I read a bit in the womens section about various players and I read often "shes a top 300 hundred prospect"....or "with a bit of luck she should break the top 200 by the end of the year..."
Please all you keen followers of the womens game...please reply to this telling me who are likely to make the top 50 in the next 2 years.
Not players who you like and would you wish to see in the top 50 but those who have a game and drive to make the top 50.
I'll be very surprised if Naomi Cavaday doesn't make top 50, she hopes to break top 100 in 2008 top 50 will surely take a little longer but she can certainly do it. To be beating on form top 130 players 1 and 1 on US hard courts is amazing and she was already good enough to give a solid top 20 player a tough match on grass last summer.....expect some big things from her in the WTAs and Wimbledon in June.
Don't think anyone else is likely to make top 50 in the next 2 years. Bally is probably the only other who could do it, she's got the ability but can she stay injury free and produce her best on a consistent enough basis to do it.
In the next 3 years watch out for these names though...Georgie Stoop, Natasha Khan, Anna Smith, Anna Fitzpatrick - all of those have top 150 potential. Plus Mel South is still only young and although she's had a horrible 2007 so far, she can surely turn things around.
After that, there's a whole load of very talented juniors further down the rankings....definately more in the cupboard for the future than on the mens side
Cavavday and Stoop are top 50 for sure, just getting the consistency they need which they are at the moment. Bally got a great chance but with her health i doubt she'll make it even though she's got the weapons to get there. Mel South is an iffy, shes currently ranked in the 170s, if she doesnt getting wins on a regular basis before wimbledon, then she will surely be out of top 200. im not sure about the other players if they have the desire to enter qualies for 25k onwards, then may they are top 100 material, but its early days for the younger ones.
I'd think Cavaday is a cert for the top ten. She is an amazing talent. I also feel that Stoop has the game judging on her age and some of her results. I think Bally's health has restricted her progress greatly and really can't see her reaching the top 50 although I'd love to be wrong. When it comes to others, I think if South was going to make it she would have made a greater move before....same is true for Jane although at one point I really thought she had the game to make it....
I wouldn't be shocked to see Naomi make the top 50 in 2008....she is so good that she could get on a run for a few months and make all kinds of progress....if she gets a good draw at Wimbledon I see her winning a couple of rounds.
Saying she's a certainty for top 10 is a ridiculous comment. It's still way to early to tell if she's got the game. It's even optimistic to say she might get in the top 20 when she hasn't beaten a top 100 player yet. Let's not pile unnecessary pressure on the girl, the media and the Bandwagon jumping "fans" will do enough of that if and when she breaks the top 100.
Yeah, most of the top players of her age can give top 10 players a good match right now.
If you say right now that Naomi is a guaranteed top 10 player then you would have to say the same about twenty other players who are of or around her age. And there are only a handful who crack the top 10 in their lifetime.
I think that she'll crack the top 50 after Wimbly 2009. She'll need to improve a lot to get further and let's hope that she'll manage it.
But if she doesn't do it then I wouldn't be worried. She is a late maturer and may take some more time.
Yeah I don't think Naomi's a cert for the top 10 by any means, top 50 is likely though. Wouldn't say that Georgie is top 50 for sure either, her results and rise in the past 18 months have been amazing...however, she still has a lot to prove...can she beat top 150 players regularly, can she step things up in 50Ks and 75Ks and how will her game match up against top 100 and possibly top 50 opponents on the grass this summer. Anne had similar results at Georgie's age and she's got stuck in the 130-200 range like so many players....though like Bally, Anne has been unlucky with a couple of injuries which halted her progress when she was really on form.
I think you're a little harsh about Mel, don't know if you realise that she's still only 20 ! Has had an incredible last few years, going from outside top 400 to top 170 in 2006. Just going through a barren patch which lots of players have at some point or another, I'm confident she'll turn things around, she's too good not to.
I agree about Jane though unfortunately...not sure if she has the consistency to make top 150...hope I'm wrong
Arks, I'm stunned Not Naomi for top 50 by the end of 2007 ? What's got into you
That was a typo.....really....I didn't mean to say that....the question was top 50 and responded to that but instead of writing fifty I wrote ten....honest mistake....I really didn't mean to type ten.
And as for Melanie South....again I hope I am wrong.....I thought she was older maybe 21 or 22, but either way her results this year have been disapointing and she has some points coming up to defend, esp a second round at Wimbledon. I remember her having a great Summer....that is all I meant.
I think you meant parapraxis correct....yeah....I mean I don't know....I was thinking top 50 and typed top 10....who knows how.....she is a late developer and I think it is cool that she qualified for an event and then some of us really thought she could go further than the quarters....she is a talent and doing well with the WCs that she will get in the Summer could really give her rankings a boost....
if they have the desire to enter qualies for 25k onwards, then may they are top 100 material, but its early days for the younger ones.
Not Naomi for top 50 by the end of 2007 ? What's got into you 
More than half of my posts here have been edited later on with corrections. 
