British Top 10 ATP Rankings

Drew · Feb 18, 2006

British Top 10 ATP Rankings

Sheddie · administrator

Great idea Drew

Probably best to remove Mark Hilton from the list as he's now retired.

It's great that there are currently 12 Brits in the top 300, it wasn't so long ago that the top 10 extended down to about 450 !

However, this next fortnight is likely to be a particularly bad one for British rankings decreasing

Henman will drop 75 points from Dubai last year which virtually ensures that Greg will be British no 1 next Monday [27th].

Unless Arvind does well in Rotterdam he will slip out of the top 250 due to defending semi-final points from Cherbourg last year

Unless Bloomfield does extremely well in the Italy futures he's playing this week, he will drop around 40-45 places due to losing points from last year's satellite

James Auckland will drop 50 places in singles due to points from last year's satellite

Mackin will move up back into the top 300, after gaining a lot of points from this year's satellite.

Smith will drop out of the top 350 unless he does well in the satellite masters this week

Sherwood will move well into the top 350 after a great satellite

Childs will probably drop out of the top 500

Flanagan will move into the top 600, maybe even top 500 if he does well this week

Bladetiger · Pro player

UltimateMackinFan wrote:

Count Zero wrote:

when was the last time we had 4 in the top 150?

Great to see Alex moving up to 141 !!!! In 2001, it was Henman, Rusedski, Lee and Delgado at one point. I can't remember whether Parmar was still in the top 150 at that point - I know he was in 2000 but I can't remember about 2001. Has anyone got a rankings breakdown for Parmar so we can see ?

When Delgado reached his career high 121 in August 2001,the top 6 British players were:

Henman 9
Rusedski 31
Lee 111
Delgado 121
Cowan 186
Parmar 208

Parmer had reached his Career high #137 in August 2000, but at that time Martin Lee was well out of top 200, so dont think we've had five in top 150 for years & years.

-- Edited by mkkreuk at 17:08, 2006-10-31

stagger · Club Coach

of the top 3 brits, it is a little dissapointing to note that only one of them is 'home grown'

Drew · Feb 24, 2006

stagger wrote:

of the top 3 brits, it is a little dissapointing to note that only one of them is 'home grown'

A bit unfair Stagger. Andy only left for Spain when he was 12. Thats more a slight on the LTA than on Andy. You go where the best / suitable coaching is !!!!!

stagger · Club Coach

absolutley right. i was meaning to badmouth the LTA rather than the players.

Sheddie · administrator

I agree stagger and it could be argued that the LTA's record of producing top players is 0% as Henman didn't really go through the system - his parents were rich enough to have a court in their back garden and he grew up practising and improving his game on that rather than in a club scheme.

Has anyone heard the audio interview on the BBC website with the new LTA director ?

He states his aim is to get 5 British players into the top 100 by 2008 but apart from that most of what he says is waffle. He talks about making the game more accessible to youngsters which is important but he doesn't make any points about how he's going to improve things higher up the spectrum with the top 40 British players etc. A big problem with the LTA is that they talk vaguely about making tennis more accessible to the masses and getting more youngsters into tennis but that doesn't necessarily result in top players. David Felgate has done brilliantly in getting more players into the top 500 and also the top 500 but the massive stepping stop is then getting those players into the top 250 and the top 200 and it's a stepping stone which so many fall on. I think that it would be great if the LTA took say the top 15-20 players and sorted out a regime for each of them which would suit each of them individually like Mike Raphael has done with Bogdanovic - maybe that would result in better results. When this happens it almost always gets good results. Eg at Stirling this winter: coaches sorted out a new fitness and nutrition programme for Fleming and J Murray. This has resulted in them taking their doubles and singles games to another level.

microsid · Newbie

I've got a little story that sums up tennis, and perhaps sport in Britain. I live in South Dorset and until a few months ago, was merely a once-a-month player, normally with my brother. We went down to the local bumpy/net full of holes municipal courts and paid our c. £4 court fee. Between the two of us that's only £2 and fair enough. There are four courts there and there was no-one else about. We'd just finished a set after hitting about for a bit and the bloke from the kiosk came to inform us that our hour was up. No-one else was waiting to come on and we were still the only people there. He still demanded we paid another £4 for another hour. I accept that it would have been fair enough if there were a queue of people waiting to play but this wasn't the case, and in a roundabout way surely it's better for them to have people using the courts as it would entice passers-by to play? On principle we packed up and left. I'm now a member of the local club so it's not an issue, but the problem is getting people, primarily kids hooked. That's not going to happen at £2 an hour I'm afraid. So maybe instead of wasting £40 million on a shiny tennis centre in London with gold-plated door handles and diamond-encrusted toilet seats, which will be full of mediocre juniors, the LTA could spend that money improving municipal courts all over the country, and also chucking some money at tennis clubs across the nation to help them entice people to join up, by subsidising annual dues, improving facilities, just something. Relocating to Roehampton or the Sanchez-Casal academy just isn't an option for a kid on a council estate on the dodgy side of town.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

what i find a bit funny is some courts charge per the half hour/hour, whereas others charge per person? obviously the cost to the courts remians the same, but doubles then makes them much more money, but if want to go by yourself and work on serve or something they earn less.

Akhenaten · Pro player

If Boggo gets to 137, he'll equal Arvind Parmar highest ever.

If he gets to 121, he'll equal Jamie Delgado's best.

And 94, too get to Martin Lee's highest ranking.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

July 10th

Richard Bloomfield has this week shot up 59 places in the Indesit ATP tennis singles world rankings to 200 and is now British number 5, a new career best.

County team-mate James Auckland has broken the 100 barrier in the doubles rankings and is up to 90, British doubles number 1, also a new career high.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Changes at the top as Richard Bloomfield breaks the 200 barrier for the first time at WR 196 and moves up to Great Britain number 4 while Greg Rusedski plummets to WR 203 and Great Britain number 5.

However, Bloomers new-found status may be short lived, as he has 18 points to drop off next week on the anniversary of his victory in Belgium unless he can pick up some points at this week's hotly contested Nashville challenger.

Andy Murray moves up to WR 17.

Drew · Nov 13, 2006

Week 45 Rankings update.

Drew · Nov 19, 2006

Week 46 Rankings updated.

Jonny Marray on the way UP !!!

Drew · Nov 27, 2006

Week 47 Rankings updated.