Coup Droit wrote:

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indiana wrote:

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I think Laura probably is becoming relatively "overranked". She has to my mind quite largely achieved this by good selection of tournaments. The point has been made before about many of our girls seeming to miss some fairly accessible attractive tournaments.

But I honestly fail to really see much downside for Laura from this. She wins more matches, gets more ranking points and money and indeed match play and as Steven says will still end up playing better players, just later on in tournaments.

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Yes, I agree with both points there.

And I'd also add again that, given there are so many tournaments out there, there must logically be a whole heap of other players who are in exactly the same position as Laura, i.e. similarly slightly over-ranked, and therefore maybe it's not overranked at all.

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 That's right. From memory I'd argue that, for both men and women, certain nations which are either geographically remote from the European tennis "heartland" or where perhaps the notion of playing there is alien or not hugely attractive to Europeans......can be of benefit to their local players in providing "easy" futures points with predominantly local players represented. Austalia, Japan, Brasil, Kazakhstan, etc.....that type of thing. So it's very possible that these nations have more than their share of "over-ranked" players. Having said that, Continental Europeans do benefit from having so many tournaments on their doorstep, so arguably it's to their advantage in other ways!