It is really great to see Heather's progress and now she may indeed share more limelight with Laura in the future.  Laura herself has being doing fine and she did exceed almost everyone on here's stated forecast at the beginning of last year of her end of year ranking position.  Hopefully she will be back soon. Heather did as well and is already looking like tearing apart this year's average prediction.  While generally seemingly  overoptimistic in our rankings predictions for Brits, we tend as a forum to seem quite conservative in these two girls' rankings, maybe understandably don't want to expect too much.

So anyway just to raise expectations   

Heather's counting ranking tournaments will now consist of :

8 tournaments added  March 2010 to July 2010  :  150 points
8 tournaments added August 2010 to February 2011  :  374 points

Total updated ranking points =  524 , equivalent to WR 133 in the current ranking table.

But 2 x 374  =  748, equivalent to WR 87 in the current ranking table

Just saying......  

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 18th of February 2011 01:39:19 AM

Now, you're just encouraging me, Phil 

But yes, on the sooner rather than later thoughts, also mentioned by qjr, that 150 split for the first 8 tournaments includes 80 points from Eastbourne L16 last year that won't come off until the start of Wimbledon.

She has 459 of her current counting ranking points ( last 10 counters ) safe until the week before Wimbleon, "all" she has to do is add another 229 ( from say 6 more ) by say the end of May / early June and she'd have 688, currently equivalent to WR 100.

I'm not sure if the women are any different, but for the men it is usually about #104

The women is also 104 though often falls a few spots below that.

As Alex questioned it is basically 108 for the women.  There are only 12 qualifying places for women at the French Open and Wimbledon ( and also the Australian Open ).  There are 16 qualifiers ( as for the men at all the Slams ) at the US Open.

Up a bit for any withdrawals, down for any PR entries. Wouldn't expect it really to end up lower. 

Heather can most definitely qualify as a DE for the main draws of the French Open and Wimbedon.

As I said 6 tournaments totalling 229 points on top of the 10 "banked" worth 459 would take her to 688 points, about the top 100, and she'd actually need about 50 less to reach the top 108 on current rankings ( NB :  if she has a MD place in IW and / or Miami these will be mandatory counters which would be a potential slight issue if she was to lose in the first round  ) .

( actually in thinking about it, getting in 6 more counters before at least the French Open cut-off date is not happening so would need get these points from less tournaments plus counting a bit more from some others that won't have dropped off but you get the idea in some form it is certainly doable but probably does need really good points out of IW and Miami ).

Would have to have her ranking there by the date the entry list is made up ( that I think either 5 or 6 weeks before the relevant Slam main draw starts ? )

Of course I think if she doesn't make it she might just get a MD WC for Wimbledon 

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 18th of February 2011 02:53:46 PM

Don't know if there was a link earlier to Anne's blog which she wrote in Memphis just after she lost in the second round to Rybarikova

http://www.realbuzz.com/blogs/u/Anne_Keothavong/anne-keothavong-s-blog/posts/learning-from-my-losses/

As usual she was very hard on herself about that loss, but since Rybarikova has just beaten an in form Hradecka to  reach the final, it puts her loss in a better light for her I hope.