[networthy]

Originally Posted by networthy

And with a reasonably good chance at the final (plays the winner of Kulichkova and Mertens).

Kulichkova it is (16 yo and already former world #3). Good luck, Ana!

[croat123]

Tough match, but she can do it!

[JarkaFish]

The title is hers to lose.

[petar_pan]

Originally Posted by 18majors

Sharapova was 14 when she lost in Wimbledon junior final.

Yeah, I checked that. She was 4 months younger than Ana is. I can't believe Ana's is of that potentia. I mean, she is great potenital, but I don't know hom much is that great.

[networthy]

Ana is playing her doubles match right now. She and Zhao lost the first set 46 but came from behind (a break down, I think) in the second to win 76(5).

It might be expecting too much for Ana to make singles SF and doubles final, but here's wishing her/Zhao best of luck in the super TB.

[networthy]

They won 10-4! Ana is in the double final

[Mary Chain]

Ana! Win it all bb

[ma re]

Really wonderful to follow this year's junior event, congrats Ana!

I'm sure this'll do her a lot of good in the experience department in the year of her gradual transfer onto the pro circuit. Her frequent ups and downs do show she shouldn't rush with the pro events, cause those are typical signs of players still in the "junior mode", but she has plenty of time and can take it all at her own pace.

Her ranking points are getting a nice boost this week as well; her 80 pts from Wimbledon will now be replaced with 120 from here therefore increasing her singles points from 880 to 920. Add to it that one of her 30 pt batches in doubles will be replaced with 120, and we have nice points (from 380/4 to 470/4). In other words, She is safely past the 1000 pts mark In case of a win in both singles and doubles she'd have 1300+(710/4)=1477,5 points. Her eventual ranking will of course depend on how Siniakova does as well, cause she is not defending any major points either (although she has some small points from doubles dropping off). They're both still in the race here in Melbourne, which makes things all that much more exciting, but Ana seems to be in a better position cause she is still in the doubles tournament, while Siniakova lost in R2. Townsend will lose a ton of points for not defending her titles here, so she might easily land around #4 or even 5 after AO.

[networthy]

CRO is the only country represented in both the boys and girls singles SFs

[chingching]

Ana
A final is almost confirmed as Kulichkova is not good
Borna

[okramb]

Originally Posted by ma re

Really wonderful to follow this year's junior event, congrats Ana!

I'm sure this'll do her a lot of good in the experience department in the year of her gradual transfer onto the pro circuit. Her frequent ups and downs do show she shouldn't rush with the pro events, cause those are typical signs of players still in the "junior mode", but she has plenty of time and can take it all at her own pace.

Her ranking points are getting a nice boost this week as well; her 80 pts from Wimbledon will now be replaced with 120 from here therefore increasing her singles points from 880 to 920. Add to it that one of her 30 pt batches in doubles will be replaced with 120, and we have nice points (from 380/4 to 470/4). In other words, She is safely past the 1000 pts mark In case of a win in both singles and doubles she'd have 1300+(710/4)=1477,5 points. Her eventual ranking will of course depend on how Siniakova does as well, cause she is not defending any major points either (although she has some small points from doubles dropping off). They're both still in the race here in Melbourne, which makes things all that much more exciting, but Ana seems to be in a better position cause she is still in the doubles tournament, while Siniakova lost in R2. Townsend will lose a ton of points for not defending her titles here, so she might easily land around #4 or even 5 after AO.

No, they have a new points distribution for Grand Slams. Singles semi-final is no longer 120 points but 120+60 so it's 180 points. And in doubles it's no longer 120/4 for the runner up but 165/4... So if Ana lose all the matches that she have to play she will be on Monday at 1108.75

[ma re]

Originally Posted by okramb

No, they have a new points distribution for Grand Slams. Singles semi-final is no longer 120 points but 120+60 so it's 180 points. And in doubles it's no longer 120/4 for the runner up but 165/4... So if Ana lose all the matches that she have to play she will be on Monday at 1108.75

Where did you find this info? I heard something about it, but it's still not on the ITF page.

[okramb]

Originally Posted by ma re

Where did you find this info? I heard something about it, but it's still not on the ITF page.

http://cms.itftennis.com/media/136516/136516.pdf

Those are bonus points that are added to old points for Grand Slam. The main difference is that winner will no longer get 500 but 375 points and every player from 1/8 final to the final will get bonus points no longer just a winner. It seems more fair to me

[ma re]

Ah got it, thanks

So now I'm really puzzled about wether Ana will be #1 on Monday or not. I guess it's possible, but Siniakova probably still has a chance. I'm obviously too lazy ATM to do all the numbers all over again...

[okramb]

My mistake I calculated wrong for a bit...

Ana is currently at 1112.5 points if she lose singles and doubles match!!!