Week 40 - ITF ($100K+H) - Tokyo, Japan

Mikeduke · County player

RE: Week 40 - ITF ($100K+H) - Tokyo, Japan

Mikeduke · County player

2-6 *3-5 Don't choke?

Mikeduke · County player

4-5*

Mikeduke · County player

GSM 6-2 6-4

Pretty solid apart from the last couple of games!

indiana · Tennis legend

Seems another solid victory smile

She's now more than covered the ranking points she was defending this week, in fact has covered all she could lose the rest of this year.

Just looking at the ranking points for this event. She would get another 40 points for reaching the semis, another 30 for reaching the final and a final further 40 if she was to win the tournament. The winner's points ( 150 ) are less than twice a losing semi finalist ( 80 ).

That's a bit bizzare, particularly adding less for winning a semi than a quarter. I think the women's game needs to look at rewarding success more for folk that win titles and reach later stages.

While in the ATP points, folk can ( and have smile

) argued about the differences main tour v challengers v futures, one thing they did rejig at the last change to points was to even more comparatively reward winners.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 8th of October 2009 07:43:44 AM

philwrig · Hall of fame

The WTA tends to reward first round victories more than they should particularly evident in the qualifying rounds of grand slams.

RedCabbage · Club Coach

indiana wrote:

She's now more than covered the ranking points she was defending this week, in fact has covered all she could lose the rest of this year.

Really? What a good time to hit form!

Peter too · Tennis legend

QF: OBRIEN, Katie (GBR) 3 98 v DOI, Misaki (JPN) WC 231

indiana · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:

The WTA tends to reward first round victories more than they should particularly evident in the qualifying rounds of grand slams.

Yes, I'd noticed the Grand Slam qualifying points, now they are bizarre.

Decent 40 point credit for 1st qualifying round win then relatively sod all more even if you qualify until you a win a main draw round.

philwrig · Hall of fame

A fascinating exercise would be to rerank all the girls basing them upon the ATP ranking point system.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Tough match coming up but one i expect Katie to win

indiana · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:

A fascinating exercise would be to rerank all the girls basing them upon the ATP ranking point system.

Don't do it Steven

steven · Tennis legend

I'm not even tempted LOL ... though I imagine that someone somewhere in the world probably has the data in a format that would enable them to do this fairly easily.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Should we say that it would be interesting to see the results but a bit too time consuming to actual consider doing it.

Peter too · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:

The WTA tends to reward first round victories more than they should particularly evident in the qualifying rounds of grand slams.

I suspect this simply shows that women tend to be more realistic than the men about their own abilities and which tournaments will provide the best chance of collecting ranking points. After all if a girl won 16 $25K events she would be ranked at about 80.

The optimum strategy is probably to only enter tournaments that you have a good chance of winning.