Talk About Tennis 2.0

ATP rankings are even more difficult to understand. For example, Medvedev is losing 2490 points this week. Not sure what those are, but obviously several weeks worth of points. Tsitsipas was the 2nd biggest loser at 1300, but still could overtake Medvedev at #2 by winning Paris Masters.

Here are all the mathematically possible contenders for the remaining two YEC spots before the last two tournaments (Paris and Stockholm). Assuming no withdrawals of course.

Ruud 3105
Sinner 3015
Hurkacz 2965
Norrie 2875
Auger-Aliassime 2430
Karatsev 2290

The last two need a miracle, though.

TOP 10 MOST CAREER WEEKS AT NO. 1 IN WTA RANKINGS HISTORY

377: Steffi Graf
332: Martina Navratilova
319: Serena Williams
260: Chris Evert
209: Martina Hingis
178: Monica Seles
117: Justine Henin
100: Ashleigh Barty (excluding frozen rankings weeks in 2020)
98: Lindsay Davenport
71: Caroline Wozniacki

Good to see that the figure for Barty excludes the ranking weeks of 2020. That tells a more realistic picture. So, 100 weeks as number one is a great achievement.

Suliso wrote: ↑Mon Nov 01, 2021 12:31 pm TOP 10 MOST CAREER WEEKS AT NO. 1 IN WTA RANKINGS HISTORY

377: Steffi Graf
332: Martina Navratilova
319: Serena Williams
260: Chris Evert
209: Martina Hingis
178: Monica Seles
117: Justine Henin
100: Ashleigh Barty (excluding frozen rankings weeks in 2020)
98: Lindsay Davenport
71: Caroline Wozniacki

I’m actually surprised Serena is that high on the list with her hit or miss tournament scheduling.

atlpam wrote: ↑Mon Nov 01, 2021 8:21 pm

Suliso wrote: ↑Mon Nov 01, 2021 12:31 pm TOP 10 MOST CAREER WEEKS AT NO. 1 IN WTA RANKINGS HISTORY

377: Steffi Graf
332: Martina Navratilova
319: Serena Williams
260: Chris Evert
209: Martina Hingis
178: Monica Seles
117: Justine Henin
100: Ashleigh Barty (excluding frozen rankings weeks in 2020)
98: Lindsay Davenport
71: Caroline Wozniacki

I’m actually surprised Serena is that high on the list with her hit or miss tournament scheduling.

Agree - shows how dominant she has been when she is playing fully engaged and committed. Also a function of longevity. More than half of her weeks at #1 were between ages 31 and 35.

Here are the current top 51 players on the WTA tour.
Some surprises, some players out of place...
Nice to see Leylah inside the top 25.
Also good to see Kostyuk and Tauson inside the top 50.

... And the #46 player is finally right where she belongs (I predicted 2 years ago that Leylah would be ranked higher than her in 3 years from then - it happened faster than I thought).

Rankings - Nov. 8th, 2021

1 -Ashleigh Barty
2 -Aryna Sabalenka
3 -Barbora Krejcikova
4 -Karolina Pliskova
5 -Garbiñe Muguruza
6 -Maria Sakkari
7 -Ons Jabeur
8 -Anett Kontaveit
9 -Iga Swiatek
10 -Paula Badosa
11 -Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
12 -Sofia Kenin
13 -Naomi Osaka
14 -Elena Rybakina
15 -Elina Svitolina
16 -Elise Mertens
17 -Angelique Kerber
18 -Petra Kvitova
19 -Jessica Pegula
20 -Emma Raducanu
21 -Cori Gauff
22 -Simona Halep
23 -Belinda Bencic
24 -Leylah Fernandez
25 -Jennifer Brady
26 -Daria Kasatkina
27 -Victoria Azarenka
28 -Jelena Ostapenko
29 -Danielle Collins
30 -Ekaterina Alexandrova
31 -Tamara Zidansek
32 -Veronika Kudermetova
33 -Karolina Muchova
34 -Camila Giorgi
35 -Marketa Vondrousova
36 -Sara Sorribes Tormo
37 -Sorana Cirstea
38 -Jil Teichmann
39 -Liudmila Samsonova
40 -Shelby Rogers
41 -Serena Williams
42 -Yulia Putintseva
43 -Viktorija Golubic
44 -Clara Tauson
45 -Ajla Tomljanovic
46 -Bianca Andreescu
47 -Ann Li
48 -Tereza Martincova
49 -Katerina Siniakova
50 -Marta Kostyuk
51 -Jasmine Paolini

Sabalenka has now secured year end #2 ranking.

WTA Year end top 10 scenarios

Muguruza wins:

Barty
Sabalenka
Muguruza
Pliskova
Krejcikova
Sakkari
Kontaveit
Badosa
Swiatek
Jabeur

Sakkari wins:

Barty
Sabalenka
Muguruza
Sakkari/Pliskova (identical points)
Krejcikova
Kontaveit
Badosa
Swiatek
Jabeur

Kontaveit wins:

Barty
Sabalenka
Muguruza
Pliskova
Krejcikova
Kontaveit
Badosa
Swiatek
Jabeur

Do note that by strictly this year's results Muguruza will remain behind both Czechs and could be overtaken by Sakkari or Kontaveit as well.

How about if Badosa wins?
Never mind. just saw she lost. Happy for Garbie.

If Djokovic is thrown out of Australia as looks possible right now Medvedev will need QF's at AO to rise to #1. If he fails Zverev can do it as well by winning the title.

Medvedev to the qualies looks very possible. Specially after last nights plastering of Felix. He looked on.

Just for fun I looked up which countries are represented in the rankings (top 1000) with only 1 or 2 players.

WTA

Algeria (1), Andorra (1), Burundi (1), Bolivia (1), Cyprus (1), Ecuador (2), Finland (2), Indonesia (2), Lithuania (2), Luxembourg (2), Macedonia (1), Malta (1), Montenegro (2), Oman (1), Peru (1), Philippines (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Tunisia (2), Venezuela (2), Zimbabwe (1)

There are two top 100 players on this list (Jabeur and Kovinic) and two promising juniors (Jimenez Kasintseva and Eala).

ATP

Bahamas (1), Barbados (1), Burundi (1), Côte d'Ivoire (1), Cyprus (1), Egypt (2), El Salvador (1), Latvia (2), Lebanon (1), Lithuania (1), Macedonia (1), Montenegro (2), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Norway (2), New Zealand (1), Syria (1), Thailand (1), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (1), Zimbabwe (2)

On this list as well there are two current top 100 players (Ruud and Berankis) as well as one former (Gulbis).