British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

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. Cam will move back to British number one at the end of IW, congrats to him for his efforts in getting back up to this level 

Thought worth noting Cam heading back to GB number one. Jack may of course take it back soon enough, we will see, but for now Cam has the spot or will have when IW is over.