How does the tennis world ranking points get destributed and do they carry over becasue i have knoitced that roger federer has a substantial amount of points compared to everybody else, and how many points are awarded for a mathc and are there any factors in the match that change how points are awarded?
2007-02-24 14:12:28 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Tennis
This is a minorly controversial issue in tennis today because there are 2 ranking systems. The "computer ranking" aka Singles Entry ranking vs. The Singles Race. My advice would be to ignore the Singles Race completely for now. If you look at it right now, it would tell you that Fernando Gonzalez is the #2 player in the world. That's because Singles Race only keeps track of rankings from January 1. Therefore, it is more or less meaningless until after the U.S. Open. Ignore it. It is a confusing system that people have been complaining about for years.
The Singles Entry ranking is much more accurate. It is a 52-week rolling ranking system. For example, This week, tournaments are being played in Rotterdam, Memphis and Buenos Aires. The same tournaments were played 52 weeks ago. These tournaments from 52 weeks ago will fall off the ranking system forever after tomorrow. They will be replaced by the results from those tournaments from this year. Therefore, if a player did really well there last year, but poorly this year (or were injured), they would lose many or even all of those points from last year, making there ranking fall considerably. This also could work in reverse.
Different tournaments have different point values. Tournaments with more players and/or more prize money tend to be worth more points. For example, winning one of the 4 Grand Slams will get you 1000 points. Winning a small tournament will likely get you about 175 points. Likewise, individual matches in bigger tournaments are worth more than in smaller tournaments. Just making the quarterfinal of a grand slam is often better than winning a small tournament.
The points that each match is worth are pre-arranged and cannot change based on the quality or length of the match. There used to be a system in women's tennis where you would get bonus "quality" points if you beat a really good player, but that was elminated last year for also being too confusing.
Roger Federer has such a lead on everyone because he is the holder of 3 Grand Slams and a finalist in the other one. That's something like 3700 points already. If he didn't play ANY other tournaments in the last 52 weeks, he'd still potentially be ranked 2nd based solely on his grand slam results.
I would recommend going 2 places for more information. One is an extremely detailed and well-run website that tracks every point earned for every tennis match played at all important levels of the game. It is located at http://www.stevegtennis.com .You can even look back at archives and see just who became #1 and what how they got there. Another great site is fantasy tennis game located at http://www.jdland.com/cgi-bin/sm/smcentral.cfm . In this game, you get points by picking who you think will earn the most Entry points in the upcoming week's tournaments. Playing this game, you quickly start to get a feel for what tournaments are most important and what points are awarded. People are really good at it, though. I've been playing it for 2 years and still haven't broken into the top 30.
2007-02-24 15:11:44 · answer #1 · answered by kowtow21 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is pretty obvious that Nadal is the next no.1 of the sport simply because you know that he can win Poland Garros... Djokovic on the other hand makes good runs at slams but since there is no guarantee he can win one it would be foolish to put him above Nadal. Well Roger can lose his no.1 ranking right here in the Aussie Open but after the match with Janko you can see how much he really wants this title so he will make it to the semi's at least so i say he would probably lose his no.1 raking at the 2009 Roland Garros or sometime around there... i just have a feeling this year is his... but even if he isn't no.1 it wouldn't really matter because he will always be considered a top contender for any title until the end of his career.
2016-03-16 00:33:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-02-25 02:47:13 · answer #3 · answered by snehil s 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋