[Fantastic]

Curious about the Top 10 players from Western Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory. If anyone can do a Top 10 list for Northern Territory and Tasmania, that'd be great.

I'm from WA, so I can do a Top 10 list of Sandgropers. This is just in the order of my opinion and based on their NTPR's. WA doesn't have a lot of pro players, but there are a lot of really good State Grade pennant players.

Western Australia:

MEN

01 Jaymon CRABB (ATP)
02 Mark HLAWATY (ATP, State Grade)
03 James SEKULOV (ATP, State Grade)
04 Darren PATTEN (former ITF, State Grade)
05 Hayden GIBSON (former ITF, State Grade)
06 Ashley DYER (State Grade)
07 David CULLEY (TCA Coach, State Grade)
08 Brett PATTEN (State Grade)
09 Kurt ROBINSON (TCA Coach, State Grade)
10 Strahinja BOBUSIC (US College, State Grade)

WOMEN

01 Siobahn DRAKE-BROCKMAN (former WTA, State Grade) *
02 Casey DELLACQUA (WTA, ITF, State Grade)
03 Nicole SEWELL (ITF, State Grade)
04 Angela GREEN (TCA Coach, former US College, State Grade)
05 Sarah STANLEY (former ITF, former junior ITF, State Grade)
06 Bojana BOBUSIC (junior ITF, State Grade)
07 Julia DZIEDZIC (ITF, State Grade)
08 Nikki SARGINSON (State Grade)
09 Vanya KELLEHER (State Grade)
10 Marinela ANTONIC (ITF, State Grade)

If you run out of professional players as you compile your list, go on to State Grade pennant players, followed by the top juniors, and so on.

* Siobahn Drake-Brockman still kicks the butt of the girls currently playing on the ITF and WTA tours.

[azza]

NSW

Todd reid

Evie Dominikovic
Daniella Dominkovic

i dun no

[Rising Sun]

I wonder if Siobhan will ever attempt a comeback? She should have finished uni by now. Such a waste to see her dominate the state competitions, but not try her luck elsewhere. Please come back, Siobhan.

[Fantastic]

I'm going to revise my rankings a little.

1. Casey Dellacqua
2. Nicole Sewell
3. Siobahn Drake-Brockman

The reason being Nicole beat Siobahn at the State Championships, and Casey killed Nicole 6-0 6-1 in State League competition. Casey and Siobhan have never met.

danker: I was thinking the same thing. She's still playing reasonably well. She only hits once a week and that's during competition. Imagine how much better she would do if she was able to train every day. Sadly, I don't think she will ever play pro again. She quit the first time because she got homesick a lot and didn't believe she could keep up with the harder hitters. I'd estimate that in todays' game, she wouldn't be likely to attain her ranking best of 101 again. Top 250 possibly, but I don't know about Top 150 like before.

[nm_cb]

IN the men for W.A you forgot Alistair Todd.(Toddy)
He is probably just after Darren Patern. Brett Pattern is probably before Alistar.
Toddy was a previous ATP player, and is still at that level.

Dijana Srbinoska could also be included in the list. She beat Sarah Stanley 6-1 in the third earlier this year.

Jasmon Crabb, Jaymon sister is also a good player. She is state grade level. Currently she should be in State grade except the Womens State Grade teams was rigged. She plays No. 1 for UWA.

[OZTENNIS]

Hey this looks interesting!!

QLD

Women
1) Samantha Stosur
2) Nicole Pratt
3) Shayna McDowell
4) Isabella Holland
5) Shannon Golds
6) Monika Wejnert
7) Jessica Schaer
8) Shelley Rothman
9) Abby Hedges
10) Prue Teitzel

[OZTENNIS]

NSW

Women
1) Sophie Ferguson
2) Monique Adamczak
3) Jelena Dokic
4) Emily Hewson
5) Evie Dominikovic
6) Daniella Dominikovic
7) Christina Horiatopolous
8) Tyra Calderwood
9) Holly Cao
10) Bryanne Stewart

[louloubelle]

Great thread

The Australian national rankings is a good start for compiling a top 10. Description below:

The Australian Ranking (AR) system ranks Australian players from ATP/WTA level to 12s state level. A players combined (singles and doubles) Australian Ranking will consist of their best eight (8) singles results, plus 25% of their best six (6) doubles results.
Components of the Australian Ranking include:
- ATP/WTA Points (singles and doubles)
- Kia Pro Circuit
- ITF 18s Circuit
- Optus Junior Tour
- Australian Money Tournaments & Tennis Australia Open Tournaments
- ETA Events

There's a list of over 1000's names for the Aussie gals rank

http://www.tennisaustralia.com.au/pa...=4&PageID=3246

[ozfan44]

Originally Posted by danker

I wonder if Siobhan will ever attempt a comeback? She should have finished uni by now. Such a waste to see her dominate the state competitions, but not try her luck elsewhere. Please come back, Siobhan.

Siobhan is now finished Uni and the last i heard she was busy doing what Lawyers do! I doubt she will ever make a comeback although maybe might enter the 25ks in wa next march for some fun???

[tiger123]

VICTORIA

Women
1. Lauren Breadmore (WTA)
2. Christina Wheeler (WTA)
3. Lisa D'Amelio (WTA/State Grade)
4. Cindy Watson (WTA)
5. Cassandra Barr (WTA)
6. Betti Sekulovski (WTA/State Grade)
7. Mirelle Dittman (WTA/ State Grade)
8. Karolina Wlodarczak (WTA/State Grade)
9. Alenka Hubacek ( ITF Juniors/ State Grade)
10. Marjia Mirkovic (ITF Juniors/ State Grade)

Men
1. Mark Philippoussis (ATP)
2. Chris Guccione (ATP)
3. Peter Luczak (ATP)
4. Wayne Athrus (ATP)
5. Joe Sirriani (ATP)
6. Rameez Junaid (ATP)
7. Andrew Coehlo (ATP)
8. Marinko Matosevic (ATP/State Grade)
9. Stephen Huss (ATP)
10. Scott Doener (ATP/NCAA)

[kittyking]

NEW ZEALAND (, were about the population of NSW arent we)

1. Marina Erakovic (sorry Sacha, Ellen)
2. Sacha Jones (sorry Ellen)
3. Belinda Cordwell
4. Ellen Barry
5. Kathie Westbury
6. Joanna Carswell
7. Marcella Jones
8. Kairangi Vano
9. Leanne Baker
10. Shona Lee

[etf]

NEW ZEALAND

No. player age ( WTA best )
1 Marina Erakovic 18 ( 160 )
2 Leanne Baker 25 ( 273 )
3 Sacha Jones 16 ( 736 )
4 Ellen Barry 17 ( 595 )
5 Pavlina Nola 32 ( 68 )
6 Dianne Hollands 23 ( - )
7 Kairangi Vano 17 ( - )
8 Tracey O'Connor 24 ( 417 )
9 Shona Lee 18 ( 602 )
10 Shelley Bryce 28 ( 248 )

Just missing from my top 10 are Ilke Gers, Paula Marama and Niki Tippins.

[kittyking]

Originally Posted by etf

NEW ZEALAND

No. player age ( WTA best )
1 Marina Erakovic 18 ( 160 )
2 Leanne Baker 25 ( 273 )
3 Sacha Jones 16 ( 736 )
4 Ellen Barry 17 ( 595 )
5 Pavlina Nola 32 ( 68 )
6 Dianne Hollands 23 ( - )
7 Kairangi Vano 17 ( - )
8 Tracey O'Connor 24 ( 417 )
9 Shona Lee 18 ( 602 )
10 Shelley Bryce 28 ( 248 )

Just missing from my top 10 are Ilke Gers, Paula Marama and Niki Tippins.

Wheres Kathie!!!

Oh and yea on my list I would move Shona to 13 and place Nola, Dianne and Tracey above her

Id leave the Maramas down near about the 80-90 mark

[etf]

Originally Posted by kittyking

Wheres Kathie!!!

Oh and yea on my list I would move Shona to 13 and place Nola, Dianne and Tracey above her

Id leave the Maramas down near about the 80-90 mark

All the players have played sometime since October in the WTA, ITF juniors, or competions in New Zealand (mostly Auckland and North Harbour club play) except Paula Marama whose last singles match was the QF at $10,000 Wellington where she also won the doubles final.

The other players from 5 to 13 except Shona Lee I ranked mostly on their club play results.
I have never seen Shona play except yesterday when I saw the last game of her one-sided SF win over Abigail Guthrie at the Auckland Senior Champs. I'll be watching her play the final on Tuesday afternoon against Dianne Hollands who beat Kairangi Vano in a close 3 set match.

As for Katherine Westbury, I'd place her at the same level as Tanya Samodelok (1 win, 2 loss head to head) who lost 6-1 6-1 to Shona Lee in the Auckland Champs QF yesterday. But I see these two girls as NZ's best young players.

[kittyking]

Originally Posted by etf

All the players have played sometime since October in the WTA, ITF juniors, or competions in New Zealand (mostly Auckland and North Harbour club play) except Paula Marama whose last singles match was the QF at $10,000 Wellington where she also won the doubles final.

The other players from 5 to 13 except Shona Lee I ranked mostly on their club play results.
I have never seen Shona play except yesterday when I saw the last game of her one-sided SF win over Abigail Guthrie at the Auckland Senior Champs. I'll be watching her play the final on Tuesday afternoon against Dianne Hollands who beat Kairangi Vano in a close 3 set match.

As for Katherine Westbury, I'd place her at the same level as Tanya Samodelok (1 win, 2 loss head to head) who lost 6-1 6-1 to Shona Lee in the Auckland Champs QF yesterday. But I see these two girls as NZ's best young players.

Kathie did make a G5 final recently