British Women - Top 25 etc table

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

RE: British Women - Top 25 etc table

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Thanks to both, especially Steven for all the effort that goes into producing the table.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Women Top 25 - Week 33

One thing I noticed...

Anne K. lost in Q1 to Yung-Jan Chan (TPE), not in FQ to Mattek-Sands (USA).
She thus only accrued one point, not 20. Totals and predicted placement would thus adjust.
Also, this was therefore one round earlier than her seeding, not as per seeding.

Sorry to seem to nitpick after you've just spent days updating table after table. I often go 'number blind' after hours shuffling spreadsheets

Sorry, also, as I don't Twitter, and so couldn't inform you by your more preferred method.

steven · Tennis legend

insomniacfolder wrote:
Women Top 25 - Week 33
One thing I noticed...
Anne K. lost in Q1 to Yung-Jan Chan (TPE), not in FQ to Mattek-Sands (USA).
She thus only accrued one point, not 20. Totals and predicted placement would thus adjust.
Also, this was therefore one round earlier than her seeding, not as per seeding.
Sorry to seem to nitpick after you've just spent days updating table after table. I often go 'number blind' after hours shuffling spreadsheets
Sorry, also, as I don't Twitter, and so couldn't inform you by your more preferred method.

Thanks, I was relying on people here to spot any errors - drawsheets were beginning to swim in front of my eyes, not helped by having a bad summer cold at the moment. I've made the correction so it should be ok now.

Certainly no need to apologise - nit-picking is good, the important thing is for the information to end up being accurate. If I'm ever unhappy about mistakes getting pointed out, it's me I'm unhappy with disbelief and in fact it helps a lot to get the mistake corrected before it gets carried forward onto the week 34 sheet! smile

nicki · Improver

Hi Steven and many thanks for keeping the rankings spreadsheets updated regularly - I couldn't survive without them! The rise of Heather and Laura is particularly fascinating at the moment. However, they can't be playing the same opponents in the QF in Japan as they beat in the last round! lol

steven · Tennis legend

Oops - in my rush to get away yesterday, I must have forgotten to change the opponents' names when I updated the table. ashamed

steven · Tennis legend

Can't think of anywhere better to put this so ...

Laura moves up to a new career high 38 in tomorrow's new rankings (the pdf version is already up) and Heather is back up to her career high of 39, which means GB has two players in the WTA top 40 *simultaneously* for the first time since 1986.

N.B. For the 1980s I only know year-end rankings, so 'first time since 1986' is assumed based on Croft 24/Durie 26/Hobbs 40 at the end of 1985 and GB no. 2s at the year-ends following that all being ranked 59 or lower.

steven · Tennis legend

I wonder where the info for this story this morning came from ... http://www.sportinglife.com/tennis/news/article/553/8641304/slice-of-history-for-robson-watson evileye

blob · All-time great

steven wrote:
I wonder where the info for this story this morning came from ... http://www.sportinglife.com/tennis/news/article/553/8641304/slice-of-history-for-robson-watson

Continuing those high standards of scruples, ethics and journalistic integrity with which the Murdoch titles have always distingushed themselves. disbelief

steven · Tennis legend

The WTA have now confirmed the 1986 bit.

steven · Tennis legend

Tara has made it into the top 200 today ... except she doesn't think she has.

"Can't believe I'm 200 common break the 200 barrier!!!!! #annoying"

We had this same silliness recently with some journos not treating Heather as in the top 40 until she reached 39.

Would a player also consider that they hadn't broken into the top 5 until they reached no. 4? Or hadn't broken into the top 1 until they were ranked, er, zero? confuse

Professional tennis players - great at tennis, maybe not quite so hot at counting!

steven · Tennis legend

Activeboard seems to have completely lost the plot this morning - I posted about Tara once but the post didn't appear on the thread so I tried again. Still no luck, so I checked in another browser and both posts appeared ... until I logged in on the other browser to try to delete one of them, at which point it disappeared!

So it seems that (temporarily, I hope!) you can only see your own recent posts if you are NOT logged in. confuse

I'm pointing this out to try to prevent others posting multiple copies of the same post.

steven · Tennis legend

Turns out the problem mentioned in the last post (assuming anyone can see it) only applies to this thread.

Weirder and weirder ...

indiana · Tennis legend

Re Tara and making the top 200, I thought most of us actually thought that the journos had forgotten / never realised that Heather had already made the top 40 LOL

With Tara, I can actually understand that it would be nice to have a ranking that started "1". She hasn't as such said that she hasn't made the top 200, but rather not made it past WR200.

Well done to her anyway, and I am pretty sure she will soon be 1xx.

steven · Tennis legend

I did too after you made your last post, but then I deleted my duplicate one and now it's back to showing 21 pages instead of 22 and none of this morning's posts. Let's see if another post tips it over the edge again ...