British Player of the Month Vote - March 2022

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

British Player of the Month Vote - March 2022

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

10 players with votes.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Ok , 38 now , gap closing slightly. Come on Harriet, Paul, Liv, Lissey and Hannah fans , time to vote !

SuperT · Futures level

Voting just gets more and more difficult every month due to the increased success of so many players. Normally Jack winning a Challenger would be enough to secure the vote, but we've almost come to expect him to win so it doesn't seem such a big deal any more! Joe and Cam both passed huge milestones but sadly without a tournament win this month it's more a tribute to their performance over the past year rather than an outstanding performance this month. I'd love to vote for Hannah but feel she has time on her side. So that brings it down to Paul for his exceptional performances on the clay in South America or Harriet for her breakthrough week in Miami. I love Harriet but I think the tournament win just gives Paul the edge.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

SuperT wrote:
Voting just gets more and more difficult every month due to the increased success of so many players. Normally Jack winning a Challenger would be enough to secure the vote, but we've almost come to expect him to win so it doesn't seem such a big deal any more! Joe and Cam both passed huge milestones but sadly without a tournament win this month it's more a tribute to their performance over the past year rather than an outstanding performance this month. I'd love to vote for Hannah but feel she has time on her side. So that brings it down to Paul for his exceptional performances on the clay in South America or Harriet for her breakthrough week in Miami. I love Harriet but I think the tournament win just gives Paul the edge.

Good call , SuperT

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

One hour left in this. Im looking for 3 or 4 more votes to come in folks, make me happy!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Just over half an hour left, sticking at 38 votes.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

20 mins left; still 38- are we done?!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

39 votes now, 7 mins left!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Well - there we have it! 39 votes placed, second highest ever.

Congrats to Harriet Dart on her first PoM title; hard luck to Paul Jubb in 2nd, Lissey and Liv as 3rd and Hannah K in 4th.

indiana · Tennis legend

Well done to Harriet, probably my #2 this month after Paul so quite happy with that.

Was slightly surprised Harriet hadn't won PoM before. She must just have been in the mix.

steven · Tennis legend

SuperT wrote:
Voting just gets more and more difficult every month due to the increased success of so many players. Normally Jack winning a Challenger would be enough to secure the vote, but we've almost come to expect him to win so it doesn't seem such a big deal any more! Joe and Cam both passed huge milestones but sadly without a tournament win this month it's more a tribute to their performance over the past year rather than an outstanding performance this month. I'd love to vote for Hannah but feel she has time on her side. So that brings it down to Paul for his exceptional performances on the clay in South America or Harriet for her breakthrough week in Miami. I love Harriet but I think the tournament win just gives Paul the edge.

The results seemed really bizarre to me (and I say that as a huge fan of Harriet!) but SuperT's explanation above is probably a very good description of how the forum's collective mind must have worked, even if he didn't vote for the winner, so thanks for convincing me that there was some logic to it and the majority of the forum isn't completely mad biggrin

Jan · Hall of fame

steven wrote:
SuperT wrote:
Voting just gets more and more difficult every month due to the increased success of so many players. Normally Jack winning a Challenger would be enough to secure the vote, but we've almost come to expect him to win so it doesn't seem such a big deal any more! Joe and Cam both passed huge milestones but sadly without a tournament win this month it's more a tribute to their performance over the past year rather than an outstanding performance this month. I'd love to vote for Hannah but feel she has time on her side. So that brings it down to Paul for his exceptional performances on the clay in South America or Harriet for her breakthrough week in Miami. I love Harriet but I think the tournament win just gives Paul the edge.
The results seemed really bizarre to me (and I say that as a huge fan of Harriet!) but SuperT's explanation above is probably a very good description of how the forum's collective mind must have worked, even if he didn't vote for the winner, so thanks for convincing me that there was some logic to it and the majority of the forum isn't completely mad

Glad to hear that we are not completely mad! Just slightly then wink biggrin

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

I think this is the first time I've ever voted for Harriet, but I think you can certainly make a case for someone winning a POTM vote after 3 solid back to back wins over proper WTA players, ranked 48, 18 (even if unfortunate circumstances) and 63 (who can beat almost anybody on her day), especially as a 120 odd player (at the time) who'd never previously cracked the top 100 before.

Her average odds in those respective matches were 2.94, 4.15, and 4.02, so a significant underdog in all of them which needs to be taken into account for relativity, plus they were all televised, so more exposure than say Paul, her nearest challenger, who only won one match as an underdog in March (his final at odds of 3.58).

She perhaps did benefit slightly from a maybe slightly more women leaning forum, as has been discussed before, but she was certainly a leading contender heading into the vote, and far from bizarre IMO.

indiana · Tennis legend

I had Paul and Harriet as my top 2 ( very significant month for both ) so the forum is of very sound collectivev mind in its top choices

Bahhhhh