Congratulations to Dave and Chris, who win the major prize for spotting my deliberate (hmm!) mistake - now fixed - that major prize being a red face for me!
Thanks, lads - I wondered whether anyone actually read these lists. Now I know!

This week sees new singles highs, both 'technical', in the sense that neither of the lads played, but others fell below them, for Philip Barlow, 1179, and Dan Smethurst, 1204.

In doubles, we see substantial rises for Chris Eaton to 477, Alex Bogdanovic to 498 and David Rice to 584, whilst Dan Smethurst has another 'technical' lift to 1264.

Technical or otherwise, they're all new highs, and to be warmly applauded, so britishtennis.net offers our contributors' congratulations to all the young men.

We have six new highs this week - three marginal rises in singles, for
Alex Slabinsky, Dan Smethurst and Kyle Brassington, to 370, 1201 and 1232, respectively, and three rather more significant jumps in doubles: Chris Eaton rises 13 spots from last week to 464, David Rice 53 places to 531, and Alex, again, up 51 to 699. Incidentally, Alex' singles improvement takes him above Richard Bloomfield to 5th in the (active) British rankings.

This week's new Career Highs are now listed - apologies for the delay.

Edward Seator hits the top 500! We worried whether he'd missed the boat, for the moment, at least, but no; he's now 494. There are satisfying moves for several of the new generation: Matthew Illingworth up to 1018, Sean Thornley to 1064, Marcus Willis to 1086, Dan Evans to 1123, Dan Smethurst to 1160 and Josh Milton to 1186.

In doubles, Ken Skupski continues his rise, at 283; Edward adds to his singles lift with a move to 425; Chris Eaton and Alex Bogdanovic make small moves to, respectively, 456 and 495; Dan Smethurst, unranked at the beginning of the season, makes a huge jump of over 300 spots to breach the three figure barrier in 953rd place.

-- Edited by DJ at 10:58, 2008-05-12

DJ wrote:

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Psst! Lynne and Helki - another doubles win - fifth consecutive week! - this time Josh and Dan. If you can sneak a peek at the distaff equivalent without being spotted, you'll see our lassies conquered all before them in Auld Reekie, too.

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A bit remiss of me DJ, but I've only just noticed your timely reminder re the lassies success. It's not that I'm not interested, but with a limited amount of time at my disposal I don't always read all the threads available.  That's my excuse anyway. You do a valiant job keeping us up-to-date with all the weekly triumphs.