New USA Career-High Rankings, July 20, 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 generally will not be included unless they have earned at least one point since the prior ranking period. See all the CHR posts.

New WTA Career-High Rankings, July 20, 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
Sachia Vickery	108	112*	+4		6/15/2015
Jennifer Brady	176	180*	+4
Danielle Lao	291	309*	+18
Erica Oosterhout	735	738*	+3
Dasha Ivanova	750	754*	+4
Jaeda Daniel	757	760*	+3
Sofia Kenin	759	762*	+3
Jessica Failla	762	783	+21	779	5/4/2015
Maegan Manasse	867	941*	+74
Karyn Guttormsen	1154	n/a	n/a

Again this week not much movement at the top. The tournament that caused the most jumps was the Stockton $50K, which kicked off this year's US Open Wild Card Challenge. All of the women who picked up new CHRs there were Pac XII women:

Danielle Lao (USC) reached the quarterfinals, launching her into the Top 300 for the first time, while Jennifer Brady (UCLA) upset #2 seed Eri Hozumi to pick up her 8 points. Brady is now in the process of starting to defend her points from last year (although the big points don't come off until the fall).  Lao, on the other hand, has only 13 points to defend through the end of the year, so we could see her climb a bit higher.

Meanwhile, in qualies, Maegan Manasse (Cal.) won two rounds while Jessica Failla (USC incoming) won 1.

Karyn Guttormsen
(c) Oklahoma State Univ.

Finally, a big hip, hip, and hooray to Karyn Guttormsen of Kenosha, Wisc. After finishing her senior year, Guttormsen found herself in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, where she qualified and reached the quarterfinals, giving her 2 points. The following week she picked up a point - and that gave her 3 tournaments in a calendar year with points (she got 1 last July in Vancouver, B.C., which will be coming off next week but replaced by a semifinal run last week, still in Sharm).  Interestingly, I don't believe that Guttormsen was ever ranked in college (please do correct me if I'm wrong), so this is that much more impressive of an accomplishment!

New ATP Career-High Rankings, July 20, 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
Alexander Sarkissian	204	205*	+1
Frances Tiafoe	284	287	+3	286	6/15/2015
Deiton Baughman	408	416*	+8
Andre Dome	531	536*	+5
Wil Spencer	561	562*	+1
Taylor Fritz	678	680	+2	679	6/29/2015
Jared Hiltzik	704	705*	+1
Michael Grant	896	900*	+4
Mitchell Stewart	1876	n/a	n/a

Not included: Cameron Silverman (1029), Dennis Uspensky (1054), Winston Lin (1068), Dominic Cotrone (1106), Raleigh Smith (1155), Frederick Saba (1191), Matt Seeberger (1202), Eric Johnson (1247), Quinton Vega (1287), Tomas Stillman (1430), Johnny Wang (1436), John McNally (1559), Zeke Clark (1568), Alexander Centenari (1700), Anderson Reed (1733), Liam Caruana (1756), Zeke Hindle (1756), Nicholas Hu (1756), Gabe Tishman (1756), Caleb Troy (1756), Brett Clark (1876), A.J. Catanzariti (1876), Henry Craig (1876), Matthew Gamble (1892).

With no North American Futures or Challengers - and nobody in Newport doing well enough crack their current career highs - nearly everything this week came due to others moving down. However, enough people dropped points that 31 different players (at least) captured new career highs. And every new CHR is worth celebrating so ...

There are two career highs that came due to points gathered. Both at the NED F4 in Amstelveen, just outside Amsterdam. There, Deiton Baughman concluded his long European trip with a first-round win over Louis Wessels before losing a tight three-setter to France's Tak Khunn Wang.

Then there's Mitchell Stewart, University of Washington rising sophomore, who picked up his first ATP point after qualifying (for the second week in a row) and then winning his first round match (for the first week in a row) over #664 Niels Lootsma.