Emile losing round one today, to a wildcard, doesnt help in the race for 20. Disappointing as Emile has made good progress, generally, this season. Hes currently in action again week 52, lets hope hes been able to get some decent practice in over the next week.
Emile loses his QF in Bali, so we will go into 2025 with:
19 men in the top 500, 7 in the top 250 13 women in the top 500, 8 in the top 250
GB men : In week 2 in 2025 Arthur Fery is due to drop 22 points which without any replacement will drop him out of the top 500 and nearer WR 600 than WR 500 ( he is though on the Nottingham Challenger list for that week so good to see him due in action again and hopefully he can have a good week, indeed a good year ). Let's hope in general that a very good portion of the early year domestic tournament points go our players.
Emile is down for Bali again next week and that Nottingham Challenger in Week 2, and Stuart P and Henry S also remain close to the top 500. Liam will drop further before he climbs back up but clearly, fit and well, he would be well into the top 500.
GB women : As stats in other threads have shown our top 10 ( more specifically top 9 ) women have had a very good year and been setting new high points for combined rankings. For the cumulative top 10 rankings, our women recently passed our men and are now indeed over 100 places in total ahead of them ( as per the Strongest Nation thread, 1595 to 1707 )
The above top 500 stat though shows the current lack of depth in our women further down. But encouragingly we do of course have quite a number of very good young prospects in our juniors plus such as Amelia Rajecki and hopefully the absent Katie Swan to give a real boost to initially our top 500 numbers and in time top 250 and beyond.
According to reports, Arthur went undefeated in the Indian Tennis League. The standard is mixed, but seeing him play regularly and healthy is great. As long as he stays fit, he should be well within the top 500 in no time.
Congrats to Henry Searle for his R1 win in the Nottingham Challenger which will take him into the top 500 for the first time.
However, as above, Arthur Fery will drop out of the top 500. Though yes, fit and well, he should certainly very comfortably get back in, hopefully sooner rather than later.
Net, net, we will still have 19 in the top 500 on 13/01, going into the 2 week Aus Open ranking break.
Two India M25 titles and Alastair Gray soars back into the top 500. His 93 points at 27/01 are equivalent to a ranking in the 450s in the 13/01 rankings.
BUT Aidan McHugh on 80 points is due to drop 2 points for the 27/01 rankings taking him down to 78 points which has been around the cross-over point lately. Indeed in the 13/01 rankings WR 500 is on 79 points with 78 points equivalent to WR 502 - 505. So this one looks like being a keep a watch over the Aus Open rankings fortnight to see if he will be the 20th Brit in the top 500. Starts the fortnight live ranked 494.
-- Edited by indiana on Monday 13th of January 2025 02:43:52 PM
Congrats to Henry Searle for his R1 win in the Nottingham Challenger which will take him into the top 500 for the first time.
However, as above, Arthur Fery will drop out of the top 500. Though yes, fit and well, he should certainly very comfortably get back in, hopefully sooner rather than later.
Net, net, we will still have 19 in the top 500 on 13/01, going into the 2 week Aus Open ranking break.
Confirmed in this week's new rankings ..... the '19' figure is hard to shift
Looking at live-tennis and OER, Aidan is showing as live ranked 500 with apparently no lower ranked challenger tournament players who could sneak past him for next Monday's rankings
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.
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 ).
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
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