Jack Draper, Emma Raducanu and Sonay Kartal nominated for national Player of the Year award

The nominees have been confirmed for the LTA Player of the Year with Jack Draper, Sonay Kartal and Emma Raducanu being the standout names involved in the running for the respective awards.

The LTA who run British Tennis day-to-day nationally are set to give out awards for the WTA, ATP, ITF and Wheelchair Tennis Tours and acknowledge the achievements of British players who had standout years during the 2025 season.

Female Player of the Year is led by Emma Raducanu with the LTA giving their reasoning for this as that she beat Amanda Anisimova and Emma Navarro to reach the Quarter-Finals of the WTA 1000 Miami Open in March. She reached the Quarter-Finals at Queen's and contested a memorable tie with Aryna Sabalenka in the third round at Wimbledon as well as also playing her in a quality tie at the Cincinnati Open in August.

She is on course to be a seed at the Australian Open. Unlike Katie Boulter who perhaps is the leading name to miss out on these awards, she has slumped out of the top 100 and is on course to have to go through qualifying in January for the first Grand Slam of the year. A far cry from previously when she was the British No.1 and at the end of last season at least, she was one of the best players on the planet for a long while during the Asian swing.

But she tore her abductor in the latter half of this year and had a bit of a choice to make whether she was going to play events and risk her injury getting worse. She decided not to play events and campaigned for the WTA to change their cut-off date to the same as the ATP which is the end of the actual season and not after smaller events in December in which Boulter would've directly got a spot before that.

But while she is not on the list, Francesca Jones is. She is well inside the top 100 and achieved a career high of World No.71 in October. She won a W75 tournament in Brazil in March and won an event also in Prague in May. She won titles in Contrexeville in France and Palermo to close in on the top 100 and reached the main draw of the US Open after breaking into the top 100. Starting the year at World No.152, she is now well inside the cusp.

Sonay Kartal finally had a superb year and finished as World No.84 after breaking into the top 50 earlier in the year and reaching a career high of World No.44. She had a thrilling run to the fourth round of Wimbledon and the Last 16 at Indian Wells. She anchored Britain at the Billie Jean King Cup in April and ended on a high reaching the Quarter-Finals of the China Open. There she beat Mirra Andreeva which was the highest win of her ranking career so far.

In the men's, it is Jack Draper who leads the way. After ending 2024 at World No.15, he broke into the top 10 for the first time by winning Indian Wells. He then reached the Madrid Open final booking a top five spot. But he did spend half the season out injured and has just today withdrawn from Macau and also didn't play the UTS Grand Final. So his road to recovery has hit a stumbling block.

Others to headline the men's are Cameron Norrie. He won three matches at the French Open and then enjoyed the best run of the year by reaching the Quarter-Finals at Wimbledon losing to Carlos Alcaraz. Won both of his matches for Great Britain in the Davis Cup and also beat Alcaraz in Paris before ending his year with a run to the final in Metz losing to Learner Tien.

Jacob Fearnley also has been nominated. He opened his year with a win against Nick Kyrgios and reached the third round in Melbourne. He won his first match at the Davis Cup and the third round at the French Open. He reached a career high of World No.49 in June in a standout year.