Today’s Feature (11/14)

Written by: Staff on 14th November 2012

Today's Feature (11/14)

epa02789817 Misaki Doi of Japan returns to Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the USA during their first round match for the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, in London, Britain, 22 June 2011. EPA/NEIL MUNNS |

This Week’s Movers — Women

Each week, Daily Tennis will look at the biggest movers of the week, looking at how they did what they did.

Biggest Upward Mover — Most Places Moved (Top 100)

Leader: Misaki Doi — Moved 5 places, from #97 to #92.

Doi made the quarterfinal of the Pune super-Challenger. Other players had much bigger moves, but they were and remained below the Top Hundred.

Runner-Up: TIE:

Camila Giorgi — Moved 4 places, from #79 to #75

Nina Bratchikova — Moved 4 places, from #85 to #81

Giorgi made the quarterfinal at the Phoenix Challenger; Bratchikova made the quarterfinal at Pune.

Biggest Percentage Mover — Cut Ranking By Highest Percent (Top 100)

Leader: Doi, cut ranking 5%

Runner-Up: Giorgi, 5%

Biggest Loser — Most Places Lost (Top 100)

Loser: Sesil Karatantcheva — Dropped 18 places, from #93 to #111

Last year at this time, Karatantcheva won the Phoenix Challenger.

Biggest Percentage Loser — Worst Percentage Increase in Ranking (Top 100)

Loser: Karatantcheva, ranking increased 19%.

Ranking Notes

We actually had some pretty good moves this week — except that they were all below the Top Hundred. Elina Svitolina, the Pune champion, rose 27% (to #114). The player she beat in the final, Kimiko Date-Krumm, rose 18% (to #119). Tamarine Tanasugarn gained 14% (to #133). Andrea Petkovic improved 12% (to #126). We would also mention Madison Keys, who is having quite a good run and who won Phoenix this year — but who gained just 7%, to #138.

Other than Karatantcheva, no one in the Top Hundred fell more than 7%.

Our Personal Picks for “Best Mover of the Week”

These are subjective picks!

With no one in the Top Hundred having gained more than 5%, we aren’t going to give an award this week.