but surely it must be considerably better than top 300 to be given a place in the MD of a slam which was more what I was curious about - there have been a lot of nobodies who've got in by that route and been duly useless which must be galling for those who missed out by losing that automatic place
Your SR is approximately your actual WR when you get injured ( it will be defined exactly what date applies ). Gasparyan was WR 41 earlier in 2016 so her SR 62 seems understandable.
If you were ranked in the 200s you'ed have a SR in the 200s for entry purposes, possibly not even good enough for Slam qualifying and certainly not Slam MD. The SR is essentially just treated as a normal ranking for entry purposes.
There is then a very very long and complicated legal definition of all possible technicalities and contingencies for the definitions of eiligibility and use.
Essentially it boils down to this:
The entitlement to use PR/SR begins after you have not competed in any match, singles or doubles, for a minimum 6 months.
You can protect the ranking from the last week after you competed.
That protected ranking lasts a maximum of two years.
At any time in those two years, you can return to competition and invoke your protected ranking.
As soon as you invoke your protected ranking, you then have a 1 year period to use the privileges.
There are restrictions about the number of privileges you can use per level of event (e.g. you can't enter 4 Slams, or 4 Pr emier Mandatories on the privileges etc.)
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Very interesting day already, as Americans fall in droves. Out: Sloane, Venus, Coco, CiCi, Riske, Jen Brady, Townsend, Kenin
Only Nicole Gibbs & Irina Falconi are left to play with a chance to give them any wins today.
Makarova and Cibulkova also lost.
15 year old top junior (and 2017 Junior AO champ) Kostyuk has just thrashed Peng Shuai (currently WR27) 6-2 6-2
She's the first 15-year-old to come through qualifying at a Slam since 2005, when Karatantcheva did it at the Australian Open (and 15-year-old Nicole Vaidisova also competed as a direct entrant)
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Yeah, Americans getting decimated and on mens side as well. Is the court surface playing slow from what anyone can tell? I have no idea, just would seem to support some of the day one results
Those American results in full. Their equivalent of this board must be like a morgue.
Venus Williams lost to Belinda Bencic 0-2 Irina Falconi lost to Daria Gavrilova 0-2 Sofia Kenin lost to Julia Goerges 0-2 Sloane Stephens lost to Zhang Shuai 1-2 Jennifer Brady lost to Magda Linette 1-2 Coco Vandeweghe lost to Timea Babos 0-2 Alison Riske lost to Kirsten Flipkens 1-2 Taylor Townsend lost to Magdalena Rybarikova 1-2 Cici Bellis lost to Kiki Bertens 1-2 Nicole Gibbs beat Viktoriya Tomova 2-0
(In the Men:
John Isner lost to Matthew Edben 1-3 Ryan Harrison beat Dudi Sela 3-2 Mackenzie MacDonald beat Elias Ymer 3-1 Kevin King lost to Jo-Wilfred Tsonga 0-3 Jack Sock lost to Yuichi Sugita 1-3)
Wow, US carnage. Includes 3 of their full house US Open semi finalists ( Stephens, Vandeweghe and V Williams ) with Keys still to play.
Venus and Coco were also runner up and semi finalist respectively at last year's Aus Open. With Serena winning it they had 3 of the 4 semi finalists last year. Stephens and Keys missed that event.
-- Edited by indiana on Monday 15th of January 2018 03:44:20 PM