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The problem began with the WTA when they changed the ranking system. Up until that point it was fine. They changed the ranking system to hurt the Williams sisters in ranking and opportunities to break ranking records.
Right now, as a new player to the tour you will rise very quickly in the rankings as you get points for playing tournaments for the first time. That's why they constantly hype these new none talented blond "flopshells" that come on tour that later fizzle out; all to take attention away from and rain on the parade of the WSs. It's so bad and obvious what is going on, that you don't even get extra points for repeat performances like defending a title, even at a major; which is very hard!!! How lame is that, that is why Venus could win Wimbledon so many times in a row and still end up with such horrible rankings for years. As for the latter, even the seeding is horrible, for most of those years Venus has never gotten a #1 seeding at Wimbledon; in 2009 she was ranked #2 in the world and still did not get the #1 seed!!! Play in a tournament that you never played in before (or last year) and your ranking goes up. So what Venus and Serena should do is just play small tournaments that they never played before and and only play majors when it would improve their rankings and not from year to year. Sounds like the WTAs plan to demean the acheivemnets of the WSs is going to backfire on them. They need to do something about that loop whole quick, oh...they already did; "The Road Map," of ****ry!!!! Certain tournaments are manditory now and as I said before, winning them from year to year is not going to help your rankings at all, even the majors. Interesting observation though, the lower ranked (blond "flopshells") players donot have to play the same tournaments as the top ranked players do, "It's like the lower ranked players play in whole other tournament." Yeah the latter was a quote from an article on espn. Safina said this,
""They said the leading players would have to play in designated tournaments while lower-ranked players would be able to enter any event they like."
In other words the lower ranked players have much more control over their rankings than the top players do and that control does not come from their abilities as tennis players; just, oh..i didn't play in this tournament last year so if I play this year and do well my rankings go up. They don't have to do that well. I remember seeing Venus go farther than Bartoli who got knocked out in the first round of a tournament and she went up higher than Venus in the rankings; Venus won Wimbledon that year.
Look at the ATP, their ranking system has changed little and look at the result. You have clear number ones, in short it is the way the WTA used to be. If the WTA had the present ATP ranking system or if it would revert back to what it used to be, Venus & Serena would both be ranked hire more frequently but that's the apparent problem the WTA has isn't it?
Right now, as a new player to the tour you will rise very quickly in the rankings as you get points for playing tournaments for the first time. That's why they constantly hype these new none talented blond "flopshells" that come on tour that later fizzle out; all to take attention away from and rain on the parade of the WSs. It's so bad and obvious what is going on, that you don't even get extra points for repeat performances like defending a title, even at a major; which is very hard!!! How lame is that, that is why Venus could win Wimbledon so many times in a row and still end up with such horrible rankings for years. As for the latter, even the seeding is horrible, for most of those years Venus has never gotten a #1 seeding at Wimbledon; in 2009 she was ranked #2 in the world and still did not get the #1 seed!!! Play in a tournament that you never played in before (or last year) and your ranking goes up. So what Venus and Serena should do is just play small tournaments that they never played before and and only play majors when it would improve their rankings and not from year to year. Sounds like the WTAs plan to demean the acheivemnets of the WSs is going to backfire on them. They need to do something about that loop whole quick, oh...they already did; "The Road Map," of ****ry!!!! Certain tournaments are manditory now and as I said before, winning them from year to year is not going to help your rankings at all, even the majors. Interesting observation though, the lower ranked (blond "flopshells") players donot have to play the same tournaments as the top ranked players do, "It's like the lower ranked players play in whole other tournament." Yeah the latter was a quote from an article on espn. Safina said this,
""They said the leading players would have to play in designated tournaments while lower-ranked players would be able to enter any event they like."
In other words the lower ranked players have much more control over their rankings than the top players do and that control does not come from their abilities as tennis players; just, oh..i didn't play in this tournament last year so if I play this year and do well my rankings go up. They don't have to do that well. I remember seeing Venus go farther than Bartoli who got knocked out in the first round of a tournament and she went up higher than Venus in the rankings; Venus won Wimbledon that year.
Look at the ATP, their ranking system has changed little and look at the result. You have clear number ones, in short it is the way the WTA used to be. If the WTA had the present ATP ranking system or if it would revert back to what it used to be, Venus & Serena would both be ranked hire more frequently but that's the apparent problem the WTA has isn't it?
