Game, Ms. Noelle: my musings on pro tennis

Friday, October 21, 2005

ATP Top Ten

Two days ago I was looking at the ATP entry rankings and realized how far ahead of the field Roger Federer is. I also realized that I was seeing names in the Top Ten that weren't there last year.

I decided, for fun, that I'd do some sort of comparison between the players in the Top Ten: the number of tournaments they'd entered, their win-loss record for the year, the number of titles they'd won, and the Indesit Race points they've earned so far.



The ATP Top Ten
Entry RankingTournamentsWin-LossTitlesRace Points
#1. Federer, R.1477-3111245
#2. Nadal, R.2074-1010853
#3. Roddick, A.1651-124548
#4. Hewitt, L.1037-91498
#5. Safin, M.1227-111346
#6. Agassi, A.1238-111455
#7. Coria, G.1953-211422
#8. Davydenko, N. 2648-261378
#9. Nalbandian, D.1634-151277
#10. Puerta, M.2436-201324

EDIT: Much thanks to Angle Queen from MensTennisForums for pointing out that the number of tournaments listed on the entry rankings page is from the rolling rankings and doesn't accurately reflect the number of tournaments the players have played this year.

I've also changed the points column to reflect the race points instead of the entry system points, since at this point in the year the race points matter more than the entry system points in determining what the players' year-end rankings will be.

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4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

wOw yOu are such a gOOd researcher! where On gOlds gOOd earth did yOu dig up the tOp 10 recOrds? get a life

12:32 PM 
Blogger Noelle De Guzman said...

Wow. I am almost speechless at the sarcasm.

But anyway, if you're really asking about where I got the records, try http://www.atptennis.com/en/players/entrysystem since all the players' records are easily accessible from there. I just put them into tabular form.

8:26 AM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh yes, because posting a negative thing in a blog is seriously full of life!
Duh.


Noelle, you rock. period.

*loves*

Caro (yes, from mtf haha)

8:52 AM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

eggy, I will make an omelette of you!!!

12:44 AM 

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