GB men - movers, entrants and dropouts in 2007

steven · Tennis legend

GB men - movers, entrants and dropouts in 2007

steven · Tennis legend

ON THE WAY DOWN IN 2007			22 players

*Where known: # = retired; $ = retired from singles; = injured**

-3%		Rushby, Tom	(down 18 from 668 to 686)
-16%		Brooks, Richard	(down 188 from 1194 to 1382)
-17%		Connolly, Ross	(down 175 from 1055 to 1230)
-17%		Brewer, David	(down 156 from 932 to 1088)
-17%	#	Childs, Lee	(down 72 from 414 to 486)
-18%		Kalaitzis, Konstantinos	(down 226 from 1249 to 1475)
-22%		Bamford, Neil	(down 152 from 702 to 854)
-24%		Flanagan, Ian	(down 160 from 658 to 818)
-28%		Searle, Rob	(down 246 from 894 to 1140)
-29%		Wire, Richard	(down 335 from 1140 to 1475)
-33%		Fulford-Jones, Amadeus	(down 366 from 1109 to 1475)
-36%		Smith, Matthew	(down 238 from 655 to 893)
-39%		Bloomfield, Richard	(down 83 from 214 to 297)
-39%		Miotto, Alex	(down 362 from 926 to 1288)
-49%		Goodall, Joshua	(down 100 from 206 to 306)
-55%		Bogdanovic, Alex	(down 67 from 123 to 190)
-81%	*	Phillips, Morgan	(down 492 from 609 to 1101)
-81%		Kennaugh, Andrew	(down 618 from 764 to 1382)
-125%	#	Mackin, Alan	(down 336 from 270 to 606)
-134%	$	Delgado, Jamie	(down 689 from 514 to 1203)
-282%	*	Marray, Jonathan	(down 726 from 258 to 984)
-653%	#	Henman, Tim	(down 248 from 39 to 287)

-- Edited by steven at 19:58, 2007-11-26

steven · Tennis legend

NEW / RE-ENTRANTS IN 2007		19 players

new	Skupski, Ken	(NEW from UNR to 702)
new	Feaver, Jamie	(NEW from UNR to 1019)
new	Willis, Marcus	(NEW from UNR to 1115)
new	Bains, Maniel	(NEW from UNR to 1190)
new	Barlow, Philip	(NEW from UNR to 1230)
new	Rice, David	(NEW from UNR to 1230)
new	Howe, Gregory	(NEW from UNR to 1288)
new	Milton, Joshua	(NEW from UNR to 1288)
new	Brassington, Kyle	(NEW from UNR to 1382)
new	Dyce, Graeme	(NEW from UNR to 1382)
new	Bright, Matthew	(NEW from UNR to 1475)
new	Dickson, Scott	(NEW from UNR to 1475)
new	Fitzpatrick, Andrew	(NEW from UNR to 1475)
new	Jones, Max	(NEW from UNR to 1475)
new	Kinsella, Jonathan	(NEW from UNR to 1475)
new	Levi, Benjamin George	(NEW from UNR to 1475)
new	Sagoo, Jagdev	(NEW from UNR to 1475)
new	Skinner, Harry	(NEW from UNR to 1475)
new	Wronski, Elliot	(NEW from UNR to 1475)

-- Edited by steven at 19:59, 2007-11-26

steven · Tennis legend

LEFT THE RANKINGS IN 2007		19 players

out	Rusedski, Greg	(OUT from 191 to UNR)
out	Lee, Martin	(OUT from 304 to UNR)
out	Parmar, Arvind	(OUT from 331 to UNR)
out	Auckland, James	(OUT from 390 to UNR)
out	Fleming, Colin	(OUT from 564 to UNR)
out	Hutchins, Ross	(OUT from 703 to UNR)
out	Sherwood, David	(OUT from 705 to UNR)
out	Burn, Tom	(OUT from 1005 to UNR)
out	Lalji, Naim	(OUT from 1088 to UNR)
out	Murray, Jamie	(OUT from 1149 to UNR)
out	Greenland, Thomas	(OUT from 1331 to UNR)
out	Atkinson, Iain	(OUT from 1542 to UNR)
out	Bradshaw, Tim	(OUT from 1542 to UNR)
out	Cavaday, Nick	(OUT from 1542 to UNR)
out	Dee, Robert	(OUT from 1542 to UNR)
out	Harston, Simon	(OUT from 1542 to UNR)
out	Peel, Nikki	(OUT from 1542 to UNR)
out	Roberts, Simon	(OUT from 1542 to UNR)
out	Wright, Alan	(OUT from 1542 to UNR)

Drew · Nov 26, 2007

Your a credit Steven !

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Absolutely brilliant facility - thanks for all this hard work. Is there a table anywhere that puts the players in order of their birthdate with current rankings? I suppose this is easily extractable from another table at a given point but would be a bit more work to keep up all the time. Just interested to monitor how each age group is progressing.

CBV · Junior player

What a fantastic table! And i never knew that robert dee was ranked! Thanks alot steven.

john · Top national player

Robert Dee was ranked back in the day when a point was awarded for a first round loss in a challenger (last year that is). He used to "buy" an annual wildcard into some challenger in Mexico I think it was, lose first round and keep himself a world ranking

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

This is great stuff, Steven, thank you!

steven · Tennis legend

goldfish wrote: Is there a table anywhere that puts the players in order of their birthdate with current rankings? I suppose this is easily extractable from another table at a given point but would be a bit more work to keep up all the time. Just interested to monitor how each age group is progressing.

There is now and I've added a couple of links at the bottom of the index page (see first post) - as you'll see, the age tables are just the career high tables sorted by date of birth. The ages table shows even more clearly how exceptional Andy Murray's progress has been!

The sheets are all very ad hoc at the moment. They were created seaprately and the rankings need to be fed into each one separately in order to update them. At the moment, I'd have to recreate the age table from the career high table each time I update the rankings by pasting the career high tables into a blank sheet then sorting by age again. None of that takes very long but it's a bit tedious to do every week!

However, if at some point I get around to making all the tables feed off one data source (i.e. a sheet where I simply paste in the GB ranking lists off the ATP and WTA sites each week) and all the other sheets pick up the new rankings from there, it'll be fairly easy to get weekly updated versions of just about any view of the data you want. That is easy enough to do but will take a bit of time to set up so may not happen immediately.

I wouldn't bother with that if I was still just doing the tables for myself, but if they're likely to be a useful resource for others too (including some at the LTA by all accounts), then it's well worth me doing that at some stage.

By the way, do you think the men's and women's career high / age / % movement this year are best kept separate for men and women or would you prefer to see them combined so that, for example, we can see at a glance who (male or female) has made the biggest % rise this year?

The disadvantage of combining is that it's not exactly a level playing field (e.g. the WTA ranking list is smaller than the ATP one, so all the men with career highs in the 1200-1500 range woudl automatically be behind all of the women in the career highs table; a combined ages table would be skewed by the fact that female players tend to peak younger than male players and so on)

(poll added)

-- Edited by steven at 00:24, 2007-11-27

Montana Doug · Futures qualifying

It is so sad to see Greg and Martin Lee's name vanish from the rankings. I have followed both of their careers for so long.....it will be even worse when Tim's name drops from the list....if only Tim had four more wins.....

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Ask and you will be given! Thanks so much for doing that Steven. Updating that sort of table every so often, even annually, is probably enough, unless as you suggest, you are able to do it all from one table at some stage. I'm sure many people will find all of your stats of great interest.

Personally I would prefer to keep the men's and women's tables separate. The women have to play 3 qualifying tournaments to get a ranking so that would also skew the figures at the bottom end.

DJ · County player

More fascinating stuff, Steven! I do so enjoy your stats - and like most of the other early contributors, I'm for keeping the women's and men's tables separate.

Drew · Nov 27, 2007

Steven has agreed to place links to all his stat tables etc in www.britishtennis.net.

A welcome addition you will agree !

The actual tables will be on his webspace as accessing freewebs can be really slow and a real pain at times.