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96. Rosana De Los Rios

Country : Paraguay
Birthday : September 16, 1975 (33)
Current WTA Ranking : 98
Highest Ranking : 51 (November 12, 2001)
WTA Tour Titles : 0

Best Results at Grand Slams

Australian Open - 2R (2001) (2002)
French Open - 4R (2000)
Wimbledon - 2R (2002)
US Open - 2R (2002) (2008)
Olympics - N/A




I mean , what is there really to say about this one? Not much. Like I said I needed two players to make it to 100 and I picked Rosana since I saw her at the FO this year and she looked kinda cute, but those pics tell me otherwise. All I know is that she is a mom to a 7 year old daughter and if you want my damn opinion (wait why am I asking its my thread and ill say it anyways) she sould just retire now. I mean shes 33 which is like Mother Teresa is tennis terms and shes never won a WTA event and is barely in the top 100. She should just retire and spend time with her daughter. Like seriosuly, Rosana, youre living in a dream world if you think youre gonna breakthrough at 33. But she does have a couple of decent ITF titles so there ya go.

And lol at Rosanas last name literally bein translated into Of The River.

95. Maria Elena Camerin

Country : Italy
Birthday : March 21, 1982 (27)
Current WTA Ranking : 93
Highest Ranking : 41 (October 11, 2004)
WTA Tour Titles : 0

Best Results at Grand Slams

Australian Open - 3R (2006) (2007)
French Open - 2R (2004)
Wimbledon - 2R (2003) (2004)
US Open - 2R (2003) (2004) (2005) (2007) (2008)
Olympics - N/A






So I guess this is hard on my audience since im listing players that only a tennis freak like myself would ever know. lol. Im just trying to race past these first 30 so we can get into the players that even casual tennis fans would know. But as for Maria. Ok so its obvious this is not the greatest tennis player ever. Camerin has had a very small impact on the tennis world, but I like her for some bizarre reason. Some of her accomplishments incluse small independent tournaments. She won two small ITF circuits back in 2002 and has won some small doubles tournaments. She is more of a successfull doubles player rather than a singles player. Some of her notable matches was the close upset of Serena Williams in the 2007 US open where she almost took the first set off, but Serena was able to close the first set 7-5 and then went on to win in the second. Last year at Wimbledon she went out in the first round to Elena Dementieva but was able to take the second set off of her in a tiebreak. Not a very notable player but shes been around awhile. She loves Jennifer Capriati so thats a plus, and she plays doubles with Gisela Dulko, another plus. Ive only seen her play twice and shes just average.

94. Alexa Glatch

Country : USA
Birthday : September 10, 1989
Current WTA Ranking : 105
Highest Ranking : 105 (June 8, 2009)
WTA Tour Titles : 0

Best Results at Grand Slams

Australian Open - N/A
French Open - 2R (2009)
Wimbledon - N/A
US Open - 2R (2005)
Olympics - N/A






Ladies and gentleman, meet the future of American Tennis. The name is Alexa Glatch. I dont really know what it is about Alexa but im just not really on her support group yet. But she is very talented. She along with the United States team are in the fed cup final which makes me laugh my ass off since neither Venus or Serena played and the next highest ranked player was Sands at 45 who lost all her rubbers followed by Alexa ranked around 112 at the time. And they are in the finals against Italy. lmao. But I will defenetly give credit to Alexa. She played very well in the Fed Cup semi final against the Czech Republic basically handing Benesova her ass on a platter. Some of the boards are buzzing about Alexa as the new thing in american tennis which I guess is fine but shes almost 20 years old and not even in the top 100 yet. Not a good sign if you ask me but we will see what she can do. She played very well this year at the FO, dismantaling the 14th seed Pennetta is the first round with a score of like 6-1 6-2. I was pissed man, let me tell ya. lol but kudos to her.

93. Angela Haynes

Country : USA
Birthday : September 27, 1984
Current WTA Ranking : 138
Highest Ranking : 95 (August 22, 2005)
WTA Tour Titles : 0

Best Results at Grand Slams

Australian Open - 1R (2005)
French Open - 1R (2005)
Wimbledon - 1R (2005)
US Open - 3R (2004)
Olympics - N/A





Now of all the tennis players that we have seen on my list Angela is probably the least accomplished of the bunch but there are a few reasons why I ranked her in my top 100. For one, for a player who has really struggled in breaking through she had an impressive Indian Wells tournament earlier in 2009. Indian Wells, like Miami is probably the most prestigous tournaments on the tour with the exception of the 4 grandslams, the year end championsips and the olympics. Angela made it to the 4th round, the first time she had some success in quite some time. And if I remember correctly she had to go through three rounds of qualifying to even play in the tournament. Or maybe she was a wildcard? Who knows? But I was just so impressed and happy with her play that I put her on one of my favorites lists. And also, from what I hear she was on the verge of becoming a promising talent when she was struck with tragedy in her own family. I think something happened to her brother but dont quote me on it. Im just trying to think of a rumor I heard over at tennisforum. But still I hope she can get her rankin up and play a few more good tournaments bue due to her lack of success I cant rank her any higher.

90. Julie Coin

Country : France
Birthday : December 2, 1982 (26)
Current WTA Ranking : 63
Highest Ranking : 63 (June 8, 2009)
WTA Tour Titles : 0

Best Results at Grand Slams

Australian Open - 2R (2009)
French Open - 2R (2009)
Wimbledon - Qualifying R1 (2008)
US Open - 3R (2008)
Olympics - N/A





As you can clearly see Coin looks pretty happy in those pictures and she has every reason to be. Those pictures were taken from the 2008 US Open where Coin pulled off a huge upset by defeating World Number 1 at the time Ana Ivanovic in the second round 6-3 4-6 6-3. This was the first time weve ever heard of Coin. Sure she may have been around awhile but she was never a threat at grand slams. The upset of Ivanovic left the tennis world talking and it was a great victory for Coin. But Coins victory was short lived as she was defeated by Amelie Mauresmo in the 3rd round. But at the time Coin I believe was ranked around 130 and its not every day that a 130 ranked player takes out the world number fucking 1. But that win did spark fire in her as shes been able to qualify for the 2009 grandslams making the second rounds of the Australian and French Opens respectively. Still, a lot has been left to desire for Coin and the lack of consistancy lands her at spot number 90.


But take a look at devestated Ivanovic on the day she was upset.

But seriously nice job well done Coin.

88. Ekaterina Makarova

Country : Russia
Birthday : June 7, 1988 (21)
Current WTA Ranking : 45
Highest Ranking : 35 (May 11, 2009)
WTA Tour Titles : 0

Best Results at Grand Slams

Australian Open - 3R (2008)
French Open - 2R (2008)
Wimbledon - 1R (2008)
US Open - 3R (2007) (2008)
Olympics - N/A





So here we have our first Russian to appear on the list and if anyone knows anything about tennis they would know that tennis and Russia is like cake and ice cream. Whatever the hell that means. lol. Basically im just saying that Russia as produced some emaculate tennis stars. Most people would be happy with a ranking of 45 but in Russian terms that is abysmal. I put Makarova on this list because I think shes a player to watch out for in the near future. She is still young and has some nice talent. She beat Anna Chakvetadze a 2007 US Open semi finalist in the first round of the US Open 2008. Ended up 3rd round overall but still I say watch out for this one.