ATP & WTA rankings of the 25th best Brits over time

indiana · Tennis legend

RE: ATP & WTA rankings of the 25th best Brits over time

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Just as a by the way, well for now anyway, iff Liam ( into SF ) and Josh M ( into QF ) won their futures titles this week, on Monday 28/10 GB would have 20 players on 68 ranking points or more ! ( 18 on at least 73 points, Liam on 69 and Josh M on 68 ).

You are just trying to make me nervous over the next few days, aren't you. wink

Come on Josh and Liam - no pressure.

steven · Tennis legend

Funnily enough, the last time we got to 20 players in the ATP top 500 was (also) around this time of year.

indiana · Tennis legend

Hey, just think of the fun of waiting a week to see if Josh M made the top 500 on 68 points !

( although actually I can guess calculations would already be flowing regarding various previously unheralded players ).

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Just as a by the way, well for now anyway, iff Liam ( into SF ) and Josh M ( into QF ) won their futures titles this week, on Monday 28/10 GB would have 20 players on 68 ranking points or more ! ( 18 on at least 73 points, Liam on 69 and Josh M on 68 ).

Well that didn't go so well, did it !

indiana · Tennis legend

How about 04/11 ?!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
How about 04/11 ?!

Still going to be tough to get there. Especially with Josh M not playing next week wink

indiana · Tennis legend

Ah ha, but Josh M is down for a challenger in wb 28/10 !

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Ah ha, but Josh M is down for a challenger in wb 28/10 !

OK. You win cry

Let's just hope that Liam and Josh do too.

indiana · Tennis legend

Ha Ha, why do I sense you'ed rather not have known that ?

It's kind of easier just to be resigned to the 20 in top 500 thing being impossible this year.

paulisi · Tennis legend

min 69pts now required to get into top 500.

Liam is getting nearer, hopefully this week in Israel and next week in Edgbaston may be enough.

Just need Oli to get through qualis in far east and win a round somewhere before Boggo or Dan's points drop off.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
min 69pts now required to get into top 500.

Liam is getting nearer, hopefully this week in Israel and next week in Edgbaston may be enough.

Just need Oli to get through qualis in far east and win a round somewhere before Boggo or Dan's points drop off.

Can't see it happening unfortunately.

I really doubt that Oli will be playing in Seoul next week. I just doesn't seem logical that having come off the back of a 6 (?) week injury break that he would fly all the way to Seoul for a 50k Challenger qualifier, and then come straight back to play 10ks in Greece for the following two weeks (or more).

It would make much more sense to withdraw from Seoul and start his comeback in Greece - which is what I think he will do. And even if he were to win on his first tournament back, the points wouldn't go on until the 18th Nov, which I think would be too late.

Got to love your positivity though.

steven · Tennis legend

Still 'just' 18 Brits in the top 500, but a couple of other milestones reached today:

1) Bruce Strachan joining the rankings today means there are now 75 Brits with ATP singles rankings (and he is the 47th Brit to set a new singles career high this year, though a few of those 47 may have since left the rankings) - I haven't checked thoroughly but I'd be amazed if 75 is not an all-time high - in fact, I think that number has been reaching-all-time highs for a while now and it will rise again to 76 next week unless I've missed someone due to drop off. To the extent that this is a result of the LTA concentrating on 10Ks, perhaps it isn't a great milestone to aim at, but it's pretty still impressive to have got there.

2) Dan Smethurst today becomes the 50th British man to set a new doubles career high this year - those 50 have set 265 new career highs between them, with Neal Skupski the 'greediest' with 24. Alex Ward and Josh Ward-Hibbert have also hit new doubles career highs in more than half of the new ranking lists once you allow for slam middle Mondays when no new ranking lists appear.

steven · Tennis legend

Thanks. I wondered what you meant for a bit, because I had changed the last update time to GMT ... then someone on Twitter pointed out that it still said (BST) at the top of the OoP time column and I realised that must have been what you meant. Trust me to do the slightly harder thing and forget the easy bit

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 29th of October 2013 01:02:09 AM

wolf · Tennis legend

Steven, FYI on your top 25 tables you might want to change from BST to GMT.