How does the ATP ranking work?
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Each player is ranked according to his total points from the four Grand Slams, the nine ATP Masters Series Tournaments and the Tennis Masters Cup of the calendar year, and his best five results from all International Series Tournaments played in the calendar year. For every Grand Slam and Tennis Masters Series Tournament for which a player is not in the Main Draw, and was not (and, in the case of a Grand Slam, would not have been, had he and all other players entered) a Main Draw Direct Acceptance on the original Acceptance List, and never became a Main Draw Direct Acceptance, the number of his results from all International Series Tournaments played in the calendar year, that count for his ranking, is increased by one. Once a player has been accepted in the Main Draw of one of these thirteen Tournaments, as a Direct Acceptance, a Qualifier, a Special Exempt or a Lucky Loser, or having accepted a Wild Card, his result in this tournament shall count for his ranking, whether or not he participates.
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He has lost several times.  While yes, he is unreal when it comes to tennis, he has been beaten.  I believe his record this year is something like 56-4.  Or somewhere around there.  So you can see he does not lose often.  He also puts in some insane hours to be at the level he is, he has earned it all.
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A tennis match usually comprises one to five sets. A set consists of a number of games, and games, in turn, consist of points.\n\nMatches consist of an odd number of multiple sets, the match winner being the player who wins more than half of the sets. The match ends as soon as this winning condition is met. Some matches may consist of five sets (the winner being the first to win three sets), while most matches are three sets (the winner being the first to win two sets).\n\nA set consists of a sequence of games played with service alternating between games, ending when the count of games won meets certain criteria. Typically, a player wins a set when he wins at least six games and at least two games more than his opponent. It has become common, however, to play a "twelve-point tiebreak" or "tiebreaker" when each player has won six games. A tiebreaker, played under a separate set of rules, allows one player to win one more game and thus the set, to give a final set score of 7-6. \n\nA game consists of a sequence of points played with the same player serving, and is won by the first player to have won at least four points and at least two points more than his opponent. The running score of each game is described in a manner particular to tennis: scores of zero to three points are described as "love" or "zero", "fifteen", "thirty", and "forty" respectively. When at least three points have been scored by each side and the players have the same number of points, the score is "deuce". When at least three points have been scored by each side and a player has one more point than his opponent, the score of the game is "advantage" for the winning player. During informal games, "advantage" can also be called "ad in" or "ad out", depending on whether the serving player or receiving player, respectively, is ahead. \n\nA game point occurs in tennis whenever the player who is in the lead in the game (the smallest unit of play) needs only one more point to win the game. The terminology is extended to sets (set point), matches (match point), and even championships (championship point). For example, if the player who is serving has a score of 40-love, he has a triple game point (triple set point, etc.).\n\nA break point occurs if the receiver, not the server, has a game point. It is of importance in professional tennis, since service breaks happen less frequently with professional players. It may happen that the player who is in the lead in the game has more than one chance to score the winning point, even if his opponent should take the next point(s). For example, if the player who is serving has a score of 15-40, the receiver has a double break point. Should the player in the lead take any one of the next two points, he wins the game.\n\nFor two years before the Open Era, in 1955 and 1956, the United States Pro Championship in Cleveland, Ohio was played by the Van Alen Streamlined Scoring System (VASSS) rules, created by James Van Alen, who later invented the tie-breaker. The scoring was the same as that in table tennis, with sets played to 21 points and players alternating 5 services, with no second service. The rules were partially created in order to limit the effectiveness of the powerful service of the reigning professional champion, Pancho Gonzales. Even with the new rules, however, Gonzales beat Pancho Segura in the finals of both tournaments. Even though the 1955 match went to 5 sets, with Gonzales barely holding on to win the last one 21-19, apparently it took only 47 minutes to play.[1] The fans attending the matches preferred the traditional rules, however, and in 1957 the tournament reverted to the old method of scoring.
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Amazon.com does not disclose exactly how the rankings are calculated, but those who have analyzed the rankings over time have some theories.\n\nRankings are based on actual sales. If copies sell, the ranking will go up. Rankings may change hourly.\n\nThere is a good explanation of the system at the Foner Books site, link below.
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If everyone gets the same amount then just divide the total prize pool by the number pf paid players, however, if players get different amounts such as first getts more than second, then you would have to set a percentage that that player would get.\n\nSo first you need to decide how many places are getting paid.\n\nThen you need to decide What percent of the toatl prize pool first place gets, then second place, and so on.\n\n**make sure the percents add up to 100% an NOT over.\n\nThen simply take the percent that that place will get of the toatl prize pool.\n(ex: if 1st place gets 30% of the total prize pool, and the prize pool is $100, 30% of 100 is $30.)\n\nHope this helps you out.
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Yes,\n\na team moves up in the rankings due to a formula that takes into account: The result, the number of goals, the match importance (friendly, group stage, knockout stage, final etc.) territory strength. We'll see the effects next month when they update the tables.
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The answer to your question starts with understanding the scoring system.  1. Most tennis matches are comprised of best 2 out of 3 sets.  2. A set is whichever player accumulates 6 "games" first and wins by 2 games.  If the score reaches 6 games to 6 games then a tiebreaker "special game is played to decide the set.  Each "game in tennis" is comprised of points which are 15, 30, 40, game.  Or as you pointed out 4 points, win by two, for each game.  The reason each game is not scored by 1,2,3,4, is so not to confuse the set score.  So if someone asked you what the present score was you would not say its 2 points to 2 and the set score is 2 to 2 also.  In tennis you would say its 30 all and 2 games each.  Simple, with no confusion.  The reason games are scored 15, 30, 40 game is because it is like hands on a clock. 40 actually represents the 45 minute mark but it had too many syllables so they reduced it to 40. When the clock reaches the Top or one full revolution, that constituted "a game."  This was how the system originated and shows their logic behind it.
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Roger Federer \nhttp://www.atptennis.com/en/players/entrysystem/\n\nLindsay Davenport\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/statistics/1489277.stm
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It's way too complicated and long to explain it here (as is always the case with stupid systems of any kind). If you want to know more about FIFA rankings visit http://www.fifa.com/en/mens/statistics/rank/procedures/0,2540,3,00.html\nI completely agree with you that the ranking is ridiculous. FIFA developed it in association with Coca Cola so it's not surprising :)
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goto this official website and check it out. as rank keeps changing according to performances of all teams.\nhttp://www.icc-cricket.com/ \nhttp://www.icc-cricket.com/rankings/lg.html
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Circuit ATP\n- Grand Chelems\n- Tennis Masters Series\n- Championship Series : $1,000,000 ou $800,000\n- World  Series : $1,000,000 ou $800,000 ou $600,000 ou $400,000\n\nCircuit ITF\n- Challengers : $150,000+H ou $150,000 ou $125,000 ou $100,000 ou $75,000 ou $37,500+H ou $50,000\n- Futures : $15,000+H ou $15,000 ou $10,000\n- Satellites (4 tournois + 1 master) : $50,000+H ou $50,000 ou $25,000\n\n+H, signifie que l'hébergement est inclus, ce qui n'est pas toujours le cas pour les tournois du circuit ITF. Lorsqu'il est fourni, il fait passé le tournoi au niveau supérieur (sans hébergement), en terme de points ATP comptant pour le classement. Ex : $100,000 = $75,000+H ou $15,000 = $10,000+H. Cependant un vainqueur d'un tournoi $100,000 gagnera plus qu'un $75,000+H, puisque la répartition des prix y est supérieure.
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A Grand Slam tennis tournament refers to one of the four majors, 1. Wimbledon, 2. U.S Open 3. French Open and 4. the Australian Open.  Just below that you have the Tennis Masters Series event, then ATP Internationional series GOLD events, ATP tour events, Challengers, and Futures.  The main difference between these is prize money, ranking for entry, and number of participants.  Grand Slam events have 128 player draws, Master Series events will sometimes have Bye rounds for seeded players but are also high dollar events and so on.  The bigger the event the more ranking points are at stake.
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Here is list of the current top 50 rankings for the ATP (as of Monday, 20-Nov-06):\nhttp://www.atptennis.com/3/en/rankings/championsrace/
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If you go to yahoo sports and click on tennis it will give the current rankings for both men and women. Hope this helps!
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Well being a former player and having played with players who played in that tournament, here are some qualifications you will need to play in the tournament. \n1. Do you have a junior ITF ranking, tournaments to get this experience are Easter Bowl, other major tourneys.\n2. Are you ranked in the top 5 in the nation in the boys 18's?\n\nIf your answer to these questions are no, then you have zero chance of playing in this tournament. Qualifying requires you to have earned points prior to the tournament, they don't just let anyone off the street show up to play for fun. Unlike the mens draw that has a qualifier, there is none for the junior draw. The mens draw also requires a ranking usually around top 250 in the world to play the qualifier alone.
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Each tournament during the year awards ranking points. The further a player goes in a tournament, the more points he gets. The bigger tournaments offer more points. Since the rankings are based on a 52-week system, the more points the player has gained in the last year, the higher he is ranked
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The draw is divided into two parts: seeded players, and the rest of the field.\n\nFor Grand Slam tournaments, the field is 128, and there are 32 seeded players.  The seeds are allocated by the ATP (men) or WTA (women) ranking released in the previous week -- except Wimbledon, which has subjective seedings.\n\nThe 1st seed is in slot 1.\nThe 2nd seed is in slot 128.\nSeeds 3-4 are drawn into slots 33 and 96.\nSeeds 5-8 are drawn into slots 32, 64, 65, and 97.\nSeeds 9-12 are drawn into slots 17, 49, 80, and 112.\nSeeds 13-16 are drawn into slots 16, 48, 81, and 113.\nSeeds 17-24 are drawn into slots 9, 24, 41, 56, 73, 88, 105, and 120.\nSeeds 25-32 are drawn into slots 8, 25, 40, 57, 72, 89, 104, and 121.\n\nThe rest of the field is then drawn to the remaining slots.\n\nFor tournaments with 64 players, there will be 16 seeds.  For 32 players, 8 seeds, with the same basic structure.\n\nThere are tournaments with 96 or 48 players (or other numbers), in which case the top seeds will receive a bye in the first round.