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

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

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, Men's singles #1
8) Liv Nicholls - Mar PoM RU, Jun PoM; Women's Doubles #1
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
15) Emma Raducanu - Women's singles #1
16) Hannah Klugman - Junior girl's #1

We have 4 more number ones to decide:
Men's doubles
Boys
Women's Wheelchair Singles
Quad Wheelchair Singles
With Lloyd (MD), Oli B (Boys) and Andy (QWS) leading 3 of those and most likely to take them, and already qualified, it looks likely just the womens wheelchair singles is up for grabs in terms of a PoS qualification place, ie Lucy or Cornelia

No changes this week on the Mens doubles, boys or quad wheelchair rankings. The womens wheelchair moved a little in Lucy's favour but, for now, Cornelia remains in the running for top spot.

So, all 4 categories remain open. None of the protagonists are playing this week except for Cornelia in the Wheelchair Women's singles and we will see if she manages to close the gap at all on Lucy.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

2025 Player of the Season Qualifiers List:
1) Andy Lapthorne - Australian Open Wheelchair Quad Doubles, Quad Wheelchair Singles #1
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, Men's singles #1
8) Liv Nicholls - Mar PoM RU, Jun PoM; Women's Doubles #1
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
15) Emma Raducanu - Women's singles #1
16) Hannah Klugman - Junior girl's #1
17) Lucy Shuker - Womens Wheelchair Singles #1

With the months events in wheelchair game, or lack of them, and running out of road, I am calling the quad wheelchair number one as Andy and women's as Lucy. I may end up with egg on face for any of the ones I have called, but feel pretty much 100% safe in all of them.
Lucy therefore becomes the 17th qualifier for PoS
We have 2 more number ones to decide:
Men's doubles - Lloyd most likely to end top with Julian, as their points end up equal at season end with outside chance for Henry, Neal and Joe (Lloyd and Julian already qualified)
Lloyd/Julian losing out depends Henry and Joe/Neal having some amazing weeks at the Masters events and Tour Finals. It could happen, e.g. Joe overhauled Neal two years ago to chase him down at season end, making it eventually with a Tour Finals title, so you never know
Boys - between Oli B (most likely) and Ben G-W (Oli is already qualified)
Oli and Ben could well come down to Oli losing loads of points and Ben playing once or twice to get above him; it feels like a chase to the bottom
Note - if my maths are wrong that Julian and Lloyd will end equal on points, please let me know

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Friday 26th of September 2025 03:10:32 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Re Lloyd and Julian, assuming they continue to partner just each other, I make it that Lloyd will remain ahead on points through to the season's end.

The issue is that Julian is carrying a mandatory 0 from partnering Lucas Miedler in this year's Rome Masters and losing in R1. Lloyd didn't play there and at season's end will have an additional positive counter rather than Julian's mandatory 0 ( Lloyd currently has 21 scores so 2 additional scores and only 2 non mandatory scores due off for the rest of the season so will definitely be able to count an extra score, even if that's his current lowest non mandatory score of 45 ).

Say they don't win another match this year though play in the Shanghai and Paris Masters:

Lloyd would have his current 8300 points, then
less 500 this week with 90 points coming in = 7890
less 90 mandatory plus 0 mandatory = 7800
less 600 mandatory plus 0 mandatory = 7200
less 90 with 45 points coming in = 7155

Julian would have his current 7735 points, then
less 500 this week with 90 points coming in = 7325
less 90 mandatory plus 0 mandatory = 7235
less 125 plus 0 mandatory = 7110
90 off from last year but not really a counter as he would have an additional 90 so still = 7110

However they score as partners the rest of the year, Lloyd stays ahead, with the final difference being whatever his lowest non mandatory counter is.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Re Lloyd and Julian, assuming they continue to partner just each other, I make it that Lloyd will remain ahead on points through to the season's end.

The issue is that Julian is carrying a mandatory 0 from partnering Lucas Miedler in this year's Rome Masters and losing in R1. Lloyd didn't play there and at season's end will have an additional positive counter rather than Julian's mandatory 0 ( Lloyd currently has 21 scores so 2 additional scores and only 2 non mandatory scores due off for the rest of the season so will definitely be able to count an extra score, even if that's his current lowest non mandatory score of 45 ).

Say they don't win another match this year though play in the Shanghai and Paris Masters:

Lloyd would have his current 8300 points, then
less 500 this week with 90 points coming in = 7890
less 90 mandatory plus 0 mandatory = 7800
less 600 mandatory plus 0 mandatory = 7200
less 90 with 45 points coming in = 7155

Julian would have his current 7735 points, then
less 500 this week with 90 points coming in = 7325
less 90 mandatory plus 0 mandatory = 7235
less 125 plus 0 mandatory = 7110
90 off from last year but not really a counter as he would have an additional 90 so still = 7110

However they score as partners the rest of the year, Lloyd stays ahead, with the final difference being whatever his lowest non mandatory counter is.

Ah, id missed that 45 coming in.

Hard to see anyone else catching them still.

indiana · Tennis legend

As an aside, it is arguably a bit of a nonsense that Julian will probaby lose out on at least sharing the WR 1 spot because he played in that Rome Masters ( losing in R1 to Arevalo & Pavic no less ) while Lloyd had his feet up or whatever he was doing.

But we've been there before about the effects of mandatory zeros in doubles on anyone who plays a mandatory and loses in R1.

I get that you can't really give a mandatory 0 to non players like Lloyd because you haven't really got a mandatory partner, but why have mandatory counting doubles scores at all? They are no incentive to play since you don't get a mandatory score if you miss it. Almost actually a disincentive, if say you just don't fancy a particular venue and fear you won't do well.

Addition - though even if Julian's zero was non mandatory and their ranking totals then the same, the system would probably still ***** him on a played an extra tournament tiebreaker.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 26th of September 2025 06:29:13 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

2025 Player of the Season Qualifiers List: Alicia joins the party!
1) Andy Lapthorne - Australian Open Wheelchair Quad Doubles, Quad Wheelchair Singles #1
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, Men's singles #1
8) Liv Nicholls - Mar PoM RU, Jun PoM; Women's Doubles #1
9) Sonay Kartal - Apr PoM, Sept 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
15) Emma Raducanu - Women's singles #1
16) Hannah Klugman - Junior girl's #1
17) Lucy Shuker - Womens Wheelchair Singles #1
18) Alicia Dudeney - Sept PoM RU

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

The post above this lists the 18 players currently qualified for Player of the Season (subject to any ranking changes for number ones that change things!)

But below are some of the main players NOT qualified in each category - maybe some of these will surprise you and take your fancy for the wild card nominations starting in around 6 weeks time:

Mens singles - Cam, Jake, Billy, Jan, Evo

Womens singles - Katie B, Jodie, Hev, Harriet, Marni

Mens doubles - Neal, Joe (or Neal/Joe), Luke, Jamie, Marcus

Womens doubles - Maia, Emily A, Maddie, Lissey, Ella

Junior boys - Ben G-W, Mark Ceban, William Moxon

Junior girls - Mika, Allegra K-D, Brooke

Men's wheelchair - Gordon Reid, Ben Bartram, Andy Penney

Women's Wheelchair - Cornelia Oosthuizen, Abbie Breakwell, Ruby Bishop

Quad Wheelchair - Greg Slade, Oliver Cox, Gary Cox

That is a lot of top players who aren't in yet - they may get into PoS through the Oct/Nov/Dec PoM votes - but, if not, they would need a wildcard and that nominations process is in the first few weeks of December.

Food for thought, if anyone cares!!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

18 players are in the Player of the Season field so far (subject to any changes in the respective number one slots - junior boys looks like the only possible one at the moment, where Ben G-W or Mark Ceban might take the top spot from Oliver Bonding).

We have 11 weeks of tennis left in the season, 3 Player of the Month Votes, a wild card vote as well, and then we should be on a field of between 25 and 28 for the 2025 Player of the Season.

The voting this year has been a little less popular than last (just 5 or 6 votes a month down on average, but 5 or 6 make a difference).

So if this interests you, remember the dates for the votes coming up:

October PoM - from Monday 3rd November

November PoM - from Monday 1st December

December PoM - from Monday 29th December

PoS Wild card Vote - from Thursday 1st January

PLAYER OF THE SEASON VOTES - between Saturday 3rd January and Sunday 11th January

Make a note and make sure you vote!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

I have commented above about whether we will have a 25 or 28 player field this year. 28 has been the field the last few years and it works well as a structure for the PoS voting. 4 groups of 7, semis and a final.

This season, we have a lot of players on great years that havent qualified for PoS via one means or another and yet would still be worthy candidates to at least be in the vote. The wild card vote offers a route for them if they dont qualify otherwise via PoM beforehand.

As such, Ive decided to go firm on a 28 player field for PoS and, if we need several wild cards to fill out the field, so be it; it makes the wild card vote more interesting.

As it stands, I think we will land on around 24 or maybe 25 direct qualifiers anyway, so would need 3 or 4 wildcards to fill out the field to 28.

So a 28 PoS field is confirmed.

Looking forward to seeing who makes it over the next 3 PoM votes and if any of the end of year number one slots change hands - boys looks like the only category at this point where the current number one may change hands.

indiana · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
18 players are in the Player of the Season field so far (subject to any changes in the respective number one slots - junior boys looks like the only possible one at the moment, where Ben G-W or Mark Ceban might take the top spot from Oliver Bonding).

We have 11 weeks of tennis left in the season, 3 Player of the Month Votes, a wild card vote as well, and then we should be on a field of between 25 and 28 for the 2025 Player of the Season.

The voting this year has been a little less popular than last (just 5 or 6 votes a month down on average, but 5 or 6 make a difference).

So if this interests you, remember the dates for the votes coming up:

October PoM - from Monday 3rd November

November PoM - from Monday 1st December

December PoM - from Monday 29th December

PoS Wild card Vote - from Thursday 1st January

PLAYER OF THE SEASON VOTES - between Saturday 3rd January and Sunday 11th January

Make a note and make sure you vote!

I'll pencil them in