Ranking Watch
 

Where's my old ranking thread gone?

Anyway, with Dementieva's loss today Venus is a shoe in to get back into the top 5.

Here are the current ranking points with each player's performance at last year's AO and the points they won.

Serena 9,195 (W/2000)
Safina 7,600 (F/1400) 6,480
Kuznetsova 6,081 (QF/500) 5,801
Wozniacki 5,875 (3RD/160) 5,995
Dementieva: 5,505 (SF/900) 4,705
Venus: 5,126 (2nd/100)
Azarenka: 4,740 (4th/280)
Jankovic: 3,965 (4th/280)
Zvonareva: 3,560 (SF/900)
Radwanska: 3,450 (1st/5)
Bartoli: 3,325 (QF/500)

Of course most of the players behind Venus could only take her spot by going extremely deep (with Venus losing early) and some need to win the whole thing and it's unlikely that some would win the AO...but you never know. Zvonareva can't overtake Venus even with a win down under.

So, Dementieva is down 800 points because GS results are mandatory. Venus will pass her in the rankings and it'll take a big effort from one of the players behind Venus to get into the top 5 ahead of her. Let's hope Venus can go deep in Melbourne.

As for doubles Venus and Serena have 2,000 points to defend and Bluber only have 500 points to defend. So Venus and Serena can't catch them here and will have to work hard to keep the gap at 1,200 points.

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Dementieva could actully go down to number 9...
!!!

Venus to take the 2nd Rank after AO!!!

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God i remember those cursed "Venus has a chance to be number X" threads popping up every week last year, and then she would lose immediately ...

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Good thing this one is titled Ranking Watch.

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but i saw a thread in GM

"Serena and Venus could be number 1 and 2 after AO"

i saw it somewhere...
and it has a similar title...

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well we cant go around the forums talkin about superstitions lol. Lets stop it completely. it makes us sound incredibly old. i can picutr us all walking around hunched over heads down with arms folded and once were hear or see the words Venus and yellow, we lose our wits. lol.

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So true.

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win the Australian Open beating Serena and Kim/Justine in the process and who cares if she is 9999!:lol:

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Yeah. I used to call them jinx threads and I hated how they relished and relied on other players falling short and slipping down the rankings rather than Venus doing well and actually winning. Karma, and all that stuff...

(I don't buy into the yellow jinx, but I strongly suspect that the ESPN jinx is real... :o)

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Well, there was a ranking thread for quite a while and it never did her any harm. I think it was still around during her 2008 successes.

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JJ's out now. Things are looking good.

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Well she's #5 for after Melbourne, unless Vika does something big and Venus loses early, they have a 500 point gap.

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I'd love the same but if she doesn't win, I'd be at least a little consoled by a rise in the rankings.

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Well I'll be somewhat happy if Venus rises up the rankings because she's earning points as opposed to someone above her not being able to defend points.

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needs to get to final or win probably to overtake kuzzie and caro, assuming they both lose in the QF.