How Do Tennis Rankings Work? (with Example) | ATP, WTA, ITF 

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Could you also do a video on Aslan Karatsev? He's been on the tour for years, but finally found his time & era to take on tennis's greatest golden age.

Will definitely be nr one at some point and will win several Majors. His game certainly isn't complete yet. But you can tell he is the type that will do anything it takes to improve himself. Like how Nadal adapted his game to grass court to be able to win Wimbledon etc.

Can you please explain how the point system on the atp tour work? Like what's the difference between year end no 1 and regular no 1? Like how is that all calculated? I'm super confused

he won!!!😃

Makes Novak Djokovic even bigger

@@urosminic6602 Meh, Europe is different to say, Africa, the Middle East or even South America

For the WTA …Do you have to be part of your country’s federation…. This could be a disadvantage if the country your in is biased towards certain players ? …. Is there a way to play ITF or Futures tournaments based on your trophy wins from the local national tournament ..?

The tables must turn especially for Nations that were under colonial back in the 1950s and 1960s. Europe must help us on the African Continent to develop our Tennis Courts. Especially we need more ITF Tournmanents especially in West East and Central Africa compared to the North and the Southern Part of Africa. Morocco Tunisia Egypt and South Africa have the backing of the ATP the WTA and the ITF Elites you knoe.

Yep

Sinner is very interesting being a teenager who didn't go to Juniors and went straight to Futures...seemingly worked for him.

Great suggestion!

April 2024 and he is No2. Hopefully soon to be No 1!

That’s why I clicked on the video and no explanation

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Rankings don’t start again at the beginning of the year, otherwise it would be chaos as whoever won the first little tournament of the year would be world number 1 and the seeding at the Australian Open would be ridiculous. You could end up with Nadal - Djokovic in round 1 or something. Instead, rankings at any given point in time are based on the last 52 weeks (or last 365 days if you will). So at the end of every week, players add the ranking points of their result at the most recent tournament, but also lose all the points they got that same week in the calendar from a year ago. So there’s a lot of pressure to always match or exceed your previous year’s result or you lose ranking points. For instance, someone who wins a Grand Slam one year, then reaches the final and loses the next year, will actually see their rankings points drop by 800 pts after the second year’s event, because they pick up 1200 pts for reaching the final in that year, and lose the 2000 pts they had gotten from winning the year before. It’s quite brutal. Because of this, it’s possible for a player to move up in the rankings in a week in which they didn’t play any events. If you didn’t play any events that week last year, you don’t have any points to defend. And if a few of the players ranked closely above you did play a tournament that week last year and did worse this year, they’re going to lose standings points and you could leapfrog them. Nothing special happens when one player moves ahead of another. But as mentioned in the video, at the lower levels, rankings is super important to qualify for events. At the top level, the ranking is more about the seeding. If you’re world no1 you’ll always be seeded no1 in any event you play in, which often means you get a bye in the first round, and you get to avoid the other top ranked players until the later rounds of the tournament.

@@whateverreally1347 came to answer, you did it way better I could 😂👍🏻

@@whateverreally1347 Wow, thank you for that. Really great explanation. As I am from the UK, Emma Raducanu's ranking over the next year or two will be fascinating to watch.

@@whateverreally1347 masterclass!!

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Hope you see what he is doing now without injuries.

I just watched Emilio Nava for the first time. His mind blowing level in that first set v Murray at The US Open must surely mark him out as a future great, alongside Alcaraz and Sinner of course.

Thank you! We think so too

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after 52 weeks have passed after a tournament ends you lose the points you were awarded. so let's say i won last year an atp 500 and this year i get to the finals of the same tournament but not win i will lose points. since my points from last year expired and this year i got only the points for the finals appearance.

@@lopelle1 Thank you! That was the piece I was missing in my understanding of ongoing point totals.

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Technically its possible for a Grand Slam to give wild cards to non ranked players, but I don't think it ever happened. Wild cards are usually given to players from the country the tournament is played in, or to players who are "interesting" (like famous past players or rising new talents).

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In a way it isn't complicated as it is really just a 52 week shelf life (it was more complicated during covid time where points are frozen and points dropping are at times are half dropped instead) - it is however in terms of same tournaments dropping same week (maybe due to calendar changes usually during Olympic years) or gains (usually when points drop to be replaced by something higher).

They weren't until last year.

They did - I missed that. Thanks for the tip!

They did - I completely missed that. Edited the video now, thanks for the feedback!

That’s the cutoff to get in. If you’re ranked higher you can obviously get in

@@mytennishqtv8696 I don't know how you take the time to respond to absurd questions.

@@tomr6955 Lol

Exactly

Jannik has already won a grand slam

You can’t fluke a slam or 2 that’s not how it works

You still so sure about that? 😏

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