British Women - Top 25 etc table

steven · Tennis legend

RE: British Women - Top 25 etc table

steven · Tennis legend

Next week's GB top 25 table is now up but the only significant GB presence is in the 75K event in Monzón, Spain, where both Naomis are trying to qualify and Katie & Anne will be inm the main draw. In addition, Heather is trying to qualify for the 25K in Alabama, Katharina Brown is trying to qualify for the 10K in Turkey and a handful of Brits outside the GB Top 25 are trying to qualify elsewhere.

steven · Tennis legend

Next week's GB top 25 women's table is now available - Helen Parish replaces Sarah Borwell in the table and it looks like about 11 of the GB top 25 are going to be in action in Belgium, Korea, the USA (including Robbo's return) and Croatia.

steven · Tennis legend

The GB Top 25 table and all of the other stats pages linked to from http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/stats.html have been updated with the new (5 Apr) WTA rankings.

There are new singles career highs for Elena at WR 59 (breaking into the top 60), Naomi Broady at WR 268 and Anna Smith at WR 288 (breaking into the top 300) and six new doubles CHs, headed by Sarah Borwell at WR 72, Anna Smith breaking into the top 150 at WR 147 and Cav into the top 200 at WR 184.

-- Edited by steven on Monday 5th of April 2010 05:56:47 AM

steven · Tennis legend

New week's women's GB top 25 table is now available - a busy week, with 12 of our top 18 active on four continents!

steven · Tennis legend

New WTA rankings added to the women's GB top 25 table and all the other stats pages - Anna Smith up 22 to 266 is the lone singles CH, while in doubles Sarah Borwell breaks into the top 70 at WR 69 and Heather reaches WR 452.

steven · Tennis legend

The 19 Apr WTA rankings have been added to the new GB top 25 women's table and all the other stats pages.

There are new women's singles CHs for Naomi Broady, up 1 at WR 267, and Heather Watson, up 63 at WR 353. Heather has hit a doubles CH at WR 420 as well, while Laura has a new doubles CH of 106.

steven · Tennis legend

The 26 Apr WTA rankings were added to the GB women's top 25 table and all the other stats tables on Monday and there are 24 GB women in main draws this week, making this the busiest week for a long time.

There were new CHs for Laura (singles 269 & doubles 102), Heather (335 & 388) and Lisa Whybourn, singles 506.

steven · Tennis legend

The new (3 May) WTA rankings have been added to the GB women's top 25 table and all the other stats tables. There are new singles CHs for Laura at WR 254 and Lisa Whybourn, who has made it to WR 500 this Monday after all ... just!

This means we now have 15 women in the top 500. I only have year-end figures for this, but the last time we ended a year with 15 was 1999!

The only new doubles CH is for new entrant Hope Johnson, in at WR 1041.

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

With Heather's rate ascension, it's possible we'll soon have 10 in the top 300, and also have the #10 ranked woman higher than the #5 man. She still has a couple of months to make it happen before Georgie's points start to come off (unless Georgie recovers soon from whatever mystery injury it is that is keeping her out of the game at the moment).

steven · Tennis legend

The new (17 May) WTA rankings have been added to the GB top 25 table and all the other stats at the first link in my signature.

There are 2+1 singles career highs - Amanda Carreras up 21 to WR 397, Lisa Whybourn up 15 to WR 439 and Johanna Konta, up 77 to WR 266 - and 4 new doubles CHs, headed by Jocelyn Rae WR 217 and Amanda Carreras WR 372.

wolf · Tennis legend

Katie is in RG main draw.

steven · Tennis legend

The 18 Brits (+ Konta) who have picked up 5 or more WTA singles points (whether or not they are currently among their best 16 counting scores) since the end of 2009, with actual GB rankings in brackets:

663 Elena Baltacha (1)
340 Anne Keothavong (2)
176 Katie O'Brien (3)
146 Naomi Cavaday (4)
( 116 Johanna Konta )
112 Anna Smith (7)

106 Laura Robson (6)
81 Heather Watson (10)
79 Naomi Broady (8)
73 Melanie South (5)
68 Georgie Stoop (9)

29 Amanda Carreras (11)
23 Tara Moore (18)
19 Lisa Whybourn (13)
12 Emily Webley-Smith (14)
9 Danielle Brown (16)

7 Francesca Stephenson (UNR)
5 Jade Curtis (12)
5 Jade Windley (17)

Those in the GB top 25 who haven't picked up 5 points in the first 20 weeks of the year are:

4 Jocelyn Rae (15)
4 Anna Fitzpatrick (19)
3 Amanda Elliott (23)
1 Katharina Brown (20)
1 Nicola George (22)
0 Elizabeth Thomas (21)
0 Samantha Vickers (24)
0 Helen Parish (25)

-- Edited by steven on Friday 21st of May 2010 08:57:40 AM

-- Edited by steven on Friday 21st of May 2010 09:14:54 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

Interesting list.

There does look a very clear top 10 at the mopment, both in world rankings, and on points earned this year.

I wonder who can next in time challenge that hierarchy. I would say Tara and Lisa are the best bets.

Everyone outside the top 10 do not benefit from being on the AEGON funding list apart from Jade Curtis ( Anna Smith and Naomi Broady are folk in the top 10 who are not on the AEGON list ). I wonder how much effect that has had for such as Joss Rae, who many of us felt very unlucky to have been dropped.

steven · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Everyone outside the top 10 do not benefit from being on the AEGON funding list apart from Jade Curtis ( Anna Smith and Naomi Broady are folk in the top 10 who are not on the AEGON list ). I wonder how much effect that has had for such as Joss Rae, who many of us felt very unlucky to have been dropped.

Of course, the LTA will claim this justifies it. A chicken/egg argument ...