How ATP and WTA points are calculated

WTA Championship Ranking refers to the total number of points earned by female professional players in all competitions in the year, and the championship ranking is a reference standard for whether a player can qualify for the year-end finals WTA World Ranking refers to the sum of the points earned by female professional players in the past 52 weeks in the 17 best tournaments. (It is worth mentioning that Grand Slams and mandatory Tier 1 tournaments must be counted in these "17 events", and if you are absent, it will be counted as "0") The WTA uses a 52-week ranking system to calculate the 17 tournaments in which singles players have scored the most points in the last 52 weeks, compared to 11 tournaments for doubles players.

If an event reached the semi-finals last year and did not reach the semi-finals this year, how should the score be calculated, is it to deduct the points from the semi-finals?

The points in the rankings are the total points of the most 18 tournaments that players have played in the last 52 weeks, including the four majors, the nine Masters Series and the five best results in the rest of the tournaments, including the Masters Cup if they make it to the Masters Cup at the end of the year.

The four Grand Slams include the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open, and the nine Masters are Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo, Rome, Hamburg, Montreal, Toronto (alternate), Cincinnati, Madrid and Paris. With the exception of the Grand Slam and Masters, only the top five tournaments in which players participate (including ** tournaments and international tournaments) are counted as points, known as the "Best Five". The system is used to determine a player's world ranking to determine their qualifications and seeding for each tournament, with the current ATP tournament being seeded entirely by world rankings except Wimbledon, which is determined by combining results on grass.

The championship ranking system is based on the number of points accumulated by players during the season from the beginning of a season. It also only includes points from 18 tournaments (19 of the players qualify for the Masters Cup), which is the same as the world rankings. The main function of the championship ranking is to determine the finalists for the Masters Cup at the end of the year.

Only players in the top eight in the championship ranking in 18 tournaments in a year will qualify for the Masters Cup at the end of the year. There is one exception, though, and that is the season's best Grand Slam winner, who is automatically qualified for the Masters Cup if he finishes in the top 20, while the eighth-placed player will unfortunately not be able to participate in the Masters.

To give a simple example, in 2004 Gaudio won the French Open, but he did not finish in the top eight, but he did not fall out of the top 20 either, so he managed to squeeze out Nalbandian and Agassi to qualify for the Houston Masters Cup that year.

There is also a correlation between the world ranking and the championship ranking. In general, the world ranking points earned in a competition are 5 times higher than the championship ranking, such as the championship points of 200 for a Grand Slam champion and 1000 points for the world ranking

The WTA Standings is a cumulative system based on 52 weeks of races. The maximum number of singles points is accumulated from 16 tournaments, while doubles points are 11 tournaments. The races that count towards points are the 16 races in which players have scored the most points in the last 52 weeks.

These 16 tournaments must include Grand Slam, Premier Mandatory Tournaments and WTA Championship if the player participates in these tournaments). For the top 20 players, the 16 tournaments will include at least two of the five Premier (Dubai, Rome, Cincinnati, Montreal Toronto and Tokyo). To qualify for the WTA Championships, an athlete must earn points in three races, or at least 10 points in one or two races.

The world ranking usually refers to the 52-week ranking system, which refers to the number of points a player has earned in the last 52 weeks. In each ATP or WTA event, including the qualifying round and the main qualifier, each round has a fixed score value, which can be found on the official website of ATP and WTA for details of each round. In the Jingqi 52-week calculation system, each week, a player earns points for participating in the competition, and the points earned by him or her for the competition she participated in 52 weeks ago (i.e. at the same time last year) are automatically deducted.

So if a player has the same results this week and the same number of points as last year, even if he successfully defends his title in a Grand Slam, there will be no change in his World Ranking points to be released next Monday.