New WTA Career-High Rankings, April 13, 2015
Not included: Carolyn Xie (1207)
Charleston: Madison Keys had a great week, reaching the final and just a handful of points away from the title. She's now positioned herself for a possible Top 16 seed at Roland Garros, but it won't be easy - she's 266 points behind Venus Williams, who herself is 200+ points behind a group of 4 women in the 12-16 range. Of those, Errani is defending the most points (nearly 900) but of course she can defend those if she plays her best clay tennis. In any case, it's something to keep an eye on.
Ellie Halbauer picked up a point for her first-round qualies loss there, as a wild card.
Medellin $50K+H: Two Americans - Lauren Embree and Katerina Stewart - qualified and won a round, but went out to the eventual South American finalists in this clay court tournament. There are 2 points and 6.5 years separating these two relative neophytes (Embree was in college for four years and didn't play too many pro events before then).
Manama (Bahrain) $10K: Tina Tehrani picked up 2 points with a run to the quarters.
Heraklion (Greece) $10K: Alexandra Valenstein qualified and won a main draw match, good for a point.
Everyone else benefited from others dropping points.
Note: Nicole Frenkel set a career high last week (April 6) but we overlooked her among the 937 other women on that list. We've added her since!
New ATP Career-High Rankings, April 13, 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 Keys
|
17
|
20
|
+3
|
18
|
3/2/2015
|
Jennifer Brady
|
210
|
212
|
+2
|
211
|
2/2/2015
|
Caitlin Whoriskey
|
276
|
278*
|
+2
| ||
| Katerina Stewart |
277
|
294*
|
+17
| ||
Lauren Embree
|
279
|
295*
|
+16
| ||
Alexa Guarachi
|
471
|
472*
|
+1
| ||
Ellie Halbauer
|
537
|
548*
|
+11
| ||
| Nadja Gilchrist |
542
|
546*
|
+4
| ||
Alexandra Morozova
|
544
|
549*
|
+5
| ||
| Ingrid Neel |
552
|
556*
|
+4
| ||
Usue Arconada
|
656
|
657*
|
+1
| ||
Rianna Valdes
|
713
|
716*
|
+3
| ||
Brynn Boren
|
863
|
865*
|
+2
| ||
| Alexa Graham |
907
|
910*
|
+3
| ||
Tina Tehrani
|
949
|
1016*
|
+67
| ||
| Caroline Dolehide |
976
|
977*
|
+1
| ||
Yuki Kristina Chiang
|
995
|
996*
|
+1
| ||
| Kaitlyn McCarthy |
999
|
1001*
|
+2
| ||
Alexandra Valenstein
|
1076
|
1107*
|
+31
|
Not included: Carolyn Xie (1207)
Charleston: Madison Keys had a great week, reaching the final and just a handful of points away from the title. She's now positioned herself for a possible Top 16 seed at Roland Garros, but it won't be easy - she's 266 points behind Venus Williams, who herself is 200+ points behind a group of 4 women in the 12-16 range. Of those, Errani is defending the most points (nearly 900) but of course she can defend those if she plays her best clay tennis. In any case, it's something to keep an eye on.
Ellie Halbauer picked up a point for her first-round qualies loss there, as a wild card.
Medellin $50K+H: Two Americans - Lauren Embree and Katerina Stewart - qualified and won a round, but went out to the eventual South American finalists in this clay court tournament. There are 2 points and 6.5 years separating these two relative neophytes (Embree was in college for four years and didn't play too many pro events before then).
Manama (Bahrain) $10K: Tina Tehrani picked up 2 points with a run to the quarters.
Heraklion (Greece) $10K: Alexandra Valenstein qualified and won a main draw match, good for a point.
Everyone else benefited from others dropping points.
Note: Nicole Frenkel set a career high last week (April 6) but we overlooked her among the 937 other women on that list. We've added her since!
New ATP Career-High Rankings, April 13, 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
|
Jack Sock
|
36
|
46
|
+10
|
41
|
1/12/2015
|
Austin Krajicek
|
121
|
141*
|
+20
|
2/16/2015
| |
Dennis Novikov
|
194
|
195*
|
+1
| ||
Daniel Nguyen
|
257
|
270*
|
+13
| ||
Frances Tiafoe
|
519
|
520*
|
+1
| ||
Eduardo Nava
|
910
|
969*
|
+59
| ||
Michael Grant
|
949
|
975
|
+26
|
969
|
3/23/2015
|
Matt Seeberger
|
1478
|
1627
|
+149
|
1573
|
1/6/2014
|
Not included: Walker Duncan (1435), Raleigh Smith (1450), Alexander Centenari (1963)
Houston: Jack Sock dropped the first set of the tournament against Joao Souza, and then no more sets in his run to the title. In his third tournament of the year, he's had 6 top-40 wins and is well positioned for his first Grand Slam seed in Paris. A couple of wins at either Madrid or Rome could do the trick.
Leon Challenger: Austin Krajicek took the title with a pretty epic final. He won't get direct entry into Roland Garros (unless he nabs the USTA Pro Circuit French Open Wild Card Challenge wild card, of course) but he's got a chance in the next few weeks to get a very high seed for qualies. As it is, he's only 61 points out of the Top 100. Really an incredible year for the Aggie. Watch the final here:
Also in Mexico, Daniel Nguyen reached the quarters (tied for his best result at a challenger, the other coming in February in Morelos, Mexico) and isn't too far out of French Open qualies contention.
Tunisia F12: Eduardo Nava reached his second consecutive quarterfinal in Tunisia. The 18-year-old is now 5-3 on the year in main draws, with his only losses to players ranked in the Top 400.
Greece F2: Michael Grant (USC) grabbed a point here.
Indonesia F1: Matt Seeberger d. Suthinan Tanthaseraneewat (THA) 6-3 2-6 6-1 to pick up a point and reach a new career high at age 30!
Novikov and Tiafoe benefited from others' dropping points.
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