McHale is an unknown quantity - she's been out of the game for over two years sine the USO in 2022 and has only played a couple of matches at this level this year, plus a few ITF's.
Lily is capable of beating the rest of the field on her day part from Tatjana, who is unpredictable at best and unbeatable the rest of the time !
The top number of wins really dropped off this year - nothing to do with W100 events becoming WTA125 - all the ladies are our top players and play the WTA events through the grass season. Katie and Jodie clearly dropped away from past seasons; Sonay and Emma did well last year and did well again this year, perhaps showing a clear changing of the guard at the top of British tennis, at least on grass?
In terms of who got it right, the following are our joint winners!
Emma Raducanu Miriamabc, Emmsie, GBJ, goldfish, Peter too, Jan Sonay Kartal Ralfie, Telstar, Julia Carrot, Danny1312, SuperT + 2 anonymous
Well done to all of those for getting it right, or at least 1/3rd right!
Hope you all enjoyed following - perhaps do it again in 11 months time?!
Looking back, I noticed Miriam abc, Jan and Telstar also got the predicted winner right last year as well. So well done to them! Miriam and Jan predicted Katie B last year, but swapped to Emma this year. Telstar stuck with Sonay and came up trumps again.
All the above folks are winners, but double winners is worthy of a round of applause and maybe a song from Sam Verbeek as well.