Week 28 - WTA Premier ($740K) - Stanford, USA Hard

murrayman650 · ATP level

RE: Week 28 - WTA Premier ($740K) - Stanford, USA Hard

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Amazing historical win!

Awesome timing with the Olympics too, onwards young Hev!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

which the girls take by 9-7. GSM Hev & Marina! biggrin s by 7-5 7-6(7)!

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

To think, first GBR woman to win a WTA title for 20 years, and she still probably won't win the LTA player of the month!

SMC1809 · All-time great

Helen40 wrote:
7-5, 7-6, now wht's her ranking going to be?

Low 80s - 81 I think.

wolf · Tennis legend

Very well done!!!

Her ranking will go to low 80's-ish (thought it would be higher)!

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Very entertaining match, Heather played well, and a deserved result.
May there be many more such days soon to come!

steven · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:
DavidC wrote:
Even longer to an equivalent WTA grade final (Jo Durie with Catherine Suire in the 1993 Paris indoor) or to a British win in a WTA final (Clare Wood/Belinda Borneo Wellington 1992) I think (possible that I have missed one in skimming a book with WTA doubles finals in date order)
Quite remarkable really but unlike the guys, we haven't had too many female doubles specialists so as per usual we have to go back to the Jo Durie days !

Fantastic stuff from Hev & Marina this week. Quite appropriate that Hev broke the duck with a kiwi! I just checked the dates for Wellington 1992 - if the doubles Final was played on the last day of the tournament, then they won it exactly 100 days before Heather was born!

philwrig · Hall of fame

Brilliant result, Hev was on fire tonight, and in my completely unbiased opinion the best on the court eventhough she was the least experienced.

steven · Tennis legend

Amazingly enough, the LTA have come up with the definitive answer (even more amazingly, I wasn't wrong after all) - 12 March 1991 was the last time GB had 4 women in the WTA singles top 100.

http://www.lta.org.uk/News/2012/July/2012-07-16/Four-British-women-in-the-WTA-top-100-singles-rankings/

-- Edited by steven on Monday 16th of July 2012 09:35:14 AM

steven · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
The WTA don't let you access all the old rankings lists like the ATP do (though you can dig through all the player records to find out where they were after each tournament) but looking at the year-end ranking lists, I would guess it was probably late 1990 or early 1991, since the year-end 1990 ranking list shows Jo Durie at WR 64, Sarah Loosemore at WR 82, Sara Gomer at WR 88 and Monique Javer at WR 101.

There were 3 Brits in the year-end WTA top 100 in 2009 and 2011 but obviously there weren't 4 at any point last year and while Mel also spent a week in the top 100 that year, that was months before Bally and Katie broke into the top 100 for the first time.

Between 1990 and 2009, the only other year that ended with more than 1 Brit in the WTA top 100 was 1992, but the 3rd and 4th Brits were outside the top 150 at that stage, so I doubt there were 4 Brits in the top 100 at any point in 1992 or 1993 and there definitely weren't any weeks with 4 Brits in the top 100 after that.

I've been thinking "first time in more than 2 decades" or "first time since Hev was born" should cover it!

A quick follow-up to this - I went with the slightly vague "2 decades" on Twitter and the BBC has RT'd it (and hence lots of other people too), which given that most of my tweets that get RTd a lot are the ones containing typos or other errors almost certainly means I have missed something and maximum embarrassment will ensue! ashamed wink

Still, at least all the RTing means that if it is wrong, there's now a very high chance someone will correct me and we'll then know what the real answer is! biggrin

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Excellent result, well done Heather (and Marina).

Good to see one long run without success ended this week even though Laura couldn't quite end the 22 year wait for a sigles final.

Rich · Lower Club Player

Well done Heather. What a nice surprise this last week to see her get her hands on a main tour title. And with Laura's good week as well and the guys making the doubles final in Newport it's all looking rather good for British tennis the last few weeks. Long may it continue.

Jan · Hall of fame

well done Hev and Marina!
and thanks to the night birds for their match commentary!

Reeltime · Satellite level

Superb. I always seem to be away for the good weekends