New USA Career-High Rankings, September 15, 2014

Each week I will endeavor to bring you a list of USAmerican players who have reached a new career-high ranking. This list is not exhaustive but will cover most players in the Top 1000. 

New WTA career-high rankings, September 15, 2014

Player name	New CHR	Last wk *= previous   CHR	+  from last week	Pvs CHR If prior to last wk	Date achieved If prior to last wk
Shelby Rogers	70	79*	+9
Madison Brengle	112	117	+5	115	8/11/2014
Allie Kiick	136	138	+2	137	8/4/2014
Asia Muhammad	244	285*	+41
Sanaz Marand	253	268	+15	264	5/5/2014
Danielle Lao	369	375*	+6
Tori Kinard	370	373*	+3
Tornado Alicia Black	459	465*	+6
Caitlin Whoriskey	460	466*	+6
Christina Makarova	584	587	+3	586	7/21/2014
Alexa Guarachi	596	602*	+6
Anamika Bhargava	608	609*	+1
Nadja Gilchrist	654	655*	+1
Ellie Halbauer	693	694*	+1
Julia Elbaba	695	696*	+1
Alexandra Riley	750	758*	+8

This is a long list, but as you can see, there are only three players whose ranking increased more than a handfull - all three of them were, like me, in Quebec!  It was super excellent to watch Rogers, Muhammad and Marand (as well as Brengle and Lao) play in person. Muhammad was in particular exciting as she came back from a break down in the third in three successive matches, although she lost in a third set tiebreak (to Rogers) in that final match.

In the next few months, I'll be looking to see if Rogers can break the Top 50, Brengle the Top 100, and Muhammad the Top 200.  As for Marand, it's great to see her progress again after a bit of a slip over the summer.  She has 42 points to defend through the end of the year so some good ITF events are a must if she wants to make the Australian Open qualifying cut (hint: she does).

New ATP career-high rankings, September 15, 2014

Player name	New CHR	Last wk *= pvs CHR	+  from last wk	Pvs CHR If prior to last wk	Date achieved If prior to last wk
Daniel Nguyen	384	401	+17	397	8/25/2014
Connor Smith	381	395*	+14
Ernesto Escobedo	462	465*	+3
Sekou Bangoura	498	541	+43	535	8/11/2014
Evan Song	533	573	+40
Kyle McMorrow	681	684*	+3
Justin Shane	1112	1256	+144	1215	2/10/2014

An impressively tiny group this week, with nobody in the Top 300 moving up (due in part to the absence of challengers in North America and futures in the USA).  The two biggest movers, Bangoura and Shane, got their points at the Canada Futures tournament a week ago: Bangoura reached the semis while Shane got to the quarters.  Nguyen also reached the CAN F9 semifinal.  For his part, Song reached the final of the Mexico Futures that same week.

More names should appear in the next couple of weeks as there will be increased opportunities for points at challenger and ATP World Tour events.  In the meantime, congratulations to the seven men above!