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SuperT · Futures level

RE: British Tennis Forum Player of the Month Vote - July 2025

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

SuperT wrote:
Brendan F wrote:
Despite the strength of the field I'm expecting a landslide for Fran, and rightly so, I'm so chuffed for her. But that means sticking to my usual tactic of giving a nod to someone else and letting others do the work so I'm sticking with my nomination and voting for Jan. GO FRAN!
I'm not convinced it will be a landslide for Fran because there are so many good performances this month. I'm not a fan of Lloyd but even I couldn't argue that winning Wimbledon isn't a massive achievement and worthy of recognition. None the less, I nominated Fran, I think she's amazing and I voted for her. Watching her win last night following on from the Lionesses fantastic result made it a pretty special evening.

It was amazing wasn't it, really good. So many good performances though, Sonay for example, I mean! Cam also, then George, Jack PJ winning challengers for the first time; and Jan winning two - arguably Jan and Fran's achievements were the same, both won challenger equivalents, twice, maybe Jan doesnt have the emotional investment many have got in Fran?! But glad to see he has at least got a vote against his name!

Var · Futures qualifying

In the absence of any lionesses in the choices I went for the next best thing, Fran!

Jan · Hall of fame

Decisions, decisions....I can't decide!!!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

15 votes and 5 players are now on the board. A long way to go.

foobarbaz · Strong Club Player

No prizes for quessing who I voted for.

Fran has made great progress this month, and so have others, but I voted Katie S. for a W35 title, then making a W75 semi-final, the culmination of a run of 18 wins and 3 defeats, beating the top seed Ponchet [WTA #140], and consequently rising a massive 266 ranking places in this month alone, to re-enter the top 500 and now be able to enter higher quality tournaments. All this without any help from those who give out the grass court WC bonanza.

mdewey · Junior player

Given that CashPool are already in the Player of the Season list as GS champions and Fran keeps being nominated I decided to vote for Katie Swan for her dogged determination in fighting her way back from physical and mental problems.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Good to see some votes behind Katie, great to see her doing well!

Mdewey mentioned Cashpool are in Player of the Season; just to say, from this months contenders, Fran (Feb PoM Runner Up), Sonay (April PoM), Oli B (Feb PoM), and Oli T (June PoM) are also in to PoS already!

Quite a high powered group but worth noting if that is one of the criterial someone is considering in their vote!

Julia Carrot · All-time great

I've voted for Emma. I think she had made tremendous effort to overcome some health and mental obstacles and has been playing some excellent tennis again.

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Monday 28th of July 2025 12:36:20 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

6 players now with votes - starting to warm up a little now!!

christ · Futures level

I'm a sucker for a returning hero(ine), so it is Ms Swan for me.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Some momentum behind Katie as the vote probably nears around half way in terms of voting numbers (19 votes now placed)

Peter too · Tennis legend

It came down to a choice between Fran and Emma but after all those years of fighting her way up the rankings and finally achieving her goal, this month I opted for Fran.

Canda · Lower Club Player

9vicman wrote:
If ending an 89-year Wimbledon drought can't win you Player/Team of the month, what can?

Agreed. My vote has gone to Lloyd and Julian

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

21 votes now in - good start for the first 10 hours or so.

And thanks for all those commenting, I am certain (with no evidence) that commenting attracts others to check in the thread and potentially vote at some point.