British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

JonH comes home wrote:

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nominations close for March at the end of Miami, Sunday 29th May

Anyone can nominate. Its your board, folks, and your community. Give it a go. 

Nomination and reason:

1.Sonay Kartal. Im nominating her at this early stage for her courageous second round win over injury, home crowd and #20 seed Emma Navarro. After dominating the first set completely her back was having issues from the early part of a tight second set during which time she had a full time out. After she lost that set not many gave her any chance of progressing especially when Navarro twice served for the match. But Sonay kept battling and prevailed in the end in a 3rd set tiebreak. 
Apologies if Im going overboard because of 1 match but it was a remarkable fighting performance! 

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Nomination and reason:

1.Sonay Kartal. Im nominating her at this early stage for her courageous second round win over injury, home crowd and #20 seed Emma Navarro. After dominating the first set completely her back was having issues from the early part of a tight second set during which time she had a full time out. After she lost that set not many gave her any chance of progressing especially when Navarro twice served for the match. But Sonay kept battling and prevailed in the end in a 3rd set tiebreak. 
Apologies if Im going overboard because of 1 match but it was a remarkable fighting performance! 

2. Toby Samuel - follows up his Portugal M25 title the previous week ( yes, last month ) by starting this month with a Challenger 50 title in Crete, dropping just one set along the way and emphatically beating Harry W in the final. Takes him into the live top 200 and GB top 10.

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Pollie McPollface wrote:

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Thanks Indy - good start to the month!

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 I'm not sure about this name change Jon.  When I talk to you I can't call you Polly!!!

After Cams super win over De Menaur and return to the British number 1 ranking ( at least for a few days ) he should also be nominated- not sure if I should do this Jon since Ive already nominated Sonay ?

-- Edited by Dannythomas on Tuesday 10th of March 2026 12:05:32 AM

indiana wrote:

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Nomination and reason:

1.Sonay Kartal. Im nominating her at this early stage for her courageous second round win over injury, home crowd and #20 seed Emma Navarro. After dominating the first set completely her back was having issues from the early part of a tight second set during which time she had a full time out. After she lost that set not many gave her any chance of progressing especially when Navarro twice served for the match. But Sonay kept battling and prevailed in the end in a 3rd set tiebreak. 
Apologies if Im going overboard because of 1 match but it was a remarkable fighting performance! 

2. Toby Samuel - follows up his Portugal M25 title the previous week ( yes, last month ) by starting this month with a Challenger 50 title in Crete, dropping just one set along the way and emphatically beating Harry W in the final. Takes him into the live top 200 and GB top 10.

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 Looks like Sonay will need that narrative upgrade, but might a) be worth waiting to see how the event progresses b) might need a little narrative editing to stop it becoming a novel c) bear in mind there is also Miami to come later this month! 

JonH wrote:

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indiana wrote:

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Nomination and reason:

1.Sonay Kartal. Outstanding at Indian Wells including a second round win over injury, home crowd and #20 seed Emma Navarro. After dominating the first set completely her back was having issues from the early part of a tight second set during which time she had a full time out. After she lost that set not many gave her any chance of progressing especially when Navarro twice served for the match. But Sonay kept battling and prevailed in the end in a 3rd set tiebreak. 
She then followed that up with an even better performance, coming from behind to beat #15 seed Keys to reach R16 , where she put up another good fight against Rybakina before the injury finally became too much. Great tournament for her and whatever the rankings say she is clearly our best performing player at the moment. 

2. Toby Samuel - follows up his Portugal M25 title the previous week ( yes, last month ) by starting this month with a Challenger 50 title in Crete, dropping just one set along the way and emphatically beating Harry W in the final. Takes him into the live top 200 and GB top 10.

3.Jack Draper - In his first big tournament since his long term injury a truly great win over Novak in an epic match at Indian Wells to reach the quarters following impressive wins against Bautista and Cerundulo. Already a better than anticipated run in what is effectively his comeback event. 

4. Cam Norrie- Another Brit with a fine performance at Indian Wells, reaching the quarters without dropping a set, including a great win over 6th seed De Minaur. 

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