Predictions for 2007

Sheddie · administrator

Predictions for 2007

jamatthews · Strong Club Player

Meh, to be honest I expect more of the same. Players dotting around the 150-300 mark with the occasional big week but mostly struggling. Hopefully Baltacha will get herself back in the top 200 ready for a big push next year, and Naomi will join her there.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Georgie Stoop to make top 150.

Natasha Khan to make top 250.

Anne K to crack top 100.

Naomi Cavaday to make top 150.

Jade Windley to make top 600

Salmon · Tennis legend

ultimateshedman wrote:

I'll post mine a bit later

Hmm....

I could embarrass myself badly at the end of the year with these predictions.

Keothavong for the top 100.
Naomi for the top 130.
Mel South will be ranked around 135.
Jade Curtis will get into the top 450.
Tara Moore for the top 550.
Broady will be top 400.
Steph Cornish will be top 700.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

could?

Salmon · Tennis legend

Yeah, I can and most probably will. But you never know...

-- Edited by Arka at 14:34, 2007-02-26

john · Top national player

Anne about 120
Naomi top 150
Mel top 150
Katie top 130
Broady top 300

Georgie Stoop to be named FHM Sexiest Woman in the world

Sheddie · administrator

@ John

Anne K - 130-150

Mel - about the same

Katie: top 150

Sarah - top 200

Amanda - top 200

Elena - top 200

Georgie Stoop - top 150

Naomi Cavaday - top 150

Rebecca L - 400-450

Sarah C - 400-450

Jane O'Donoghue - 350-400

Karen Paterson - top 250

Natasha Khan - top 300

Anna Smith - top 350

Danielle Brown - top 500

Anna Fitzpatrick - top 400 (I think her results will improve a lot once she starts playing the clay-court and outdoor hard tourneys)

Julia Bone and Olivia Scarfi - top 500

Emily Webley-Smith - top 500

Yasmin Clarke and Naomi Broady - top 550

Jade Curtis and Jessica Jackson - top 700

Tara Moore, Jocelyn Rae and Jade Windley - top 1000

Amanda Elliott, Caitlin Steel to gain their first rankings

-- Edited by ultimateshedman at 21:53, 2007-02-27

-- Edited by ultimateshedman at 21:54, 2007-02-27

tennisbrain · Club Coach

anna hawkins top 700
lucy warburton poss top 600
jess jackson 900
beki fong 600
georgie stoop 200
keothavong top 100
south will lsoe her ranking a bit maybe 300
obrian stay where she is
cavaday top 200
windly top 400
jocelyn rae top 900
comments on these from anyone?????

have obviously lelft some really good players out in a rush will edit later

-- Edited by tennisbrain at 13:07, 2007-03-16

RedCabbage · Club Coach

I would be surprised if Anne K got into the top 100. She just doesn't seem to get the results that would back that up.

I'm inclined to agree about Mel South, though. I've saw her play last year against a solid top-200 player and she was utterly outclassed. Of course, a couple of weeks later she beat a top-20 player, but I don't think she'll get much higher than she is now - I hope I'm wrong!

tennisbrain · Club Coach

ye feels like that wimbledon win was a bit of a fluke hope im wrong. her ranking will drop alot if she doesnt win a round there this year!!!!!!!!!

tasha khan,lucy warburton( go sussex!!!!!!!!) and cavaday. anna smith these are my favourite

Salmon · Tennis legend

tennisbrain wrote:
windly top 400

Is Windley that good?

She will play just twelve or thirteen more events this year and is ranked outside the top 1000. Do you think that she'll improve so much so soon?

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

WOULD LOVE TO SEE KEOTHAVONG MAKE TOP 100 BUT DON'T SOMEHOW SEE IT HAPPENING.

KEOTHAVONG AROUND 140

SOUTH/O'BRIEN 160 - 180

STOOP AND CAVADAY TO BOTH MAKE TOP 200.

STILL DON'T SEE ANYONE WHO COULD DO A ANDY MURRAY FOR US IN THE WOMENS GAME. IF ONLY WE COULD GET SOMEBODY

Sheddie · administrator

On her day, Windley is capable of beating top 500 players but I agree with Arka, top 400 is a bit too ambitious. I think a good aim for her by the end of this year is a ranking in the 700s...

I'm not sure whether Anne will break top 100, she needs to do a lot better consistently in the 50Ks and 75Ks and also take some of her chances in WTAs eg Indian Wells which was a big missed opportunity. Atm, she doesn't get enough wins against top 150 players, her record against them in the past year is quite poor.

I think Naomi will be top 150....Georgie top 200 I agree with - my initial prediction of top 150 for her may have been a little ambitious.

Warburton has a lot of work on her game to do to make top 600...the raw material's there and she's got the potential to be top 500 but she misses far too many of her mid-court and short balls, often unable to finish off rallies which she's dominated. I'm not sure why this is...maybe partly hitting a bit too flat and also poor shot selection

I think South will drop but I doubt it'll be as far as 300....maybe to about 250ish

Sheddie · administrator

DUSTY DICK wrote:

STILL DON'T SEE ANYONE WHO COULD DO A ANDY MURRAY FOR US IN THE WOMENS GAME. IF ONLY WE COULD GET SOMEBODY

There are a lot of very talented British players coming through atm who have the potential to be top 100. Naomi Cavaday is the big hope and I think she could be top 50...it's very hard to say whether a player's going to make it to the very top of the game and be challenging for major titles. When Murray made his breakthrough in 2005, most people thought top 50, don't think many would have thought he'd be top 10 within 2 years.

After Naomi...there's Georgie Stoop, Anna Smith, Natasha Khan, Anna Fitzpatrick...all of whom will surely be top 200, top 250...hard to say at this point exactly how far they can go, until you see how their games match up against top 150 and top 100 opposition. Hopefully we'll get to see that with Georgie this summer. I think Anna F is the LTA's biggest hope out of those 4, everyone I've spoken to rates her v highly.

After those players we've got lots of talented juniors aged 15-16: Jocelyn Rae, Jade Windley, Laura Slater, Yasmin Clarke, Naomi Broady, Steph Cornish etc