Trivia Question

GC77 · County player

Trivia Question

steven · Tennis legend

One way would be if the win wasn't enough to get the tournament into his top 18 scores, but by playing, he increases the number of points scoring tournaments he's played by 1 and who has played the least scoring tournaments is the second tiebreak (after GS+AMS total) when ranking points are level.

I imagine I'm missing a much simpler reason though!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

if he was defending more points from a match won last year than this win gives him?

GC77 · County player

I hadn't thought about that reason!!

The answer I'm looking for has some "British" relevance

GC77 · County player

If he was defending points it would already be accounted for on the live rankings before the match

seagull · Hall of fame

How about if it was a doubles match and his partner went above him as he had a lower 14th best score?

Salmon · Tennis legend

It's possible if he was playing doubles.

Example:

Andy Murray and Morgan Phillips are playing in the Wimbedon 2009 finals against the fearsome combination of Perez-Perez and Perez-Perez. Andy's rank is 13 in the world with a total of 2400 and his 14th best is 50. Morgan is ranked 14 in the world with a total of 2395 and a 14th best of 30.

After the final, Andy will have 3350 points and Mors will have 3365 points.

-- Edited by The Panda Bear at 13:15, 2007-03-12

GC77 · County player

Well done Seagull (and Rob who correctly PM'd the answer).

The reason I asked the question is that Jamie is now only 11 points behind Butorac, and the next time they get a counting score (hopefully a win in Miami), Jamie (new current 14th = 27)will overtake Butorac (new current 14th = 40) by 2 points!!

GC77 · County player

Nice example Arka!!

Salmon · Tennis legend

The Seagull posted the answer just when Arka was typing it.

steven · Tennis legend

I should have thought of doubles.

That's an interesting one though - I wonder if they're aware of that!