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Suarez is a good player, lots of wins against top 10
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by the way Kvitova said she got infection, that's why she lost to CSN
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don't care about her win over Kvitova, many SOLID wins in Grand Slams against top players, and 2? 1/4 finals as well. Clearly the best single-handed backhand in womans tennis nowdays.
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I think Carla was not a clear value... Jankovic destroyed her at the beginning and have lots of mant weapons...
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Suarez can beat top players, and she can lose to MUGS, seen too many of her matches
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do you know what you're writing? Once you critisize the ranking system for allowing Wozniacki (Safina, etc) to take the top without winning a slam, on the other you state slams are overrated with Ana being top 20 only on decent slam performances
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bb66 ??
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wasn't pointed at you Tytfaen, but to the whole community here, inspired by this posting
atlasshrugged23 03 Oct 12 same as this year... she played very well at 3 grand slams (made round of 16s and one QF) and that's enough points to keep her at the top of the game... |
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no problem bb66
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what this ranking system is missing is 1) a shorter period of aggregation (6 months tops) and 2) differentiation in the points awarded for a win based on the ranking of the player that was beaten (in other words give a player more points for beating sharapova than for beating heather watson... and, conversely, when a player ranked higher loses to smb ranked much lower, there should be some negative impact on their points as well...)
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not to mention serena completely dominating the sport right now, everybody agreeing she dominates the sport (has done it most of the year, with the exception of the french open) and she is NUMBER FOUR (?!) in the rankings?? now you tell me the ranking system is correct...
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wtf! 3 'safe' bets Ivanovic, Makarova, Jankovic all down the toilet
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how on earth was jankovic a safe bet?? :)
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she has improved of late
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That's because Serena doesn't care about the tour and tournaments. In lots of years her season is basically over after the US Open. This year she caught the flu just before Beijing. She'd so love to play it and support the tour and it's tournaments, but she just often gets so very unlucky with illness or injury in September and August.
Coincidentally, Serena might be one of the players who take most advantage of the 12 months ranking and the big points at the majors. She simply knows she doesn't have to work her ass off and play every tournament. Due to the 12 months she knows that she usually has her big Wimbledon, Miami and US Open points, so she takes her very extended rests and doesn't play more than the bare minimum of tournaments. That can then also work to her advantage. Lesser risk of injuring, tiring yourself out or simply not coming into tournaments with lots of niggles in a year long grind of tournaments. If all players, especially top ones who just like Serena don't necessarily need the money from each tournament they play, would think and schedule like Serena does, then good night WTA. About getting bonus points for beating better players: here's a discussion about the pros and cons of the quality point system that the WTA used to have. http://www.tennisforum.com/showthread.php?t=417591 |
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DStyle also once raised the interesting point that he's questioning if Serena is even physically capable to really play a Friday/Saturday/Sunday or even a Thursday/Friday/Saturday/Sunday schedule like lots of normal tournaments require you to. At least in tournaments with a tougher field (like e.g Beijing or Tokyo have)
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at the end of the day, the big question i have is: if one were to look at the rankings right now, do they reflect the reality of the sport? Not so much... I mean, yeah, Azza,Pova, and Serena are top players, ARad and Kerber and Petra are in the "second" tier (of the top players, I mean)... but Serena should be number 1 and she won't be, even if she wins the australian open (unless azza crashes and burns early on)
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Right now she'd probably be no1 with a shorter ranking time, but at the Australian Open she'd only really have the points from the US Open, Stanford and maybe Sydney which she doesn't take seriously most of the time while others will have points from the US Open, US Open series, Tokyo, Beijing, Moscow and some AO warmup. She'd probably be ranked even lower than she is now (provided she would still schedule the same)
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Well, maybe not lower because the US Open points are just so fat, but I doubt she'd be ranked no.1
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depends if you count in wimbledon (straddling june/july) or not... even if you don't, she would still be 1st or 2nd, thanks to the olympics points... and also thanks to the fact that no other player has shown much consistency post US Open...
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and for sure a win at the AO would guarantee her world 1 ranking (well deserved ranking, she is clearly better than anybody out there ATM)... which, with this system, is not the case... if azza doesn't crash in the first three rounds, which she probably will not
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supporting edy here, a #1 should be on courts more than 4 months a year and panicking when facing an out of competition drug test
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i actually don't disagree with you both on that point... but it's not fair what you are saying, as serena was on court more than 4 months this year... as for the drug alegations... really? what the hell do you base them on?? not everybody is a nadal these days (oops, I did it again)
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and ps Azarenka has played only 4 (FOUR) more tournaments than Serena this year...
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... and retired from 3 (Serena retired from 2)
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I can't remember who and where provided the link of that failed Serena locking herself in the bathroom or the likes when controllers were at her house
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wow... THIS is what you are referring to? http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/serena_williams_locks_herself_mix_e33FXOULdoqlWqXmotSDSP
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bbbb6666, as always, I can count on you (just like on your idiotic thread) to provide a valuable contribution to this forum.
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