.3%
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2024 PLAYER OF THE SEASON VOTE - ROUND ONE, GROUP A
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So here we go!

Got to this earlier than planned!

Round one, 4 groups of 7 players - top 3 plus ties progress to the semis. 

This groups players listed below - vote for who you think is player of the season and tell us when and why you vote.

VOTE WILL CLOSE AT 6.35PM MONDAY 6TH JANUARY

 

PlayerITF 2023 Year end ranking2024 Ranking (9th December)Ranking improvement2024 Win/Loss Record2024 TitlesOther
Andy LapthorneQS - 8; QD - 6QS - 5; QD - 3QS - 37%; QD - 50%QS - 29-17 (63%); QD - 23-9 (72%)Austrian Open, Bolton Indoor Open, 6 doubles titles incl - Australian Open Doubles,  
Jake Fearnley6389984%45-9 (83%)4 challenger titles, 1 ITF incl CH125 titles at Nottingham and OrleansAugust Player of the Month; Jun and Jul PoM RU
Jodie Burrage93295217% drop25-13 (66%)W100 Dubai, plus W100 Caldas and W75 Glasgow Doubles titlesDecember 2024 Player of the Month
Lily Miyazaki1931854%24-24 (51%)W75 Croissy, W75 AndrezieuxMarch Player of the Month
Liv NichollsDoubles - 107Doubles - 39Doubles - 64%Doubles - 33-23 (59%)W250 Austin; W75+H - Porto 
Luke Johnson1175850%56-26 (68%)ATP250 Metz, and 7 Challenger titlesJanuary Player of the Month
Mika StojsavljevicPro - NA; Jun - 47Pro - 681; Jun - 5Pro new in ; Jun - 89% Pro 9-5 (64%); Jun 22-14 (61%)W35 Nottingham, US Open Junior, J200 Nonthaburi' J300 Doubles TraralgonApril Player of the Month; Sept PoM RU

 

 



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All data taken from ITF site early Dec. Please add to it with any colour narrative on any player you choose!

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Last season we got 43/45 votes in the opening round groups. Lets beat that this season!

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I wanted to shout out for Andy Lapthorne, who won an AO title, and Mika for her USO Juniors title. But I have to vote for the one that caught my imagination the most and that is Jake!

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This group has quite a few of my favourites.

Jodie impressed me with her strong start to the year and then her sensible comeback after injury where she seems to have done a lot of work on her mental fragility. Mika had impressive results in both juniors and seniors. I've enjoyed watching Luke have success with various partners and move beyond regularly performing well in high-level challengers to winning an ATP250.

But I had to vote for Jake. He didn't just start his post-college career with a bang by winning the Nottingham 125 Challenger but went on winning, including getting through a round at Wimbledon and taking a set of Djokovic. By the end of the year, those 4 Challenger titles (and a win at ATP250 level) meant he'd broken into the top 100, and has stayed there: no dipping in for a couple of weeks and then dropping back out. And not all those wins have come easily: he's had a lot of 3-set matches where he's had to dig deep and fight hard and figure out after losing the first set how to counteract what's coming at him from the other side of the net. That 83% Win/Loss record suggests he's pretty good at that!



-- Edited by Tanaqui on Saturday 4th of January 2025 08:12:07 PM

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Tanaqui wrote:

This group has quite a few of my favourites.

Jodie impressed me with her strong start to the year and then her sensible comeback after injury where she seems to have done a lot of work on her mental fragility. Mika had impressive results in both juniors and seniors. I've enjoyed watching Luke have success with various partners and move beyond regularly performing well in high-level challengers to winning an ATP250.

But I had to vote for Jake. He didn't just start his post-college career with a bang by winning the Nottingham 125 Challenger but went on winning, including getting through a round at Wimbledon and taking a set of Djokovic. By the end of the year, those 4 Challenger titles (and a win at ATP250 level) meant he'd broken into the top 100, and has stayed there: no dipping in for a couple of weeks and then dropping back out. And not all those wins have come easily: he's had a lot of 3-set matches where he's had to dig deep and fight hard and figure out after losing the first set how to counteract what's coming at him from the other side of the net. That 83% Win/Loss record suggests he's pretty good at that!



-- Edited by Tanaqui on Saturday 4th of January 2025 08:12:07 PM

Thanks Tanaqui - agreed and well put!  



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On the grounds that a GS is the pinnacle then it has to be Mika.

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Jake Fearnley. Quite an astonishing breakthrough year.

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I can see that there will be a few runaway leaders in these groups, so I'll cast my tactical vote tomorrow when I'm back in England  wink



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the addict wrote:

I can see that there will be a few runaway leaders in these groups, so I'll cast my tactical vote tomorrow when I'm back in England  wink

 Haha, indeed, I expect there is room for that at this stage of the event. Hard to imagine same scope will exist in the next two rounds though! 

Hope youve had a good holiday, TA



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Mr Fearnley for me.

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Jacob

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21 votes now, 12 hours in. 3 way tie for the third place - remembering 3 plus ties progress to the next stage 



-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 5th of January 2025 07:29:09 AM

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Mika or Jake??? Hmm, tricky.
Jake I think.


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Thanks Jan, tough call I agree.

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