From: clc5q@hemlock.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: ATP Men's Ranking: September 13th
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:00:31 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department

In article <HARI.92Sep14211100@robios6.me.wisc.edu> hari@robios.me.wisc.edu (Kambainathan Hari) writes:
>
>> The ATP top 50 ranked singles players:  
>>    (Through September 13th):
> 
>> 1. Stefan Edberg, Sweden, 3,577
>> 2. Jim Courier, United States, 3,574
>> 3. Pete Sampras, United States, 3,442
>
>Whew! That's a close #1. I guess we should see Edberg falling back to #2 or
>#3 in a couple of weeks unless he defends the titles he won following
>the US open. I remember he went on a `roll' after the open in '91
>winning 2 or 3 tournaments (until I Becker beat him). Any idea what
>the tournaments are and what will happen to the rankings if Edberg fails to
>defend them ?

Edberg won 2 of the four big tournaments in the fall (not counting the ATP
World Championships): the Australian Indoor in Sydney, and the Seiko Super
Tennis in Tokyo.  He then made it to the final of the third big one, the
Stockholm Open, where he lost to Becker.  The fourth big one is the Paris
Open, which Forget won over Sampras; I don't know what Stefan did there. He
missed the ATP World Championships because of injury, so he does have some
opportunity to gain points at the end of the year.

The Australian Indoor starts October 5; Seiko Super Tennis on October 12;
the Stockholm Open on October 26; and the Paris Open on November 2. The
Australin Indoor and Seiko Super Tennis offer $825,000 in prize money
(not counting free hotel rooms, etc.) and will thus have less ranking points
at stake than the Stockholm Open ($1,040,000) and the Paris Open ($1,815,000).
A summary of the ranking points at stake:


Round        Sydney/Tokyo       Stockholm    Paris
-----        ------------       ---------    -----
Winner          210                230        290
Finalist        158                173        218
SF              105                115        145
QF               53                 58         73
16               27                 29         37
32               14                 15         19
48                1                  1          1

All four tournaments have 48 players, with the 16 seeds getting a bye
in the 1st round.  If a seed loses his first match (2nd round) he only
gets 1 point.  In addition, there are bonus points awarded for each
win over a player ranked in the top 200; see my recent posting that
explains the whole ATP computer ranking method.

Edberg won at Sydney and Tokyo, was a finalist at Stockholm, and lost
before the quarterfinals at Paris. 
Becker won at Stockholm and was a quarterfinalist at Tokyo.
Chang was a semifinalist at Paris (beating Edberg for only the 2nd time.)
Courier was a semifinalist at Stockholm.
Lendl was a semifinalist at Tokyo.
Sampras was a finalist at Paris, semifinalist at Sydney, quarters at Stockholm.
Korda was a quarterfinalist at Stockholm and Paris.
Ivanisevic was a semifinalist at Sydney and Tokyo, quarters at Stockholm.
Agassi was a quarterfinalist at Sydney and Tokyo.


It will be interesting to watch the rankings scramble in the next 6 weeks.
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