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2009 STATS SUMMARY - GB MEN

Career highs

Because of the one-off change to the ATP ranking system (which meant that away from the very top of the rankings, the points needed for any given ranking position at the end of 2009 were only about 55-60% of the points needed at the end of 2008 - see http://www.britishtennis.net/stats/20092008.htm?n=1), just not having any points to defend in any given week was enough for a new career high far more often than is usually the case.

As a result, the GB men averaged an astonishing (and sadly almost certainly never to be repeated!) 51 new singles career highs and 50 new doubles career highs per month during 2009!

Over 2009 as a whole then, 43 GB men have hit 614 singles career highs between them, with Neil Pauffley, Max Jones & Niall Angus leading the way with 29 each, Meatball (Willis) just behind on 28, and Ben Davis (26 times), the Wardinator (24) and Dr No (Rice), Dan Smethurst & Matthew Leahy (all 23) hitting career highs on at least half of the year's 46 new rankings lists - 52 less the Monday's in the middle of slams, IW & Miami.

45 GB men hit 600 doubles career highs between them. Phillip Stephens managed it 29 times without even cracking the top 700 (!), with the Wardinator & Meatball (both 27), the Skupster (26) and two of the Dans, Cox & Smethurst (both 24) hitting doubles CHs more often than not too.

Meatball (55, 28 S+27 D), The Wardinator (51, 24 S+27 D) and Niall Angus (50, 29 S+21 D) all managed a half century of singles and doubles career highs combined.

Titles in 2009 as a whole

10 GB men won 18 singles titles in 2009 (6 at ATP level, 3 Challengers & 9 Futures), with Muzza (6, all at ATP level including two Masters 1000s and two 500 series events) by far the most successful, while Jamie Baker's 3 Futures titles and Colin Fleming's London Cumberland 10K title mean that more than half of the men's singles titles won by GB men this year have been won by Scottish players.

Dan Smethurst was the only English player to win more than one title (both Futures), while Wardy, Evo & Boggo won the Challenger titles.

21 GB men won no less than 61 doubles titles in 36 different events. Ken Skupski led the way with 8, his Wolfsburg Challenger title with Travis Rettenmaier keeping him one ahead of his normal partner Colin Fleming -together, they managed the quite possibly unique feat of winning at least two titles at each level, winning 2 ATPs, 3 Challengers (4 for Ken) and 2 Futures!

The only other Brits to win more than 5 doubles titles were Chris Eaton and Dominic Inglot, who won 6 Futures each, 3 together and 3 more each apart,, Jamie Murray, Jonny Marray and Josh Goodall all managed at least 3 Challenger wins in their four titles though.

Players in each major ranking band for singles

During the summer, the GB men completed the rapid slide from 18 in the ATP singles top 500 in late October 2005 to just 7 in the top 500, but recovered to have 11 in the top 500 by the end of the year, plus 4 in the doubles top 100.

While Muzza's WR 4 equals the best-ever year-end ATP singles rankings for a Brit which he set last year, this is the third year in a row that we have finished with just two men in the top 200, c.f. the 37-year average of 4.6. In this respect, only 1990 (when Jeremy Bates at WR 126 was the only Brit in the top 200) has been worse since the ATP rankings began in 1973.

11 in the top 500 at the year-end is 1 up on 2008 and 3 up on 2007, but still some way below the 37-year average of 12.7. To be fair, far more countries are represented in the rankings now than there used to be, but equally GB tennis has been seen to be in the doldrums for most of those 37 years.

Funnily (or not funnily ...) enough, the last time we ended a year with 2 Brits in the top 200 and 11 in the top 500 was 1986, the year Andrew Castle finished as GB no. 1 ranked 127. At least the Andy involved has improved since then! LOL

Entrants and leavers

1812 players have ATP rankings (a big drop of 125 since the end of 2008) and 50 of them are Brits. The decrease of 1 since 2008 is the net effect of 16 new entrants and 17 dropouts.

New/re-entrants who ended the year in the top 1000 are:

Inglot,*Dominic (NEW from UNR to 737)
Hutchins,*Ross (NEW from UNR to 868)
Jones,*Max (NEW from UNR to 951)

Dropouts who started the year in the top 1000 are:

Bamford, Neil (OUT from 702 to UNR)
Seator, Edward (OUT from 796 to UNR)
Flanagan, Ian (OUT from 874 to UNR)
Kinsella,*Jonathan (OUT from 881 to UNR)

Risers and fallers

Of the 33 Brits who both started and ended the year with ATP rankings, 21 have moved up and 12 have moved down with only Muzza ending the year where he started at WR 4.

At first sight, this is a much better record than the GB women, but while quite a few of the promising teenagers have moved up a lot, the up moves for the men are more skewed towards the bottom half of the rankings, with 2008's regular Challenger level Brits having a bit of a stinker of a year.

Biggest movers

Players who moved up more than 25% of the way between where they started 2009 and the top of the rankings were:

+77.1% Phillips,*Morgan (UP from 1872 to 430)
+62.0% Inglot,*Dominic (NEW from UNR to 737)
+56.2% Smethurst,*Daniel (UP from 976 to 428)
+55.2% Hutchins,*Ross (NEW from UNR to 868)
+53.6% Pauffley,*Neil (UP from 1531 to 711)
+51.0% Jones,*Max (NEW from UNR to 951)
+45.4% Evans,*Daniel (UP from 477 to 261)
+43.7% Cox,*Daniel (UP from 831 to 468)
+41.8% Rice,*David (UP from 906 to 528)
+37.2% Willis,*Marcus (UP from 965 to 606)
+28.9% Burn,*Tom (NEW from UNR to 1379)
+27.5% Baker,*Jamie (UP from 430 to 312)
+26.9% Ward,*Alexander (UP from 980 to 717)
+25.6% Hewitt,*Ashley (NEW from UNR to 1442)
+25.6% Angus,*Niall (NEW from UNR to 1442)
+25.1% Milton,*Joshua (UP from 745 to 558)

Players moving down more than 50% on a similar basis were:

-51.0% Goodall,*Joshua (DOWN from 203 to 306)
-52.9% Brewer,*David (OUT from 1186 to UNR)
-58.1% Bloomfield,*Richard (DOWN from 297 to 469)
-60.0% Marray,*Jonathan (DOWN from 456 to 729)
-73.7% Kasiri,*Miles (OUT from 1044 to UNR)
-84.7% Skupski,*Ken (DOWN from 635 to 1172)
-88.0% Slabinsky,*Alexander (DOWN from 351 to 659)
-105.9% Kinsella,*Jonathan (OUT from 881 to UNR)
-107.6% Flanagan,*Ian (OUT from 874 to UNR)
-127.9% Seator,*Edward (OUT from 796 to UNR)
-158.5% Bamford,*Neil (OUT from 702 to UNR)

Complete versions of all these lists plus graphs of the numbers of players in each ranking band for the last 37 year ends can be found at http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html and the equivalent 2010 tables will be linked to from that page from early next week.


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2009 STATS SUMMARY - GB WOMEN

Career highs

Over 2009 as a whole, 25 GB women have hit 189 singles career highs between them (plus 10 more for Aussie-possibly-to-turn-Brit Johanna Konta), with Samantha Vickers & Helen Parish leading the way with 17 each, Amanda Carreras managing 15 new CHs, Olivia Smith 14, Heather Watson & Naomi Broady 13 each, Elena Baltacha 11 and Laura Robson & Nicola George each managing it 10 times.

23 GB women hit 174 doubles career highs between them. Laura is the clear leader here with 21, followed by Sarah Borwell and Naomi Cavaday with 16 each.

Both Laura Robson (10 S+21 D) and Helen Parish (17 S + 13 D) managed 30+ singles and doubles career highs combined.

Titles in 2009 as a whole

10 GB women won 17 singles titles in 2009 (7 at 25K+, the rest at 10K level) with Naomi Broady (4 - 25K plus 3x10K) the only one to win more than two, with Bally's 75K25K the most impressive of the two-time title winners - her Shrewsbury 75K win was the only singles title for a GB women above 25K level this year. Jo Konta (see above) won a 25K too.

15 GB women won 25 doubles titles (6 at 25K+, the rest at 10K level) in 19 different events, with the all-GB Rae/Windley pairing sharing the most wins (3x10K) with Amanda Carreras, who won three 10Ks titles with non-Brits. The biggest win was Naomi Cavaday's Jo'burg 100K+H win with Lesya Tsurenko back in week 17.

Players in each major ranking band for singles

This is the first time we have ended a year with three GB women (Bally, Katie & Anne)in the top 100 since 1990 (19 years ago!), when Jo Durie was the GB no. 1 at WR 64.

Including them, we have 4 women in the top 200 (the same as a year ago), just above the 20-year average of 3.4, and 13 in the top 500 (up 1 on a year ago and an increase of 4 since the 2004 multi-year low of 9), as close as it is possible to get to the 20-year average of 13.4.

Entrants and leavers

1150 players have WTA rankings (2008: 1153) and 34 of them are Brits. The increase of 4 since 2008 is due to 9 new entrants ...

Whybourn, Lisa (NEW from UNR to 522)
Brown, Danielle (NEW from UNR to 549)
Watson, Heather (NEW from UNR to 554)
George, Nicola (NEW from UNR to 859)
Parish, Helen (NEW from UNR to 932)
Smith, Olivia (NEW from UNR to 954)
Ren, Jessica (NEW from UNR to 1025)
Slater, Nicola (NEW from UNR to 1050)
Richards, Holly (NEW from UNR to 1107)

... less 5 who have fallen out of the rankings ...

Clarke, Yasmin (OUT from 555 to UNR)
Scarfi, Olivia (OUT from 894 to UNR)
Warburton, Lucy (OUT from 990 to UNR)
Mooney, Nicola (OUT from 1078 to UNR)
Sargeant, Amy (OUT from 1078 to UNR)

... while Ines Janbakhsh is the only Brit to have managed to enter the rankings during the year and then left them again by the year-end.

Risers and fallers

Of the 24 Brits who both started and ended the year with WTA rankings, 11 have moved up and 12 have moved down with Elizabeth Thomas managing to end the year where she started at WR 700. However, two of the up moves have taken players into the top 100, so taking into account both that and the 4 extra ranked players, 2009 was a year when very creditable progress was made on the women's side.

Biggest movers

Players who moved up more than 10% of the way between where they started 2009 and the top of the rankings were:

+54.8%  Whybourn, Lisa (NEW from UNR to 522)
+52.5%  Brown, Danielle (NEW from UNR to 549)
+52.0%  Watson, Heather (NEW from UNR to 554)
+44.9%  O'Brien, Katie (UP from 159 to 88)
+38.5%  Baltacha, Elena (UP from 136 to 84)
+36.8%  Broady, Naomi (UP from 471 to 298)
+36.2%  Curtis, Jade (UP from 520 to 332)
+29.0%  Cavaday, Naomi (UP from 287 to 204)
+25.6%  George, Nicola (NEW from UNR to 859)
+23.1%  Rae, Jocelyn (UP from 643 to 495)
+22.1%  Robson, Laura (UP from 517 to 403)
+21.6%  Carreras, Amanda (UP from 548 to 430)
+19.3%  Parish, Helen (NEW from UNR to 932)
+17.3%  Smith, Olivia (NEW from UNR to 954)
+11.2%  Ren, Jessica (NEW from UNR to 1025)

Players moving down more than 20% on a similar basis were:

-20.3%  Stoop, Georgie (DOWN from 218 to 262)
-21.1%  Webley-Smith, Emily (DOWN from 357 to 432)
-28.8%  Scarfi, Olivia (OUT from 894 to UNR)
-36.9%  Khan, Natasha (DOWN from 581 to 795)
-43.8%  Brown, Katharina (DOWN from 554 to 796)
-55.0%  Fitzpatrick, Anna (DOWN from 483 to 748)
-67.8%  Keothavong, Anne (DOWN from 60 to 100)
-72.5%  South, Melanie (DOWN from 110 to 189)
-107.6%  Clarke, Yasmin (OUT from 555 to UNR)
-127.1%  Elliott, Amanda (DOWN from 318 to 721)
-151.1%  Borwell, Sarah (DOWN from 363 to 910)

Complete versions of all these lists plus graphs of the numbers of players in each ranking band for the last 21 year ends can be found at http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html and the equivalent 2010 tables will be linked to from that page from early next week.


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Wow! That is a lot of information. Thank you for that, Steven.

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I think my brain just melted. Enormously interesting reading though! Just reliving the year has been quite intriguing. I'm still staggered by the amount of titles our players win and yet as a tennis nation, we still get mocked quite heavily.

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I probably should have posted all that in a few instalments LOL - it doesn't seem so much when I write it because it's all copy/pasted from the tables that get (semi-)automatically updated each week.

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Silver wrote:

I think my brain just melted. Enormously interesting reading though! Just reliving the year has been quite intriguing. I'm still staggered by the amount of titles our players win and yet as a tennis nation, we still get mocked quite heavily.


Unfortunately, for our nation's size of population and resources the truth is overall tennis results are disappointing, however much a listing of successes may suggest otherwise.  I congratulate the relevant players on the titles that they have acheived, but as whole these are in no way staggering achievments. It's lucky Steven isn't let go to post similarly about certain other nations wink.gif  That's not to say that of course there is some media that writes ignorant comment.

But a new year is almost dawning so let's be optimistic for the future, and wish that the resources available are well directed to help bring on our players of all ages, and that the players themselves try to be all they can be.  Certainly, with regards to our top players, most folk in our ranking predictions ( including my own ) are anticipating ( hoping for ? ) some real advances.

 Great stuff, Steven, thanks for putting all that together.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 28th of December 2009 09:43:44 PM

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In the overall scheme of things we are a massively underperforming tennis nation. But other countries have similar problems. However on the bright side the ladies game is definitely improving and our juniors both on the boys and the girls side are the best we have had for a long time. Oh and we also have Andy.

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MOST ACTIVE GB MEN IN 2009

Brits who played at least 12 singles matches in 2009, extracted from 14 Dec stats on stevegtennis.com with Slabba's matches in Brazil added:

PlayerMatchesWin %
Phillips, Morgan8665.1%
Murray, Andy7785.7%
Rice, David7660.5%
Ward, Alexander7561.3%
Milton, Joshua7154.9%
Smethurst, Dan6960.9%
Willis, Marcus6857.4%
Eaton, Chris6550.8%
Bogdanovic, Alex6456.3%
Baker, Jamie6371.4%
Bloomfield, Richard6365.1%
Cox, Daniel6355.6%
Goodall, Joshua6250.0%
Thornley, Sean6145.9%
Illingworth, Matthew6046.7%
Evans, Daniel5961.0%
Pauffley, Neil5651.8%
Bradshaw, Tim5446.3%
Fleming, Colin5356.6%
Ward, James4951.0%
Short, Matthew4856.3%
Fitzpatrick, Andrew4757.4%
Barlow, Philip4746.8%
Jones, Max4656.5%
Bains, Maniel4452.3%
Slabinsky, Alexander4445.5%
Arlidge, Burnham4440.9%
Feaver, Jamie4341.9%
Angus, Niall4050.0%
Pritchard, Ben3951.3%
Evans, Oliver3948.7%
Brassington, Kyle3946.2%
Baxendine, David3850.0%
Marray, Jonathan3751.4%
Cavaday, Nick3551.4%
Priddle, Chris3542.9%
Egerton, Rogan3132.3%
Brooks, Richard3053.3%
Ross-Hurst, Dominic2650.0%
Inglot, Dominic2560.0%
Bishop, Paul2548.0%
James, Matthew2433.3%
Leahy, Matthew2356.5%
Allemby, James2321.7%
Hewitt, Ashley2263.6%
Knights, Tom2240.9%
Golding, Oliver2147.6%
O'Leary, David2133.3%
Cooper, Joseph2119.0%
Modebe, Orion1942.1%
Rambotas, John1926.3%
Akhazzan, Faris1921.1%
Burn, Tom1861.1%
Beckles, Marc1827.8%
Roenn, Nikki1723.5%
Farquharson, Tom1546.7%
Carpenter, Jack1540.0%
Gabb, Richard1442.9%
Skupski, Kenneth1442.9%
Whiteford, Jamie1330.8%
Bull, Alexander1315.4%
Sidaway, Daniel137.7%
Whike, James1250.0%
Broady, Liam1241.7%

Morgan was one of the 25 most active players in the world this year. The top two most active players up to 14 Dec were Albert Ramos, who played 100 matches and won 71% of them, and Novak Djokovic, who played 97 and won 80.4%.

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BEST GB WIN %s MEN IN 2009

Brits who played at least 12 singles matches in 2009, extracted from 14 Dec stats on stevegtennis.com with Slabba's matches in Brazil added. Muzza had the highest win % of anyone in the world apart from Pablo Figueroa from Sweden (sic!), who just scraped the minimum number of matches to be included on steveg's list and won 11/12.

PlayerWin %
Murray, Andy85.7% - W 66 L 11
Baker, Jamie71.4% - W 45 L 18
Phillips, Morgan65.1% - W 56 L 30
Bloomfield, Richard65.1% - W 41 L 22
Hewitt, Ashley63.6% - W 14 L 8
Ward, Alexander61.3% - W 46 L 29
Burn, Tom61.1% - W 11 L 7
Evans, Daniel61.0% - W 36 L 23
Smethurst, Dan60.9% - W 42 L 27
Rice, David60.5% - W 46 L 30
Inglot, Dominic60.0% - W 15 L 10
Willis, Marcus57.4% - W 39 L 29
Fitzpatrick, Andrew57.4% - W 27 L 20
Fleming, Colin56.6% - W 30 L 23
Jones, Max56.5% - W 26 L 20
Leahy, Matthew56.5% - W 13 L 10
Bogdanovic, Alex56.3% - W 36 L 28
Short, Matthew56.3% - W 27 L 21
Cox, Daniel55.6% - W 35 L 28
Milton, Joshua54.9% - W 39 L 32
Brooks, Richard53.3% - W 16 L 14
Bains, Maniel52.3% - W 23 L 21
Pauffley, Neil51.8% - W 29 L 27
Marray, Jonathan51.4% - W 19 L 18
Cavaday, Nick51.4% - W 18 L 17
Pritchard, Ben51.3% - W 20 L 19
Ward, James51.0% - W 25 L 24
Eaton, Chris50.8% - W 33 L 32
Goodall, Joshua50.0% - W 31 L 31
Angus, Niall50.0% - W 20 L 20
Baxendine, David50.0% - W 19 L 19
Ross-Hurst, Dominic50.0% - W 13 L 13
Whike, James50.0% - W 6 L 6
Evans, Oliver48.7% - W 19 L 20
Bishop, Paul48.0% - W 12 L 13
Golding, Oliver47.6% - W 10 L 11
Barlow, Philip46.8% - W 22 L 25
Illingworth, Matthew46.7% - W 28 L 32
Farquharson, Tom46.7% - W 7 L 8
Bradshaw, Tim46.3% - W 25 L 29
Brassington, Kyle46.2% - W 18 L 21
Thornley, Sean45.9% - W 28 L 33
Slabinsky, Alexander45.0% - W 18 L 22
Priddle, Chris42.9% - W 15 L 20
Gabb, Richard42.9% - W 6 L 8
Skupski, Kenneth42.9% - W 6 L 8
Modebe, Orion42.1% - W 8 L 11
Feaver, Jamie41.9% - W 18 L 25
Broady, Liam41.7% - W 5 L 7
Arlidge, Burnham40.9% - W 18 L 26
Knights, Tom40.9% - W 9 L 13
Carpenter, Jack40.0% - W 6 L 9
James, Matthew33.3% - W 8 L 16
O'Leary, David33.3% - W 7 L 14
Egerton, Rogan32.3% - W 10 L 21
Whiteford, Jamie30.8% - W 4 L 9
Beckles, Marc27.8% - W 5 L 13
Rambotas, John26.3% - W 5 L 14
Roenn, Nikki23.5% - W 4 L 13
Allemby, James21.7% - W 5 L 18
Akhazzan, Faris21.1% - W 4 L 15
Cooper, Joseph19.0% - W 4 L 17
Bull, Alexander15.4% - W 2 L 11
Sidaway, Daniel7.7% - W 1 L 12



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