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WTA Website Update: Good News Finally?

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Maybe finally something good?
 
#240 ·
Hopefully these are just teething issues to be fixed or they're not setup for the slams and it will work fine for regular WTA tournaments.

The draw brackets are only populating the first round and results are not being filled into the next round. Also, the player list has disappeared recently and I can't easily assess the quallies draw which was the reason I checked this at the first place. I used the players page to get seeds, WC, LL, Q info which now has become a pain. Although I have tricks of getting them by process of elimination, it's not ideal.


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#244 ·
Ok more fun, so I was looking for details on Queens quallies draw and you get some idea who is playing on the player list which has switched from main-draw to quallies with no option to bring back the MD list.

Logically I wanted to see the Q draw, which is what I have been doing for the past 5 years with little issues.

Probably not surprising there was nothing loaded with the new site.

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Anyway when you go to schedules, you can get the match-ups, but no clue on what the sections are.

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I'm sure the bracket will load-up sometime out of nowhere, you would think these things are all automated from a central data input somewhere but doesn't appear so, more work for the intern.
 
#245 · (Edited)
Ok more fun, so I was looking for details on Queens quallies draw and you get some idea who is playing on the player list which has switched from main-draw to quallies with no option to bring back the MD list.

Logically I wanted to see the Q draw, which is what I have been doing for the past 5 years with little issues.

Probably not surprising there was nothing loaded with the new site.

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Anyway when you go to schedules, you can get the match-ups, but no clue on what the sections are.

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I'm sure the bracket will load-up sometime out of nowhere, you would think these things are all automated from a central data input somewhere but doesn't appear so, more work for the intern.
The intern is just lazy as the official WTA pdf link are available almost immediately
 
#250 ·
So this is the new way to access files?

We have to know certain codes and get id's from various places to complete the URL's?

This is going back to the MS-DOS days. May as well fire up Wolfenstein 3D.
 
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#254 · (Edited)
OK they must have read all our complaints because I checked this morning, and nearly everything I have mention has been addressed. Draws, Player list tabs are all functional now, with Q, singles, doubles tab along with a clickable widget to download PDFs.

They even changed some small things like match text formatting, changed "Quarter finals" to "Quarterfinals" as I suppose it follows the standards they used for other rounds like "Semifinals".
 
#255 ·
OK they must have read all our complaints because I checked this morning, and nearly everything I have mention has been addressed. Draws, Player list tabs are all functional now, with Q, singles, doubles tab along with a clickable widget to download PDFs.
Well see next week or in a month if they are there because they were before French Open
 
#257 ·
Draws pdf links are in the form of the followings, if already available.
QD pdf: https://wtatennis.com/pdf/draws/yyyy/tour_id/QS.pdf
MD pdf: https://wtatennis.com/pdf/draws/yyyy/tour_id/MDS.pdf
DD pdf: https://wtatennis.com/pdf/draws/yyyy/tour_id/MDD.pdf

In this case, using the queens_id '1111' appearing on the page address
"https_//www_wtatennis.com/tournaments/1111/queens/2025/draws"

we have the Q draw pdf link
To complete @ciel1010 answer for the order of play , same format then at the end OP.pdf

So you just have to go the tournament page and get the "tour id" on the address bar

1127 for WTA 125 IKley for example
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There is also the official WTA/ATP mobile app that post the draws faster than the WTA website and more accurate order of play during combine WTA/ATP tournament
Thank you both, but you're missing my point. There is no link provided on the WTA website, nor is there any information about how to access the pdf files (or why it should even be necessary). So how the hell is anyone (who doesn't already know about these links that you've provided) supposed to find this information that they don't even know exists?

And now the order of play for Queen's Club, which was there earlier tonight, has disappeared, despite matches going on as I write this.
 
#260 ·
OK time to be a squeaky wheel again. So I'm looking for the latest rankings, obviously they've been updated if you're aware somewhat of the prior rankings and points situation. But I'm trying to find the ranking week/date that represents this ranking and its not easily detectable.



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So I click on the filters and the default is 2 June 2025.

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Trying to change to the 9 June rankings but it doesn't let me, however I'm sure the default shown is the 9th anyway.


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I'm aware there are ways to force it by formatting this type of URL string, but what it loads if you enter a incorrect date is just whatever is closest and doesn't make you unaware if you've selected a wrong date or not.

URL->Tennis Rankings | Official Women’s Tennis Rankings – WTA Tennis

/rankings/singles?date=YYYY-MM-DD
 
#263 ·
OK time to be a squeaky wheel again. So I'm looking for the latest rankings, obviously they've been updated if you're aware somewhat of the prior rankings and points situation. But I'm trying to find the ranking week/date that represents this ranking and its not easily detectable.



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I get annoyed by this, too. However, if you click on the download icon it displays the pdf file with the latest date.
 
#264 ·
Aces and DF columns looks to be swapped. The stats don't sort in order anymore when you use a query.

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1st Return % stats doesn't denote the unit but all other columns do outside rank. There are 6 columns but 7 row values.

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#267 ·
I am not looking at the WTA website in any great detail as some of you guys here. But I have found when I want to look up information, or if I am doing some research for an article I want to write, I am really finding it difficult to use this website. I don't find it user friendly and a bit frustrating. For example, looking up Head to Heads between two players, or titles won in a player's career.

This information is just not very easy to find. But it should be easy to find without having to spend minutes trying to figure out how the site operates before making progress.
 
#268 ·
I am not looking at the WTA website in any great detail as some of you guys here. But I have found when I want to look up information, or if I am doing some research for an article I want to write, I am really finding it difficult to use this website. I don't find it user friendly and a bit frustrating. For example, looking up Head to Heads between two players, or titles won in a player's career.

This information is just not very easy to find. But it should be easy to find without having to spend minutes trying to figure out how the site operates before making progress.
Use the ITF website. Crystal clear in both of your examples.
 
#279 ·
They didn't even list the players in the main draw in Beijing until yesterday! All we saw was the list of players in the qualifying draw.

And where is the rankings history (and graph)? It was not there upon the revamp of the website... then it was there... now it's not there...

What clown is running this circus?

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So many mistakes with this post.

 
#278 ·
Yeah I have been trying to pull stats and had problems with Huzhou quallies, San Sebastian quallies, some of these matches are still shown live on the site and in the second set from 10 days ago and then none of the Beijing quallies stats work, they show error 404. Strangely Jingshan seems to still work fine.

All the main draw matches work fine for me so far.
 
#280 ·
New site new problems. For the walkovers some matches they would list the match on the score tab anyway and result it as a walkover, other walkover matches they don't even bother to list it.

Maybe the interns aren't as good as they use to be or on recess.

This match is finished but they didn't bother to assign a winner.

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These ones are finished but they say its still live.

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This one has been in the second set for over 10 days.

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#283 ·
I know they are making a beautiful site with nice color and some bullshit stuff for seduce but...

It's like driving a sport car, with an 1.1 petrol engine :hysteric:

what an area ! o_O

Can't believe 20 years ago the protennislive scoreboard worked like a charm everydays and now we have this:rolleyes:
 
#286 ·
The WTA outdid themselves on YouTube.

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