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indiana · Tennis legend

Aidan is indeed WR 500 at 27/01 so GB men are finally back to 20 in the top 500 again.

It will be for just one week for now with 2 dropping out for 03/02. With other movements Aidan's 78 points have him down to live ranked 502, and Felix Gill will drop 22 points to 67 points in total, live ranked 540.

But at least got there, to conclude the latest - when we will get 20 GB men in the top 500?

Think I will bow out for now of following that closely a further iteration. But hope it won't be too long until the next time.

indiana · Tennis legend

Out of interest, I see from the very first post of the thread in 2015 that at that time there were 13 GB men and 9 GB women in the top 500 as against 20 and 14 respectively in today's rankings.

We may like a moan or two but that's just one of a number of indicators that things are a fair bit better now than they were a decade ago.

And with our women there is a discussed depth issue but re top 200 ( rather more important?! ) we have 6 men in the top 200 and 8 women, ie. almost as many women in the top 200 now as there were in the top 500 in 2015 ( though as the 2nd post of the thread indicates, 9 was a historically low figure ).

indiana · Tennis legend

Just to confirm officially, with the 03/02 rankings out, GB men drop 2 to 18 in the top 500.

paulisi · Tennis legend

We have 37 in the top 1000, which is really good depth on the men's side.

paulisi · Tennis legend

It is good to see quite of the players outside of the top 500 playing and picking up wins, bar Felix Gill, who is training at Roehampton.
Aidan, Stu P, Liam, Hamish, George, Arthur etc

-- Edited by paulisi on Friday 14th of February 2025 11:23:10 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
We have 37 in the top 1000, which is really good depth on the men's side.

Let's be having 40 in the top 1000

indiana · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
It is good to see quite of the players outside of the top 500 playing and picking up wins, bar Felix Gill, who is training at Roehampton.
Aidan, Stu P, Liam, Hamish, George, Arthur etc

-- Edited by paulisi on Friday 14th of February 2025 11:23:10 AM

Hopefully we will have 20 in the top 500 pretty soon again. Certainly some players there that could clearly be very much higher ranked. Hopefully they stay fit and well and winning

indiana · Tennis legend

"Pretty soon" will be Monday week.

We will be back to at least 20 in the top 500 then with Aidan going to be already there on Monday ( and adding more points this week ) and with George and Arthur's success at Roehampton.

The final will take George into the top 500 with now at least 85 points. Arthur will move from at least 76 points to 85 points if he wins the final and he too then into the top 500 to make it 21.

JonH · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
"Pretty soon" will be Monday week.
We will be back to at least 20 in the top 500 then with Aidan going to be already there on Monday ( and adding more points this week ) and with George and Arthur's success at Roehampton.
The final will take George into the top 500 with now at least 85 points. Arthur will move from at least 76 points to 85 points if he wins the final and he too then into the top 500 to make it 21.

Good stuff !

indiana · Tennis legend

Live rankings for 24/02 :

GB #18, live ranked 467, Aidan M 88 points
GB #19, live ranked 477, George L 85
GB #20, live ranked 478, Arthur F 85 ( in Pau Challenger )
GB #21, live ranked 479, Kyle E 85

GB #22, live ranked 545, Emile H 67

paulisi · Tennis legend

No sign of Kyle this season, but there are plenty more in contention - Emile Hudd, Stuart Parker, Hamish Stewart, Felix Gill, Liam Broady, Millen Hurrion etc

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

24th Feb

Now 21 players in the top-500

(Only two in the 21&U Next Gen category)

JonH · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
24th Feb

Now 21 players in the top-500

(Only two in the 21&U Next Gen category)

I havent followed too closely, but is that the first time weve achieved 21 since weve been counting?

indiana · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
There's still 21 players in the top-500

But the problem now is that there's a big gap in the pyramid

Currently we only have two players in the 100-200 range - and one of those is Andy who (bless) doesn't really count now in terms of rankings going forward

So only Billy in the 'feeder' group for the top-100

Of course, the 200-250 group is pretty jammed packed - seven players - so a few of those getting back in form/marking up some good wins would make a big difference

This is a CD post from 15/07/24 confirming 21 in the top 500 then. We had 21 in the rankings from 17/06 to 15/07 inclusive. So there has been at least that period as well.