Trouble is that if it is their first game on grass for a long while, I rather do think it may be like Steven's suggestion that the higher ranked players are taking their time to find their feet,  i.e.  not playing to a particularly high level.

At least if that is the case, then it is also less of a case that there is a serious problem with the British players falling away / apart.

I am afraid I really think that it is just that true class  / abilty is telling after a while.

Our players are generally not that much better / more accustomed to playing on grass as compared to other surfaces that they can defie the odds more than occasionally.  Not that I don't keep wishing and hoping like most other folk.

Maza1987 wrote:

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Heather is the youngest Brit woman in the top 100 since..........

Can some stathead give me an answer?

Thanks.

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... Sarah Loosemore, who reached R3 of the Aus Open in 1990 aged 18 but retired to go to Oxford to study psychology (eventually becoming a laywer) in 1992 aged 21.

(the GBTG crowd gave me that name when I was fishing around a few weeks ago)

No that's fine, if things weren't such a rush at the moment, I'd have already done that myself LOL

Someone even retweeted the stat in Spanish today, which I thought was quite funny:

"Heather Watson (#93) es la primera tenista británica menor de 20 años en alcanzar el top 100 desde 1990 (vía @GBtennis)."

I hope we didn't miss someone, but I really can't think of anyone - e.g. Sam Smith didn't get there until she was in her 20s.

Ahh clearly it was, come on Naomi!

Naomi was about to serve for the first set at  * 5 - 2 when the rain returned. 

Given she has so far won 12 out of 13 service points, I would hope she can serve it out.

Don't know whether it's a wet again Birmingham or a frozen scoreboard :

3 - 3 *   0 - 15 *