First post updated with Wednesday's rubbish results from Albufeira and as our sole QF-ist in Sheffield, it's Bloomers or bust for the second week in a row.

Thanks Steven, just one question...you know how the Change 2007/08 title has been changed to reflect the new year...are you sure the numbers have been changed? It's just I'm pretty sure Slabba hasn't moved up 400 places in the last two weeks of off time. Or that Skupski rose 1272 following his round 1 defeats so far this year. Or any of the others for that matter.

ah, that makes sense. thanks.

Last week now shows the week just finishing, this week shows week 5. Just for Bethan, the yearly ranking changes are now for 2008 only.

I've been posting these tables for about two years now and for a while now, I've been trying to design a table with more info but easier to read, also that one that can be FTP'd to the web so that I can spend less time getting each update displayed and more on the information it provides.

If you would like to see what I've come up with (finally completed during the AO Final, at the changes of ends LOL and now with today's new rankings added), you can find it at http://www.britishtennis.net/gbtop25m/2008wk05.htm 

The new table has a lot more links (e.g. to ITF & ATP profiles, to the players' own sites, to top 18 breakdowns and so on - basically, if the text is blue, you can click it!), while the highlighting, in conjunction with the usual smileys) is intended to let you see at a glance if it's been a good or bad day/week. New too are:

- a column that shows who each player is due to play next or who they were KO'd by
- a more transparent split of the points gained and/or going on the rankings which should make it easier to work out what's going on re. Futures points being added a week late

All this has made the table a fair bit wider but, I hope, clearer.

Anyway, before we work out how best to link the new table in with the site, I'd be grateful if some of you who use the existing table could have a look and let me know whether the new one fits on your screen ok, what you like or dislike about it compared to the old one, whether there's anything else you would really like to be added and whether there are any columns on there you think we could really do without!

Thanks Count, I was thinking about that, but colouring every second line doesn't really work when there's highlighting as well, putting every second line in italics works but doesn't lok that good and adding lines causes a mess every time the table is sorted.

However, I have now added lines after every 5th player (I think the eye should register whether the player is the one in the middle between th lines at either edge or just above or below the middle) and repeated the player names (with just initials to avoid increasing the width too much further) over towards the right. Is that a bit better?