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British wheelchair tennis star Alfie Hewett has been shortlisted as one of six athletes up for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2023.
Hewett’s nomination comes in recognition of an incredible 2023 campaign that has seen him finish the year as world No.1 in singles and doubles, win five Grand Slam titles, reach the final of all four major singles draws, lift the Masters singles and doubles trophies, and become ITF World Champion for the first time in his career.
In addition to the 26-year-old’s achievements on the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour this year, Hewett also led the Lexus Great Britain team to glory at the World Team Cup, where he went undefeated across all the Brits’ ties.
Alfie Hewett and Christine Truman Janes are set to be recognised by the British Tennis Journalists' Association (BTJA) with awards for their achievements and services to the sport.
26-year-old Hewett has been named the British Tennis Journalists' Association Player of the Year for 2023 in recognition of a stellar season that saw him finish as the world No.1 in both wheelchair singles and doubles.
Hewett is the first wheelchair tennis star to receive the award after a season that saw him win five Grand Slam titles (Singles: Australian Open & US Open; Doubles: Australian Open, Roland Garros & Wimbledon) as well as the Masters titles in November.
The award was decided by a ballot of BTJA members. Previous winners of the award include Andy Murray, Emma Raducanu and Virginia Wade.
"2023 has been really special," Hewett said. "To finish the year as world No 1 in both singles and doubles has been a huge goal of mine from the outset of my career and I so appreciate the support along the way to make this happen.
"In particular I feel we have again seen continued progression and amazing exposure for the sport of wheelchair tennis. I’m ever grateful to all parties including the British tennis journalists who have backed us and given us a platform to chat about this amazing sport. I only hope for this to continue and continue to grow. Thank you kindly for this award. Bring on 2024."
British wheelchair tennis star Alfie Hewett has been shortlisted as one of six athletes up for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2023.
Hewett’s nomination comes in recognition of an incredible 2023 campaign that has seen him finish the year as world No.1 in singles and doubles, win five Grand Slam titles, reach the final of all four major singles draws, lift the Masters singles and doubles trophies, and become ITF World Champion for the first time in his career.
In addition to the 26-year-old’s achievements on the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour this year, Hewett also led the Lexus Great Britain team to glory at the World Team Cup, where he went undefeated across all the Brits’ ties.
Alfie Hewett and Christine Truman Janes are set to be recognised by the British Tennis Journalists' Association (BTJA) with awards for their achievements and services to the sport.
26-year-old Hewett has been named the British Tennis Journalists' Association Player of the Year for 2023 in recognition of a stellar season that saw him finish as the world No.1 in both wheelchair singles and doubles.
Hewett is the first wheelchair tennis star to receive the award after a season that saw him win five Grand Slam titles (Singles: Australian Open & US Open; Doubles: Australian Open, Roland Garros & Wimbledon) as well as the Masters titles in November.
The award was decided by a ballot of BTJA members. Previous winners of the award include Andy Murray, Emma Raducanu and Virginia Wade.
"2023 has been really special," Hewett said. "To finish the year as world No 1 in both singles and doubles has been a huge goal of mine from the outset of my career and I so appreciate the support along the way to make this happen.
"In particular I feel we have again seen continued progression and amazing exposure for the sport of wheelchair tennis. I’m ever grateful to all parties including the British tennis journalists who have backed us and given us a platform to chat about this amazing sport. I only hope for this to continue and continue to grow. Thank you kindly for this award. Bring on 2024."
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Another plus for KJT is probably a decent regional vote, in a likely low voter turnout year and as far as Hewett goes, the para vote is fairly strong historically, and he has pass me the Kleenex eyes.
Alfie deserved better, seems tennis supporters only get behind someone when it suits. miserable Murray of all people
Murray had huge amounts of jock votes .
Beaten by rory I'm hearing
Beaten by rory I'm hearing
Your thread deserved summat, mine certainly didn't
fecking disgusting they do it year after year, shouldn't be 6 or 10...just whoever deserves it whatever the number within reason ofc
They could have sounded rory out and realised he had no interest
i watched Kerr for 1st time the other day, amazing race. best moment of the year
Not the first time I've been shaking my head about a top 3 bet on this one. Cricketer who did feck all this year in second, and somehow the tennis winner with all the adversity to overcome gets naff all. Viewers just as much filth as the whole event really.
Broad, dettori and rory should never have been nommed by the bbc criteria, two of them total lifetime achievement things. Thin year, but lots of people actually won titles
The whole event has become a total farce, it has very little respect left and that is coming from a growing list of this country's best sports stars.
you'd have to think the majority of that audience felt so sorry for Kerr and Alfie by the end of it
Careful now, cowell will offer to do it and they'll have to do a little entertainment routine too
best thing that can happen is a break away from the bbc, its actually a good idea for someone to to pick up on it
They have ruined the programme without doubt. Earps, Broad then KJT was almost pre determined before the show with the outside chance of Alfie rallying like a king on the night. I don't think he was even that close to KJT despite her being on first. Would be good to see the votes.
We shouldn't complain though. Very easy money for us. Broady was pushed out to 2.8 w/o at one stage ! When he was probably about 1.1 for it !
Would be good to see the votes.
Another thing the beeb have been awful at - why anyone would bother to vote when they give 0 information afterwards, beggars belief to me.
Though it was maybe something like:
Earps 956 votes
Broad 500
3rd 350
Alfie 300
Another thing the beeb have been awful at - why anyone would bother to vote when they give 0 information afterwards, beggars belief to me.
Though it was maybe something like:
Earps 956 votes
Broad 500
3rd 350
Alfie 300
It's turned into a daily magazine show for sport. Essentially another This Morning, Lorraine or Lose Women. So it's no surprise if someone they would gush over should win it. I guess Mo was the initial pointer to that, never got anywhere through his amazing achievements, but wins due to his kids playing up, humanising him. And that's not anti women before the white knights pop up, it just reflects the direction that the bbc want their interpretation of 'sport' to go in. Much like the rest of their modern day output.
It is being feminised I agree cider - that's why more masculine sports like Rugby and Boxing are barely getting a squeak at it these days.
In a nut shell, sports nuts aren't voting in numbers, as the audience has changed. The audience was probably more interested in Broad's WAG than his Ashes exploits!
We've had an undisputed Heavyweight world boxing champion for years, but barely managed a look in at this competition.
Cultural as well, isn't it. I grew up knowing boxers as household names. My family doing their absolute nut when barry mcguigan won. Millions of people watching Davis / Taylor into the early hours. The Derby had enormous audiences on a weekday. We've slowly been weened off sport essentially, just as we have comedy. Only football remains central, but that is being chipped away too, putting in on a minor channel.
Said he wasn't interested and told people not to vote for him tbf
Did she feature in it at all? I'm guessing they would not resist making her a part of it. At the very least, placed very prominently in the live audience.
He has at times not helped with his attitude to it, I suppose yes. Though hardly surprising, to have that attitude to it.
The wider culture of sport has certainly changed, I'd agree with that too.
Not sure i agree, they've nommed a fair few boxers. Fewer recently as there's been less success. Fury just not interested
I had a great win on that welsh bloke :)
I had a great win on that welsh bloke :)
Boxers aren't generally household names now, and yes that can certainly be part explained by it being behind a pay wall for most people.
That was fair few years back now though GB - think it's amazing how quick things have changed in sport perceptions, at least for Beeb and their viewers.
There's lots of factors at play, not that I can pinpoint them all! That are working towards making the working man's life rather insipid. The obliteration of sport is certainly one of them, and the hollowing out of spoty is a reflection of that.
Dec 20, 2023 -- 4:00PM, Cider wrote:
Boxers aren't generally household names now, and yes that can certainly be part explained by it being behind a pay wall for most people.
Fully explained. Live sport used to be very scarce on tv. It's why the likes of McGuigan, Eubank and Benn were so huge. Millions used to tune in to watch Harvey Smith jump a few fences. Now live sport is everywhere. If you are willing to pay
Feminisation is a wider trend for sure - sport, in some representations, seems to be one of the outcomes of that.
They'll be scared to ever nom anyone from the other fighting genres. That unpronounceable guy won the overseas vote a few years ago
About only event that bucked the above trend recent was IAC - 3 men voted into the final over all the women!
lol this has turned into the Andrew Tate fan club thread
Stu is all polite all year, then the baileys comes out for xmas and his hormone levels go through the roof!
It's only part of it, Fig. The BBC has the resources to have ftv sport, the big events. It's just not part of their agenda. It wouldn't surprise me even if the Olympics was abandoned.
Probably a trend that will die away but it's been great taking money off these mug male punters who think girls are rubbish :)
The BBC can't possibly compete with the sky money. The Olympics and the big footie tournaments is all they have left. And only because there's legislation to protect them.
There's plenty of sporting heroines to choose from. Not about that is it. I genuinely know nothing of the detail, but what I heard in passing is that Earps became a big name over some nonsense about replica shirts. I have no idea if that's why she was a deserved winner. As you usually have to be a Ben Stokes to win the thing being part of a team effort.
Plus MOTD, until the right wing snowflakes succeed in cancelling Lineaker
ITV has racing, BT Sport has football, I think C5 (or C4) has international football? Maybe the central prem contract is the only product genuinely out of their reach.
lol GB - I've always been the same, you must not have noticed. 
BTW I backed Earp win (for small profit) and lost by backing Josie in IAC, so I don't back in line with my own views on gender campaigning.
Dinnar stu, you are normally pretty well housetrained. No wonder your missus goes to stay with her sister ;-)
BBC aren't going to pay fortunes for sporting events that now attract relatively tiny audiences. The daily mail would be seething. Athletics was huge when I was young. For the reasons already stated. Live sport was a rarity. The recent WC only had about a million of so tuning in on primetime BBC
emma raducanu done something very notable, the last runner for this that I got behind (betting). Think she is female :) But it's not gone too well for her subsequently, I thought she could have been the next global tennis superstar :(
I blame Gabby Logan, Denise Lewis and Jess Ennis
Limpics and euros. Should be a pretty good market in 2024
Dinnar stu, you are normally pretty well housetrained. No wonder your missus goes to stay with her sister
That is who 'trains' me
That is who 'trains' me
lol Fig, are you trying to claim that the BBC doesn't waste money on output nobody watches ! I thought that was the reason for its existence, that the output didn't need to have the requirements of commercial justification (ie high viewing numbers).
Women can eff off like, man's year ;-)
Think I'll go back to my traditional laying everything and working out what i was wrong to lay later
Think I'll go back to my traditional laying everything and working out what i was wrong to lay later
Like I mentioned, the one that got me was the RTV events both IAC and BB going for the male winners - they buck the trend for supporting the females.
Both very female friendly of course. Can a jason or jim still win?
Olivia a big casualty (and arguably Trish) in that respect.
Good question about the alpha types - Bellew went close though.
lol Ofc they waste money on programming than no one watches. As you say, that's their raison d'etre. But when they accidentally make something people do like, other channels, with more money, buy the shows. That's what's happened with most sport. Apart from the events that can't be sold to the highest bidder
We're starting to see that with women's football
The debate from my perspective is not that a female won, it's why she won. In my view because of where BBC have taken sport and what it wants its audience to be and think. That doesn't mean it's not a betting opportunity any more, but it's outside of my arc.
Earps won because she's the best female goalkeeper in the world
Just as T&D won because they were the best at dancing on ice
It's what I'm getting at, I suppose. I was quite into female cricket when I still paid for sky sports.
It's not like men's sport is great, and women's sport is pants. In my view they broadly have a different appeal, and attract a different audience. And the audience probably overlaps with the people that would still watch spoty.
I could liken it to cinema. You could have two amazing films, both could win an oscar. But appeal to two totally different audiences.
It's not like men's sport is great, and women's sport is pants. In my view they broadly have a different appeal, and attract a different audience. And the audience probably overlaps with the people that would still watch spoty.
I could liken it to cinema. You could have two amazing films, both could win an oscar. But appeal to two totally different audiences.
Women's tennis is a great sport, competitive and with a real history.
Football and cricket in the women's game is nothing in comparison - I personally think it's more about that sort of heritage question, as the modern versions are pretended to be worthy well established competitions, when they basically are not.
Football and cricket in the women's game is nothing in comparison - I personally think it's more about that sort of heritage question, as the modern versions are pretended to be worthy well established competitions, when they basically are not.
Womens Football has a very long history. It was huge in the 1930's, until men decided to ban it
It will all be sky soon, so you won't need to worry about another Lioness winning
A historical blip though really as a sport?
The 'well established' issue is also more than just about history - it's about comparing minority sport (the women's) to majority sport (the men's).
It's like judging a winner of a village competition is as good as someone who competes or wins in an international. Like I say, I rate women's sports where the field is very strong e.g. Tennis.
The 'well established' issue is also more than just about history - it's about comparing minority sport (the women's) to majority sport (the men's).
It's like judging a winner of a village competition is as good as someone who competes or wins in an international. Like I say, I rate women's sports where the field is very strong e.g. Tennis.
I'd also rate women's athletics for same reason - highly competitive to become near the top.
So Broad not a worthy winner either. A minority sport mostly played by public school boys and only played in Countries that were part of the British Empire
Spoty only open to footballers (male) Tennis players and Athletes then, Anyone else?
There's many sports that are massively competitive and have high numbers, with difficult levels to overcome at each stage - but, whichever way it's looked at, there are less of those in the women's sports.
That's because they're too busy washing up and doing the hoovering
not arguing that it wasn't a societal reason women didn't play as much, that's probably true too.
But I'm sure a lot of that social reason also came from women themselves too in many cases - they didn't have as much interest in sport overall. They are closer now, but still not there - unlike the 'myth' the media like to present.
Of all the women I personally know, I'd estimate about 10% of them are actively interested in sport, and about 70%+ actually hate it all!
20, so I just halved it on the figures. Seriously though, do people find the women in their friends and families really love sport (as much as the men)?
Age is a factor I'd agree with that - the younger ones more likely to be the sport followers. Times may change for sure given the trend.
Sunderland always have had the highest proportion of female season ticket holders in the country, so i speak from a position of long term enlightenment :)
I actually went to games when meado was playing too, great to see what she achieved
I actually went to games when meado was playing too, great to see what she achieved
Earps won because she's the best female goalkeeper in the world
This may well be true, I have no idea. Or how notable it is. I can absolutely guarantee however that less than 10% of the voting audience for her have any thorough knowledge of the rather niche world of global female footballing goalkeepers, and would most likely struggle to even name another one outside of Britain.
The debate about what it should take/deserve to win spoty has always been endless, even what the phrase 'sports personality' is intended to mean. I don't actually care myself, there's a public vote and someone wins, it was up to me to judge who might that be before it became obvious. It has become a rather niche event in of itself anyway. My observations are mostly around the betting, and my involvement. What used to be another annual specials money spinner, I don't play any more.
The way I see it, the rules of engagement have shifted away from what I am quite good at. We may well see another Ben Stokes Or Emma type achievement that meant they could not be overtaken by a narrative. If we're honest, if things had played out exactly the same in the sporting world in 2011 instead of this year, I doubt Earps would have been in the top half of the final 10. I doubt, outside of friends and family of the players, too many other people even knew that a female football world cup was taking place, never mind determining that a participant was the best sporting performer our country had that year. I'm not even trying to claim it is better/worse now/then, just that it's no longer something that I will be engaging in from a betting perspective.
This may well be true, I have no idea. Or how notable it is. I can absolutely guarantee however that less than 10% of the voting audience for her have any thorough knowledge of the rather niche world of global female footballing goalkeepers, and would most likely struggle to even name another one outside of Britain.
The debate about what it should take/deserve to win spoty has always been endless, even what the phrase 'sports personality' is intended to mean. I don't actually care myself, there's a public vote and someone wins, it was up to me to judge who might that be before it became obvious. It has become a rather niche event in of itself anyway. My observations are mostly around the betting, and my involvement. What used to be another annual specials money spinner, I don't play any more.
The way I see it, the rules of engagement have shifted away from what I am quite good at. We may well see another Ben Stokes Or Emma type achievement that meant they could not be overtaken by a narrative. If we're honest, if things had played out exactly the same in the sporting world in 2011 instead of this year, I doubt Earps would have been in the top half of the final 10. I doubt, outside of friends and family of the players, too many other people even knew that a female football world cup was taking place, never mind determining that a participant was the best sporting performer our country had that year. I'm not even trying to claim it is better/worse now/then, just that it's no longer something that I will be engaging in from a betting perspective.
All very good points cider.
The odd thing is that from a betting perspective this year was one of the easiest really - Earps was over evens for plenty time after she had done what she did to win it. Fair play to GB for being early in pointing it out.
BTW I love your point above:
I can absolutely guarantee however that less than 10% of the voting audience for her have any thorough knowledge of the rather niche world of global female footballing goalkeepers, and would most likely struggle to even name another one outside of Britain.
Like you said, this is no longer a recognition of greatness in sport primarily, but a chat show style magazine presentation of what the BBC think sport is currently. Would be interesting to see it on a different channel for sure, maybe even a sports channel like SKY?
The odd thing is that from a betting perspective this year was one of the easiest really - Earps was over evens for plenty time after she had done what she did to win it. Fair play to GB for being early in pointing it out.
BTW I love your point above:
I can absolutely guarantee however that less than 10% of the voting audience for her have any thorough knowledge of the rather niche world of global female footballing goalkeepers, and would most likely struggle to even name another one outside of Britain.
Like you said, this is no longer a recognition of greatness in sport primarily, but a chat show style magazine presentation of what the BBC think sport is currently. Would be interesting to see it on a different channel for sure, maybe even a sports channel like SKY?
Definitely stu, well done to anyone who cleaned up. There's certainly a betting angle still (for other people!). Probably as many gamblers are still playing in the market under the old rules of engagement. When I bet, I use my instincts primarily, and they are not suited to the new scenario. That goes for most specials events atm. SCD was once a cash machine, and this year my only play was related to the old dead heat angle once the final was down to three places.
BBC1 6 part drama series #Vigil ends with a slot winning 2.5m audience at 9pm, preceded by annual #SportsPersonalityoftheYear event, 2.9m viewers, but BBC's biggest audience of the night - biggest across all channels - was 4.4m for regional news at 6.30pm.
2.9 million - they used to laugh at programmes like Big Brother when they got more than that.
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