British Women - Top 25 etc table

steven · Tennis legend

RE: British Women - Top 25 etc table

steven · Tennis legend

Next week's GB women's top 25 table is now available - I've done the women first this week because their Nottingham Q draw is out 24 hours before the men's draw.

I'm guessing that Wobbly being the first Brit on the entry list in qualifying and Lisa knowing she has a MD WC means that original WCs Mel and Anna Smith got in as DAs in the end, Naomi Broady either scraped in as a DA or got the other WC that came free and that if she got in as a DA, Anna Fitzpatrick might have got the spare WC (perhaps for winning back-to-back British Tour events) since she was on the original entry list, isn't in the qualifying draw and seems unlikely to be injured having just won a BT Final.

I've also changed Georgie Stoop's name to Georgina Gent as discussed on the Nottingham thread, though unlike the ITF, the WTA and LTA sites still show her with her old name.

steven · Tennis legend

This week's GB top 25 table has now been updated with the new (14 Jun) WTA rankings.

There are 5 new WTA singles CHs - Laura Robson up 22 to 236 (she will be the GB no. 5 at the start of Wimbledon unless Heather qualifies and reaches the QFs in Eastbourne, which seems rather unlikely!), Anna Smith at 265, Lisa Whybourn at 410, Nicola George at 828 and (new to the GB top 25 as well) Nicola Slater at 939.

There are 9 new doubles CHs as well, with Naomi Broady at 450 the only one of them inthe top 500.

-- Edited by steven on Monday 14th of June 2010 05:23:18 AM

steven · Tennis legend

A total of 321 WTA points picked up in week 24, i.e. 14-20 June (sum the tw & nw columns on the GB Top 25 table and add any point from non-T25-ers shown at the bottom) is the biggest single week haul (*) since at least the start of 2008! That's as far as my complete points breakdowns for the Brits go back, but it might well mean the biggest single week haul for over a decade and a half.

It just beats the 316 picked up in Shrewsbury week last year.

(*) a single week haul defined as all points picked up in single week events that week, including qualifying points (even if they were picked up the previous weekend) plus slam qualifying points if it's a slam qualifying week, slam week 1 points if it's week 1 of a slam or slam points added after week 1 if it's week 2 of a slam.

Josh · Challenger level

In the Mail today a few quotes from Georgie: "My mother remarried two years ago and I wanted to change my name to that of my stepfather. I've been meaning to do it for a long time, but I use my passport so much that until I got injured there was no time to take it in and get the necessary alterations done."

steven · Tennis legend

Next week's GB top 25 women's table is now up - Anna Smith, Amanda Carreras & Jo Konta are playing in the 25K in Valladolid and that's about it!

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 4th of July 2010 08:08:51 PM

Miriambee · Futures level

Jo Konta withdrew on 2nd July, according to the ITF site.

steven · Tennis legend

Thanks, ITF was down this afternoon when I checked so I went off the lists on here.

steven · Tennis legend

I've now added the new Jul 5 WTA rankings to the top 25 table and the other stats.

5 new women's singles CHs include Lisa Whybourn at 323 (up 89), Joss Rae at 457, Nicola George at 820 & top GB riser Nicola Slater at 839 (up 95), while 9 new doubles CHs are headed by Heather Watson at 217 (up 166), Naomi Broady at 440 & Jade Windley at 455.

steven · Tennis legend

Brits who have picked up 5 or more WTA points in the first half of 2010 (i.e. up to the end of week 26, actual GB rankings on 5 July in brackets)

864 Elena Baltacha (1)
384 Anne Keothavong (3)
198 Katie O'Brien (2)
193 Naomi Cavaday (4)
167 Heather Watson (7)

142 Johanna Konta (currently playing for AUS)

137 Laura Robson (5)
122 Anna Smith (8)
92 Naomi Broady (9)
88 Melanie South (6)
84 Lisa Whybourn (11)

68 Georgina Gent (10)
31 Amanda Carreras (15)
29 Tara Moore (19)
21 Jocelyn Rae (13)
18 Emily Webley-Smith (12)

18 Anna Fitzpatrick (18)
12 Jade Windley (16)
10 Danielle Brown (17)
10 Nicola Slater (23)

7 Francesca Stephenson (UNR)
6 Lucy Brown (UNR)
5 Jade Curtis (14)
5 Samantha Vickers (22)
5 Jennifer Allan (UNR)

Players in the current GB top 25 who have picked up less than 5 points so far this year:

2 Katharina Brown (20)
2 Nicola George (21)
1 Jennifer Ren (24)
1 Elizabeth Thomas (25)

Points picked up in 2010 are counted whether or not they currently form part of a player's best 16 results.

steven · Tennis legend

Players up more than 10% since the start of the year: (i.e. ranking position more than 10% closer to no. 1 than it was at the start of the year, treating players unranked at the start of the year as having had a ranking position one more than the number of ranked players at the time)

+55.0% Watson, Heather (UP from 554 to 250)
+42.0% Robson, Laura (UP from 403 to 234)
+38.3% Smith, Anna (UP from 434 to 268)
+38.2% Whybourn, Lisa (UP from 522 to 323)
+32.5% Baltacha, Elena (UP from 84 to 57)
+20.1% Slater, Nicola (UP from 1050 to 839)
+19.9% Fitzpatrick, Anna (UP from 748 to 599)
+12.8% Windley, Jade (UP from 642 to 560)
+10.1% Vickers, Samantha (UP from 928 to 834)

Players down more than 10% since the start of the year:

-13.8% Carreras, Amanda (DOWN from 430 to 489)
-13.8% Gent, Georgie (DOWN from 262 to 298)
-14.3% Smith, Olivia (OUT from 954 to UNR)
-19.8% Borwell, Sarah (OUT from 910 to UNR)
-26.1% South, Melanie (DOWN from 189 to 238)
-34.2% Thomas, Elizabeth (DOWN from 700 to 939)
-34.6% Elliott, Amanda (DOWN from 721 to 970)
-37.2% Khan, Natasha (OUT from 795 to UNR)
-47.1% Curtis, Jade (DOWN from 332 to 488)
-52.9% O'Brien, Katie (DOWN from 88 to 134)
-53.5% Keothavong, Anne (DOWN from 100 to 153)

Overall, there are no new entrants but 5 dropouts so we now have 29 players in the WTA rankings having started the year with 34. Of the 29 who are left, 17 have moved up and 12 have moved down.

steven · Tennis legend

This week's GB top 25 women's table is finally up.

6 new singles CHs headed by Anna smith at 264, Lisa Whybourn at 318 and Joss Rae at 450, plus Nicola George gets into the top 800 at 798. 9 new doubles CHs, all outside the top 500.

steven · Tennis legend

This week's GB women's top 25 table is finally available at http://www.freewebs.com/britishtennis/gbtop25f/2010wk33f.htm with draws and results through Monday added, together with the new WTA rankings, which have also been used to update all the other links leading off the stats page.

There are no new singles CHs and the 5 new doubles CHs are all outside the top 500.

steven · Tennis legend

This week's GB women's top 25 table is now up but it looks like the new WTA rankings are going to be delayed by 24 hours due to the Montréal Final overrunning.

Shhh · Challenger level

Anne K is listed here and on the WTA site as having 435pts. Her best 16 scores add up to 457pts though? How is the 435 total arrived at??????