[quote user="katmilr"]so sad Maria is about to fall out of the top 20...at least she has a ton of pts to gain at the AO. She won't dissapoint us, I'm sure.
[/quote] I'm sure she won't disappoint us. [Y] Trouble is, there is no way to guess what Craig Tiley will pull at the NEXT AO. As long as he remains director, we have to assume his criminal manipulations will continue. In different ways, he's attacked Kuzi & Lenochka. (Indeed, shrapi is correct that Dementieva would be AT LEAST number 6 IN SPITE of her RG injury & missing USO--except that her ranking had already been depressed by calculated targeting in the Melbourne & Miami "draws".)

When Tiley was stung by the (correct) global perception he had manipulated the heat rule to save Serena from Kuzi in 2008, he retaliated with a slanderous insinuation of involvement with a gambling scandal (the "scandal" itself turned out to be meaningless crap & never got off the ground.) There is no bottom to this trivial man's petty schemes and these are hardly the only ones.

What assume this crook will allow Maria to accomplish anything?

yeah Bepa! She should be ranked higher than Caro who never went to 1 slam final this year.

And maria is back in the top 20 ...how?

Top 25 -- Should be close to year-end rankings. There may be a few midlist changes after Bali.

As of November 1, 2010

1 1 Wozniacki, Caroline DEN 8035
2 2 Zvonareva, Vera RUS 6785
3 4 Clijsters, Kim BEL 6635
4 3 Williams, Serena USA 5355
5 5 Williams, Venus USA 4985
6 7 Stosur, Samantha AUS 4982
7 6 Schiavone, Francesca ITA 4935
8 8 Jankovic, Jelena SRB 4445
9 9 Dementieva, Elena RUS 4335
10 10 Azarenka, Victoria BLR 4235

11 11 Li, Na CHN 3540
12 12 Henin, Justine BEL 3415
13 13 Peer, Shahar ISR 3365
14 14 Radwanska, Agnieszka POL 3000
15 15 Petrova, Nadia RUS 2702
16 16 Bartoli, Marion FRA 2645
17 17 Sharapova, Maria RUS 2591
18 18 Rezai, Aravane FRA 2570
19 19 Kirilenko, Maria RUS 2550
20 20 Pavlyuchenkova, Anastasia RUS 2520

21 21 Kanepi, Kaia EST 2490
22 22 Wickmayer, Yanina BEL 2435
23 23 Pennetta, Flavia ITA 2430
24 24 Ivanovic, Ana SRB 2255
25 25 Zheng, Jie CHN 2227

Rome will be Maria's next tournament beginning next Monday.

In the WTA rankings, Maria is guaranteed to finish No.8 in the new rankings released next Monday.  This will be Maria's highest ranking in over 2 years.

AS OF MAY 16, 2011

After Wimbledon:

Top 20 Russia-girlz: with changes (from tennisforum posting)

NR: national ranking
WR:world ranking

NR/Name/WR/NR evolution/WR evolution

1.Vera ZVONAREVA (3)/--/--
2.Maria SHARAPOVA (5)/--/+1
3.Svetlana KUZNETSOVA(12)/--/+2
4.Anastasia PAVLYUCHENKOVA(13)/--/+1
5.Maria KIRILENKO (24)/+1/+2
6.Alisa KLEYBANOVA (28)/-1/-4
7.Nadia PETROVA (32)/+1/+5
8.Elena VESNINA (33)/--/+6
9.Ekaterina MAKAROVA (40)/-2/-11
10.Vera DUSHEVINA(57)/+1/-8
11.Anna CHAKVETADZE (59)/-1/-11
12.Ksenia PERVAK (61)/+3/+30
13.Dinara SAFINA (68)/-1/-5
14.Evgeniya RODINA (76)/--/+5
15.Alla KUDRYAVTSEVA (78)/-2/-10
16.Vesna DOLONTS (103)/--/-8
17.Anastasia PIVOVAROVA (117)/--/+5
18.Valeria SAVINYKH (134)/+1/+6
19.Nina BRATCHIKOVA (143)/--/+3
20.Alexandra PANOVA (154)/--/-6

I couldn't help but laugh at the 10 point difference between Azarenka's and Maria's ranking this morning. I feel like the the number 1 ranking next year (in the first half of the year) is going to be tossed back and forth between the top 3 players, whoever that be. There aren't alot of points seperating the top 4 girls. Hope Maria starts her campaign of 2012 really well, obviously, but hope she improves immensely. She has her racquet, and her coach, so right now it should just be fitness and clocking in that serve during the offseason. Soooo excited for next year .