Yes, in terms of who will benefit when the ranking systems are merged again, it is clearly fair on those who have been out injured and are seeking to climb their way back up the rankings - like Mandy Carreras, or most strikingly in the last week, the Patricia Maria Tig, who reached a WTA final without a ranking, since she'd had to spend all her time at W15 level till then building up her ITF points to get back into W25s and above (as Mandy had done earlier). The final Tig reached was as a WC entrant into the Bucharest tournament, as a Romanian. For such players the dual points system has been unfair.

However for others who will benefit, and here have to indicate Emily App, who so far has still failed to win a W25 MD match, but will shoot back up the rankings into the 500s again with all her W15 points, it is clear she much less deserves the ranking boost. For others, who have been trying to make their way solely at W25 level this year, there will also be some fall, eg Lissy Barnett being one.

It will be interesting to see how things settle down once the reintegrated system has been back in effect after a few months. Paul Jubb I have no doubt will continue to climb upwards, once he accumulates a few more counters.

Not directly related, but still quite interesting, Tig also had to play pre qualies just to get her QWC into Bucharest (a bit like Sam @ Wimbledon), so had to win 9 matches to make that final which is impressive.

Could do with Heather and Katie Swan getting some wins this week as provisionally from OER our WTA top 10 total for 05/08 is plunging towards 2100 ( currently down 64 at 2081 ).

I am on record as saying it was being called a bad year for our women far too early when back say in April. But you know what, all in all ( and yes there have been some injury mitigating circumstances and maybe other stuff we don't know ), as we come to the end of July it has overall been a pretty disappointing year.

I was confident, with the age distribution of our top 10 and progress of last year, and even accepting a little second season syndrom, that we would be setting new GB records below 1900 instead of heading near 2100.

Good to have added depth getting into the top 300 ( and further young players ) but the promise of the depth is in the hope that more players really push on towards say the top 100. For there I think lies our common main interest.

Hey, if all get fit and well, find a bit more form, we are well positioned to progress upwards again in the remainder of 2019 and then 2020. Still hopeful in the bit longer term. And it is seriously too early to put a cap on where quite a number of these players might yet get to. Tennis players' progress is rarely linear but let's hope for more GB women moving again in a positive direction.

The country hit hardest by the revised ranking structure is India with massive falls on mens and womens side. One or two other Asian countries hit as well. Not sure structurally what made such as impact to India.

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JonH comes home wrote:

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The country hit hardest by the revised ranking structure is India with massive falls on mens and womens side. One or two other Asian countries hit as well. Not sure structurally what made such as impact to India.

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 Wow, a freefall drop in terms of places, not so much in terms of points except those at the lower end of their Top 10. thanks SB