paulisi wrote:

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When's the cut off for Singapore qualification?

Best 16 counters I believe in 2016.

2 qualified and 9 others in reality fighting for last 6 places.

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Points are counted after Luxembourg/Kremlin Cup, or officially:
To determine qualification for the WTA Finals and WTA Elite Trophy singles and doubles competitions, the WTA ranks
(a) each singles player according to her WTA Ranking as of the Monday after the final regular-season Tournament of the current Tour Year

I am astonished to discover that technically, actually, the only top 7 players qualify, not the top 8!a. Qualified Players - Singles
The top seven (7) players in the Finals Rankings qualify for the WTA Finals (each a "Finals Singles Qualified Player").
At its sole discretion and taking into account extraordinary circumstances, the WTA may select the eighth player for participation in the singles competition.
If the WTA does not exercise its option to select the eighth  player, the eighth player in the Finals Rankings will qualify for the WTA Finals as a Finals Singles Qualified Player.

paulisi wrote:

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When's the cut off for Singapore qualification?

Best 16 counters I believe in 2016.

2 qualified and 9 others in reality fighting for last 6 places.

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I would have thought all tournaments up to and including the week before Singapore count, ie including the Luxembourg Open and Kremlin Open in the week beginning 17/10 ( edit: confirmed above ) So 3 weeks of tournaments after this week with next week's Premier Mandatory being the other remaining really big one with slightly more points than this week.

Yes best 16, including mandatories as with main rankings, but starting from points additions at 16/11/15 ( although in truth the top players are unlikely to have any late 2015 counters so effectively will be just 2016 ).

Jo has of course helped herself by beating Suarez Navarro but the other two ( or at least one of ) she could really do with seeing beaten are Keys ( into QF ) and Cibulkova ( in a carried over L16 match ).

Keys, Cibulkova and Suarez Navarro are certainly her most realistic targets to move up from race #10 ( and Kuznetsova in #11 and in the QF here is also a danger ) alhough she would have to reach the final here for any possible position rise this week. As you indicate really looks a top 11 and I'd say the current first 5 should be OK ( probably Muguruza in #6 too though her form is very shakey - I think she is maybe in as a Slam winner anyway ? - hmm, maybe not as per above, but maybe yes as an "extraordinary circumstances" 8th ).

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 28th of September 2016 02:07:07 PM

the addict wrote:

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WTA Insider was projecting the cut-off to be around 3051 points before today's matches, with Jo trailing by 331 points - more like 220 after today's win :)

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That is around live #8 Suarez Navarro's current points ( showing in live race rankings as 3053 ). The points needed for #8 come Shanghai will no doubt be quite a lot higher.

Angie & Kvitty are done bashing seven bells out of each other after an epic played out over more than three hours, so...
R3: Johanna KONTA (GBR) [11] 13 defeated Carla SUAREZ NAVARRO (ESP) [7] 8 7-5 7-6(6)

QF: Johanna KONTA (GBR) [11] 13 v. Petra KVITOVA (CZE) [14] 16 (CH 2, Oct. 2011)
> H2H 1-1
> 2016 Eastbourne, UK - WTA Premier - Grass - R16 - Konta by 5-7 6-4 6-0
> 2015 US Open - Hard - R16 - Kvitova by 5 & 3

Kvitova comes through after 3 hours 20 minutes - reckon Jo has a pretty decent chance tomorrow.

You would think Kvitova's best chance is to try and win quickly through all out aggression (as if she ever does anything else). If it turns in to a battle we might see a similar scoreline to their Eastbourne match.

Sveta (who won) and Aggie have just finished their marathon.
Johanna up shortly.