New USA Career-High Rankings, July 13, 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. Players outside the Top 1000 will generally not be included unless they earned at least one point since the prior ranking period. See all the CHR posts.

New ATP Career-High Rankings, July 13, 2015

There are a LOT of new career ATP high rankings this week - a two-week rankings break and four USA Futures in that time, along with the college season being over, will do that. So many, in fact, that I divided the chart into two parts - one (still very long one) for guys who improved their rankings, and the second for the 8 guys making their ATP debuts this week.

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	189	229	+40	223	6/15/2015
Alexander Sarkissian	205	208	+3		6/22/2015
Eric Quigley	332	357	+25	352	6/15/2015
Deiton Baughman	416	427	+11	425	6/22/2015
Sekou Bangoura	495	545	+50	497	10/20/2014
Andre Dome	536	586	+50	580	6/22/2015
Wil Spencer	562	576	+14	570	5/25/2015
Jared Hiltzik	705	1067	+362	1047	4/20/2015
Clay Thompson	744	796*	+52
Alexios Halebian	776	993	+217	801	5/19/2014
Alex Rybakov	857	988	+131	986	6/15/2015
Michael Grant	900	971	+71	915	5/4/2015
Cameron Silverman	1030	1082	+52	1069	6/22/2015
Dennis Uspensky	1060	1142*	+82
Winston Lin	1078	1135*	+57
Dominic Cotrone	1108	1728	+620	1663	5/25/2015
Raleigh Smith	1157	1172	+15	497	10/20/2014
Frederick Saba	1196	1215	+19	1204	6/22/2015
Matt Seeberger	1207	1375	+168	1356	6/8/2015
Eric Johnson	1252	1458	+206	1429	2/2/2015
Quinton Vega	1294	1560	+266	1364	12/1/2014
Tomas Stillman	1438	1598	+160	1549	5/11/2015
Johnny Wang	1445	1907	+462	1702	10/27/2014
Anderson Reed	1744	2244*	+500
Alexander Centenari	1726	2221	+495	1963	4/13/2015

Not included: Gabe Tishman (1767 / +17)

New ATP Rankings, July 13, 2015

Player name	New CHR
John McNally	1563
Zeke Clark	1573
Liam Caruana	1767
Nicholas Hu	1767
Caleb Troy	1767
A.J. Catanzariti	1892
Henry Craig	1892
Matthew Gamble	1892

Wow, where to start? Oh, I know - Winnetka, where I was pretty much all week. The $50K Challenger north of Chicago where Daniel Nguyen had a memorable run to the final (and came within 2 points of a title). He's now in the Top 200, and the #13 American. With his 48 points, he also helped protect himself from the 60 points he has coming off through the rest of the summer and secured a spot in the US Open qualifying tournament (he was 2 out from Wimbledon).

The other player who gained mega points was Jared Hiltzik, who reached his first challenger quarterfinal and who reached his first Futures semifinal of the USA F21 in Wichita. Big big big from the Illini.

More USA F21/Wichita: Clay Thompson reached the quarters by upsetting the #1 seed Darian King - and then got beaten by J. Hiltzik. And 16-year-old Zeke Clark qualified and beat Tom Fawcett to pick up his ... second ATP point.

USA F19/Tulsa: Clark's first ATP point came as a wild card the week prior. Both tournaments are included in this week's rankings. Other big wins - Andre Dome into the semis, and three first-career wins: qualifier Liam Caruana (17yo) over Gonzales Austin, qualifier Henry Craig (University of Denver) over wildcard Max Schnur, and Tomas Stillman (UTSA) over qualifier Arsav Mohanty.

USA F18/Rochester: Sekou Bangoura made his fourth career final, falling to Emilio Gomez (USC/ECU) in straight sets. Along the way, he beat qualifier Dominic Cotrone in the semis and Winston Lin in the quarters. Gomez beat two other list entrants along the way: Alex Rybakov in the semis and Quinton Vega in the quarters. Finally, 17yo wildcard Matthew Gamble got his first point with a win over Maksim Tikhomirov.

USA F20/Pittsburgh: Again, the winner was Gomez. But for our purposes, Alexios Halebian's run to the semis was a huge accomplishment, and brought him into the Top 800 for the first time. Cameron Silverman got to the quarters. 16yo Cincinnatian John McNally secured wins over Collin Johns and wildcard (and local product) A.J. Catanzariti (Texas A&M) to launch both McNally and Catanzariti into the rankings. Rybakov won a round, and then was upset by Dennis Uspensky. Finally, Nicholas Hu and Caleb Troy each qualified and won a round, Troy over lucky loser Joseph Van Meter.

Elsewhere:

CAN F4: Eric Quigley reached the final, losing to 2014 US Open boys champion Omar Jasika in a third-set tiebreak. Two USC guys - Johnny Wang and Eric Johnson - each won a round, as did UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug Matt Seeberger. Gotta get it up for anyone reaching a career high at age 30, especially a DIII guy, so congrats Matt!

BEL F4: Deiton Baughman got to a semifinal in De Haan, Belgium. The 4th-ranked American teen was outside the Top 1000 a year ago. The grind seems to be paying off for Slim!

ZIM F3: Michael Grant reached the quarters and Anderson Reed qualified and got a win.

ISR F9: Raleigh Smith won a round.

*Note on William Bushamuka: The 19yo University of Kentucky player is at a CHR of 973. The question for the purpose of this list is whether he represents USA or not. In the ITF draws - such as ZIM F3, where he reached the quarters - he's listed as USA but in the live scores he's COD (Cote d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo). Similarly, in his ATP profile he's listed as COD but when you do a search for USA players on the new ATP site he shows up - the lone non-American flag on the list. So, it's a mystery.

Alexander Sarkissian and Frederick Saba moved up when others moved down.

New WTA Career-High Rankings, July 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
CiCi Bellis	167	169	+2	168	5/4/2015
Jennifer Brady	180	213	+33	208	4/20/2015
Lauren Embree	232	237*	+5
Danielle Lao	309	369	+60	356	10/6/2014
Nadja Gilchrist	449	476	+27	451	5/25/2015
Usue Arconada	469	554	+85	538	5/11/2015
Michaela Gordon	655	662*	+7
Kelly Chen	670	720	+50	698	4/6/2015
Erica Oosterhout	738	747	+7	740	6/22/2015
Dasha Ivanova	754	785	+31	777	6/22/2015
Jaeda Daniel	760	962*	+202
Sofia Kenin	762	780	+18	772	5/18/2015
Kylie McKenzie	798	930	+132	908	5/25/2015
Kristina Smith	857	865*	+8
Caroline Price	886	903	+17	893	6/22/2015
Julia Jones	889	n/a	n/a
Malika Rose	922	940*	+18
Maegan Manasse	941	n/a	n/a
Kayla Day	974	990*	+16
Madeleine Kobelt	993	1039*	+46
Keri Wong	1005	1228	+223	1050	9/16/2013
Sophie Chang	1055	1106	+51	1090	6/22/2015
Amy Zhu	1082	1172	+90	1157	6/15/2015
Karina Traxler	1211	n/a	n/a

Baton Rouge $25K: Danielle Lao won! 50 points to get her on the verge of the Top 300. In the semis, she beat Usue Arconada who upset top seed Taylor Townsend in a first-round, third set tiebreak. University of Mississippi's Julia Jones makes her ranking debut thanks to qualifying and making a quarterfinal. Another SEC qualifier, Clemson's Keri Wong, won a round as well, as did an SEC wildcard, Lauren Embree (Florida). 16yo qualifier Kelly Chen also won a round.

Sophie Chang qualified to pick up a point.

El Paso $25K: This event was won by qualifier Jamie Loeb, who jumped up to #445, less than a hundred spots below her 2013 career high. In the final she beat #2 seed Jennifer Brady, who is now the 5th player with college experience in the WTA Top 200 (Irina Falconi, Nicole Gibbs, Maria Sanchez, and Julie Coin). University of California's Maegan Manasse, a wildcard, reached the quarterfinals to enter the rankings for the first time. Winners of one match: Nadja Gilchrist (UGA) and Kylie McKenzie.

Dasha Ivanova and Amy Zhu each got a point for qualifying, while 17yo Karina Traxler entered the rankings via playing her first round match, even though she was beaten 6-0 6-0 by Chanel Simmonds.

Mauritius $10K: 15yo Jaeda Daniel reached her second Indian Ocean island final. And then she went up to Belgium a couple of days later and won a round at the $10K in Brussels.

CiCi Bellis, Michaela Gordon, Erica Oosterhout, Sofia Kenin, Kristina Smith, Caroline Price, Malika Rose, and Kayla Day moved up when others moved down.