Just looking at prize money Jo earned $434K in prize money alone, which is the reason why the LTA have and should have stopped funding her.

Hev earned $512K

Naomi B $138K and counting

Laura R was next earning $109K - which probably doesn't justify her being funded by the LTA with all her other endorsements

Jos and Anna are next on the list earning just over $42K each

Yes. Absolutely.

The LTA stopped the funding last year, it said. Because her ranking had stalled.

JoKo was very clear that it was this that made her move to Spain and review her whole set-up.

Which, obviously, worked out well (well done, LTA - written with ironic overtones !).

But no thanks, in my view, to the LTA (although any success, of course, is a culmination of efforts and investment so the LTA should get some reflected credit, but a small 'some').

I guess it's in the details but The Telegraph interview a month or so back said that her funding from the LTA was basically stopped in March 2015.

It then says : "Her response was to move her training base from London to Gijon in the Asturias region of Spain, where she hired a pair of experienced coaches - Esteban Carill and Jose Manuel Garcia - who used to play on the satellite circuit."

The rest is all along the same lines, that she hired the guys, and moved to Spain, following the cut in funding, which was significantly before her big jump up the rankings

insomniacfolder wrote:

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More Joko related frippery from the WTA; she was the 37th most viewed player page on the WTA in the last year.
Thus, surpassing her highest ranking (or one suspects, her renown for most of the year), and putting her alongside players such as Kuznetsova, Stosur, Sloane, Cibulkova & Lisicki in popularity.

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For the record, despite a highly variable season, Heather still came in 28th.
This possibly speaks to her general personal appeal, as she is the player with just about the highest outperforming delta between actual ranking and popularity ranking (the ever popular Hantuchova's is higher).

insomniacfolder wrote:

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For the record, despite a highly variable season, Heather still came in 28th.
This possibly speaks to her general personal appeal, as she is the player with just about the highest outperforming delta between actual ranking and popularity ranking (the ever popular Hantuchova's is higher).

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 I suspect Heather's position owes a lot to a huge spike of views in early July....

Helen40 wrote:

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When will Jo be able to use her new WR 28 to enter tournaments? I guess her whole schedule will change now.

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I think the WTA entry lists are six weeks ahead, so mid March 

If she's sick she will not be playing for a while