Talk About Tennis 2.0

JTContinental wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2024 10:21 pm Caro will be back in the top 100 on Monday

Hopefully, the next retirement will be permanent.

I've had Fils in all my fantasy teams as of late. He has not delivered.

Jeff from TX wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 5:00 pm

JTContinental wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2024 10:21 pm Caro will be back in the top 100 on Monday

Hopefully, the next retirement will be permanent.

I presumed this was a Nelslus post at first

It doesn't feel like Swiatek been at the top that long, but already #9 on the all time list and certain to move past Henin and Barty for #7 spot before USO. Only Hingis and the five heavyweights far ahead now.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Sat Jul 06, 2024 2:12 am

consistency gets you ranking...Sakkari has done that...

Sakkari does most of her damage at the 1000 level tournaments

Lulu Sun up 70 places in live ranking all the way to #53. Her previous career high was #123.

Suliso wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2024 7:01 pm Lulu Sun up 70 places in live ranking all the way to #53. Her previous career high was #123.

Erin Routliffe will take over as World #1 in Women's Doubles on Monday for the first time in her career.

There are currently 5 American women ranked in the top 15 (Gauff, Pegula, Collins, Keys, Navarro) for the first time since May of 2004 (Lindsay Davenport, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Jennifer Capriati and Chanda Rubin)

JTContinental wrote: ↑Sat Jul 06, 2024 9:29 am Sakkari does most of her damage at the 1000 level tournaments

She has won only one 1000 event in her life, I think...the same one the equally over-rated JPeg won first.Guadalajara

I hasten to add - both are good players, just not as good as their rankings would have them.

So how come they reached such rankings? If you say that any player is not as good as their ranking says, by definition there must be other players that are better than what their ranking says, because the one you claim is not as good should be ranked lower, and therefore such a player is occupying the spot of a better player that is ranked lower.
Mind you, I don't disagree necessarily with that premise; I don't think anybody in the tennis world will say that right now, Alcaraz is NOT the best player in the world, despite being ranked 3rd.
But you continuously choose Pegula as a worst player than her ranking says. So, how come she reached it?

Pegula and Sakkari are not equally overrated, as Pegula's much higher ranking has borne out.

Sakkari has only won one 1000 level, but has been to the finals of 3 others and the semis of 6 additional events, so she gets a lot of points from there.