Discussion on Sania's WTA Ranking

completelyconked · Post by **completelyconked** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:37 am

You people are such vultures!

puneets · Post by **puneets** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:00 am

We'll celebrate anything (as long as it helps Sania to inc. her ranking)

sameerph · Post by **sameerph** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:18 am

Sania will be back to No. 32 this week considering the points dropped off by other players,

jaydeep · Post by **jaydeep** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:38 am

Sania climb to No. 31 in this week's ranking.

Jaydeep.

puneets · Post by **puneets** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:09 am

good work (!) Sania

rameshlaus · Post by **rameshlaus** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:05 pm

I'm glad I was able to predict it earlier.

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:51 pm

I think that the crucial ranking number for early 2006 is where Sania can get seeded at Australian Open and not have to play a high seed in the first or second round.

*sridinats* · Post by ***sridinats*** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 3:28 pm

i was surprised to see Sania move upto 31 instead of 32...I guess it's because Silvia Farina Ella may hve been taken out of da list after she announced her retirement......unfortunately by jan 2006 Sania will lose a few points more..so lets jus hope dat she doesnt lose much in terms of ranking and even if she does i hope she manages to regain those places by playin a cupl of events before the A.O.
Sridhar

kishorJ · Post by **kishorJ** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 3:39 pm

What is the last date of ranking based on which the australian open seedings are decided? It could well be that though sania loses some points in january, it may not matter for the seeding. can anybody enlighten?

insideout · Post by **insideout** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 3:42 pm

is it 1 week before start?? I mean the ranking 1 week prior to start of the tournament??

sameerph · Post by **sameerph** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:53 pm

WTA has officially decided to eliminate quality points with effect from 1st January 2006 perhaps to be in tune with ATP. That would mean that a win against no. 1 player or no. 100 would mean tha same no. of points if it is at same stage of tournament. Not quite fair, I think.
I wonder what is the logic behind doing this ?

I do not know whether this is the right thread to discuss this . But I have posted it here sice we are discussing Sania's ranking & her chances to get a seeding at AO. It will be interesting to what will Sania's new ranking after taking off quality points at the start of the new year.

amr090 · Post by **amr090** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 3:19 am

all it does is make it even tougher for a player to move up in the rankings. idiotic if you ask me. they should keep quality points.

Dangermouse · Post by **Dangermouse** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 10:07 pm

I suspect they'll apply the "No Quality Points" rule only to new tournaments. But if they did apply it to old tournaments, Sania would pretty much stay at the same location, dropping one place. Ranking without quality points:

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No Qual Rank   Name                        Countr     RankPt  QualPt    Tournaments (Rank-Qual)
      1     1  DAVENPORT, LINDSAY          USA        4820     1650          16        3170
      2     2  CLIJSTERS, KIM              BEL        4665     1676          16        2989
      3     3  SHARAPOVA, MARIA            RUS        4281     1347          15        2934
      4     4  MAURESMO, AMELIE            FRA        3662     1181          19        2481
      5     5  PIERCE, MARY                FRA        3184     1243          13        1941
      6     8  SCHNYDER, PATTY             SUI        2667      801          25        1866
      7    10  PETROVA, NADIA              RUS        2564      707          24        1857
      8     6  HENIN-HARDENNE, JUSTINE     BEL        2936     1107           9        1829
      9     7  DEMENTIEVA, ELENA           RUS        2748      935          20        1813
     10     9  WILLIAMS, VENUS             USA        2628      989          12        1639
     11    11  WILLIAMS, SERENA            USA        2382      935          11        1447
     12    12  MYSKINA, ANASTASIA          RUS        1983      611          20        1372
     13    15  KUZNETSOVA, SVETLANA        RUS        1646      386          18        1260
     14    13  DECHY, NATHALIE             FRA        1773      626          26        1147
     15    14  SCHIAVONE, FRANCESCA        ITA        1704      615          22        1089
     16    16  VAIDISOVA, NICOLE           CZE        1581      548          17        1033
     17    19  HANTUCHOVA, DANIELA         SVK        1486      468          25        1018
     18    18  LIKHOVTSEVA, ELENA          RUS        1519      552          22         967
     19    20  SAFINA, DINARA              RUS        1372      443          21         929
     20    17  IVANOVIC, ANA               SCG        1551      639          16         912
     21    21  GROENEFELD, ANNA-LENA       GER      1365.5      470          28       895.5
     22    23  PENNETTA, FLAVIA            ITA        1240      349          24         891
     23    22  JANKOVIC, JELENA            SCG        1320      436          29         884
     24    24  GOLOVIN, TATIANA            FRA        1195      373          22         822
     25    25  KIRILENKO, MARIA            RUS        1107      382          26         725
     26    30  SUGIYAMA, AI                JPN       994.5      313          27       681.5
     27    29  MOLIK, ALICIA               AUS         996      340          15         656
     28    28  SREBOTNIK, KATARINA         SLO      997.75      345          21      652.75
     29    36  KOUKALOVA, KLARA            CZE      883.75      235          23      648.75
     30    32  MARTINEZ, CONCHITA          ESP         925      286          20         639
     31    40  ZVONAREVA, VERA             RUS         825      192          23         633
     32    31  MIRZA, SANIA                IND      929.75      306          22      623.75
     33    27  DULKO, GISELA               ARG        1008      387          23         621
     34    34  MEDINA GARRIGUES, ANABEL    ESP      902.75      285          26      617.75
     35    26  PESCHKE, KVETA              CZE     1028.75      423          24      605.75
     36    38  ASAGOE, SHINOBU             JPN         876      280          25         596
     37    35  KARATANTCHEVA, SESIL        BUL      902.25      323          16      579.25
     38    33  CHAKVETADZE, ANNA           RUS      918.25      353          23      565.25
     39    41  BARTOLI, MARION             FRA      796.75      261          25      535.75
     40    43  SMASHNOVA, ANNA             ISR         744      224          18         520
     41    37  PENG, SHUAI                 CHN       883.5      364          16       519.5
     42    44  ZHENG, JIE                  CHN      739.75      237          18      502.75
     43    39  DUSHEVINA, VERA             RUS      834.25      344          20      490.25
     44    50  SAFAROVA, LUCIE             CZE      660.75      178          21      482.75
     45    45  PEER, SHAHAR                ISR      733.75      252          23      481.75
     46    46  STOSUR, SAMANTHA            AUS      708.75      227          25      481.75
     47    48  MORIGAMI, AKIKO             JPN      673.25      205          22      468.25
     48    54  BENESOVA, IVETA             CZE      636.25      173          28      463.25
     49    55  FRAZIER, AMY                USA       634.5      174          19       460.5
     50    42  VINCI, ROBERTA              ITA         764      308          22         456

Red_Indian · Post by **Red_Indian** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:54 am

That's good stuff Dangermouse - thanks for posting that.

PKBasu · Post by **PKBasu** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 10:38 am

Very interesting post. Thanks for that. So that suggests that most of the top-50 have some (but not an overwhelming number) of quality points. There is now real depth in women's tennis -- really for the first time in 37 years of the Open era.