Top 500

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Top 500

seagull · Hall of fame

Well this has taken an unusual turn. Oliver Crawford WR 215 has switched allegiance to GB and we will have 20 players in top 500 next week. Who saw that coming?

-- Edited by seagull on Wednesday 3rd of January 2024 06:26:11 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
Well this has taken an unusual turn. Oliver Crawford WR 215 has switched allegiance to GB and we will have 20 players in top 500 next week. Who saw that coming?

-- Edited by seagull on Wednesday 3rd of January 2024 06:26:11 PM

Bob fixed it for him! Had to go down 214 others to get him to sign up though !

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

I might just have a glass of ..... Orange Juice tonight, to celebrate.

It was a good battle Jaggy, but the right result in the end wink

Madadman · Top national player

Well what an anti climax the race to 20 in 500/ 10 in the top 250 was!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Madadman wrote:
Well what an anti climax the race to 20 in 500/ 10 in the top 250 was!

I'm not complaining wink

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

It's not over yet

I like to see the final ATP list

Just in case Jan has become Polish in the next few days or whatever

But, yep, it goes any which way - in fact, I rather like the slightly randomness of it

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

I think the fairest situation would have been Top 500 on 19 and Top 250 on 9 (trust me, I checked LOL), when the change of allegiance came into place. That way we could have called it an honourable draw.

paulisi · Tennis legend

If the top 500 is showing as completed on Monday and Arthur Fery wins a couple of challenger matches next week, then the top 250 will also be complete.

What will be the next target???

indiana · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Madadman wrote:
Well what an anti climax the race to 20 in 500/ 10 in the top 250 was!
I'm not complaining

Certainly don't! 20 in the top 500 is no doubt fairly going to WIN when we see next Monday's list.

Following the 20 in the top 500 & 10 in the top 250 has been real fun over the last couple of years or so and to me doesn't lose anything by this unexpected final development. So celebration time for you!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes, absolutely.

It looks like you're going to sneak it by a whisker, Bob

And it's one of those ultra feel-good moments - everyone's pleased - Jaggy will be pleased - we all want more GB tennis players doing well - if we've got 20 in the top-500 and 9 in the top-250, that's just super (in fact, we've almost for 9 in the top-200)

it's smiles all round as far as I'm concerned

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Whilst I do agree it is all good; I am very keen to understand more around Oliver Crawford and his move. He comes into the country ranked around 200, top 9 in the UK. And battling for slam places by being in qualies. He is going to be ranked around Jan, Ryan, Billy, Arthur level, and is still quite young at 24.

Is he planning to be based in GB, is he going to be battling for wild card places in the GB Challengers in the next couple of months that are planned, presumably not the M25 events, and will he be giving the grass a go and looking at wildcards for the grass challengers as well? And Wimbledon qualies and main draw?

None of those are problems, just interested to see where this goes and if he assimilates into British tennis?

Not seen if any of the press or other players have commented, welcomed him etc - how well known is he by the other British players and the tennis press over here?

All quite interesting and positive for me, just keen to see what happens?!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I would assume he definitely has his sights set on Wimbledon, wildcards into ATP events, challengers, whatever

And perfectly reasonable - he has a career to try and fund

In terms of Grand Slams and ATP events, the US is better off than the UK, obviously.

But it's a big pool out there

He'll be a bigger fish in a smaller pond here

dodrade · Satellite level

Madadman wrote:
Well what an anti climax the race to 20 in 500/ 10 in the top 250 was!

It does feel a bit deus ex machina.

Madadman · Top national player

I dont mean to burst a bubble and all that but I think we might still be at 19 on Monday. Live-tennis.eu has Alastair inside the top 500 but the ATP live site has him outside. I think the lowering of points(for challenger events) on livetennis.eu hasnt happened yet.