Tuesday, February 17, 2015

New USA Career-High Rankings, Feb. 16, 2015

Each week I will bring you a list of USAmerican players who have reached a new career-high ranking (CHR). This list covers all players in the Top 1000. Any player outside the Top 1000 will not be included unless they actually have earned at least one point from their previous career-high ranking. See all the CHR posts.

New WTA Career-High Rankings, February 16, 2015

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
Madison Brengle
45
46*
+1

2/2/2015
Nicole Gibbs
86
87*
+1

2/2/2015
Taylor Townsend
94
96*
+2

2/2/2015
Louisa Chirico
148
149*
+1


Alexa Guarachi
486
487*
+1


Nicole Frenkel
650
655*
+5


Daniela Roldan
879
883*
+4

2/2/2015
Emma Higuchi
885
889
+4

2/2/2015
Natalie Suk
894
897
+3

2/2/2015














Not much movement here, just players rising as others fell off. This is not surprising since the only women's tournament in the Western hemisphere in the past two weeks was the Midland $100K (week of February 2), the points for which were added last week. No Americans played the WTA events in Antwerp or Pattaya City which is unfortunate, but hopefully they're gearing up for this next huge stretch of Dubai/Rio, Doha/Acapulco, Indian Wells, and Miami. Quite a few players are playing Arizona $25Ks this month, but those results won't start showing up until the March 2 rankings.

The next six weeks is an especially important time for Chirico and Anna Tatishvili, both of whom, with very strong performances, could sneak into the French Open main draw. Tatishvili needs a little over 100 points, while Chirico needs more like 180 (a run to the 4th round of IW or Miami would do yield 120 points - huge ask, but with a great draw and great play, one never knows!).  

New ATP Career-High Rankings, February 16, 2015

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
Austin Krajicek
141
156
+15
152
11/17/2014
Bjorn Fratangelo
172
225*
+53


Jared Donaldson
174
180
+6
178
2/2/2015
Mitchell Krueger
293
302*
+9


Daniel Nguyen
296
297*
+1


Connor Smith
304
313*
+9


Stefan Kozlov
406
407*
+1


Peter Kobelt
537
540*
+3

1/19/2015
Alexander Sarkissian
548
551*
+3


Deiton Baughman
611
618
+7
617
2/2/2015
Andre Dome
998
1057
+59
1025
11/7/2011

















Two huge moves at the top: Krajicek rode a masterful performance -- through qualifying and into the quarterfinals at the ATP 250 in Memphis -- to the Top 150, and his subsequent battle with eventual champion Nishikori turned a lot of heads. 

Although not everyone's:
Aaaanyway, moving along. The other huge result was Fratangelo's, who overcame hot prospect Chung Hyeon to take the Launceston Challenger, his first such title and a definitely statement win.

Although not everyone was impressed:
Oh, Twitter.

Other moves:

Memphis: Donaldson got his first-ever ATP win, 75 60 over fellow teen wildcard Stefan Kozlov.

Launceston Challenger: Krueger got a nice three-set win over U.S. Open Junior champion Omar Jasika before losing to Chung in three.

Santo Domingo Challanger: By qualifying, Connor Smith picked up a few points. he just keeps creeping up...

Sri Lanka F1: Finally - awesome job, Andre Dome, who qualified and reached the quarterfinal before having to retire down 3-4 to Jan Satral. It's a big moment for anyone to break into the Top 1000 for the first time, but to do it at 24, and after last having set it over 3 years ago, is a special accomplishment.

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