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Vote for your player of the season from the list below [46 vote(s)]

Sonay Kartal
34.8%
Julian Cash/Lloyd Glasspool
34.8%
Joe Salisbury/Neal Skupski
2.2%
Katie Swan
21.7%
Toby Samuel
6.5%
Arthur Fery
0.0%
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2025 BRITISH TENNIS FORUM PLAYER OF THE SEASON VOTE - SEMIFINAL GROUP TWO
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Semifinal vote, 6 players in this group, and 6 in the other. 

This group is formed based on round one finishing positions, 2 group winners, 2 group runners up and 2 third placed. 

 

We therefore have 2 women and 4 men in this group and sorry if your favourites clash. 

Players are listed in order below of group winners from round one with the player who had most round one votes listed first in the group.

Top two plus ties progress to the final. The vote will close at 6.36pm Thursday 8th January. 



-- Edited by JonH comes home on Tuesday 6th of January 2026 06:36:49 PM

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Like round one Id love to support Sonay and feels she and Fran would be a credit if they win this whole thing.

But the mens doubles pairs of Cashpool and Joe/Neal are where I voted in round one and I feel one of them needs my vote more and also deserves. I give a lot of credit to Joe and Neal but Cashpool won Wimbledon and also ended the year ranked as number one.

My only fear is if they and Henry meet in the final, where does my vote go from there!

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I went with Sonay.

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Katie started the season with just one point from Nottingham - no other counters, so no ranking at all - at 26 years old that must have been dauting - to start again from scratch - a massive task for anyone, and no SR ranking as she had gambled heavily by entering the wildcard play off for Wimbledon in 2024 in a desperate roll of the dice to try and kick start her career.

No-one gave her a leg up - 15k tournaments at the start of the season gradually getting her enough points to get to 35k and better, and gradually getting her ranking back up. What I think was most impressive was that she went to Australia and fully took part in several events in their spring season (our autumn) and beat numerous Aussies to win events - lots of great battles with Aussies on their own turf - particularly with Taylah Preston and the rising Aussie star, Emerson Jones.

Katie making it from no ranking back into the British top 10 and the top 300 represents a great result in what was a very tough season from her - not only the practicality of having no ranking points at the start of the season and having to start from scratch, but how difficult mentally that must have been for her to take - and that for a player who has self confessed struggles mentally with feeling worthless after losses and finding it difficult to cope emotionally with the down moments that the sport brings.

So Katie for me from this poll.

I would also say well done to Sonay, improving her ranking and looking an increasingly good all round player, who is strong mentally as well as physically. I wondered if she had peaked when she got into the top 100 last year, but she has definitely got better and my fault (along with lots of others) may be to consistently underestimate her.

Anyway Katie for me, but a strong field in this semi-final.



-- Edited by Andy Parker on Monday 5th of January 2026 10:26:47 PM



-- Edited by Andy Parker on Tuesday 6th of January 2026 01:18:14 AM

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Andy Parker wrote:

Katie started the season with just one point from Nottingham - no other counters, so no ranking at all - at 26 years old that must have been dauting - to start again from scratch - a massive task for anyone, and no SR ranking as she had gambled heavily by entering the wildcard play off for Wimbledon in 2025 in a desperate roll of the dice to try and kick start her career.

No-one gave her a leg up - 15k tournaments at the start of the season gradually getting her enough points to get to 35k and better, and gradually getting her ranking back up. What I think was most impressive was that she went to Australia and fully took part in several events in their spring season (our autumn) and beat numerous Aussies to win events - lots of great battles with Aussies on their own turf - particularly with Taylah Preston and the rising Aussie star, Emerson Jones.

Katie making it from no ranking back into the British top 10 and the top 300 represents a great result in what was a very tough season from her - not only the practicality of having no ranking points at the start of the season and having to start from scratch, but how difficult mentally that must have been for her to take - and that for a player who has self confessed struggles mentally with feeling worthless after losses and finding it difficult to cope emotionally with the down moments that the sport brings.

So Katie for me from this poll.

I would also say well done to Sonay, improving her ranking and looking an increasingly good all round player, who is strong mentally as well as physically. I wondered if she had peaked when she got into the top 100 last year, but she has definitely got better and my fault (along with lots of others) may be to consistently underestimate her.

Anyway Katie for me, but a strong field in this semi-final.



-- Edited by Andy Parker on Monday 5th of January 2026 10:26:47 PM

 Thank you Andy . enjoyed the write ups and analysis! And logic and emotion behind your votes. 



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Thanks JonH for your kind comments - I did though make a couple of factual errors, on both Katie's age at the start of 2025, and also got confused with the year, when I talked about her attempt at qualifying for Wimbledon in 2024, hence the edits.

It's all very personal though - I don't mind other people seeing the world differently - adds to the spice of life.

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Andy Parker wrote:

Thanks JonH for your kind comments - I did though make a couple of factual errors, on both Katie's age at the start of 2025, and also got confused with the year, when I talked about her attempt at qualifying for Wimbledon in 2024, hence the edits.

It's all very personal though - I don't mind other people seeing the world differently - adds to the spice of life.

Great sales pitch. You swayed me. I was debating between the 2 doubles teams then I read your post and thought, yep he's right.



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Katie did have a SR. Her entries to the first 6 tournaments played on coming back were 4 SRs and 2 WCs so she wasn't starting entirely from scratch having to hope she gets in to events like many with no ranking.

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I voted for Katie for her consistency during her comeback and persistence after so many stumbles on the way.

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I'm stuck between Ms Kartal & Ms Swan.

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Just 21 votes so far. Third place and below need votes to keep in touch with the top 2 . Scores on doors later

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Ugh, again with the hard choices. Tempted by Sonay for continuing her upward trajectory and Julian/Lloyd for smashing it this year in an incredibly competitive environment, but I went for Katie in the end. I loved Andy Parker's write up and I love a comeback story and I love the grit and determination and hard work Katie's shown this year.



-- Edited by Tanaqui on Tuesday 6th of January 2026 03:41:29 PM

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Just set the 48hour timer for a 6.36pm close on Thursday - about to get on a very busy so needed to get it done!

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25 votes here and scores are

11
7
6
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Again, like the other group, second spot looks interesting as a close battle

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26 votes here and scores are


11
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Again, like the other group, second spot looks interesting as a close battle

 



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