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JonH comes home · Tennis legend

RE: 2025 British Tennis Forum Player of the Season Qualifiers List (for the Sir Andy Murray Trophy)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Although Ruben Harris won a junior wheelchair event, only the winners of the 5 main draw events, junior boys and girls and the senior wheelchair singles and doubles are grand slam titles played at all 4 grand slams and leading to a qualification for player of the season. I may review that in future years - each grand slam has one or two discrete categories not held at all the other locations. Eg Australia has the para tennis categories for learning disabilities and hearing disabilities; France and US do junior wheelchair events; Wimbledon majors on the senior and legends events. For now, at least, I dont plan to include them as PoS automatic qualification categories and leave this to the core main events, of which across pros, juniors and wheelchair seniors there are 15.

These things always can get reviewed so may or may not change in the future but for now, Ruben did really well and gets a September PoM nomination from me as a reward for that.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
2025 Player of the Season Qualifiers List:
1) Andy Lapthorne - Australian Open Wheelchair Quad Doubles
2) Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid - Australian Open and French Open Wheelchair Mens Doubles
3) Alfie Hewett - Australian Open Wheelchair Mens Singles, Jan PoM RU
4) Henry Patten - Australian Open Mens Doubles, Jan PoM
5) Oliver Bonding - Feb PoM
6) Fran Jones - Feb PoM RU, July PoM, Aug PoM RU
7) Jack Draper - Mar PoM
8) Liv Nicholls - Mar PoM RU, Jun PoM
9) Sonay Kartal - Apr PoM
10) Megan Knight - Apr PoM RU
11) Jay Clarke - May PoM
12) Anna McBride - May PoM RU
13) Oli Tarvet - Jun PoM
14) Julian Cash/Lloyd Glasspool - Wimbledon Mens Doubles Champions, July PoM RU, August PoM
No new additions to the PoS field after August PoM.
Looking at where the list could land, with 4 months left, even if we had 8 completely new PoM qualifiers (2 per each of the 4 months) and a couple of fresh slam winners, we are only going to reach 24 players. The GB number ones might add one or two (Emma and Lucy?) , so with a couple of wildcards, 28 is certainly not going to be exceeded as the field and it could well be less this year. Which is fine! Might well land on 24/25 as I dont see 8 different new PoM qualifiers being where we will end up.

In fact, looking again, it could well be we land around 24 or 25 this year including any wildcards. If we have 24 or 28, we will have the usual 4 groups of 6/7 structure. If, however, we land on 25, I will reformat to 5 groups of 5, followed by semis of 2 groups of 5 and a final of 4.

As ever, Ill keep wildcard qualifiers as small as possible to round out the field to the right number. There certainly will be 1 wildcard but no more than 3.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

With Joe and Neal losing their final and, thus, no USO grand slam winners, the biggest tally of direct entries to PoS looks like it will be 25. But almost certainly less than that.

So whatever we land on, we will round the field up to 25 through a wildcard or two and have a 25 field this year.

Round one will be 5 groups of 5 - top 2 to proceed

Semis will be 2 groups of 5 - top 2 to proceed

Final will be 4, as per past years.

Someone suggested a 2 player final after that, but I will stick with a final 4. Dragging it out too long won't work for anyone, we will cross into the AO having started. I actually can't wait for the next 4 months and 4 PoM votes to take place!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

With the US Open over, I will wait to see the Monday 8th Sept rankings, but actually think it will be ok to call the wheelchair and junior number ones for year end sooner rather than later. More to come this week.

Indeed, some of the main seniors categories can be clearly called as well, I would reckon.

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 7th of September 2025 10:47:04 AM