British Women - Top 25 etc table

steven · Tennis legend

RE: British Women - Top 25 etc table

steven · Tennis legend

18 July rankings now added - not much change, since the Woking points don't go on until next Monday, but there are new singles CHs for Samantha Murray, up 1 to 533, Nik Slater, up 2 to 670, and Nicola George, up 35 to 674.

The only new doubles CH is for 19-year-old Gemma Praditngam, who joins the WTA doubles rankings at 1221. Her career record in 10K & 25K doubles matches is 0-5 (all in Thailand), but because 1 & 1, 2 & 2 and 0 & 1 losses have come in R1 of 25Ks in the last couple of months, she has got the three 1-pointers she needs for a ranking. Her record in 10K & 25K singles qualifying is 0-11, but she did take a set off a top 800 player the week before last, which shows some promise.

-- Edited by steven on Monday 18th of July 2011 08:48:07 AM

SMC1809 · All-time great

Steven, your slight misspelling of Woking may cause some confusion.

steven · Tennis legend

SMC1809 wrote:
Steven, your slight misspelling of Woking may cause some confusion.

I blame the LTA for holding 25Ks in two towns beginning with W in successive weeks. wink

I got it right on the tweet, so quite how I managed to get it wrong here is beyond me. confuse ashamed

steven · Tennis legend

Updated with the 25 July WTA rankings.

For the first time I can remember (definitely the first time since I started doing the GB women's top 25 table in mid-2008), all of the top 25 GB women have 20 WTA points or more and no less than 10 of the GB top 25 women are at career highs at the moment - Laura, up 6 to 179, Tara, up 9 to 333, Samantha Murray breaking into the top 500 at 500 (up 33), Jennifer Allan, up 9 to 954, Nik Slater, up 2 to 668, Lucy Brown, up 93 to 710, Fran Stephenson, up 151 to 828 and Eleanor Dean, up 2 to 830, have all hit new CHs within the top 1000, while Emily, up 7 to 241, has regained her CH and Nicola George has stayed at the CH she was at last week.

There are new doubles CHs for Daneika Borthwick at 540 and Aimee Gibson, new to the rankings at 879.

steven · Tennis legend

Updated with 1 August WTA rankings.

There are new singles career highs for Laura at 177, Lucy Brown at 603 (up 107), Francesca Stephenson at 825, Eleanor Dean at 828 and Abbi Melrose, new to the rankings at 1112.

There are also 8 new doubles CHs, including two in the top 500 - Jade Windley at 394 (up 56) and Nicola Slater at 431.

-- Edited by steven on Monday 1st of August 2011 05:40:49 AM

steven · Tennis legend

Updated with 8 August 2011 WTA rankings. Anna Smith (down 257 to 1025) drops out of the GB top 25 and is replaced by Samantha Vickers.

There are new singles CHs for Lucy Brown, moving into the top 600 at WR 600, Francesca Stephenson, moving into the GB top 20 at WR 806, and Eleanor Dean at WR 823.

There are also 6 new doubles CHs, including two in the top 500 - Jade Windley at 390 and Nicola Slater at 426, while Sabrina Bamburac has joined the doubles rankings at 1158.

-- Edited by steven on Monday 8th of August 2011 07:34:35 AM

steven · Tennis legend

Updated with 15 August 2011 WTA rankings.

There are new WTA singles CHs for Laura at 176, Samantha Murray at 496, Francesca Stephenson at 794, Eleanor Dean at 808 and Daneika Borthwick at 933, plus new doubles CHs in the top 500 for Jade Windley at 389 and Nik Slater at 425.

No less than 9 of the 33 GB women with singles rankings (27%) have birthdays in August, including three who all had birthdays yesterday - Bally turned 28, Nik Slater 27 and Anna Smith 23.

steven · Tennis legend

Updated with 22 August 2011 WTA rankings.

There are new WTA singles CHs for Laura at 173 and Samantha Murray at 493, both up 3. Nik Slater edges up to another doubles CH at 424 - I think that means that throughout her enforced break this month (she works during the summer season in order to be able to afford to play in the autumn), she has hit a new career high every week thanks to people just above her dropping back! There are also new doubles CHs for Lucy Brown at 541 and Manisha Foster (who had her 18th birthday yesterday) at 1075.

-- Edited by steven on Monday 22nd of August 2011 09:16:50 AM

steven · Tennis legend

Updated with 12 September 2011 rankings.

Laura breaks into the top 150 as expected, up 27 to 146.

Naomi Broady hits a new CH too, up 25 to 206 - only a fairly freakish excess of players moving up over those moving down around WR 200 preventing heri from breaking into the top 200 today, as I seem to remember we expected she would when she actually got the points two weeks ago.

There is also a new singles CH for Alexandra Walker, up 52 to WR 930, but no new doubles CHs.

Reeltime · Satellite level

Steven. Does Jen Allan not get a ranking point for 1st round of qualies in Montreal?

-- Edited by Reeltime on Friday 16th of September 2011 12:13:57 AM

steven · Tennis legend

Er, she does now ashamed

(thanks, I must have forgotten you get points at WTAs even if you go out in qr1!)

steven · Tennis legend

Updated with 26 September 2011 rankings.

Heather climbs 12 to a new career high of 87 after being runner-up in Shrewsbury (having been the only British woman who more than halved her ranking position last year, she has now gone and more than halved her ranking position again!), Francesca Stephenson jumps 101 to 713 after reaching the Antalya Final the week before last and Francesca Lewis is new to the rankings at 1244.

Anne is back in the top 100 too, making 4 Brits in singles top 100s (Elena, Hev, Anne + Andy)

Hev has a new doubles CH as well, up 20 to 168, while Jade Windley, up 41 to 357, and Samantha Murray, up 38 to 377, have also hit new doubles CHs in the top 500.

-- Edited by steven on Monday 26th of September 2011 08:14:55 AM

steven · Tennis legend

Updated with 3 October 2011 rankings.

Laura climbs 5 to a new career high of 141 and there are also new singles career highs for Nik Slater 666, Fran Stephenson 709, Alexandra Walker 926 and Francesca Lewis 1233, plus new doubles CHs in the top 500 for Hev 167, Samantha Murray 307 (up 70) and Jade Windley 355.

steven · Tennis legend

Updated with 10 October 2011 rankings.

Laura climbs 9 to a new career high of 132. There are both singles and doubles CHS for Samantha Murray, up 9 to 469 & doubles 305, Jade Windley, up 60 to 503 & doubles 335, and Lucy Brown, up 7 to 561 / doubles 516. There are also new singles careers highs in the top 1000 for Nik Slater, up 7 to 659, and Fran Stephenson, up 5 to 704.