Ha, actually it's even better / worse. Fran's Melbourne points were from the week February 13th to 19th 2021 so less than a year ago.

The side issue there is that one of the pre Australian Open Melbourne 250s was considered the 2022 successor so points came off when it was played.

The ATP appear to keep strictly to anniversaries of ATP tournaments and Slams  ( hence currently counting 2 Aus Opens and 2 ATP Cups ) whereas like here ( and with the Aus Open ) the WTA can remove WTA tournament and Slam points even before the first anniversary. I do so wish the ATP and WTA would be much more consistent rather than invariably going separate routes. Again just adds to confusion.

Anyway that's not the biggie re inconsistency of how far back points remain.. Essentially both the ATP and WTA are removing all old 2021 and before main tour and Slam points the following year, generally on or around their anniversaries.

The big inconsistency is the WTA not fully dealing with ITF tournament points so that Anna still has 50% of some 2019 ITF points. They are now taking off all ITF tournament points on their anniversaries but not ( as yet ) retrospectively to remaining old 2019 and 2020 point.

Dealing or not dealing with ITF tournament points or even indicating their intentions always seems like an afterthought with the WTA so that for many mainly ITF tournament players their points remain a bit of a mess.

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Thanks Aber...

I assume that you meant Fran rather than Freya dropping out of the rankings. Fran's one counter of her Melbourne WTA 250 SF last year has dropped.

I see that Anna Smith is still in the GB top 25 having last played in September 2019!

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 D'oh!   My bad.    You're right got my Freya/Fran muddled up.

Despite our sucess in the doubles this week I've been reading some comments on other threads and I  think that 3 or 4 15K events would give us a marked improvement in numbers and rankings.

25K is too big an ask for youngsters/hopefulls. Not everybody is a superstar, especially for youngsters - but boom and bust seems the current plan.

To be fair - at least they're doing 25Ks.

21/02/2022

WTA

Sashi Kempster up 36 to 1592. 1 from Porto
Destanee Martins has lot her ranking. 1 off from Monastir
Paulina Jurkowska up 30 to 1399. 1 from Birmingham
Nadia Rawson up 33 to 1306. 1 from Birmingham
Amelia Bisset down 30 to 1269. 1 off from Sharm
Sonay Kartal up 267 to 1162 9 from Brum
Tabitha Holmes up 24 to 1157. 1 from Birmingham
Hannah Smith up 20 to 1132. 1 from Birmingham
Lauryn John-Baptiste up 133 to 1000. 9 from Brum
Eliz Maloney up 251 to 641. 50 from Birmingham
Jodie Burrage up 13 to 395. 18 from Brum replace 9
Freya Christie up 4 to 377. 18 from Brum replace 13 from Spain
Naomi Broady down 24 to 324
Samantha Murray Sharan up 8 to 121. 80 from Germany replace 30 from France

Alicia & Olivia moved last week but I missed it

28/02/2022

WTA

Heather Watson up 1 to 107. 60 from Acapulco replaced by 10
Tara Moore up 11 to 104 - new GB #1. 110 from Mexico replace 50.
Naiktha Bains down 1 to 276. 18 off replaced by 15
Naomi Broady down 26 to 350. Points off from South Africa
Freya Christie up 11 to 366. 18 from Glasgow
Jodie Burrage up 17 to 379. 18 from Glasgow replace 1
Katie Swan down 14 to 520. 9 off from Florida
Sashi Kempster up 335 to 1247. 9 from Porto
Nadia Rawson up 32 to 1279. 1 from Glasgow
Esther Adeshina down 29 to 1400. 1 off
Jessica Matthews up 35 to 1400. 1 from Glasgow

Tara takes the top spot. Also 8th time lucky for Sashi Kempster who wins a 25K R16 match in Porto.

With Tara, Sam, Heather, Alicia, Olivia and Eden are pretty close ranking wise , the doubles battle to be number one is quite interesting- would be good for whoever gets it to be top 100 !

Another busy week

07/03 1922

WTA

Emma  Wilson got her ranking last week but I missed it.
Morgan Cross has lost her ranking.
Tanysha Dissanayake down 29 to 1547. 1 off
Esther Adeshina down 39 to 1439. 1 off
Lauren Bishop got her ranking last week but I missed it.
Danielle Daley down 49 to 1350. 1 off
Nadia Rawson down 34 to 1308. 1 off
Aleksandra Pitak down 103 to 977. 9 off replaced by 1
Katarzyna Pitak down 103 to 977. 9 off replaced by 1
Anna Popescu down 105 to 733. 30 off from Germany replaced by 2
Ali Collins up 39 to 394. 30 from Macon replaces 4
Emily Appleton up 29 to 312.  30 from Macon replaces 13
Yuriko Miyazaki new to GBR at 234
Harriet Dart up 16 to 141. 48 from Arcadia replace 1
Olivia Nicholls up 31 to 129. 180 from Lyon replace 50 from Sunderland
Heather Watson down 18 to 125. 180 from Mexico replaced by 60
Alicia Barnett up 26 to 121. 180 from Lyon replace 50 from Sunderland
Samantha Murray Sharan up 9 to 110. 110 from Lyon replace 25 from KAZ