indiana wrote:

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19th to 25th had 12, 11, 9, 8, 8, 6 and 6 points respectively, as against all this year-end going to have 20 points or more.  

What I really hope to see next year is a good number of these new top 750 players, certainly the teenagers, becoming top 500 players.

If we can also basically maintain nearly all our current top 500 players next year we could maybe end 2012 with as many top 500 players as in quite some time.

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Yes, the additions are as follows, 5 of the 8 being teenagers plus Fitzy, Flembo (a more random addition under the circumstances) and Ed, who had been away at college in the US:

Lewis Burton - up 706 this year
Liam Broady - up 445
James Marsalek - up 958
Oli Golding - up 449
Andrew Fitzpatrick - up 381
Colin Fleming - back in from unranked at the end of last year
George Morgan - up 208
Ed Corrie - up 558

Dominic Inglot is the only Brit who was in the top 750 at the end of last year who isn't any more - and that was obviously for injury-related reasons.

The end of 2005 saw the highest number of Brits in the ATP year-end top 500 since the 1970s (with 18, having peaked at 20 in late October that year) and retirements / switching to doubles / injuries saw that plummet to an all-time year-end low (equal with 1992) of 8 at the end of 2007.

The number has since been building gradually (10 at the end of 2008, 11 in 2009, 12 in 2010 and 13 now, though with players ranked 499 and 501, that could easily end up as 12 or 14 by the end of the year) and the number currently in the top 500 (i.e. 13) is around the average for GB since the ATP rankings began.

The lack of true Challenger-level Brits in the top 250 is still a big concern, but if (a big 'if'!) most of those who moved up a lot into the top 750 this year can make it into the top 500 next year and hardly anyone who is in the top 500 already drops out, then GB could certainly be heading for around 20 top 500 players again - the difference from 2005 being that many of them should still be on the way up instead of lots of them being about to retire - and that really would hold out the prospect of a siginificant improvement in the number of Brits at Challenger level (or above) over the next few years.

KK wrote:

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L16: Edward Corrie WR 746 bt (7) Edoardo Eremin (ITA) WR 579  7-6, 4-6, 6-4

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Yay!  

QF:  Ed Corrie WR 746 vs (Q) Joshua Zavala (USA) WR 826

A decent chance of a place in the semi?

Not to be:

QF:  Ed Corrie WR 746 lost to (Q) Joshua Zavala (USA) WR 826 by 4-6 7-5 6-7(6)

Close, but not close enough!