British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

It looks like we literally have just two singles and a doubles player left in this week, not many more for sure. And we may well end up with none next week.

I am still working on putting this vote up Sunday 28th December - however, with the proximity of this to the wildcard vote and the possibility of a tie leading to a tie break vote, it may work better to move it forward just one day IF there are no Brits involved at that point of week 52.

So, just a word to the wise that if there are no British players still in action, this vote will most likely start Saturday 27th and run to Monday 29th Dec, with a tie breaker (if needed) going to Dec 30th. The wildcard vote commences 31st December - hence the desire to separate them slightly.

I am sure no one will be inconvenienced by this, but please take a note if you arent around over Xmas itself and make sure to check in on the 27th to see where things are at.

I know some people don't like me shifting dates, it is usually to fit in with my own schedule and I do warn in the pre published schedule that I may change things based on my own needs!!!

JonH comes home wrote:

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Nominations List:

1. Edie Griffiths (age 16) - seeded 5th in singles, came through to take the J100 singles and doubles titles at Loughborough in week 48, her first titles in both disciplines at J100 level

2. Mika Stojsavljevic (age 16) - came through qualies, ran all the way to the semis of the W100 in Dubai, beating Kraus (ranked 109) as well as WR168 Iatcenko before losing a tight 3 set semi with Zvonareva. Also reached the doubles semis. This was her first W100 semi and a great week for her. Takes her rankings at 08/12 to singles - WR 298, GB #11, U17 #1, U18 #7, and doubles - WR 462, GB #25, U17 #1, U18 #5.

3. Team GB Students - For winning the Master'U BNP Paribas defeating favourites USA 4-3 in the final ending USA's 5 title streak on the competition stretching back to 2018. Team was Finn Murgett, Jamie Connel, Ollie Okonkwo, Grace Piper, Eliz Maloney and Sofia Johnson

4. Hollie Smart (age16) - very good week in the Bradenton J300. Reached the QF, beating (3) Luna Maria Cinalli JWR 17 and in-form.(15) Iva Marinkovic JWR 53. Hollie is up 9 places to JWR 76 in the 08/12 rankings.

5. Mimi Xu (age 18) - reached the SF of a W50 in Italy, her 2nd successive W50 SF, beating the top seed Jana Fett WR 197 in the QF, thus rising to a a CH 234 on 08/12.

6. Eliz Maloney, (having completely re-vamped her forehand during the Autumn) was part of the British team which won the World Master U Student Games beating the normally unbeatable US team in the final. A few days later Eliz was back at Loughborough and successfully defended her British Tour Masters title with wins against two world-ranked players-Freya Christie and Tegan Bush.

7. Katy Dunne - in only her fourth tournament back from injury after three months out Katy reached the final of the W35 in Sharm from qualifying, beating three seeds on the way, including the top seed Tara Wuerth WR243. With 24 points from the tournament this will give Katy a massive jump in the rankings from 847 before the tournament to around 674 (OER prediction)

8. Brooke Black - the recently turned 18 year old won her first (I believe) international adult tournament (ITFs/UTRs) with the 25K UTR Pro Tennis Tour tournament in Boca Raton defeating WTA ranked established and graduated top 30 college players in the semi-final and final.

9. Indianna Spink - winner of the 25k+H UTR Pro-Tennis Tour in Carvoeiro, Portugal beating 2 higher WTA ranked and higher UTR rated players in the semi and final , including a top 500 player

10. Family Lumsden - Ewen and Maia conquered the best of Scottish tennis and both won their respective singles titles in the TS Open Tour Finals. Ewen was top seed but Maia had to overcome top seeded Mia Wainwright to win and prove she is not just a doubles star! 

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in a quieter month like this, tennis achievement wise, I thought it maybe useful to recap on our winners in December, in case anyone feels sparked to nominate off the back of that:

Courtesy of Indys weekly titles round up:

Week 49 - from 01/12 :

Women's Doubles 

ITF W35 Monastir, Tunisia 
Alicia Dudeney ( & Ariana Arseneault, CAN )

ITF J100 Loughborough, GB
GS: Edie Griffiths (16)
BD: Rhys Lawlor (16) & Eric Lorimer (15)
GD: Sophia Christodoulou (17) & Edie Griffiths (16)

ITF J60 Lome, Togo
GD: Grace Chinwike (16) ( & Ohunene Comfort Yakubu, NGR )

Week 50 - from 08/12 :

Juniors

ITF J100 Aizkraukle, Latvia
GD: Alisha Ndukwu (16) ( & Lucie Slamenikova, CZE )

In addition, Harry Wendelken won the British Tour Masters in week 50 at Loughborough, alongside Eliz Maloney who is already nominated and won the womens event. 
Edie is also, of course, already recognised on the list. 

 

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Friday 19th of December 2025 06:31:16 AM

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Friday 19th of December 2025 06:31:54 AM

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Friday 19th of December 2025 06:32:34 AM

A week left in the final PoM of the year, and action still taking place around the world.

10 men and 10 women in action between now and the end of next week. Who will survive the longest? 

Week 51 mens - Oli Bonding in qf action and hopefully more today and possibly tomorrow

britishtennis.activeboard.com/t72365419/week-51-itf-m15-monastir-tunisia-hard/

Week 52 mens - men in qualies at two of the regular resort venues

britishtennis.activeboard.com/t72380034/week-52-itf-m15-monastir-tunisia-hard/

britishtennis.activeboard.com/t72380047/week-52-itf-m15-agadir-morocco-clay/

Week 52 womens - women in action in qualies and Mia Wainwright will be in main draw action

britishtennis.activeboard.com/t72380010/week-52-itf-w35-solapuri-india-hard/

britishtennis.activeboard.com/t72380048/week-52-itf-w15-monastir-tunisia-hard/

britishtennis.activeboard.com/t72380016/week-52-itf-w15-antalya-turkey-clay/

Week 51 British Tour - British players at the semis stage in Loughborough in British Tour play

britishtennis.activeboard.com/t72358371/british-tour-2025-including-masters/

If any of these catch your eye over the next week, feel free to add them to our nominees list. Not only is December PoM likely to be a very wide open one, two players at least will qualify from it for player of the season in just a couple of weeks time.

10 men (Oli Bonding, Furqan Lawal, Ron Roopesh, Jude Dixon, Max Castle, Sam Bird, Ben Gusic-Wan, Raffaello Papajcik, Sam Reeve, Alex Solonenko and 

10 women (Mia Wainwright, Carla Nokes, Melissa Boyden, Athina Schlepphorst, Mirabelle Njoze, Jizel Matos Sequeira Fernandes, Sofia Maine, Isabella Wong, Katie Randall, Annabel Wong

All in action between now and the end of next week. Who will survive the longest? 

 

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 21st of December 2025 07:57:03 AM

Week 52 runners and riders left as of now:

1 man - (Max Castle)

5 women (Mia Wainwright, Carla Nokes, Melissa Boyden, Mirabelle Njoze, Jizel Matos Sequeira Fernandes)

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 21st of December 2025 11:26:37 PM

JonH comes home wrote:

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Week 52 runners and riders left as of now:

1 man - (Max Castle)

3 women (Mia Wainwright, Melissa Boyden, Mirabelle Njoze)

 

-- Edited by Johnny Aitch on Tuesday 23rd of December 2025 07:14:25 AM

Down to just the three players left in for December now - Mia, Melissa and Mirabelle

Happy Xmas Eve fellow Brit tennis fans! Mia and Melissa in action today. Not sure a) will they get to play b) will they survive the days play - so keeping a watching brief on whether the December POM vote will start Saturday 27th or Sunday 28th. It will only be 28th if one of them is still playing come Sunday, so into the finals.

Lets see. I will confirm during Xmas period as play progresses.

Enjoy the break everyone!