Tennis Barometer

Tennis Barometer

Who's Hot

  • Peter Norfolk (1)

    Ensured he would end the year as the world number one quad wheelchair player by winning the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters in Amsterdam, defeating top seed David Wagner 6-2 7-5 in the final

  • Jamie Baker (330)

    Impressively recovered from a set down to win over Robert Kendrick, almost 200 places higher in the world rankings, in Champaign, Illinois. Could not repeat the feat however and lost in the second round to the similarly-ranked Ryan Sweeting

  • David Rice (544)

    Reached the quarter-finals in Kuala Lumpur and even took the first set off America's David Thompson before eventually losing in three sets to the top seed. Also reached the quarter-finals in the doubles with Ireland's Colin O'Brien

  • Alexander Slabinsky (728)

    Reached the quarter-finals in El Salvador as the fourth seed. Also reached the semi-finals in the doubles, as the top seed along with Jamie Feaver, before losing to local brothers Rafael and Marcelo Arevalo in straight sets

Who's Not

  • Jamie Murray (106)

    Along with Jonathan Marray, was unfortunate enough to be drawn against former doubles partner and second seed Ross Hutchins in the opening round Bratislava, and promptly lost in straight sets to drop yet another place down the rankings

  • Max Jones (673) and Tim Bradshaw (564)

    Went into a $10k challenger in Florida as top seeds but promptly crashed out to the US-Bahamas duo of Marcus Fugate and Timothy Neilly, both ranked over 200 placed below them, winning just three games in the process

  • Emily Webley-Smith (341)

    Was handed a lesson in top flight tennis when she ran into returning former world number eight Alicia Molik in the quarter-finals Esperance, Australia. Also went into the doubles as top seed, with Zhang Ling but crashed out in the opening round.

  • Marcus Willis (607)

    Fails to build on semi and quarter-final appearances in his last two tournaments respectively by being forced to retired injured in the first round to 1002 ranked Michal Schmid in Roznov pod Radhostem, Czech Republic

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  1. @ no 1, so true. it really says something about the­ state of british tennis that they only have 2 players­ within the top 100 in the world... and one of them is a­ paraplegic.

    From Poh, on Tue 24 Nov 11:42AM

  2. Save the wheel chair guy, this is embarrassing. If i­ were English I'd be mortified to read this... i­ guess only in Britain is it possible to follow players­ in the 700s so closely....

    Most places none of them­ would merit even a mention.

    From jay, on Tue 24 Nov 9:39AM
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