British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

emmsie69 wrote:

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the addict wrote:

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Yes, getting the wins, but yet to achieve the ranking to get into the higher ranked tournament. It'll come, but there is still a way to go.

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 It's so much harder to move up the rankings in doubles.  2239 points is WR19 in Singles compared to 44 in doubles.

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 I guess there will often be 2 players moving in the rankings roughly together which will be a fair part of the issue re the individual rankings.

adz1983 wrote:

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The biggest difference is that doubles ranking is made up of the individuals best 12 results whereas singles is best 18 results (19 if you make the WTA finals). So in singles the 0 point counter can be diluted by more bigger counters.

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 Having just 12 counters ( all generally big  for the top players, eg. Liv's 12th counter is 108, Maia's 98 ) may be a bit of a factor ( Id still say the main difference is the one about simply being 2 generally trying to rise together against quite a lot of other 2s roughly rising together ) rather than just single players ahead of you

There are incidentally no mandatory zero or 10 point counters in women's doubles. Miss a slam or get beaten in R1 for 10 points and you can simply ignore it assuming that you've got 12 better points scores.