Time will tell. I have said before i have followed tennis since the early days of Sue Barker. Too many British women have fallen by the wayside. The same was said about all of them, exactly what you are all saying now. We can continue to pat them on the back and say you did well considering, but it wont get them anywhere. I hope that this time next year we have a dozen or more inside top 200 and all pushing to top 100. But they have to win these sort of matches. Good luck to them all.
Bally arguably needs the points here more than Naomi, with 50 to defend from last year. Next up is Pironkova, which should be within her capabilities - though the Bulgarian has come off a surprisingly good clay court season.
A good effort by Stoop to take a top 40 player as close as she did.... but... when you've come from 2-5* down, having saved match points, to get broken again is criminally bad as you've got the match won as long as you hold serve as the other player knows they've thrown the match away. It's a good effort by her to get so close, but being broken 4 times in the 3rd set, and to lose serve at 5-5 looks like a bad choke from her (and her opponent as well)
Baltacha is better than Cavaday he has talent but just doesn't seem to win the matches.