GB year end ranking highs and lows 1973-2007

steven · Tennis legend

RE: GB year end ranking highs and lows 1973-2007

Akhenaten · Pro player

This is an interesting stat from Steven's table.

Number in top 100
                                            1973        2007
English-speaking Nations           55           11        -44
Non-English-speaking Nations    45           89        +44

(I'm counting South Africa as English speaking which I know isn't quite true)

RedCabbage · Club Coach

I think you've hit on something. I propose that we change the first language of Roehampton to Hungarian.

Robxon · Lower Club Player

It looks like Neil Harman has been using the site for a bit of background..... smile

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article2903825.ece

".....That the LTA has received nearly £320 million in the past 11 years, a period in which British tennis has gone from a 25-year high of mens players in the top 500 to a 25-year low in the two years that the present hierarchy has been in place, poses serious questions. ....."

steven · Tennis legend

ROFL I was thinking of saying to Drew that Neil would probably find it more useful than Roger and maybe we should send it to him, but apparently we don't need to.

How much chance is there of this reference being a coincidence, I wonder - after all, it tends to be when the Wimby surplus is announced that this kind of stuff appears, so it might be.

Funnily enough, it is a coincidence that I produced these figures when I did because I wasn't aware the Wimby surplus was going to be announced the same day.

Anyway, whether we're helping to set the agenda in some small way or Neil just has his eye on the ball, it's all good.

-- Edited by steven at 01:01, 2007-11-20

Drew · Nov 21, 2007

Steven,

Reply from Paul Hutchins from the LTA re your table...

"Thanks Andrew it makes interesting reading.
Also interesting is that from January 2007 British rankings based on ATP rankings 11 from the top 16 players have now retired/gone to university/long term injury during 2007 or retired from singles and now just play doubles. As you say stats dont really tell the whole story"

steven · Tennis legend

Good that you got a reply, but what he doesn't know is that I've been telling the retired /gone to university/long term injury story all year and I'm not the only one!

They surely have to ask themselves why all these players are suddenly giving up so young and picking up long-term injuries. Any given injury could be unlucky but so many happening in the such a short space of time among both the men and the women suggests a flaw in the way the Brits prepare that needs to be addressed.

-- Edited by steven at 00:49, 2007-11-22