December 1st
New career high singles 4
110 Melanie South
723 Jocelyn Rae
778 Jade Windley
911 Samantha Vickers

Doubles 3
124 Melanie South
156 Anne keothavong
663 Jade Windley

Titles
Melanie South $75K+H Toyota

December 15th new career high singles
60 Anne Keothavong
556 Jocelyn Rae
692 Jade Windley

New career high doubles
107 Sarah Borwell
297 Jade Curtis
354 Jocelyn Rae

DJ is unable to get online as much as he used to and has asked me to complete the "British Successes" threads for 2008 (N.B. this note is repeated on the other successes threads, so if you've read a note that starts like this on one of the other threads, so can safely ignore this one!) so I have now done that.

I've also done what I promised DJ months ago, i.e. created a proper 'roll of honour' page on the site for each of these threads - you can find links to them in the "BRITISH SUCCESSES" section of the revamped stats page at http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html - do feel free, as ever, to point out any errors or make suggestions. Btw some errors on the original lists thread have already been corrected on the webpage version but not in this thread.

Putting these lists onto web pages ensures consistent formatting (virtually impossible on Activeboard unless you know exactly how the original poster has done the formatting) and that tables for prior years will be easier to find than prior years' threads will be once they are un-stickied.

Now that the pages have been set up for 2008, it should be easy enough to do the same for 2009, as long as the section specialists don't mind helping out by pointing out the things I don't automatically pick up while doing the GB top 25 tables, e.g. tournament wins for doubles and juniors and new career highs for doubles and for singles outside the top 1000.

So, once 2009 starts, I intend to de-sticky the 2008 successes threads, and start a new 2009 one in each section with just a link to the stats pages in the top post, with people posting updates in the rest of the thread that I'll then transfer to the web pages every week or two. Or I can send a copy of the spreadsheet that creates the web pages to a specialist if they'd prefer to update it themselves.

That's interesting and yes, you were right to put her on the shortlist, I think, she's moved up more quietly and gradually than some, but she seems to have been consistently improving throughout the year.

Talking about the most improved players, my movers table puts Anne ahead of Laura whereas your table had them the opposite way round. That's because my calculation uses 1105th as the starting position of players who were unranked at the start of the year whereas yours uses 1152nd, which matches more closely with the position now, when there are 1153 ranked players - I'm using 1154th to work out the negative change for players who are unranked at the end of the year.

Am I wrong about there having been 1104 ranked players at the end of 2007 or have you just not been adjusting the position of the first unranked player over time to keep things simple? (I can well imagine having to count the number of players tying on the last ranked position getting a bit tedious if you have to do it every week!)

Finally, thanks for carrying on posting the new career highs on the women's successes thread, it made it a lot easier to finish off the successes page than it was for the men!

Steven:-

I have checked my records and found a few additions and corrections to your table for women's singles:-

7/1/08
357 Anna Fitzpatrick
1053 Nicola Mooney

28/1/08
356 Anna Fitzpatrick
434 Anna Smith
620 Amanda Elliott
669 Naomi Broady

4/2/08
354 Anna Fitzpatrick
602 Amanda Elliott
651 Naomi Broady

11/2/08
325 Anna Fitzpatrick
601 Amanda Elliott
648 Naomi Broady

18/2/08
490 Amanda Elliott

25/2/08
322 Anna Fitzpatrick
994 Charlotte Martin

9/6/08
608 Naomi Broady

7/7/08
82 Anne Keothavong