That's a shocker too, but in a good way! That's Emily back in the top 400 too

-- Edited by steven at 12:13, 2008-11-19

It could take Emily as high as 365 against the career high of 262 she reached in June 2005 before all the injury problems. To get back to 262 she would need to increase her ranking points from the 61 she has now to about 100. The 61 points includes 17 from this event, a few more like that and she will soon close on the 100 she needs.

Mel is struggling with the Australian Open tantalisingly close. Just one more chance, but a good one given how weak next week's tournament is for a 75K+H. The current situation is that without scoring in Japan Mel will be ranked between 113 and 116 on December 8 (assuming none of next week's tournaments offer wildcards to Mel's competitors - no reason why they should), which might be good enough. The three who can still overtake Mel are:

Lucie Hradecka (needs to reach the QF in Odense)
One of Foretz/Klepac/Schruff/Voegele/Manasieva (all are in the top half in Odense and the first two need to reach the final whilst the others need to win the tournament)
Patricia Mayr (an Austrian who makes Mel look like an amateur at finding 25K tournaments - she's rather good at them though, and her 69 wins so far puts her above Jelena Jankovic even. Mayr needs to win one of her last 2 tournaments in Mauritius/Reunion and reach the semi in the other )