2018 rankings

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

2018 rankings

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

As an aside, there is, as always, a very clear difference in age profile in the girls and boys rankings:

Of the top 50 boys, 18 are born in the first half of 2000. 18 are born second half of 2000. Only 12 x 2001-ers. And 2 x 2002-ers.

In the top 50 girls, 9 are first half 2000. 12 are second half 2000. There are 22 x 2001-ers. 6 x 2002-ers. And 1 x 2004.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Aidan is into the top 20

And Barney (2002) breaks into the top 500.

Top 100 and main upward movers:

22/01/18

Boys

Aidan McHugh +7 at JWR 20 (ATP 1838)
George Loffhagen ('01) +1 at JWR 23
Anton Matusevich ('01) +2 to JWR 86 (ATP 1429)

Ewen Lumsden +9 to JWR 140
Connor Thomson ('01) +70 to JWR 198
Bradley Buckland +62 to JWR 420
Barney Fitzpatrick ('02) +181 to JWR 461
Ben Heynold ('02) +9 to JWR 513

(Tad Maclean JWR 294 ATP 1600)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Top 100 and main upward movers:

22/01/18

GIRLS

Fran Jones -2 to JWR 36 (WTA 680)
Ali Collins -3 to JWR 67
Gemma Heath ('01) -7 to JWR 77

Marni Banks ('02) +330 to JWR 935
Lily Hutchings ('03) +198 to JWR 1351
Grace Eland ('01) +492 to JWR 1649

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And Aidan is into the top 10

Top 100 and main upward movers (and ATP ranked juniors):

29/01/18

Boys

Aidan McHugh +11 at JWR 9 (ATP 1828)
George Loffhagen ('01) -2 at JWR 25
Anton Matusevich ('01) -6 to JWR 92 (ATP 1424)

Oscar Weightman ('01) +35 to JWR 319
Zyaan Ahmed +40 to JWR 321
George Davis ('01) +9 to JWR 406
Alex Maggs ('01) +150 to JWR 655
Derrick Chen ('03) +43 to JWR 696
Luka Petrovic ('02) +103 to JWR 814
Matt Clegg +22 to JWR 839
Ali Habib ('02) +287 to JWR 971
Matthis Ross ('01) +228 to JWR 1631

(Tad Maclean JWR 307 ATP 1595)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

No girls in the top 50 and only two juniors (thanks, Indy) with an adult WTA ranking.... cry

Top 100 and main upward movers (and WTA ranked juniors):

29/01/18

GIRLS

Fran Jones -15 to JWR 51 (WTA 675)
Ali Collins -3 to JWR 70
Gemma Heath ('01) +2 to JWR 75

Emma Raducanu ('02) +2 to JWR 102

Tiegan Aitken ('01) +9 to JWR 474
Marni Banks ('02) +276 to JWR 659
Elisa van Meeteren ('01) +83 to JWR 725

Ananya Vartak (Dec. 03) - NEW IN at JWR 1704

and: Ola Pitak (age 16) JWR UNR, WTA 1219

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 29th of January 2018 05:44:44 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

16 yo Aleksandra Pitak is second junior girl with a senior ranking ( WR 1219 ), though never had a junior ranking, having participated in a grand total of two junior ITFs ( both in 2014 as a 13 yo ).

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Thanks, Indy. And sorry to Ola !!!! (I had her in my list a while back and somehow she vanished somewhere along the way.....). But she's now back and boosting our WTA-ranked junior numbers

(which is much needed.....)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Zyaan and George Davis break into the top 300.

Top 100 and main upward movers (and ATP ranked juniors):

05/02/18

Boys

Aidan McHugh +11 at JWR 9 (ATP 1825)
George Loffhagen ('01) -1 at JWR 26
Anton Matusevich ('01) -2 to JWR 94 (ATP 1421)

Zyaan Ahmed +35 to JWR 286
George Davis ('01) +109 to JWR 297
Barney Fitzpatrick ('02) +70 to JWR 380
Rahul Dhokia +17 to JWR 415
Luka Petrovic ('02) +190 to JWR 627
Derrick Chen ('03) +33 to JWR 664
Russell Henderson ('01) +97 to JWR 791
Dan Webb ('02) +47 to JWR 1213
Matthis Ross ('01) +376 to JWR 1256

(Tad Maclean JWR 315 ATP 1592)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

On paper, Ali Collins is now our number one junior. (Fran obviously ranks higher if you factor in WTA rankings).

Top 100 and main upward movers (and WTA ranked juniors):

05/02/18

GIRLS

Ali Collins +2 to JWR 68
Gemma Heath ('01) +1 to JWR 74
Fran Jones -42 to JWR 93 (WTA 675)

Elisa van Meeteren ('01) +38 to JWR 689
Scarlett Hutchinson ('01) +332 to JWR 1298

Alicia Dudeney (May '03) - NEW IN at JWR 1688

and: Ola Pitak (age 16) JWR UNR, WTA 1217

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Fortunately Tennis is not played on paper and arguably Ali is not our top junior if you look at singles points alone.

Emma Radacanu (15) despite sitting at 104 is joint top on 300 with Ali
Gemma sits on 295
Fran 275 and essentially playing adult tennis

Caty McNally at #32 only has 332.5 singles points

Although there is no hurry a couple more Grade 2 wins would put Emma in the top 50 on singles points alone hopefully giving her DE into some grade 1 and A tournaments through a summer with no exams

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

As indicated, I certainly don't think Ali is our top junior

But let her have her moment of being our best ranked junior.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Hear hear

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, there is no argument about that, Ali is simply not our best junior. Good of course to be the top ranked junior in the country but she did, and I am sure still does, have big aims for the future.

Last year some of us suggested that Ali hadn't relatively been progressing as to how was probably hoped, against valiant defense from one party I recall, with it then going into discussion about how that "relatively" word was being meant as against actually getting better, which it was still fair to say she was, and no doubt still is. Well, I certainly hope so.

I am afraid to me she doesn't really look back on track towards how things looked say a couple of years ago. But hopefully she can really push on again and relatively soon enter senior tournaments with some success, it already being her final junior year. Never too many Scots among our best players

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 8th of February 2018 01:17:04 AM

skibbarriz · Strong Club Player

Ali returning home from the training acadamy Judy has helped arrange for her was disapointing. You gotta think if it was a Russian teen girl from a humble background in some remote town in Siberia, they would have toughed it out.