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Born2WinTennis


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I'm trying to put an Open Era British Top 100 together, please comment with any I have missed.

1. Andy Murray (CH 1)

Joint 2. Greg Rusedski and Tim Henman (CH 4)

4. Roger Taylor (CH 11 - 8 unofficially)

5. Mark Cox (CH 13)

6. Kyle Edmund (CH 14)

7. Buster Mottram (CH 15)

8. John Lloyd (CH 21)

9. Collin Dowdeswell (CH 31)

10. Dan Evans (CH 41)

11. Aljaz Bedene (CH 45 pre 2018)

12. Jeremy Bates (CH 54)

12. Cameron Norrie (CH 66)

13. Andrew Castle (CH 80)

14. Neil Broad (CH 84)

15. James Ward (CH 89)

 



-- Edited by Born2WinTennis on Tuesday 23rd of October 2018 04:29:10 PM

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Born2WinTennis wrote:

With Kyle winning his first title, I wondered where he ranked alongside the other open era British no.1s - I can see him reaching 4th position at least.

PositionCHName
11Andy Murray
24Greg Rusedski
34Tim Henman
411Roger Taylor
513Mark Cox
614Kyle Edmund
715Buster Mottram
821John Lloyd
931Colin Dowdeswell
1054Jeremy Bates
1180Andrew Castle
1284Neil Broad

 As an aside Roger Taylor played in that period when the ATP "computer" rankings where just beginning. Before that the annual I(L)TF book published an annual list of its World top players and these where considered to be the unofficial year end rankings. Lance Tingay and then John Parsons where the editors. In 1970, Taylor was ranked 8th and so this was probably his real highest unofficial ranking. That year he also reached 2 of his 4 GS Semifinals.   

Either way, he is rightly fourth in this list. Kyle should make top 10 and if he can better #8 then that will be great news. 

 

As an aside, it was interesting seeing Neil Broad in this list. Similar to Colin Dowdeswell (who as #1 in the then Rhodesia, went to represent Switzerland and then came to be  GB #1) Broad was of course previously representing South Africa. I remembered him most for his Olympics Doubles Silver medal with Tim Henman in 1996, forgot he had been #1 in singles for us, and reached the top 100. 

 

Good list, thanks for this! 



-- Edited by JonH on Tuesday 23rd of October 2018 02:31:03 PM

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Thanks for the list, interesting indeed.

If won't go down as the boldest semi prediction of all time 



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Buster Mottram was an interesting point - he and John Lloyd played around the same time ( I guess Taylor and Cox overlapped and then Cox and Lloyd and then Lloyd and Mottram. Mottram never appeared much loved, I don't know if his politics were known at the time so it probably wasnt that although of course after he finished with tennis he went into politics of a far right wing extreme variety in a big way. Whether it was that or something else, he isnt remembered that fondly I feel. Certainly not by me, even though I do recall seeing him play on Centre Court one year against either Sandy or Gene Mayer, I forget which and the crowd seemed very subdued and not really supporting him particularly.

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I would quite like to amend the list to an all British Top 100, not just the former number ones. The only others I can think of from memory are Dan Evans, James Ward...and probably Bedene (although calculating his career high would be tricky, because it's risen since he left UK). Needless to say there would be others, but just from further back than my memory allows...I don't think the whole list would be huge though!

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Born2WinTennis wrote:

I would quite like to amend the list to an all British Top 100, not just the former number ones. The only others I can think of from memory are Dan Evans, James Ward...and probably Bedene (although calculating his career high would be tricky, because it's risen since he left UK). Needless to say there would be others, but just from further back than my memory allows...I don't think the whole list would be huge though!

 I imagine there probably is a list of British players who have reached the top 100 over the Open Era out there somewhere but where to find it!?



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I think Alex "Boggo" Bogdanovic sneaked into the top 100?

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Nope 108 I think he "peaked" at.

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Ah, so close! I can't think of anyone else not mentioned.

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Martin Lee CH 94



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Mark Petchey CH 80

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btw1.jpg

Produced from https://coric.top/en/profile/atp - use the filters

The web page data cuts and pastes easily - leave the headings alone



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Brilliant thanks Strongbow! I did think it must exist somewhere

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Strongbow wrote:

btw1.jpg

Produced from https://coric.top/en/profile/atp - use the filters

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 Impressive of Chris Lewis to get a CH 3 years before he was born



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brendan wrote:
Strongbow wrote:

btw1.jpg

Produced from https://coric.top/en/profile/atp - use the filters

The web page data cuts and pastes easily - leave the headings alone

 Impressive of Chris Lewis to get a CH 3 years before he was born

  That "Buster C Mottram" reference is wrong, too: he was/is Christopher "Buster" Mottram.



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