British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

JonH comes home wrote:

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Here is our updated roll of honour, to include Telstar. I will update the total once British interest is over and, in this tally, WILL also include the 2 mixed doubles winners as it is a better comparator when we look back on how many wins Brits achieved - better to have the two wins than not, right now!! 

Wins	Titles
	2019	Best predictor
13	AO	Wolf, Miriamabc
11	FO	No winner named
25	W	Wolf (2)
24	USO	Miriamabc (2), MichaelD, Indiana
	2020
21	AO	Blue Belle
9	FO	SuperT
	W	no competition
11	USO	SuperT (2)
	2021
23	AO	Indiana (2)
9	FO	Brendan F
40	W	foobarbaz
32	USO	Miriamabc (3)
	2022
17	AO	brittak
16	FO	no competition
43	W	Miramabc (4)
26	USO	JonH
	2023
20	AO	Coup Droit, Indiana (3)
15	FO	Miriamabc (5), JonH (2)
30	W	Miriamabc (6)
26	USO	Elegant Point
	2024
21	AO	Elegant Point (2), goldfish
13	FO	mdewey
40	W	Indiana (4)
27	USO	Indiana (5), FlipFlops
	2025
28	AO	goldfish (2)
36	FO	Indiana (6)
39	W	DF, Danten
	USO	Telstar

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Sunday 31st of August 2025 10:30:05 PM

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 If we include the mixed - and for comparison purposes we should- the USO will end up with 17 or 18 British wins. Which will take the year as a whole to close to 120 wins. The previous best was 102, so close to a 20 percent increase this year on any past year since we started this. 

the USO may have been a washout, but the FO and AO were great fortnights that shouldnt be forgotten. 

Now, we didn't include the US Open Mixed Doubles in our predictions contest this year...but what about the Australian Open and the Million Dollar One Point Slam - SC posted elsewhere about it, I cant find her post - but in essence, there are 32 players (22 pros and 10 amateurs) and they play 5 rounds (31 "matches") of one point tennis to crown a winner of $1m. The players apparently play "rock, paper, scissors" to determine who serves. Pros get one serve only, amateurs will have two serves. Not sure how the draw works and who is playing, Alcaraz apparently is.

ausopen.com/articles/news/million-dollar-1-point-slam-light-ao-2026

Bit of fun and I like this much more as a prelude to the tournament than moving the mixed doubles like the USO did.

But now got to decide if we count any British players taking part in our AO wins counters?!



JK!

JonH comes home wrote:

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For 2026, Ive chosen to change the points system for the in year overall rankings from this - it goes a little deeper (top 12 as opposed to top 10) and spreads the points a little more, with the bonus for being spot on being relatively less than last year, so that the bonus doesnt out reward someone already well rewarded for winning.

1st 50
2nd 40
3rd 30
4th 25
5th 20
6th 15
7th 10
8th 7
9th 5
10th 3
11th 2
12th 1
And then the bonus of 5 points for being spot on with the prediction.

I will start a new thread for this in January

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 We may end up with 5 predictors landing on equal 1st and 55 points from the AO, and then a big gap to 6th place. Probably means the points system is not perfect, but it is what I decided to go with and cant change now. Will obviously look quite different as a table if Neal wins the mens doubles and we have just one winner and a large number of players then landing on what will be equal second. 

I am over the moon to be in with a shout among the 5. The only time when I have been placed before, in ANY of the prediction competitions, is when I haven't entered LoL!
I will be just as delighted if Elegant Point gets it spot on.
Thanks for running the competition Jon.

JonH comes home wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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For 2026, Ive chosen to change the points system for the in year overall rankings from this - it goes a little deeper (top 12 as opposed to top 10) and spreads the points a little more, with the bonus for being spot on being relatively less than last year, so that the bonus doesnt out reward someone already well rewarded for winning.

1st 50
2nd 40
3rd 30
4th 25
5th 20
6th 15
7th 10
8th 7
9th 5
10th 3
11th 2
12th 1
And then the bonus of 5 points for being spot on with the prediction.

I will start a new thread for this in January

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 We may end up with 5 predictors landing on equal 1st and 55 points from the AO, and then a big gap to 6th place. Probably means the points system is not perfect, but it is what I decided to go with and cant change now. Will obviously look quite different as a table if Neal wins the mens doubles and we have just one winner and a large number of players then landing on what will be equal second. 

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Ill post the standings later, following the AO. Suffice to say, we had a winner spot on so they get 55 points. We had 9 runners up who all get equal second and 40 points. And then a good number equal 11th and they get 2 points for that. we dont usually get such bunching around the winner so the drop through being one win out is quite dramatic between those in second and those just behind on what turns out to be 11th place.

Pro sport is tough!  

And these are the post AO standings - 1/4 of the way through the year long event

55	Elegant Point	55
40	Brendan F	40
40	Brittak	40
40	Canda	40
40	Danny1312	40
40	DF	40
40	goldfish	40
40	Johnny Aitch	40
40	Mdewey	40
40	vhughes	40
2	Blue Belle	2
2	Miriam abc	2
2	Sliced Backhand	2
2	SuperT	2
2	Tramlines	2
2	Var	2

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Saturday 31st of January 2026 10:57:44 AM