New USA Career-High Rankings, June 29, 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, June 29, 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
Irina Falconi	69	73	+4	71	6/8/2015
Lauren Embree	237	253*	+16
Alexa Graham	593	627*	+34
Michaela Gordon	662	713	+51	682	2/2/2015
Kristina Smith	865	963	+98	904	5/18/2015
Malika Rose	940	984	+44	966	5/18/2015
Jaeda Daniel	962	n/a	n/a
Kayla Day	990	n/a	n/a
Madeleine Kobelt	1039	1056*	+17
Alexandra Valenstein	1073	1090	+17	1077	6/8/2015

A relatively quiet week for both women and men, with few Challengers/high-level ITFs due to Wimbledon qualies. So most of what we'll see will be from Futures/low-level ITFs from the prior week. And away ... we ... go!

Irina Falconi lost today in a tough first round Wimbledon match against #11 Karolina Pliskova, but she had two Top 100 wins in qualifying at the Eastbourne Premier 700 event last week, 3-6 6-3 6-3 over former Wimbledon semifinalist Kirsten Flipkens and 7-6(5) 6-3 over #80 Ajla Tomljanovic - and then another one over Alexandra Dulgheru in the main draw. She got handled in the second round by eventual finalist Aga Radwanska, but she's put herself into a fine position for the summer. She'll want some decent draws, however, if she wants to get into that Top 50.

At the Sumter, S.C. $25K Mayo Hibi (JPN) took the top prize but Lauren Embree's run to the final let her crack the Top 250 for the first time. She still has a good amount of work to do before she's in the range of US Open qualies -- it'll be fun to watch her as the summer ITFs roll around. Also in Sumter, three teens won reached new highs: 16-year-old Alexa Graham upset top seed Taylor Townsend in the first round, 15-year-old Michaela Gordon won her first round match against fellow qualifier Kourtney Keegan, and 15-year-old Kayla Day got a point for qualifying to make her WTA rankings debut.

Victoria, B.C. $10K - Kristina Smith reached her first pro semifinal, while Malika Rose reached the quarters, losing a tough one to eventual champion Gail Brodsky 7-6(7) 5-7 1-6. (Speaking of Brodsky, she's up to #903 after taking nearly 3 years off, and having a kid, then winning her first tournament back - in a third set tiebreak in the final.) Alexandra Valenstein also won a round.

Manzanillo, Mex $10K - Madeleine Kobelt picked up a point with a first round win over fellow American Desirae Krawczyk.

Grand Baie La Croisette, Mauritius $10K - 15-year-old Jaeda Daniel, playing in the first leg of the Mary Pierce Indian Ocean Series of $10K events, picked up 2 points to add to her 7 from the prior week's final in Madagascar and another point from last October, giving her both the minimum number of points (10) for a guaranteed ranking and the minimum number of tournaments in which points were earned in a 12-month period (3).

New ATP Career-High Rankings, June 29, 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
Taylor Fritz	679	761*	+82		5/25/2015
Clay Thompson	796	1148	+352	1147	5/18/2015
Collin Johns	1025	1038*	+13
Nathan Pasha	1124	1194	+70	1163	11/10/2014
Winston Lin	1135	1719	+584	1537	8/27/2012
Dennis Uspensky	1142	1162	+20	1158	5/25/2015
Raleigh Smith	1172	1216*	+44
Gabe Tishman	1785	n/a	n/a
Anderson Reed	2244	n/a	n/a

Taylor Fritz is the star this week, winning his first-ever ATP match in his first-ever ATP main draw appearance - a dominating 6-1 6-4 win over Pablo Carreno Busta. Even though he lost a 3&3 encounter with World #16 Feliciano Lopez later that day, he announced his arrival.

The rest are Futures results:

MEX F7/Manzanillo - Clay Thompson, as reported quite well by Parsa last week, got sick off of lobster and then won his maiden pro title, vaulting him into the Top 1000 - nay, the Top 800. Clay is defending nothing this summer so, assuming better health, we could see him and his big ol' serve inch even higher come September. In the same tournament, Collin Johns won his first round match.

USA F17/Buffalo - Winston Lin, the wildcard from Columbia University, won three three-set matches to reach his first career semifinal and make the biggest jump of the crowd. University of Georgia's Nathan Pasha lost to Lin in the quarters, while Dennis Uspenksy won a third-set tiebreak against Hunter Harrington to pick up a point. University of Michigan recruit Gabe Tishman was a Lucky Loser who advanced with a win over a Chilean qualifier.

ISR F9/Tel Aviv - Northwestern alum Raleigh Smith beat Tal Goldengoren (ISR) in three sets to pick up a point.

ZIM F2/Harare: Former FSU Seminole Anderson Reed has won plenty of doubles matches this past 12 months but secured his first singles win 6-1 7-5 over Australia's Jeremy Beale.