Keothavong 55 South 115 O'Brien 135 Baltacha 130 Stoop 150 Cavaday 165 Webley-Smith 250 Robson 185 Smith 305 Elliot 255 Broady 270 Fitzpatrick 300 Curtis 400 Carreras 470 Rae 500 Moore 400
In terms of getting another brit inside the top 100 in 2009 I'm not convinced it will happen. Mel could probably achieve it with one win at the Aus Open but realistically who could she actually beat in the main draw? I'm hopeful that Naomi Broady will pick up points on the grass taking her inside the top 300. Laura will have a couple of outstanding events and a few near misses. Tara will find her form and move to around 400. Hopefully Naomi Cavaday will get back on track. Georgie will continue the good form she showed during the late summer of 2008 and get to 150. Otherwise I'm not expecting too much change.
Nothing apart from the fact she has a Swedish mom and a Swedish doubles partner (and also has the Swedish looks). She could easily make the Swedish Fed Cup team. But as it stands she should recieve wild cards into Surbiton and Wimbledon qualies as well as maybe Birmingham/Eastbourne qualies and the possibility of main draw wild cards if she gets to top 250 so maybe that will convince her to stay. But there is a WTA tour event in Sweden as well and less competiton for ITF WCs.
Depends how desperate she is to play Fed Cup I guess.
Cos her doubles buddy Johanna Larsson told her how great it is to be swedish. I guess.
With that ginger mane and the unexotic surname (same as mine...) she hardly fits the scandinavian stereotype, but she probably knows her heritage a little better than I do!
Anne had a much better 2nd half so she could get inside the top 45 by Wimbledon if she continues her recent form but she will be pushed to improve on that as the year goes on, so:-
Jocelyn Rae and Tara Moore would have both finished significantly higher if they hadn't both lost their best results of the year to the over complex set of rules. Tara will still be limited to the number of events she plays but Jocelyn should be able to play a full set this year. On the basis that they will repeat those best results several times this year I think they could both end the year inside the top 300, so:-
Rae 249 Moore 280 Broady 295 Smith 310 Fitzpatrick 340 Clarke 350 Curtis 420 Windley 450 Vickers 470 Khan 480
Heather Watson could start playing senior events this year and should record a few good results so:- Watson 495 Carreras 500
Both Sarah Borwell and Mel South should make it into the top 100 of the doubles but because the rules are different for doubles the totals rise quite steeply around 100, so:- Borwell 92 South 98
I see that Naomi Cavaday has now withdrawn from both USA $25K tournaments on 12th and 19th Jan. It looks as if whatever her problem is has still not been sorted.
