New USA Career-High Rankings, July 27, 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 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
Bjorn Fratangelo	120	125	+5	122	6/15/2015
Alexander Sarkissian	201	204*	+3
Mitchell Krueger	272	287	+15	279	5/11/2015
Frances Tiafoe	274	284*	+10
Eric Quigley	308	337	+29	332	7/13/2015
Stefan Kozlov	356	358	+2	357	6/15/2015
Sekou Bangoura	429	535	+106	495	7/13/2015
Tommy Paul	434	454	+20	445	6/22/2015
Taylor Fritz	675	678*	+3
Alex Rybakov	854	857*	+3		7/13/2015
William Bushamuka	968	974	+4	973	7/13/2015
Logan Smith	2076	n/a	n/a

Not included: Dominic Cotrone (1101 / +5), Tomas Stillman (1422 / +8), Johnny Wang (1432 / +4), John McNally (1555 / +4), Zeke Clark (1564 / +4), Alexander Centenari (1693 / +7), Anderson Reed (1724 / +9), Liam Caruana (1746 / +10), Zeke Hindle (1746 / +10), Nicholas Hu (1746 / +10), Stephen Madonia (1746 / +10), Gabe Tishman (1746 / +10), Caleb Troy (1746 / +10), Brett Clark (1746 / +10), A.J. Catanzariti (1868 / +8), Henry Craig (1868 / +8), Mitchell Stewart (1868 / +8).

BJORN! The ongoing terrific year of Bjorn Fratangelo just got terrificker. Outside the Top 250 to start the year, he's now up to #120 thanks to his third challenger final of 2015/his career in Binghamton. There, he took the lead in the US Open Wild Card Challenge, more than defended his 27 Italy F22 Futures points from last year, and confirmed that he's just about ready to make that jump to the ATP level. He's now virtually guaranteed himself a year-end Top 150 finish; but with 123 points to defend through the rest of the summer and early fall, he'll need to get a couple more big results to get where he wants to be at the end of the year: Top 100.

The other big Binghamton story was Sekou Bangoura, whose showed impressive steeliness in qualifying and beating three younger players to reach his first challenger semifinal. If things continue to go well with new coach Murphy Payne, and he gets decent draws, a few more appearances here this year looks likely.

Also, Mitchell Krueger made the Binghamton quarters (losing, like Fratangelo, Bangoura, Noah Rubin, and Ernesto Escobedo, to Kyle Edmund), and Frances Tiafoe and Tommy Paul made the second round.

Bogota 250: Alexander Sarkissian qualified and picked up his first ATP main draw win.

Granby Challenger: Eric Quigley had a nice run to the quarterfinals.

CHN F10/Xian: Logan Smith got his first ATP point with a Futures win over Xi Qi in China.

Stefan Kozlov, Taylor Fritz, Alex Rybakov, and William Bushamuka (who is now listed as USA on his ATP profile page, unlike a couple of weeks ago) moved up when others moved down.

New WTA Career-High Rankings, July 27, 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	152	167*	+15		7/13/2015
Katerina Stewart	158	169	+11	159	6/22/2015
Bernarda Pera	236	299	+63	293	3/9/2015
Danielle Lao	289	291*	+2
Ellie Halbauer	429	498	+69	495	6/8/2015
Usue Arconada	465	470	+5	469	7/13/2015
Nicole Frenkel	509	541	+32	520	6/15/2015
Michaela Gordon	619	655*	+36		7/13/2015
Kelly Chen	647	672	+25	670	7/13/2015
Erica Oosterhout	732	735*	+3
Julia Jones	743	890	+147	889	7/13/2015
Jaeda Daniel	754	757*	+3
Sofia Kenin	756	759*	+3
Maegan Manasse	850	867*	+17
Malika Rose	906	927	+19	922	7/13/2015
Keri Wong	924	1011	+87	1005	7/13/2015
Karyn Guttormsen	1041	1154*	+13
Mercedes Hammond	1182	1218	+36	1211	6/8/2015

So much to cover. Are you ready? Let's go!

Sacramento $50K: CiCi Bellis won two matches before falling to eventual champion Anhelina Kalinina. Nicole Frenkel and Michaela Gordon both qualified, while Kelly Chen reached the final rounds of qualifying (she did get into the main draw as a Lucky Loser), and Usue Arconada and Maegan Manasse each won a round in qualies.

Bad Gastein: Katerina Stewart picked up 12 points by winning a round of qualifying in this WTA tournament. Unfortunately, she was last one out of the two Lucky Loser spots.

Granby $50K: Ellie Halbauer qualified and reached the quarterfinals after beating Laura Robson in the second round. Sadly, her magical run fell short when she couldn't close out Jessica Moore from 5-0 up in the third set. It's okay, she's young. But that still stings. Also in Canada, Danielle Lao got a point for being in the main draw, Keri Wong got 3 points for reaching the final round of qualies, and Malika Rose and Mercedes Hammond each got a point for winning a round of qualies.

Imola $25K: Bernarda Pera followed up her run to the Torino $25K semis to her biggest career title a few hundred kilometers east, near Bologna, Italy. Key matches in each: losing 7-6 in the third to Frenchwoman Alize Lim in Torino; winning 7-6 in the third over Frenchwoman Oceane Dodin in Imola.

Sharm El Sheikh $10K: Julia Jones reached the final and Karyn Guttormsen reached the semis. Both women qualified, both lost to 3rd seed Ksenia Gaydarzhi (RUS). Great result for both!

Erica Oosterhout, Jaeda Daniel, and Sofia Kenin moved up when others moved down.