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Neal Skupski
0.0%
Liv Zingg
0.0%
Sophie Johnstone
0.0%
Jan Choinski
18.2%
Katie Swan
36.4%
Toby Samuel
45.5%
Alicia Dudeney
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JonH


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May vote - vote will close 7.50pm Tuesday 26th May 

everyone knows the process now - only thing I like to ask is, if and when you vote, please tell us who you vote for and your reasoning! 

Nomination list:

1 - Neal Skupski - back to #1 in the world in doubles. Being #1 - you can't do better than that - got to be worth a shoutout

2 - Liv Zingg - 14 years old, Liv won the biggest title of her career with the J100 in Peru, taking out the top seed in the process. As CD said at the time of her title "Liv is still 14, and this is her first singles title at above J30 level

3 - Sophie Johnstone - doing the double, winning singles and doubles, at the domestic J60 in Edinburgh. Her second singles and doubles title this year, and first titles at J60 level

4. Jan Choinski - winning the CH75 in Zagreb, his first title of the season and taking him to a new career high and the verge of the top 100

5. Katie Swan - winning back-to-back titles in Japan - W35 at Fukuoka, follows by W75 at Kurume, accompanied by a rise in ranking of 66 places to 203 Ten consecutive wins and only dropped one set.

6.Toby Samuel - beating Martin Damm, and David Goffin, en route to qualifying for his first grand slam event in the French Open, on clay, a result which will see his ranking move near to the top 150 and to GB number 8

7. Alicia Dudeney - in the first week of the month as top seed she won the Nottingham W35 singles. And then in the 3rd week of the 3, as respectively 2nd and top seed, she won both the singles and doubles in the Estepona, Spain W35. From singles WR 301 at 04/05 she will rise to a further CH about WR 257, currently projected to be GB #7. In doubles from WR 216 at 04/05 she will rise to a further CH about WR 200, currently projected to be GB #10.

 



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JonH


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Enjoy!

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Jan


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Katie was definitely going to be my pick. Then Toby went and qualified in Paris! What do I do????
To be decided...


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Canda


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I thought no-one could come close to Katie ...but then toby .... and then Alicia. How do I decide ?????

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I don't expect he'll get many more votes, but getting a direct acceptance into the main draw of a slam is enough of a rarity for the Brits that I will give my vote to Jan



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JonH


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Thank you, Brendan - Im glad Jan gets your vote and you never know!

Ive decided mine but will wait a bit before voting!

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Katie might have been top seed in the two Japanese tournaments but she still had to win the matches and given her injury record it was fantastic to see her get the wins.
Alicia won both the two W35's she played this month and came close to getting my vote, but Katie's tournaments were a higher level and her performances were more impressive, so I'm voting for Katie.

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I was always going to vote Katie, the last week did make me think about it for a millisecond but in good old exam traditiom always stick with your 1st choice.

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It has to be Katie, how she has kept going when plagued by her injuries since early teens is remarkable, how she has come up against more injuries since she launched Katie 2.0 and finally play enough games to get a bit of match fitness, and then win two tournaments in the same month is legendary.



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Coup Droit


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we're the 24th ?

There's another week of May - what am I missing ?

What about all the events in the week coming up?

No one's going to include them in June because it's not June - so what happens to them?

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Coup Droit wrote:

we're the 24th ?

There's another week of May - what am I missing ?

What about all the events in the week coming up?

No one's going to include them in June because it's not June - so what happens to them?

 youve not been following CD, lots of posts about it. the May nominations thread made it clear. 

we dont split grand slams and so we either closed may now or we closed May on June 8th. Which would have made June a 3 week period. 
So May was made into 3 weeks to keep the FO all together and all other events in the FO week follow. 

There have been quite a few posts on it, sorry you missed them and didnt comment at the time. 



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Sorry - my fault - I only come here to nominate or to vote

No worries

As long as everyone's agreed, that's fine

I'll decide in a week's time

What was decided about next week's events? We nominate those in June?

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JonH wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:

we're the 24th ?

There's another week of May - what am I missing ?

What about all the events in the week coming up?

No one's going to include them in June because it's not June - so what happens to them?

 youve not been following CD, lots of posts about it. the May nominations thread made it clear. 

we dont split grand slams and so we either closed may now or we closed May on June 8th. Which would have made June a 3 week period. 
So May was made into 3 weeks to keep the FO all together and all other events in the FO week follow. 

There have been quite a few posts on it, sorry you missed them and didnt comment at the time. 

 It was never going to be ideal but Im afraid it was explained and not one person commented adversely. In my opinion, counting the single week events next week as May and the FO as June would have caused more confusion. 

The June PoM nominations will go up on Tuesday night and people will follow trust me - most of the interesting action will be the FO first week anyway. 

Sorry you didnt follow. Or missed something as you say! 



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Coup Droit wrote:

Sorry - my fault - I only come here to nominate or to vote

No worries

As long as everyone's agreed, that's fine

I'll decide in a week's time

What was decided about next week's events? We nominate those in June?

 Yes, next weeks events will follow the FO and be in June, which will finish as Wimbledon main draws commence, and June is a 5 week process. 



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This may be a short list compared to some months but every nomination is very impressive.

Tough choice but I went for Toby. Getting through qualifying for any grand slam is very hard, first time for anything is always worth celebrating and he beat some strong opposition to get there.

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