Congrats to Katie and Julian and Marni, who all qualify for PoS
Current list of qualifiers below
Ref 2024 Player of Season Qualifiers Player Name 1 Dec 23 PoM Hannah Klugman (1) 2 Dec 23 PoM RU Jack Draper (2) 3 Australian Open Men's Wheelchair Doubles Alfie Hewett/Gordon Reid (3) 4 Australian Open Quad Wheelchair Doubles Andy Lapthorne (4) 5 Jan PoM Kyle Edmund (5) 6 Jan PoM RU Luke Johnson (6) 7 Feb PoM Katie Boulter (7) 8 Feb PoM RU Julian Cash (8) 9 Feb PoM RU Marni Banks (9)
-- Edited by JonH comes home on Thursday 7th of March 2024 11:34:14 PM
And Katie is added to our PoM roll of honour, with her second title ever
2020
Winner Jan Joe Salisbury Feb Heather Watson Mar Sam Murray-Sharan Apr no play - Covid May no play - Covid Jun/Jul Arthur Fery Aug Jo Konta Sep Fran Jones Oct Fran Jones (2) Nov/Dec Hep Oluwadare
2020 Player of Season Joe Salisbury
2021 Winner Jan Fran Jones (3) Feb Dan Evans Mar Neal Skupski Apr Dan Evans (2) May Cam Norrie / Hannah Klugman (tie) Jun Katie Swan Jul Emma Raducanu Aug Emma Raducanu (2) Sep Emma Raducanu (3) Oct Cam Norrie (2) Nov/Dec Beth Grey/Billy Harris/Sonay Kartal (tie)
2021 Player of Season Emma Raducanu
2022 Winner
Jan Hannah Klugman (2) Feb Sonay Kartal (2) Mar Harriet Dart Apr Jay Clarke May Sonay Kartal (3) Jun Ryan Peniston Jul Cam Norrie (3) Aug Alicia Barnett/Olivia Nicholls Sep Katie Swan (2) Oct Emily Appleton Nov Julian Cash/Henry Patten
2022 Player of Season Jack Draper
2023 Winner
Dec/Jan Andy Murray Feb Cam Norrie (4) Mar Jodie Burrage Apr Fran Jones (4) May George Loffhagen Jun Katie Boulter Jul Henry Searle Aug Dan Evans (3) Sep Dan Evans (4) Oct Billy Harris (2) Nov Joe Salisbury (2)
Interesting to see the voting progression like for like over the past 4 years of PoM, using just Jan and Feb as a consistent comparison (just for final votes as use of semifinal groups is inconsistent as numbers of nominations have varied)
2021 - 61 votes in the Jan/Feb POM final votes combined
2022 - 76 votes in Jan / Feb (25% increase on 2021)
2023 - 86 votes in Jan/Feb (13% improvement on 2022)
2024 - 99 votes in Jan/Feb ( 15% improvement on 2023)
So really steady increase and involvement from people, long may it continue to increase!
Updated roll of honour - Lily takes her first ever PoM title this month, whilst Fran becomes the first player to take their 5th title - is Fran Jones the PoM GOAT!!??
2020
Winner Jan Joe Salisbury Feb Heather Watson Mar Sam Murray-Sharan Apr no play - Covid May no play - Covid Jun/Jul Arthur Fery Aug Jo Konta Sep Fran Jones Oct Fran Jones (2) Nov/Dec Hep Oluwadare
2020 Player of Season Joe Salisbury
2021 Winner Jan Fran Jones (3) Feb Dan Evans Mar Neal Skupski Apr Dan Evans (2) May Cam Norrie / Hannah Klugman (tie) Jun Katie Swan Jul Emma Raducanu Aug Emma Raducanu (2) Sep Emma Raducanu (3) Oct Cam Norrie (2) Nov/Dec Beth Grey/Billy Harris/Sonay Kartal (tie)
2021 Player of Season Emma Raducanu
2022 Winner
Jan Hannah Klugman (2) Feb Sonay Kartal (2) Mar Harriet Dart Apr Jay Clarke May Sonay Kartal (3) Jun Ryan Peniston Jul Cam Norrie (3) Aug Alicia Barnett/Olivia Nicholls Sep Katie Swan (2) Oct Emily Appleton Nov Julian Cash/Henry Patten
2022 Player of Season Jack Draper
2023 Winner
Dec/Jan Andy Murray Feb Cam Norrie (4) Mar Jodie Burrage Apr Fran Jones (4) May George Loffhagen Jun Katie Boulter Jul Henry Searle Aug Dan Evans (3) Sep Dan Evans (4) Oct Billy Harris (2) Nov Joe Salisbury (2)
2023 Player of the Season Joe Salisbury (2nd PoS title)
2024 Winner
Dec 23 Hannah Klugman (3)
Jan Kyle Edmund
Feb Katie Boulter (2)
Mar Lily Miyazaki / Fran Jones (5)
-- Edited by JonH comes home on Wednesday 3rd of April 2024 07:29:57 AM
This is our first PoM tie for top place since 2021, it has only happened twice before - the two entries suggesting a tie in 2022 were actually a doubles pair winning it, so not a tie at all (Liv/Lissey, and Julian/Henry).
Ties are not very common it seems! 3 ties in 45 votes, so roughly 6 or 7 % of the time in total
Updated list of PoS qualifiers with Lily and Fran making it 11 now confirmed
Ref 2024 Player of Season Qualifiers Player Name 1 Dec 23 PoM Hannah Klugman (1) 2 Dec 23 PoM RU Jack Draper (2) 3 Australian Open Men's Wheelchair Doubles Alfie Hewett/Gordon Reid (3) 4 Australian Open Quad Wheelchair Doubles Andy Lapthorne (4) 5 Jan PoM Kyle Edmund (5) 6 Jan PoM RU Luke Johnson (6) 7 Feb PoM Katie Boulter (7) 8 Feb PoM RU Julian Cash (8) 9 Feb PoM RU Marni Banks (9)
10 Mar PoM Lily Miyazaki (10)
11 Mar PoM Fran Jones (11)
-- Edited by JonH comes home on Wednesday 3rd of April 2024 07:55:23 AM
Some folks may have spotted a post i made back in January that I would be looking to hopefully hand over the running of player of the month and season to someone else who is interested; my desire is to see this season out for both PoM and PoS , PoS taking place in early January 2025. There is a long time before then but, as we get closer to that point, drop me a line on a PM if you think you could be the person to take it on in 8 months or so.
Dont need anyone to own it now, but please keep it in mind if this could be something that interests you!
meanwhile, Im enjoying the open nature of the 2024 season and looking forward to seeing how the months and season unfolds. I cant believe we are just 5 weeks away from grass season and Surbiton !
-- Edited by JonH comes home on Saturday 27th of April 2024 08:26:38 AM
Winner Jan Joe Salisbury Feb Heather Watson Mar Sam Murray-Sharan Apr no play - Covid May no play - Covid Jun/Jul Arthur Fery Aug Jo Konta Sep Fran Jones Oct Fran Jones (2) Nov/Dec Hep Oluwadare
2020 Player of Season Joe Salisbury
2021 Winner Jan Fran Jones (3) Feb Dan Evans Mar Neal Skupski Apr Dan Evans (2) May Cam Norrie / Hannah Klugman (tie) Jun Katie Swan Jul Emma Raducanu Aug Emma Raducanu (2) Sep Emma Raducanu (3) Oct Cam Norrie (2) Nov/Dec Beth Grey/Billy Harris/Sonay Kartal (tie)
2021 Player of Season Emma Raducanu
2022 Winner
Jan Hannah Klugman (2) Feb Sonay Kartal (2) Mar Harriet Dart Apr Jay Clarke May Sonay Kartal (3) Jun Ryan Peniston Jul Cam Norrie (3) Aug Alicia Barnett/Olivia Nicholls Sep Katie Swan (2) Oct Emily Appleton Nov Henry Patten/Julian Cash
2022 Player of Season Jack Draper
2023 Winner
Dec/Jan Andy Murray Feb Cam Norrie (4) Mar Jodie Burrage Apr Fran Jones (4) May George Loffhagen Jun Katie Boulter Jul Henry Searle Aug Dan Evans (3) Sep Dan Evans (4) Oct Billy Harris (2) Nov Joe Salisbury (2)
2023 Player of the Season Joe Salisbury (2nd PoS title)
Updated list of PoS qualifiers with Emma and Mika making it 13 qualifiers now confirmed
Ref 2024 Player of Season Qualifiers Player Name 1 Dec 23 PoM Hannah Klugman (1) 2 Dec 23 PoM RU Jack Draper (2) 3 Australian Open Men's Wheelchair Doubles Alfie Hewett/Gordon Reid (3) 4 Australian Open Quad Wheelchair Doubles Andy Lapthorne (4) 5 Jan PoM Kyle Edmund (5) 6 Jan PoM RU Luke Johnson (6) 7 Feb PoM Katie Boulter (7) 8 Feb PoM RU Julian Cash (8) 9 Feb PoM RU Marni Banks (9)
10 Mar PoM Lily Miyazaki (10)
11 Mar PoM Fran Jones (11) 12 Apr PoM Emma Raducanu (12)
In terms of the voting patterns, I have calculated the average vote for the final in each month of the year to date to show how votes are progressing year on year:
This year has seen votes per months final increase to almost 50 per month, which is amazing and a 17% increase on last year. Votes have doubled on average since we started this in 2020, although the first few months of 2020 got impacted pretty quickly by Covid!
Nonetheless, I can recall Steven of these parts going onto his twitter account to try and drum up votes to take us to 40 for the first time. To now be reaching 59 (last month was 41!) is amazing and long may it continue
Word of caution - May is regularly the slowest month voting wise. Consistently. Something to do with a month of out and out clay, vote starting as the FO starts and it is also the end of May bank holiday, so votes get reduced accordingly, I guess.
-- Edited by JonH comes home on Tuesday 30th of April 2024 10:06:07 PM
I am not going to be around the board too much next week or so - I have a business trip taking me overseas for 10 days (to Jamaica, someone has to do it!) and so will be busy on a different time zone and , although I will check in, I presume the threads around May PoM nominations will survive quite nicely without me!
I am not going to be around the board too much next week or so - I have a business trip taking me overseas for 10 days (to Jamaica, someone has to do it!) and so will be busy on a different time zone and , although I will check in, I presume the threads around May PoM nominations will survive quite nicely without me!
I am not going to be around the board too much next week or so - I have a business trip taking me overseas for 10 days (to Jamaica, someone has to do it!) and so will be busy on a different time zone and , although I will check in, I presume the threads around May PoM nominations will survive quite nicely without me!