British player of the month - November

Sheddie · administrator

British player of the month - November

Salmon · Tennis legend

Dan for me this time.

And he did it while overcoming a mild injury too!

davidB · Junior player

i'll agree with arka on this one.... dan all the way!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Jonny Marray for rasing his game, individual perfromances at Denetproprovosk and for pure rankings rise!

Sheddie · administrator

Hmmm, tough decision between Boggo and Marray for me. Can't really compare Cox's achievements [as good as they have been this month] to success in 50K and 125K challengers.

I think I have to go with Boggo [just !] as he had all those points to defend and he got the lot. Was unlucky in Bratislava and Dnepropetrovsk, if he'd had better draws he could have reached at least the quarters in one of those.

davidB · Junior player

looks like Dan Cox is running away with this one.....

Sheddie · administrator

Still a long way to go...we usually get 30-35 votes in these polls. Boggo, Marray, Macca and Murray are all still in with a chance.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

its tight between jonny and alex, jonny did great in ukraine, but alex did relly well under pressure in shewsbury abd had some great wins (like demolshing rydersthet) b4 battling through to the title.

its hard to compare the juniors with the seniors, maybe we should split to poles into best junior (combined m+f) and seperate senior m and f, as the levels of toughness on the tours are so different. at the moment we are talking about seniors who when they were juniors were top 10, but i dont think the current gb juniors are that level yet. I might be wrong tho, often am

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Jonny for me this month, whilst Boggo did superbly well to defend all his points I think Jonny played well above his ranking, completely exceeded expectations and therefore deserves this accolade.

(I wonder if the lta agree with us again this month)

Drew · Dec 1, 2006

imoen wrote:

Jonny for me this month, whilst Boggo did superbly well to defend all his points I think Jonny played well above his ranking, completely exceeded expectations and therefore deserves this accolade.

(I wonder if the lta agree with us again this month)

Ditto...Mr Marray for king this month

johnnylad · Tennis legend

davidB wrote:

looks like Dan Cox is running away with this one.....

Oh, how the vote has swung!

steven · Tennis legend

Thank goodness for that, I was beginning to think we'd collectively lost the plot!

Btw after I voted for Jonny, he, Alex and Dan all had the same number of votes. (I think 12 people had voted by then)

johnnylad · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

Thank goodness for that, I was beginning to think we'd collectively lost the plot!

I know! I'm as fascinated in juniors and the strides they are making as the next person but so seriously suggest they take player of the month is laughable...

Salmon · Tennis legend

I think that Juniors have an equal claim. We are judging how people do in their level, and how much they are improving with time.

Otherwise Andy Murray should have been voted every single month from January to October. It is ten times more difficult to get a direct entry into a top level ATP event and lose in the first round than it is to win two Challengers in a month.

Dan is very much my player of the month.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Greenleaf wrote:

I think that Juniors have an equal claim. We are judging how people do in their level, and how much they are improving with time.

Otherwise Andy Murray should have been voted every single month from January to October. It is ten times more difficult to get a direct entry into a top level ATP event and lose in the first round than it is to win two Challengers in a month.

Dan is very much my player of the month.

I have nothing against Cox, in fact I have never seen him play but looking at his November results he had two wins against unranked British players he had one loss to an unranked British player! and two losses against foreign players ranked 413 & 452.
How that can any way compare with Jonny's efforts I cannot understand, I thought the object was to judge players by what they had achieved during the last month.