Helen40 wrote:

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I thought that he would need 3 tournaments to get into the rankings?

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 I think that's just the women...am sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong?

L16:  Michael Junior Michael & Christian Paul (NGR/NGR) UNR defeated (WC) Mukhtar Andu & Sylvester Emmanuel (NGR) UNR by 1 & 1

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Bob in Spain wrote:

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Wow. Brilliant result. Will that make him the youngest player in the rankings ?

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 From what I can see this will be the case. The rankings has some players whos age does not show on the ATP site. But those that do the youngest is 15.

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Well done to Mukhtar for taking his chance! I've checked the blank ages and none of the players concerned are under 15.

Helen - only the women need 3 counting scores, though on the flip side, they get a point for losing in R1 at 25K level and above and for winning a QR1 match at 50K level and above, which the men don't. It makes no sense that it's so inconsistent between the two ranking systems, but that's how it is.

L16:  William Bushamuka (USA) & Isaac Stoute CR 2359 (1283+1076) defeated Thomas Otu & Taiwo Owolabi (NGR/NGR) UNR by 2 & 5

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QF:  Skander Mansouri & Arthur Rinderknech (TUN/FRA) CR 2040 (892+1148) vs William Bushamuka (USA) & Isaac Stoute CR 2359 (1283+1076)

The Franco-Tunisian pairing did for the fourth seeds, Goveas & Lu, by 3 & 4 in their first round match.

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Born2WinTennis wrote:

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Helen40 wrote:

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I thought that he would need 3 tournaments to get into the rankings?

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 I think that's just the women...am sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong?

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I only follow men's tennis, but you definitely only need one point from one tournament to get a world ranking in the men's events. So the ladies need three points? Or three tournament wins to get one point? 

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In women's tennis you need 3 points from 3 seperate events or alternatively 10 points from 1 or 2 events. Which is a pretty crap system, because you have someone like Sasha Hill who reached the final of a 15K and still isn't ranked. 

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It will change next year with the new transition tour. So to add to the irony, Sasha now has a ranking for next year, but not yet this year... Eden Richardson, who has 6 points, is in the same situation.  

Coup Droit wrote:

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But only an ITF ranking, not a WTA ranking, no?

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Yes, correct.

Ah yes, now that you add that info, on the face of it for Eden neither a WTA ranking ( still just the one WTA counter ) nor a transition tour counter ( since a 100K ).

Now that's clearly anomalous if that's how it is going to be, so surely not. Surely a player with just one or two counters above transition tour level cannot be left with no ranking and on entry lists behind all players with a transition tour ranking.

So either they are going to do away with the minimum 3 counters or 10 points for a WTA ranking or such players would accrue transition tour points ??!

Does Eden appear on either shadow ranking list ? ( memo to self - this is the week that I finally do get to know where best to find these lists and try and agree various players' points and until then desist from pretending that I really have that much clue what's going on  ).