Top 500

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RE: Top 500

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Going back the first few posts in this thread we had 13 in the top 500 8 and a bit years ago And 11 countries had more than us. I wonder were we sit now in terms of number of players in the top 500 compared to others.

Brendan F · Lower Club Player

Madadman wrote:
Going back the first few posts in this thread we had 13 in the top 500 8 and a bit years ago And 11 countries had more than us. I wonder were we sit now in terms of number of players in the top 500 compared to others.

A quick look suggests 7: USA, France, Spain, Italy, Australia, Germany and Argentina. For all the doom and gloom in France which CD regularly reports on they still have easily the most with 51.

-- Edited by Brendan F on Monday 8th of January 2024 11:28:07 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

The issue for France is no doubt that they have the culture, the competition, the depth, but at the absolute top end, relatively so little.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
The issue for France is no doubt that they have the culture, the competition, the depth, but at the absolute top end, relatively so little.

Yes. It is absolutely no comfort to them, not one jot, how many they have in the top-500.

They'd trade them all in, at the drop of a hat, for one top-5 or top-10 player.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Bob in Spain wrote:
WooHoo. Today is a red letter day. 20 in the Top 500 is officially achieved. It's been a long time coming but we have finally made it.

Time to celebrate.

Drinks are on ..... well, Jaggy actually.

Has anyone seen him around these last few days ? He has been conspicuous by his absence.

Im back guys, had a lot on and missed all of this in the main.

Congratulations Bob did you pay that Crawford character for his switch of allegiance?

Its been a great wee battle and Arthur Fery will give us the 10 either this week or very shortly so if he does it this week can we call it a draw?

Drinks are on me whats everyones tipple? I might even slip the Tories on here a wee non alcoholic beer

indiana · Tennis legend

Unfortunately Arthur Fery has withdrawn from his Thailand SF and from next week as well. Unless we discover another new Brit, 10 in the top 250 will have to wait.

indiana · Tennis legend

Just looking at our top 500 women singles players, we have 17 but there is a huge gap then between GB #17 and GB #18.

14. Beth Grey WR 407, 148 points
15. Emily Appleton WR 434, 134 points
16. Naiktha Bains WR 446, 127 points
17. Emilie Lindh WR 460, 121 points

18. Ranah Stoiber WR 663, 58 points
19. Hannah Klugman WR 667, 57 points
20. Matilda Mutavdzic WR 676, 56 points.
21. Isabelle Lacy WR 688, 53 points

So big jumps required to get into the top 500 ( WR 500 is currently on 104 points ).

However, longer term we clearly have some really good prospects for getting there and much further once our good juniors such as Hannah, Isabelle, Mimi, Mika and Hep get more experienced and start to play more senior tournaments

paulisi · Tennis legend

Don't forget the likes of Eliz Maloney, who has fallen down the rankings and was well inside the top 500.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Millie Rajecki is another clear top-500 prospect, assuming college continutes to go well

She should be a slamdunk

Not sure about the other college girls - there's some good players there (like Kylie) but whether they've quite got the full commitment to giving pro tennis a real go, I'm not sure

Freya is another in Eliz's camp

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Flourishing on the ATP side of things. Hamish just now making the the QFs in Glasgow puts him live at 487 and now 23 in the top 500.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Madadman wrote:
Flourishing on the ATP side of things. Hamish just now making the the QFs in Glasgow puts him live at 487 and now 23 in the top 500.

Should easily get to 25 with Jake Fearnley, Henry Searle and Stuart Parker closing in.

SuperT · Futures qualifying

paulisi wrote:
Madadman wrote:
Flourishing on the ATP side of things. Hamish just now making the the QFs in Glasgow puts him live at 487 and now 23 in the top 500.
Should easily get to 25 with Jake Fearnley, Henry Searle and Stuart Parker closing in.

It's wonderful to see how the floodgates seem to have opened since Oliver Crawford's change of allegiance. However, sadly it's not all one way traffic as Alastair Grey is in danger of dropping out unless he finds a way to pick some points PDQ

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

SuperT wrote:
paulisi wrote:
Madadman wrote:
Flourishing on the ATP side of things. Hamish just now making the the QFs in Glasgow puts him live at 487 and now 23 in the top 500.
Should easily get to 25 with Jake Fearnley, Henry Searle and Stuart Parker closing in.
It's wonderful to see how the floodgates seem to have opened since Oliver Crawford's change of allegiance. However, sadly it's not all one way traffic as Alastair Grey is in danger of dropping out unless he finds a way to pick some points PDQ

From memory, Ali G has a few points to defend in Feb, but then very little until the 2nd half of the season. So if he drops out, it will only be short term. Had it not been for his recent injury, he would be well on his way back up the rankings by now.

Strongbow · All-time great

Alastair Gray has 16 off for the rest of this month but only 17 off for the next 3 months after that