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Lambda · Futures qualifying

RE: Rankings

the addict · Tennis legend

The latest information I can find from the WTA is an updated version (October) of their 2021 Covid Rules. Whether this is actually happening as set out is anybodies guess, unless you go into individual details,

RANKINGS
The current BETTER OF ranking system and rules will remain in place through the Tournament week of March 15, 2021 (i.e., the week prior to Miami), which results in a better of ranking system for March 4, 2019 March 21, 2021.
At the conclusion of the 2021 Miami Tournament, points will begin to drop and the traditional ranking system will transition into place. Starting with the April 5, 2021 ranking, 2021 ranking points are replacing 2019 ranking points or the better of 2019/2020 ranking points, as applicable (with the exception of 2020 Tournaments held more than 4 weeks outside the originally scheduled dates and Tournaments not held in 2021).

Lambda · Futures qualifying

Welcome to the top 1,000 Eliz Maloney, up 76 to WR990. The top 9 are unchanged to what CD posted last week

Week 1 points defending
Heather: 13 (Brisbane 2020) (17th counter 13pts)
No other GB woman is defending counting points this week.

Lambda · Futures qualifying

No major moves this week, but Emma is up 1 to a new career high of 18. Tara is the biggest climber this week, up 5 to 400. Jodie is up 3 to 213. Next week Heather has the first of her big points from 2020 coming off, along with last years Abu Dhabi points so is going to need a good week this week to avoid a hefty drop next week.

18 (+1) Raducanu
74 (-2) Watson
125 (-2) Dart
148 (+1) Boulter
151 (=) Jones
213 (+3) Burrage

Points/Counters dropping next week (17 Jan) [according to the official WTA ranking sheet]
Heather 158 (128 from Hobart 2020, 30 from Abu Dhabi 2021)
Katie B 55 (Gippsland Trophy 2021)
Jodie 13 (Abu Dhabi 2021)
Yarra Valley and Grampian Trophy non-counting 1 point counters are also dropping for Fran and Heather respectively.

ITF counters added in 2020 and 2021 for the corresponding week are also dropping in full but not affecting GB women next week except for a 1 point non-counting counter for Katie B and Sam.

Aus Open points to defend, dropping in 3 weeks (from 2021 unless stated)
Heather 70
Harriet 110 (from 2020)
Katie B 10
Fran 40

Lambda · Futures qualifying

Heather is the main change in the rankings this week, down 20, as Hobart 2020 and Abu Dhabi 2021 points drop off. Fran retakes GB#4 from Katie B. New career highs for Fran (150), Beth (317) and Eliz (997) although Eliz will smash that in the next rankings update. There should be lots of movement lower down the rankings when the points from Bath are added after the AO.

Top 10
18 (=) Raducanu
94 (-20) Watson
123 (+2) Dart
150 (+1) Jones
155 (-7) Boulter
216 (-3) Burrage
245 (+1) Swan
285 (+5) Murray Sharan
317 (+2) Grey
323 (+3) Bains

Dropping in 2 weeks (Top 600 & counting counters only)
Heather 70 (AO 2021)
Harriet 110 (AO 2020)
Fran 40 (AO 2021)
Katie B 10 (AO 2021)
Naiktha 8 (W60 Burnie 2020)
Tara 10 (5 W25 Malibu, 5 W60 Rome, GA)
Amanda 15 (9 W25 Daytona Beach, 6 W25 Vero Beach)

indiana · Tennis legend

Out of interest for the women's WTA rankings generally I had a look at the points from the singles finalists in two 2020 week 1 ITFs ( Canberra W25 and Antalya W15 ) and also two 2021 ITF week 1 ITFs ( Cairo W15 and Antalya W15 ).

In all these cases all their points earned in these tournaments dropped off on the 2022 anniversary of being added - ie. in the last rankings update on 17.01.22

We knew that the WTA ramking were taking off all WTA tournament points on their anniversaries. This seems to confirm that they are now also taking off all ITF tournament points on their anniversaries of being added. To my mind, very good to see too ( latterly in 2021 they were not taking off 2020 ITF tournament points at all and were reducing 2019 ITF tournament points by 50% ).

The question remains when are they going to remove the 50% 2019 ITF tournament points that are still on players reccords from initially being added later on in 2019. Will that maybe be in April which I gather would tie in with ITF ranking points adjustments being done then or do we have to wait until theiir 2022 anniversary as well? It's rather anomalous to be taking off 2021 points while many 50% 2019 points remain.

At least by the end of this year it appears the WTA rankings will be back to being based on just the previous 12 months.

Strongbow · All-time great

Another (avoidable) accident waiting to happen confuse - the list for next Monday

NEXT TO DROP OFF:
Australian Open 2021 - Melbourne, Australia
Australian Open 2020 - Melbourne, Australia
Oracle Challenger Series 2020 - Newport Beach, CA, USA
ITF/USTA $60,000 - ROME, GEORGIA, USA 2021
ITF/TENNIS EUROPE $60,000 - ANDREZIEUX-BOUTHEON, FRANCE 2021
ITF/TENNIS EUROPE $15,000 - ANTALYA 3, TURKEY 2021
ITF $15,000 - CAIRO 3, EGYPT 2021
ITF/TENNIS EUROPE $15,000 - MANACOR (MALLORCA), SPAIN 2021
ITF $25,000 - FUJAIRAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 2021
ITF/TENNIS EUROPE $15,000 - ANTALYA 2, TURKEY 2021
ITF $15,000 - CAIRO 2, EGYPT 2021
ITF/TENNIS EUROPE $25,000 - HAMBURG, GERMANY 2021
ITF $15,000 - MONASTIR 2, TUNISIA 2021
ITF/TENNIS EUROPE $60,000 - ANDREZIEUX-BOUTHEON, FRANCE 2020
ITF $60,000 - BURNIE, AUSTRALIA 2020
ITF/TENNIS EUROPE $15,000 - ANTALYA 3, TURKEY 2020
ITF $15,000 - CAIRO 2, EGYPT 2020
ITF $15,000 - CANCUN 2, MEXICO 2020
ITF/TENNIS EUROPE $25,000 - KAZAN, RUSSIA 2020
ITF/TENNIS EUROPE $15,000 - LIEPAJA, LATVIA 2020
ITF/TENNIS EUROPE $15,000 - MANACOR (MALLORCA), SPAIN 2020
ITF $15,000 - MONASTIR 3, TUNISIA 2020
ITF/TENNIS EUROPE $25,000 - PETIT BOURG (GUADELOUPE), FRANCE 2020
ITF/TENNIS EUROPE $15,000 - STUTTGART-STAMMHEIM, GERMANY 2020
ITF/USTA $25,000 - VERO BEACH, FLORIDA, USA 2020
ITF/TENNIS EUROPE $15,000 - ANTALYA 2, TURKEY 2020
ITF $15,000 - CAIRO, EGYPT 2020
ITF $15,000 - CANCUN, MEXICO 2020
ITF/USTA $25,000 - DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA 2020
ITF/TENNIS EUROPE $15,000 - FORT-DE-FRANCE (MARTINIQUE), FRANCE 2020
ITF/USTA $25,000 - MALIBU 2, CALIFORNIA, USA 2020
ITF $15,000 - MONASTIR 2, TUNISIA 2020

Like the ITF rankings fiasco this will leave a lot of players up in the air - not knowing what they're defending or what they need to get

HarryGem · Club Coach

Thanks Strongbow. Won't there soon be 2019 ITF points to drop too so three years of points?

Strongbow · All-time great

I thought the 2019 points (halved) start to drop after Miami - but who knows? The WTA seem to be making it up as they go along. Maybe Boris can get a job there.

indiana · Tennis legend

Strongbow wrote:
I thought the 2019 points (halved) start to drop after Miami - but who knows? The WTA seem to be making it up as they go along. Maybe Boris can get a job there.

I believe the first time anniversary-wise we are due to hit 2019 halved ITF tournament points is at the post Indian Wells 21/03/19 rankings. No later anyway.

Certainly there are players still with points added post Indian Wells 18/03/19 still in their counting points. eg.

Week 10 Mexico W25+H Katie Swan SF, 11 remaining points

Week 11 China W60 Clara Tauson winner, 40 remaining points

Lambda · Futures qualifying

Lots of upward movement throughout the rankings this week with plenty of career highs. There are lots of small differences throughout between the official rankings and live ranking sites, which I'm not going to work out why for all of them.

Emma moves up to a career high of 13 as she adds her first AO points and others slip away. This is a place higher than live ranking sites who were not dropping the WTA250 Phillips Island in the 2nd week of the AO last year and which was not on WTA's list of points to be dropped this week. Heather climbs 7 to 87 even though she is unchanged on points. Katie B retakes GB#4 as a result of Fran dropping the points from Phillips Island. Eliz climbs 310 places to a new career high of 678 as a result of being Bath finalist. Others to benefit from Bath are Beth up 10 to a NCH 307, Eden up 17 to 444, Freya up 75 to 598, Jasmine up 97 to 1031, Amelia B up 253 to 1215 and Holly up 57 to 1435.

GB Top 10
13 (+5) Emma Raducanu *New CH*
87 (+7) Heather Watson
132 (-9) Harriet Dart
153 (+2) Katie Boulter
155 (-5) Fran Jones
209 (+7) Jodie Burrage *New CH*
219 (+26) Katie Swan
280 (+5) Sam Murray Sharan
307 (+10) Beth Grey *New CH*
324 (-1) Naiktha Bains

Selected others
GB12 WR433 (+7) Matilda Mutvadzic *New CH*
GB13 WR444 (+17) Eden Silva
GB17 WR598 (+75) Freya Christie
GB20 WR678 (+310) Eliz Maloney *New CH*
GB28 WR1031 (+97) Jasmine Conway *New CH*
GB31 WR1215 (+253) Amelia Bissett *New CH*
GB34 WR1435 (+57) Holly Hutchinson

Unranked
With Bath points added
Lauryn John-Baptiste, Eva Shaw and Danielle Daley move to requiring 1 more counter for a WTA ranking
Emma Wilson and Ella Mcdonald get their first counter and would get a WTA ranking with a main draw win.

No GB women are dropping points included in their ranking next week.
Next week points appear to be dropping from the WTA250 in Adelaide last year that took place at the end of February. confuse

PaulM · Tennis legend

Thanks Lambda. Yes lots of big movements rankings are a little volatile just now as things sort themselves out from 19/20/21 at various points. Good to see lots of movements in the right direction!

Aberdaberdonian · Club Coach

And just to add to the posts, here's the status of the GB Top25 now that Jan is done. So biggest mover in the GB rankings, and standing out a mile, was Eliz Maloney up 7 places to GB#20. Runner up was Freya Christie, up 2 to GB#17. No-one dropped more than 1 place.

WS T25 2022-01.PNG

Lambda · Futures qualifying

The only main movers with Loughborough points added are Eliz and Sonay with new career highs. A single win in Brazil was enough to move Matilda up to a new career high and Jodie improves her career high by 1 place because of points dropped by others.

7 Feb 2022

GB Top 10
13 (=) Emma Raducanu
87 (=) Heather Watson
130 (+2) Harriet Dart
153 (=) Katie Boulter
154 (+1) Fran Jones
208 (+1) Jodie Burrage *New CH*
221 (-2) Katie Swan
282 (-2) Sam Murray Sharan
308 (-1) Beth Grey
326 (-2) Naiktha Bains

Selected others
GB12 WR428 (+5) Matilda Mutvadzic *New CH*
GB20 WR651 (+27) Eliz Maloney *New CH*
GB24 WR820 (+43) Sonay Kartal *New CH*

Points dropping next week
Jodie 18pts (W25 Thailand 2020)
Beth 12pts (WTA250 Thailand 2020)
Amanda 4pts (W100 Egypt 2020)

Lambda · Futures qualifying

14 Feb 2022

GB Top 10
12 (+1) Emma Raducanu **New CH**
83 (+4) Heather Watson
126 (+4) Harriet Dart
132 (+21) Katie Boulter
150 (+4) Fran Jones
208 (=) Jodie Burrage
218 (+3) Katie Swan
276 (+6) Sam Murray Sharan
312 (-4) Beth Grey
322 (+4) Naiktha Bains

Selected others
565 (+46) Alicia Barnett

-- Edited by Lambda on Sunday 13th of February 2022 10:22:25 PM