British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

indiana wrote:

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Not saying Harriet shouldn't have won today, well for a start I didn't see any of the match.

But rankings are most certainly valid yesterday, today, tomorrow. They generally indicate coming into a match how much better one player has played compared to another over the last 12 months. That disparity re general level is unlikey to just disappear  ( though of course it can some days, or tennis life would be very boring ). As a generality though ' not particularly valid'  is just codswallop   

I wss thinking that more pertinently here grass may have been the real leveller but I see that Bartunkova was a Wimbledon girls' RU in 2023 so has proved adapt on the surface.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 2nd of June 2026 02:06:58 PM

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 Not particularly valid on a given day, I said, not in general, Mr Codswallop 

As in, if you're 100 in the world you obviously will not beat all players ranked 101 and below and lose to all those ranked 99 and above

You're not even expected to

The range is pretty wide

And today, the actual tennis said that this was a match that should have been one on Harriet's outlier wins, to counteract when she loses to someone ranked 220