Australia Have Five Women in The Top 100 for First Time Since 1993
Tennis - Australia have five women ranked inside the Top 100 of the WTA World Rankings for the first time in 26 years and Tennis Australia's Head of Women's Tennis and Fed Cup coach Nicole Pratt thinks it is only going to get better for the women. Speaking to Tennis Australia's website, Pratt says, "What’s exciting is that of that group of players (currently in the top 100), most of them are only going up, in terms of their rankings getting better. So that’s super exciting. The other thing worth noting is the number of players we also have from 100 to 250; my belief is that we’ve got to keep that as a healthy number. And then, my thinking is that we’ll always have players then move into the top 100. Astra’s one of those players, who’d been inside top 250 and now has moved inside top 100. And it’s exciting to think that Priscilla Hon is 130, Kim Birrell is 150, Zoe Hives is 200, and Destanee Aiava and Jaimee Fourlis have been inside the top 200. These players now in the top 100 coinciding with it being 26 years since we last reached the Fed Cup final, I think it’s a moment in time we should actually really celebrate.”
Currently, Ash Barty leads the Australians in the world rankings at No. 9, followed by Ajla Tomljanovic at No. 43, Daria Gavrilova at No. 58, Sam Stosur at No. 76 and Astra Sharma at No. 98. The last time that Australia had five women ranked in the Top 100 was in January 1993. Coincidentally, Australia reached the Fed Cup final in 1993 and have also reached the final in 2019.
from Tennis World USA http://bit.ly/2GW2X0b
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