Before the season-finishing CIB PSA World Tour Finals – taking location in Cairo, Egypt from June 9-14 – we’re asking squash fanatics to get concerned in the annual Player Of The Year balloting to assist in deciding who has to be crowned the 2018/19 PSA Players Of The Year. Your votes will be counted along with those solid via the PSA Awards Committee – a collection such as selected influential former players, participants of the media, match promoters, and PSA Board representatives – to decide the winners of the four largest annual awards: Female Player of the Year, Male Player of the Year, Young Female Player of the Year and Young Male Player of the Year. So read underneath to look at who the primary contenders are, and cast your vote to assist in crowning this 12 months’ winners.
Female Player of the Year
This award is given to the lady participant who best validated excellent athletic overall performance and achievement during the 2018/19 PSA World Tour season.
The Main Contenders
- Winner: Tournament of Champions (PSA Platinum)
- Winner: PSA World Championship
- Runner-up: US Open (PSA Platinum)
- Runner-up: Black Ball Open (PSA Gold)
- Runner-up: DPD Open (PSA Gold)
- Ranking: Spent four months of the season as World No.1
Novak Djokovic: World No. 1 Novak Djokovic represents Group A. The Serb has seen an exceptional upward push in form and ratings in 2011 by producing breathtaking tennis – on a consistent observe. Djokovic has received three Grand Slam titles this year in Melbourne, Wimbledon, and New York and has a remarkable sixty-nine-4 win-loss report for the season. Djokovic has claimed ten titles to this point within the new season. His best time out at the ATP World Tour Finals was a title victory 2008.
Andy Murray: The Super-Scot Andy Murray comes 2nd in Group A. The Scot made it to the semi-finals of all four Grand Slam tournaments this year. He additionally completed as a runner-up in the Australian Open in advance this 12 months. By displaying superb consistency on an excursion, Murray has surpassed Roger Federer for the first time in the Rankings and reached his career’s first-rate ranking of No. Three – this season. Murray additionally enjoyed superb success in the Asian hard-courtroom swing, with again-to-back identifying victories in Bangkok, Tokyo, and Shanghai. The Scot has a stellar 56-12 win-loss file for the season and has claimed five titles this 12 months. His quality outings at the ATP World Tour Finals were semi-very-last appearances in 2008.
David Ferrer: The feisty Spaniard David Ferrer is overshadowed by using his compatriot Rafael Nadal now and again – to get the general public’s attention. He is one of the most regular gamers on an excursion this season. The Spaniard did extremely well on his favorite floor clay to qualify for any other ATP World Tour Finals event for the 0.33-time in his profession. Ferrer commenced the new season on an excessive observe by claiming the name in Auckland and also completed as a semi-finalist on the Aussie Open – for the first time in his profession. Ferrer has a perfect fifty-six-17 win-loss file for the season, with two ATP World Tour titles in his kitty. He finished as a runner-up in the 2007 ATP World Tour Finals. Tomas Berdych:
A hugely talented Czech who can beat the best in enterprise on any given day – Tomas Berdych secured his berth within the final eight at this prestigious occasion after making it to the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters. In Beijing’s closing month, the Czech earned his best ATP title this season. Earlier this 12 months, Berdych reached the sector-finals of the Aussie Open; however, he did not repeat his ultimate year’s feat at Wimbledon and misplaced to Mardy Fish in the fourth round. Berdych has a terrific 52-21 win-loss report this year. He qualified for the ATP World Tour Finals for the first time in the remaining 12 months. However, he failed to pass past the round-robin degree.
