cakj1234 wrote:

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How long do you think she will stay top 100. Not long i dont think. what a wasted opportunity. Another one. Bring on the juniors give them a chance.

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Anne got into the top 100 without gaining any points on the grass so it is not unreasonable to think that she will continue to struggle to win matches on grass (certainly at tour level), but should still have a decent chance of remaining in the top 100.

The bulk of her points were gained by reaching the final of 50K and 75K events, and the 65 points she got for her semi-final run in a tier IV in India.

Her results this season suggest that she is on course to be top 100 at the end of the year, though clearly she will need to produce some good displays on the hardcourts if she is to achieve this goal.

I do think that criticising Anne this season is just ridiculous as she is the outstanding british player for 2008 and her achievements are far superior to any other brit given their respective talents.

A real chance gone there to pick up some points. Anne really could do with a first round win at Wimbledon to move up a few places.

Bad loss, as this was a match she should have won, and was in a position to do so, so it has to go down as a missed chance.

Seems to be the same problem with Anne that she gets most of her points from challengers and beating lower ranked players, which is perfectly acceptable, but she rarely beats players above her in the rankings which is going to stop her getting any higher than she is currently ranked.

She recovered though to her doubles match 7-6(5), 6-3

Look at GB tennis girls there are more opinions on there that agree with my way of thinking.

cakj1234 wrote:

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I have read with interest all your comments to my opinions on this site and have come to realize you are all just sat there living in hope that someone will pull off some shocks, its just a pity that 99.95% of time you are let down only to come up with some excuse of why they lost but didnt they do well.  You need to wake up and smell the coffee and realize they have not got what it takes and its time to give all the teenage players all the chances that the rest of them have wasted over the years.  You can make as many comments as you like to this but the fact remains we lose too many matches when we shouldnt.

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Of course we live in hope that our girls will pull off the upsets, and the fact they don't a lot of the time does suggest that they aren't ever going to be good enough to get past the top 100 marker.

Today Anne should have won, playing against an opponent she's beaten in the past, has never won a match on grass, and who she had a break up 3 times in the first set. But she lost, which is disappointing and confirms that this is the level she's at.

Keothavong has had a good season, but she'll never get past the top 75, and I think most of us have realised that (in fact, reaching the top 100 surprised me as I didn't think she was good enough to do so)

Of course we want our players to win, but at the moment this group of players are solid enough at challenger level, but don't quite look good enough to push on and regularly win matches at WTA level (Cavaday looked the best as a junior, but has gone backwards over the last year it seems)

People like Elliott, I knowshe has lost some matches recently which could have been winners but i personally think she for one should have been in the main draws. ( I dont fully understand the wildcard situations). I know Stoop is 20 now but her as well alongwith Fitzpatrick,Smith Broady Clarke. We seem to stick the same people in year in year out and they justdont deliver the goods so yes i do think they should give the young ones a go.
I could go on about this till the cows come home but i am not a quick typer and it takes me ages with 2 fingers