2025 The Slide Into Paris: How it works

[dave g]

Welcome to the 2025 Edition of The Slide into Paris (TSiP)! This perennial clay-themed TAT Fantasy Tennis contest features seven WTA clay court tournaments over five weeks, leading up to Roland Garros, and all are welcome to enter!

Your team will consist of 12 WTA players from the top 100 women on the WTA Tour(*). You will have 150 credits to spend on your 12-person team. The top 100 ranked players are divided into four categories, and each player is priced according to his ranking. You'll need to purchase three players from each category. We will be using the rankings from March 20 (post-Indian Wells).

Each player on your team will be awarded points depending on how deep he goes in each tournament. NOTE: Even if a player withdraws or retires from a match, you will receive full credit for the round that player reached. The next post in this thread shows the tournaments and the points which can be won.

The responsibility of finding out who will be playing which of these events is on you. For deadlines, we will post updates in this thread, as well as in the various threads for picking your initial team and making trades.

Now, do you think you've done a good job scouting players and you know for absolute certainty which players will be leading you to victory? Then go to TSIP 2025: Post Your Team HERE to register your team. After deciding upon an original, unique team, you may change this team as often as you need to, up until the start of the contest, by editing your original post. To see which players are eligible to be picked for your team, the third post in this thread indicates the player groups and costs.

Instead of one of the Category D players, you may pick a player ranked higher than 100 as Wild Card for a cost of 5 points. If you think you have spotted the next Rafael Nadal, but he is currently ranked somewhere in the 100's, you now have the option to put that player on your team. You may trade Wild Card players as you would any other player, but you are limited to no more than one Wild Card player on your roster for any given week. The Wild Card is optional. If you want to pick 3 players from the D group listing, you may do so.

No two contestants may have the same initial team, so your original 12-person team must be different from all other previously posted teams by at least one player. It is your individual responsibility to check the teams that have been posted and make sure yours does not exactly duplicate a team that already has been posted. We will do our best to check entries as they are posted to enforce this, but to save yourself some possible grief later on, we strongly urge each participant to check the teams that already have been posted and make sure your team is different to avoid disqualification.

If the contest has multiple players in the same category with the same last name, please clearly indicate which player you are selecting. If a player selection is ambiguous, then no points will be awarded for any weeks where that roster spot with the ambiguous name is active. If a trade is used with an ambiguous name, the trade will count toward the allotted number for the contest, in addition to that roster spot losing any points it might have earned.

You are allowed up to FIVE substitutions during the five-week contest. Substitutions can be made at any time after the first week begins, but a substitution will not go into effect until the following tournament. To make a substitution, sell a player back (adding their cost to your remaining credits) then simply buy another player. YOU MUST ALWAYS HAVE NO MORE THAN THREE PLAYERS PER CATEGORY ON YOUR TEAM AND YOU CAN NEVER HAVE SPENT MORE THAN 150 CREDITS for a given week. We will create a thread for trades once the contest is underway..

At the end of each week, you may see how you're doing on our scoreboard thread. Results will be posted as soon as possible after each week's competition is complete. The first scoreboard will be posted at the conclusion of the first week's tournaments.

As always, we strongly encourage chatter about the contest. To whine about your team, or commiserate with others about their teams, go to the post TSIP 2025: The Dirt Lounge.

Finally, if you have any questions about the contest, please don't hesitate to ask. We are here to help! To ask questions, please post to this thread, and we will respond as quickly as we can.

Your initial teams are due by the start of play on March 31, 2025 when the first tournament, Charleston, gets underway. No teams can be accepted after the deadline.

Best of luck to all, and thank you for participating!
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[dave g]

Tournament_________Date___Winner___Finalist____Semis__Quarters__R16__R32__R64
Charleston__________March 31___75_______50______30______20_____12____5_____1
Bogota_____________March 31___50_______35_______22_____12______5____1

Stuttgart___________April 14____75_______50______30______20_____12____5_____1
Rouen______________April 14____50_______35_______22_____12______5____1

Madrid_____________April 22____100______70______45______25_____15____7_____1

Rome_______________May 6_____100______70______45______25_____15____7_____1

[dave g]

Players and Prices

Category A
Rank Name Cost
1 SABALENKA, ARYNA 30
2 SWIATEK, IGA 29
3 GAUFF, COCO 28
4 PEGULA, JESSICA 27
5 KEYS, MADISON 26
6 ANDREEVA, MIRRA 25
7 PAOLINI, JASMINE 24
8 RYBAKINA, ELENA 23
9 ZHENG, QINWEN 22
10 NAVARRO, EMMA 21
11 BADOSA, PAULA 20
12 KASATKINA, DARIA 19
13 SHNAIDER, DIANA 18
14 MUCHOVA, KAROLINA 17
15 COLLINS, DANIELLE 16

Category B
Rank Name Cost
16 KREJCIKOVA, BARBORA 15
17 ANISIMOVA, AMANDA 14
18 HADDAD MAIA, BEATRIZ 13
19 VEKIC, DONNA 12
20 ALEXANDROVA, EKATERINA 11
21 SAMSONOVA, LIUDMILA 10
22 SVITOLINA, ELINA 10
23 TAUSON, CLARA 10
24 PUTINTSEVA, YULIA 10
25 OSTAPENKO, JELENA 10
26 FERNANDEZ, LEYLAH 10
27 FRECH, MAGDALENA 10
28 MERTENS, ELISE 10
29 KOSTYUK, MARTA 10
30 JABEUR, ONS 9
31 NOSKOVA, LINDA 9
32 AZARENKA, VICTORIA 9
33 KALINSKAYA, ANNA 9
34 LINETTE, MAGDA 9
35 BOULTER, KATIE 9
36 AVANESYAN, ELINA 9
37 SRAMKOVA, REBECCA 9
38 POTAPOVA, ANASTASIA 9
39 WANG, XINYU 9
40 KRUEGER, ASHLYN 8
41 DANILOVIC, OLGA 8
42 YASTREMSKA, DAYANA 8
43 STEARNS, PEYTON 8
44 SUN, LULU 8
45 BENCIC, BELINDA 8
46 KENIN, SOFIA 8
47 PAVLYUCHENKOVA, ANASTASIA 8
48 KESSLER, MCCARTNEY 8
49 VONDROUSOVA, MARKETA 8

Category C
Rank Name Cost
50 BOUZKOVA, MARIE 7
51 SAKKARI, MARIA 7
52 KUDERMETOVA, VERONIKA 7
53 UCHIJIMA, MOYUKA 7
54 OSORIO, CAMILA 7
55 KALININA, ANHELINA 7
56 KUDERMETOVA, POLINA 7
57 SINIAKOVA, KATERINA 7
58 BOUZAS MANEIRO, JESSICA 7
59 PARKS, ALYCIA 7
60 RADUCANU, EMMA 6
61 OSAKA, NAOMI 6
62 BRONZETTI, LUCIA 6
63 KARTAL, SONAY 6
64 TOMOVA, VIKTORIYA 6
65 GRACHEVA, VARVARA 6
66 LI, ANN 6
67 SHERIF, MAYAR 6
68 BIRRELL, KIMBERLY 6
69 BEGU, IRINA-CAMELIA 6

Category D
Rank Name Cost
70 LAMENS, SUZAN 5
71 ZARAZUA, RENATA 5
72 CRISTIAN, JAQUELINE 5
73 VOLYNETS, KATIE 5
74 GARCIA, CAROLINE 5
75 DOLEHIDE, CAROLINE 5
76 LYS, EVA 5
77 RAKHIMOVA, KAMILLA 5
78 SONMEZ, ZEYNEP 5
79 ARANGO, EMILIANA 5
80 JOINT, MAYA 5
81 SIEGEMUND, LAURA 5
82 COCCIARETTO, ELISABETTA 5
83 MINNEN, GREET 5
84 PERA, BERNARDA 5
85 BLINKOVA, ANNA 5
86 MARIA, TATJANA 5
87 SORRIBES TORMO, 5
88 TOMLJANOVIC, AJLA 5
89 RUS, ARANTXA 5
90 TOWNSEND, TAYLOR 5
91 BUCSA, CRISTINA 5
92 GOLUBIC, VIKTORIJA 5
93 YUAN, YUE 5
94 BONDAR, ANNA 5
95 ANDREEVA, ERIKA 5
96 TEICHMANN, JIL 5
97 CARLE, MARIA LOURDES 5
98 BAPTISTE, HAILEY 5
99 GADECKI, OLIVIA 5
100 TODONI, ANCA 5

[ashkor87]

you may pick a player ranked higher than 100 as Wild Card for a cost of 5 points. If you think you have spotted the next Rafael Nadal, but he is currently ranked somewhere in the 100's

do you mean ranked LOWER than 100 as a wild card?

[dave g]

you may pick a player ranked higher than 100 as Wild Card for a cost of 5 points. If you think you have spotted the next Rafael Nadal, but he is currently ranked somewhere in the 100's

do you mean ranked LOWER than 100 as a wild card?

Higher number, lower rank.

[ptmcmahon]

Obviously we can't take say Sabalenka as a D a player for 5 points

[Oploskoffie]

Thought for a moment there ashkor had found a loophole Anyways... Time to start thinking about a half-decent team. My head already hurts

[ashkor87]

Thought for a moment there ashkor had found a loophole Anyways... Time to start thinking about a half-decent team. My head already hurts

Just making sure...

[ashkor87]

Bogota entries not out yet

[ptmcmahon]

I see a few on wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Copa_Colsanitas

[ashkor87]

Yes, edited my team on seeing the list

[ptmcmahon]

We need a lounge for me to complain about none of my women even making semis this week!

(Maybe. Bouzkova was down 5-1 in third set but is back on serve.)

[ponchi101]

We need a lounge for me to complain about none of my women even making semis this week!

(Maybe. Bouzkova was down 5-1 in third set but is back on serve.)

You are not going to like the weekend news, when Dave posts our scores.

[ptmcmahon]

I've braced myself. I barely hit triple digits even with 11 players playing.

[ptmcmahon]

Just to confirm trade deadline before Monday? Don’t see any main draw matches tomorrow.