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The WTA ranking system has often left many fans scratching their heads. It is hardly the most straightforward system around, but it is an effective one. Each week after the list of tournaments conclude, fans look at the rankings to see where their favourite players sit on the table.
Let’s take a look at how the ranking works and how the ranking currently looks.
The rankings of the players is established based on their performances over the past 52 weeks of tennis. The players earn points based on how well they perform in the tournaments they participate in.
The Grand Slams; Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open, are the toughest tournaments in the sport as you may know. They also offer the most points to the players. Following is the breakdown of the points in these majors.
Winner: 2000 points
Runner-up: 1200
Semifinalist: 720
Quarterfinalist: 360
Round of 16: 180
Round of 32: 90
Round of 64: 45
Round of 128: 10
Some points are also allocated for the qualifying rounds.
While the slams offer the most points, they are also the most limited events on tour with just four every year. Players have the opportunity to earn points by playing in various different tournaments throughout the year in a bid to gain more points.
WTA tournaments that earn WTA Rankings?
Premier Mandatory Tournaments:
There are four such tournaments held in Indian Wells, Madrid, Beijing and Miami. They offer the winners a 1000 WTA Ranking points.
Premier Five:
These are five events held in Doha/Dubai, Rome, Toronto/Montreal, Cincinnati and Wuhan. The winner of each tournament gets awarded 900 WTA ranking points.
Premier:
There 12 such tournaments, winning each gives the players 470 points.
Then there are also 32 International Tournaments, awarding the winners 280 points each. And finally the WTA 125K Series; the number of these events varies yearly. The ITF circuit, a rung lower than the WTA structure also offers players ranking points.
The WTA Finals, the final event of the year where the top 8 players contend, awards the winner 1500 points.
The rankings are based on a rolling 52-week, cumulative system. A players best 16 tournaments results are taken into consideration when calculating their points for the season. In these 16 events, the four slams and the four Premier Mandatory tournaments have to be included along with the WTA Finals event.
Additionally the best two results at the Premier Five events is also counted for the top 20 players.
To be eligible to appear in the WTA rankings, a player must earn points in at least three tournaments or win at least 10 points in a tournament.
Here’re the top WTA Rankings as on November 4, 2019
- Ashleigh Barty
- Karolina Pliskova
- Naomi Osaka
- Simona Halep
- Bianca Andreescu
- Elina Svitolina
- Petra Kvitova
- Belinda Bencic
- Kiki Bertens
- Serena Williams
- Aryna Sabalenka
- Johanna Konta
- Madison Keys
- Sofia Kenin
- Petra Martic
- Marketa Vondrousova
- Elise Mertens
- Alison Riske
- Donna Vekic
- Angelique Kerber
- Karolina Muchova
- Dayana Yastremska
- Maria Sakkari
- Amanda Anisimova
- Sloane Stephens
- Anett Kontaveit
- Anastasija Sevastova
- Julia Goerges
- Qiang Wang
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova