This is to go along with Top Tennis Nations where the singles rankings of the highest male and female players were added together to determine the overall top tennis nations. Because I've only taken the top ranked players from each country, these may not be exactly accurate, but it's something.
But first, to recap the Top 20 nations in singles:
01 UNITED STATES<br />02 FRANCE<br />03 SWITZERLAND<br />04 RUSSIA<br />05 SPAIN<br />06 BELGIUM<br />07 ARGENTINA<br />08 AUSTRALIA<br />09 GERMANY<br />10 CROATIA<br />11 CZECH REPUBLIC<br />12 SLOVAK REPUBLIC<br />13 ITALY<br />14 AUSTRIA<br />15 NETHERLANDS<br />16 BELARUS<br />17 SWEDEN<br />18 PARAGUAY<br />19 SOUTH AFRICA<br />20 THAILAND
The following are the Top Tennis Nations in Doubles. Amazingly, there were only 63 nations who could field both a male and female representative:
01 UNITED STATES Donald Johnson (3) + Lisa Raymond (1) = 4 (By virtue of Raymond's #1 rank, I've given the US top spot.)<br />02 AUSTRALIA Todd Woodbridge (2) + Rennae Stubbs (2) = 4<br />03 ZIMBABWE Wayne Black (12) + Cara Black (3) = 15<br />04 RUSSIA Yevgeny Kafelnikov (28) + Elena Likhovtseva (4) = 32 (By virtue of Likhovtseva's #4 rank, I've given Russia fourth place)<br />05 SOUTH AFRICA Ellis Ferreira (15) + Amanda Coetzer (17) = 32<br />06 YUGOSLAVIA Nenad Zimonjic (21) + Jelena Dokic (12) = 33<br />07 ARGENTINA Lucas Arnold (30) + Paola Suarez (6) = 36<br />08 SWEDEN Jonas Bjorkman (1) + Asa Carlsson (36) = 37<br />09 GERMANY David Prinosil (18) + Barbara Rittner (24) = 42<br />10 JAPAN Thomas Shimada (43) + Ai Sugiyama (9) = 52<br />11 FRANCE Arnaud Clement (40) + Sandrine Testud (13) = 53<br />12 CZECH REPUBLIC David Rikl (7) + Kveta Hrdlickova (47) = 54<br />13 BELGIUM Tom Vanhoudt (42) + Kim Clijsters (15) = 57<br />14 NETHERLANDS Sjeng Schalken (27) + Caroline Vis (37) = 64<br />15 SPAIN Tomas Carbonell (64) + Virginia Ruano Pascual (8) = 72<br />16 SLOVAK REPUBLIC Dominik Hrbaty (58) + Janette Husarova (28) = 86<br />17 BELARUS Max Mirnyi (11) + Tatiana Poutchek (80) = 91<br />18 SWITZERLAND Roger Federer (66) + Martina Hingis (30) = 96<br />19 CANADA Daniel Nestor (10) + Sonya Jeyaseelan (88) = 98<br />20 AUSTRIA Julian Knowle (84) + Barbara Schett (18) = 102
The rest of the nations are ranked as:
21 ITALY<br />22 INDIA<br />23 UZBEKISTAN<br />24 BRAZIL<br />25 CROATIA<br />26 HUNGARY<br />27 GREAT BRITAIN<br />28 UKRAINE<br />29 BULGARIA<br />30 ROMANIA
31 KAZHAKSTAN<br />32 VENEZUELA<br />33 NEW ZEALAND<br />34 ISRAEL<br />35 IRELAND<br />36 POLAND<br />37 SLOVENIA<br />38 INDONESIA<br />39 HONG KONG<br />40 ECUADOR
41 MACEDONIA<br />42 LUXEMBOURG<br />43 PARAGUAY<br />44 CHINESE TAIPEI<br />45 THAILAND<br />46 MEXICO<br />47 GEORGIA<br />48 GREECE<br />49 KOREA<br />50 MOROCCO
51 PORTUGAL<br />52 DENMARK<br />53 URUGUAY<br />54 ESTONIA<br />55 ARMENIA<br />56 COLOMBIA<br />57 TURKEY<br />58 LATVIA<br />59 CUBA<br />60 LITHUANIA
61 TUNISIA<br />62 BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA<br />63 BOLIVIA
Interesting.
But first, to recap the Top 20 nations in singles:
01 UNITED STATES<br />02 FRANCE<br />03 SWITZERLAND<br />04 RUSSIA<br />05 SPAIN<br />06 BELGIUM<br />07 ARGENTINA<br />08 AUSTRALIA<br />09 GERMANY<br />10 CROATIA<br />11 CZECH REPUBLIC<br />12 SLOVAK REPUBLIC<br />13 ITALY<br />14 AUSTRIA<br />15 NETHERLANDS<br />16 BELARUS<br />17 SWEDEN<br />18 PARAGUAY<br />19 SOUTH AFRICA<br />20 THAILAND
The following are the Top Tennis Nations in Doubles. Amazingly, there were only 63 nations who could field both a male and female representative:
01 UNITED STATES Donald Johnson (3) + Lisa Raymond (1) = 4 (By virtue of Raymond's #1 rank, I've given the US top spot.)<br />02 AUSTRALIA Todd Woodbridge (2) + Rennae Stubbs (2) = 4<br />03 ZIMBABWE Wayne Black (12) + Cara Black (3) = 15<br />04 RUSSIA Yevgeny Kafelnikov (28) + Elena Likhovtseva (4) = 32 (By virtue of Likhovtseva's #4 rank, I've given Russia fourth place)<br />05 SOUTH AFRICA Ellis Ferreira (15) + Amanda Coetzer (17) = 32<br />06 YUGOSLAVIA Nenad Zimonjic (21) + Jelena Dokic (12) = 33<br />07 ARGENTINA Lucas Arnold (30) + Paola Suarez (6) = 36<br />08 SWEDEN Jonas Bjorkman (1) + Asa Carlsson (36) = 37<br />09 GERMANY David Prinosil (18) + Barbara Rittner (24) = 42<br />10 JAPAN Thomas Shimada (43) + Ai Sugiyama (9) = 52<br />11 FRANCE Arnaud Clement (40) + Sandrine Testud (13) = 53<br />12 CZECH REPUBLIC David Rikl (7) + Kveta Hrdlickova (47) = 54<br />13 BELGIUM Tom Vanhoudt (42) + Kim Clijsters (15) = 57<br />14 NETHERLANDS Sjeng Schalken (27) + Caroline Vis (37) = 64<br />15 SPAIN Tomas Carbonell (64) + Virginia Ruano Pascual (8) = 72<br />16 SLOVAK REPUBLIC Dominik Hrbaty (58) + Janette Husarova (28) = 86<br />17 BELARUS Max Mirnyi (11) + Tatiana Poutchek (80) = 91<br />18 SWITZERLAND Roger Federer (66) + Martina Hingis (30) = 96<br />19 CANADA Daniel Nestor (10) + Sonya Jeyaseelan (88) = 98<br />20 AUSTRIA Julian Knowle (84) + Barbara Schett (18) = 102
The rest of the nations are ranked as:
21 ITALY<br />22 INDIA<br />23 UZBEKISTAN<br />24 BRAZIL<br />25 CROATIA<br />26 HUNGARY<br />27 GREAT BRITAIN<br />28 UKRAINE<br />29 BULGARIA<br />30 ROMANIA
31 KAZHAKSTAN<br />32 VENEZUELA<br />33 NEW ZEALAND<br />34 ISRAEL<br />35 IRELAND<br />36 POLAND<br />37 SLOVENIA<br />38 INDONESIA<br />39 HONG KONG<br />40 ECUADOR
41 MACEDONIA<br />42 LUXEMBOURG<br />43 PARAGUAY<br />44 CHINESE TAIPEI<br />45 THAILAND<br />46 MEXICO<br />47 GEORGIA<br />48 GREECE<br />49 KOREA<br />50 MOROCCO
51 PORTUGAL<br />52 DENMARK<br />53 URUGUAY<br />54 ESTONIA<br />55 ARMENIA<br />56 COLOMBIA<br />57 TURKEY<br />58 LATVIA<br />59 CUBA<br />60 LITHUANIA
61 TUNISIA<br />62 BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA<br />63 BOLIVIA
Interesting.