Re: Is the 1993-1996 generation about to breakthrough?
Records of teenagers inside Top 250 in the end of year official rankings of 2012:
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#1 Sloane Stephens (1993)
Rank: #38. 2011 rank: #97 - +59
Best ranking: #36 in October 2012
W/L: 27-21
Best WTA result: SF of Strasbourg and Washington
Best slam result: 4th Round of French Open
Best win: #17 Maria Kirilenko*
#25 Petra Cetkovska
#2 Laura Robson (1994)
Rank: #53. 2011: #131 - +78
Best ranking: #52 in October 2012
W/L: 34-25
Best WTA result: F of Guangzhou
Best slam result: 4th Round of US Open
Best win: #8 Na Li
#3 Timea Babos (1993)
Rank: #64. 2011: #153 - +89
Best ranking: #59 in August 2012
W/L: 30-23
Best WTA result: Won Monterrey
Best slam result: 2nd Round of Wimbledon
Best win: #36 Sara Errani
#4 Kristina Mladenovic (1993)
Rank: #76. 2011: #183 - +107
Best ranking: #76 in November 2012
W/L: 30-26
Best WTA result: SF of Quebec City
Best slam result: 3rd Round of US Open
Best win: #20 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
#5 Annika Beck (1994)
Rank: #78. 2011: #234 - +156
Best ranking: #78 in November 2012
W/L: 62-16
Best WTA result: 2nd Round of Quebec City, Luxembourg
Best slam result: 1st Round of Wimbledon
Best win: #57 Aleksandra Wozniak
#6 Lauren Davis (1993)
Rank: #94. 2011: #319 - +225
Best ranking: #88 in October 2012
W/L: 46-19
Best WTA result: QF of Quebec City
Best slam result: 2nd Round of French Open
Best win: #27 Yanina Wickmayer
#7 Garbine Muguruza (1993)
Rank: #104. 2011: #249 - +145
Best ranking: #94 in August 2012
W/L: 35-25
Best WTA result: QF of Fes
Best slam result: 1st Round of US Open
Best win: #9 Vera Zvonareva
#8 Jana Cepelova (1993)
Rank: #107. 2011: #218 - +111
Best ranking: #102 in August 2012
W/L: 38-24
Best WTA result: QF of Washington
Best slam result: 3rd Round of Wimbledon
Best win: #28 Anabel Media Garrigues
#9 Michelle Larcher de Brito (1993)
Rank: #116. 2011: #173 - +57
Best ranking: #76 in July 2009
W/L: 48-28
Best WTA result: 2nd Round of Birmingham, Stanford, Washington
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #62 Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova
#10 Donna Vekic (1996)
Rank: #118. 2011: #392 - +274
Best ranking: #108 in October 2012
W/L: 41-11
Best WTA result: F of Tashkent
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #54 Magdalena Rybarikova
#11 Yulia Putintseva (1995)
Rank: #121. 2011: #241 - +120
Best ranking: #120 in July 2012
W/L: 31-16
Best WTA result: 2nd Round of Copenhagen
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #59 Silvia Soler-Espinosa
#12 Monica Puig (1993)
Rank: #127. 2011: 228 - +101
Best ranking: #121 in October 2012
W/L: 44-23
Best WTA result: 1st Round of Monterrey, Tashkent
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #66 Magdalena Rybarikova
#13 Saisai Zheng (1994)
Rank: #133. 2011: #276 - +143
Best ranking: #133 in November 2012
W/L: 43-22
Best WTA result: 2nd Round of Stanford, Guangzhou
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #70 Ayumi Morita*
#102 Julia Cohen
#14 Caroline Garcia (1993)
Rank: #138. 2011: #146 - +8
Best ranking: #132 in May 2012
W/L: 28-29
Best WTA result: 2nd Round of Seoul
Best slam result: 1st Round of French Open
Best win: #83 Stephanie Foretz-Gacon
#15 Eugenie Bouchard (1994)
Rank: #144. 2011: #302 - +168
Best ranking: #144 in November 2012
W/L: 46-15
Best WTA result: QF of Washington
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #56 Shahar Peer
#16 Jessica Pegula (1994)
Rank: #147. 2011: #288 - +141
Best ranking: #147 in November 2012
W/L: 35-21
Best WTA result: 1st Round of Indian Wells, Quebec City
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #76 Mandy Minella
#17 Madison Keys (1995)
Rank: #149. 2011: #315 - +166
Best ranking: #149 in November 2012
W/L: 26-16
Best WTA result: 2nd Round of Miami
Best slam result: 1st Round of Australian Open
Best win: #62 Timea Babos
#18 Elina Svitolina (1994)
Rank: #156. 2011: #269 - +113
Best ranking: #133 in October 2012
W/L: 26-15
Best WTA result: 1st Round of Baku, Moscow
Best slam result: 1st Round of US Open
Best win: #104 Jana Cepelova
#19 Aleksandra Krunic (1993)
Rank: #168. 2011: #226 - +58
Best ranking: #167 in October 2012
W/L: 28-20
Best WTA result: QF of Baku
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #88 Andrea Hlavackova
#20 Irina Khromacheva (1995)
Rank: #176. 2011: #402 - +226
Best ranking: #165 in July 2012
W/L: 33-19
Best WTA result: N/A
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #53 Irina-Camelia Begu* #93 Patricia Mayr-Achleitner
#21 Grace Min (1994)
Rank: #177. 2011: #414 - +237
Best ranking: #169 in July 2012
W/L: 40-20
Best WTA result: 1st Round of Birmingham, Stanford, Quebec City
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #65 Anastasiya Yakimova
#22 Anna-Lena Friedsam (1994)
Rank: #189. 2011: #655 - +466
Best ranking: #189 in November 2012
W/L: 56-14
Best WTA result: N/A
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #66 Andrea Hlavackova
#23 Kateryna Kozlova (1994)
Rank: #192. 2011: #343 - +151
Best ranking: #192 in November 2012
W/L: 36-14
Best WTA result: N/A
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #107 Kristyna Pliskova
#24 Ashleigh Barty (1996)
Rank: #195. 2011: 669 - +474
Best ranking: #195 in November 2012
W/L: 31-7
Best WTA result: 1st Round of Hobart
Best slam result: 1st Round of Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon
Best win: #121 Karolina Pliskova
#25 Maryna Zanevska (1993)
Rank: #197. 2011: #435 - +238
Best ranking: #192 in October 2012
W/L: 56-15
Best WTA result: N/A
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #88 Alexandra Panova
#26 Anna Schmeidlova (1994)
Rank: #212. 2011: #634 - +422
Best ranking: #212 in November 2012
W/L: 48-12
Best WTA result: N/A
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #101 Julia Cohen
#27 Daria Gavrilova (1994)
Rank: #215. 2011: #383 - +178
Best ranking: #215 in November 2012
W/L: 30-21
Best WTA result: 2nd Round of s'Hertogenbosch
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #35 Yanina Wickmayer
#28 Luksika Kumkhum (1993)
Rank: #216. 2011: #320 - +104
Best ranking: #202 in October 2012
W/L: 35-15
Best WTA result: 1st Round of Guangzhou, Osaka
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #119 Tamarine Tanasugarn
#29 Alison van Uytvanck
Rank: #220. 2011: #297 - +77
Best ranking: #218 in October 2012
W/L: 28-17
Best WTA result: QF of Brussels
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #39 Ksenia Pervak
#30 Carina Witthoeft
Rank: #223. 2011: #405 - +182
Best ranking: #208 in October 2012
W/L: 29-9
Best WTA result: 1st Round of Bastad
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #42 Tsvetana Pironkova
#31 Margarita Gasparyan
Rank: #231. 2011: #648 - +417
Best ranking: #223 in October 2012
W/L: 28-8
Best WTA result: 1st Round of Moscow
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #162 Ekaterina Bychkova
#32 Nicole Gibbs
Rank: #233. 2011: #620 - +387
Best ranking: #227 in September 2012
W/L: 17-6
Best WTA result: 2nd Round of Stanford, New Haven
Best slam result: 1st Round of US Open
Best win: #78 Lourdes Dominguez Lino
#33 Valentyna Ivakhnenko
Rank: #240. 2011: #300 - +60
Best ranking: #222 in July 2012
W/L: 33-21
Best WTA result: 1st Round of Palermo
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #114 Anastasiya Yakimova
#34 Cristina Dinu
Rank: #241. 2011: #298 - +57
Best ranking: #241 in November 2012
W/L: 36-17
Best WTA result: N/A
Best slam result: N/A
Best win: #91 Nina Bratchikova
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Some players have continued playing so I will keep an eye if anyone else reaches Top 100. For next year, once players become 20 I will stop following their progress as closely, and then we will look towards if anyone from 1997 can join the elite teenagers of today on the WTA.