we have dementieva, myskina, zvonareva, petrova, bovina, kuznetsova, lina k, safina and douchevina. they are the main prospects for russia.
dementieva, fix that serve and she will have top 5 potential, she's top 10/15 with her current serve so with a better serve top 5 is definately possible.
myskina i think has reached her potential personally i don't think she should be top 10 but the others who have better games aren't consistent enough so she is there for now but i don't think she can reach top 5.
zvonareva, i don't see her in the top 5, she doesn't have enough power, she will have to work really really hard to get there but i don't think she can do that year in and year out.
petrova, she can serve, volley and has powerful and consistent groundies. movement is sometimes a problem and consistency on her serve plus she isn't strong mentally against top players. if she can get her 1st serve % up and get more mentally tough i can see her reaching the top 5.
bovina, top 5 potential but to inconsistent and not quite mentally tough enough. if she can fix those things she may someday be in the top 5.
kuznetsova, she's pretty good but i don't see top 5 in her. maybe top 10 but i'm not even sure about that.
lina k i haven't seen play.
safina i thought last year she had top 10 potential and maybe top 5 potential but after seeing her play justine i just don't see it. i think she has more talent than a lot of the russians but some things will be hard to change like her service motion and those things will be her undoing because i don't think she'll be change them.
douchevina i've only seen once and she played poorly so i don't know but she has a good serve. i she has top 50 potential but it's to early to tell with her how much further she can go.
i know i've said a lot can reach top 50 and top 10 and i know we can only have 10 people in the top 10 and 5 people in the top 5 but i am comparing their potential to the way the current top 10 are playing. heaps of players have top 10 potential but only a small few of them actually fullfill that potential so that is why i say so many players have the potential, i'm not saying they'll all make it but the potential may be there.