Track who has made it to the top in women's tennis since in the chart below. The player with the record for the most total weeks at the top of the rankings is the great German Steffi Graf ; and the high-water mark for the most consecutive weeks at No.
Illie Nastase wins the French Open in Credit: Getty Images. Tennis used to operate on a 'star' system, before rankings began.
Nastase held the position for 40 weeks before Australian John Newcombe had his turn, spending eight weeks at the top.
The women's tour started with official rankings in American Chris Evert was the first women's world No. Australia also boasts the youngest ever men's world No. World No. The move to computerised rankings in the s has been cited as one of the key moments in tennis history. A transparent points system was seen as a fair representation of a player's performance and provided an objective measurement for entry to tournaments.
Under old methods, rankings were generated by national associations and individual tournaments. Those who ran the events could invite whoever they wanted to play. A leading player in the early s, Stan Smith, recalled how it worked: "Some players would be on a list as players that could help sell tickets for the event and they would have priority over others in acceptance into tournaments," he told the ATP Tour website in There were definitely some battles with tournaments over this star system.
Chris Evert defends her Wimbledon title with a double-handed backhand. The rankings are recalculated and reissued almost every week and are published on Mondays.
The more important a tournament is — and how far a player is likely to progress in said tournament — the more points up for grabs. Points are dropped 52 weeks after they were first awarded. In men's tennis, the rankings formula is determined by calculating, for each player, his total points from the majors — the Australian, French and US opens and Wimbledon — plus eight mandatory Masters tournaments, and his best six results from all ATP Tour , ATP Tour , Challenger Tour and Futures tournaments.
If a male player makes to the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam, the semifinals of a Masters , the final of a event or wins the title of a event, then he automatically qualifies for the power ranking. If a female player makes to the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam, the semifinals of a Premier Mandatory or Premier 5, the final of a Premier event or wins the title of a International event, then she automatically qualifies for the power ranking. For a Grand Slam, the number of weeks is adjusted by one -1 due to the fact that Grand Slams are two-week tournaments.
And players absent from the tour for the past eight weeks automatically disqualify for the power ranking. Given the ever-changing circumstances of the Covid pandemic, the ITF reserves the right to modify the rankings approach for each tour if a lack of tournaments or ongoing travel restrictions require it.
Points earned in this period will drop on a weekly basis between 6 September - 14 March Points earned from 7 September will drop after 52 weeks. Points earned drop after 52 weeks. Between September — December , players will lose points earned between September-December in both and Thompson is an example of how players can hang onto decent rankings even while in a dry spell.
How is he managing to stay in the top 20 with four first-round losses at Slams on his ranking sheet? Sock won a Masters event in November and, as a result, snuck into the year-end World Tour Finals.
His ranking is almost entirely propped up by those two results. Before , no woman had ever reached the top spot without winning a Slam. Four of the players on that list went on to win a major, with only Jankovic, Safina and Pliskova still Slam-less. Since he was defending zero points from the week, he netted 90 points, which was good enough to move the Brit from No. Beating Roger Federer in the first round of a tournament counts the same as defeating world No.
The new ranking brings a ton of benefits, most notably a seed in majors and automatic entry into the biggest events. Her results started slipping and she spent most of the next three years hovering between No.
At the Olympics, Stephens lost in the first round to Genie Bouchard who has her own wild rankings story and exacerbated a foot injury that would cost her almost a full year. She returned at Wimbledon in and lost in the first round failing to defend third-round points from , before bottoming out at No. Her only rankings points came from those two first-round losses.
At the big events, players get credit for simply showing up. Then, Stephens made a run to the semifinals in Cincinnati last August, rising to No. Next, she was a surprise winner at the U. Open and jumped to No. Somehow, she won none of her next eight matches and still somehow moved up to No. The Eagles are …. The Seahawks are coming off a …. The Vikings will …. The …. The Buccaneers and …. The Lions are still looking for ….
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