Due to the All England Club banning Russian and Belarusian players from Wimbledon this year, the men’s ATP and women’s WTA tours are stripping all players of ranking points gained from Wimbledon.
Unfortunately, for many players, this means a guaranteed decrease in the world ranking and makes getting into other tournaments, such as the US Open, much harder.
Players earn ranking points based on how well they perform at ATP and WTA tournaments, with more points available at bigger tournaments. A high-ranking position is a free pass to the Grand Slams, ATP Masters, and WTA Masters.
Novak Djokovic, even after winning Wimbledon this year, will drop from 3 to 7, due to losing thousands of points gained from Wimbledon. He will lose the 2000 points he got from winning last year, and will lose the 2000 points he would have gotten this year. That’s already a 4000-point loss. However, this point stripping has affected players around the 100 to 150 mark even more.
Liam Broady, ranked number 132 before the stripping, had a career-best performance at Wimbledon this year. Beating 12th seed Diego Schwartzman and getting to the third round for the first time, Broady is really feeling the loss of points here. As a result, he is likely going to drop to around the 150 mark. Responding to a tweet about Djokovic’s inevitable drop, he said “I am failing to see how this is punishing Wimbledon?” Instead, this point stripping is a heavy blow to the players.
Cameron Norrie, the British number one, should have earned 720 points from this year’s Wimbledon. This would have taken him from 12 to 8, which would have been his highest ever ranking. While phlegmatic about his situation, Norrie feels for the players around 100 in world rankings, such as Broady, who won’t get a ranking boost from strong performances in Wimbledon.
As Norrie says, “It would be nice to have that and nice to have that blanket of being back well inside the top 10, reaching a new career high, ticking the box, doing that, … I think it’s disappointing for me. But for me, it changes absolutely nothing. I’m still going to be seeded highly and still going to be in every tournament.” “What’s really tough is the players just outside the top 100 and guys like Liam Broady who made the third round, and Alastair Gray, who would now be in Slam qualies [qualification].”
Going up in the ranking, we have Nick Kyrgios, who is in danger of being unseeded for the US Open. For reaching the finals of Wimbleton, he should rise from about 40 to 15 in the world ranking, securing his spot in the US Open. However, with Wimbleton points being stripped, he will now have to perform well in some other tournament to hopefully scrape together enough points to qualify.
There are many more players who have been hurt by this Wimbledon point stripping. Before, many of these could have gained direct entry to the ATP or WTA tournaments or close to qualifying for the US Open, but now, they are out of luck.
Todd Woodbridge, winner of 16 Grand Slam men’s doubles titles and BBC commentator at Wimbledon, believes stripping the tournament of ranking points has “hurt both tours [ATP and WTA] … This tournament is what people, we tennis players, play for,” he told BBC Sport.
If you look up the tennis rankings for either men or women, you will see that there is a big red down arrow next to every name.
Whether the tours decide to refund the stripped points is up for debate, but until then, many tennis players have had their tournament opportunities rescinded.
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Unfortunately, for many players, this means a guaranteed decrease in the world ranking and makes getting into other tournaments, such as the US Open, much harder.
Players earn ranking points based on how well they perform at ATP and WTA tournaments, with more points available at bigger tournaments. A high-ranking position is a free pass to the Grand Slams, ATP Masters, and WTA Masters.
Novak Djokovic, even after winning Wimbledon this year, will drop from 3 to 7, due to losing thousands of points gained from Wimbledon. He will lose the 2000 points he got from winning last year, and will lose the 2000 points he would have gotten this year. That’s already a 4000-point loss. However, this point stripping has affected players around the 100 to 150 mark even more.
Liam Broady, ranked number 132 before the stripping, had a career-best performance at Wimbledon this year. Beating 12th seed Diego Schwartzman and getting to the third round for the first time, Broady is really feeling the loss of points here. As a result, he is likely going to drop to around the 150 mark. Responding to a tweet about Djokovic’s inevitable drop, he said “I am failing to see how this is punishing Wimbledon?” Instead, this point stripping is a heavy blow to the players.
Cameron Norrie, the British number one, should have earned 720 points from this year’s Wimbledon. This would have taken him from 12 to 8, which would have been his highest ever ranking. While phlegmatic about his situation, Norrie feels for the players around 100 in world rankings, such as Broady, who won’t get a ranking boost from strong performances in Wimbledon.
As Norrie says, “It would be nice to have that and nice to have that blanket of being back well inside the top 10, reaching a new career high, ticking the box, doing that, … I think it’s disappointing for me. But for me, it changes absolutely nothing. I’m still going to be seeded highly and still going to be in every tournament.” “What’s really tough is the players just outside the top 100 and guys like Liam Broady who made the third round, and Alastair Gray, who would now be in Slam qualies [qualification].”
Going up in the ranking, we have Nick Kyrgios, who is in danger of being unseeded for the US Open. For reaching the finals of Wimbleton, he should rise from about 40 to 15 in the world ranking, securing his spot in the US Open. However, with Wimbleton points being stripped, he will now have to perform well in some other tournament to hopefully scrape together enough points to qualify.
There are many more players who have been hurt by this Wimbledon point stripping. Before, many of these could have gained direct entry to the ATP or WTA tournaments or close to qualifying for the US Open, but now, they are out of luck.
Todd Woodbridge, winner of 16 Grand Slam men’s doubles titles and BBC commentator at Wimbledon, believes stripping the tournament of ranking points has “hurt both tours [ATP and WTA] … This tournament is what people, we tennis players, play for,” he told BBC Sport.
If you look up the tennis rankings for either men or women, you will see that there is a big red down arrow next to every name.
Whether the tours decide to refund the stripped points is up for debate, but until then, many tennis players have had their tournament opportunities rescinded.
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