On October 13, 2014, the latest ATP World Ranking had a surprise.
The top four are still Djokovic, Federer, Nadal, and Wawrinka. Among them, Federer overtook Nadal with the Magic Masters title and returned to the second position.
Starting from fifth place, Ferrer, Berdych, Raonic, Dimitrov, Murray, Kei Nishikori are arranged in order, all the way to the tenth position. The only change is that Murray rises slightly.
He gained two positions and returned to the top ten.
From 11th to 15th, Cilic, Gawain, Tsonga, Gulbis, and Isner sat in rows, eating fruit, but there were some obvious changes in the rankings——
Gao Wen, after reaching the semi-finals of the Magic City Masters, scored 360 points, which also allowed him to rise again and continue to refresh his personal best ranking.
Currently, Gao Wen's world ranking is temporarily ranked twelfth. As long as he works hard, he is very hopeful to end the entire season in the top ten at the end of the year; once achieved, then he and Nishikori Kei will join forces to create Asia's best
Brand new history, this is another scene.
The world rankings are based on points calculated over fifty-two weeks, with a one-year cycle, that is, points from the second week of October last year to the second week of October this year.
The championship points are calculated based on the points in the natural year, that is, the rankings listed from the first week of January to the second week of October this year.
The former examines the best performance in the past year; the latter focuses on the best performance in a natural year, and the basis for the year-end finals is the latter.
Similarly, on October 13, 2014, the latest ATP Championship Points, also known as the "Direct to London" rankings, still surprises.
By the way, from 2005 to 2008, the ATP year-end finals were held in Shanghai and were well received.
It is precisely because the Magic City Tournament Organizing Committee left a deep impression on people that in 2009, the year-end finals signed an agreement with London to be held in the Magic City; while the ATP Masters Series made adjustments, the Stockholm station was downgraded.
, Magic City has been upgraded to a new Masters Tournament.
From 2005 to 2008, the championship standings were called "Direct to London", and now, they are "Direct to London". In this list:
The top four are still Djokovic, Federer, Nadal and Wawrinka. Their championship points have all exceeded the 5,000-point mark, and they are far ahead. These four players have taken the lead in winning tickets to the year-end finals.
Starting from fifth place, the competition becomes fierce, because the championship points are very close, and the results of each subsequent week's events may cause the championship standings to be reshuffled.
Fifth, Berdych, 3945.
Sixth, Raonic, 3750.
Seventh, Ferrer, 3715.
Eighth, Murray, 3655.
Points are a numbers game. It can be clearly seen that Murray only needs 300 points to overtake Berdych, which is the points of a semi-finalist in the Masters.
Moreover, it is not just fifth to eighth place, there is also a group of eager competitors behind them, and the points gap is very small.
Ninth, Kei Nishikori, 3515.
Tenth, Dimitrov, 3450.
Eleventh, Cilic, 3145.
Twelfth, Gawain, 2710.
Thirteenth, Tsonga, 2650.
From a theoretical perspective, as of Tsonga, this is the last player qualified to compete in the year-end finals.
Of course, there is still a glimmer of hope for Gulbis, Agut, and Isner behind Tsonga, but the premise is that they all win the next three weeks of competition and rank fifth to thirteenth in the main competition.
All opponents were eliminated in the first or second round of the three-week tournament.
The difficulty can be imagined.
Therefore, the main line of sight still stays in front of Tsonga.
After the Magic City Masters, there will be three weeks of events.
In the first week, Moscow, Stockholm, Vienna, choose one from three, all are 250 points competitions.
In the second week, Valencia and Basel, choose one of the two, all are 500-point matches.
The third week, Paris, Masters, which is a thousand-point tournament.
In other words, from a theoretical point of view, if you win all three weeks, you can get 1,750 points, which will also determine the final place in the year-end finals, from fifth to thirteenth.
Qualified to compete.
Among them, Gawain stands out.
If anyone questions, as the US Open champion, Gao Wen was unable to qualify for the year-end finals? Isn't this outrageous?
However, it must be noted that Gao Wen only started participating officially in July, and the number of entries currently is only six.
Looking at the entire championship points ranking, among the top 100, Kyrgios, who is ranked 47th, has the smallest number of entries, with only 13 events; followed by Djokovic with 15 events, Nadal, Federer and
The number of Wawrinka's entries is also very small, all of which are sixteen stops.
In other words, the number of other players participating has all reached double digits, which is more than twice that of Gao Wen, but Gao Wen still ranks twelfth in the championship standings. Such a performance is incredible——
After only participating in half a season of professional competitions, half of the six events were challenge matches. As a result, Gao Wen has now entered the competition list for the year-end finals. This is Gao Wen's momentum so far:
Awesome!
However, considering that the number of Gao Wen's participations is too small, there are only three regular ATP-level tournaments, the US Open, Imperial Capital and Magic Capital. This also means that it is naturally difficult to compete with other players.
doubled.
Chinese media can’t wait to start calculating various possibilities:
In fact, the difference between Gao Wen and the top eight is only about a thousand points, which is not as exaggerated as imagined. Therefore, if Gao Wen wants to make history and reach the year-end finals, there are two paths.
One is to participate fully for three weeks, win all the relatively low-level events in the first two weeks, and then advance to the semi-finals in the Masters.
One way is to choose one to participate in the first two weeks, ensure excellent results, and then win the Masters.
Of course, Gao Wen needs to face a lot of competitors. Even if he does successfully reach the top and win the championship, there will be direct competition from Kei Nishikori, Dimitrov, Cilic, Murray, Raonic, Ferrer, etc.
The performance of the opponents is also very important. Once they can achieve good results in these three weeks of competition, Gao Wen will still not be able to rank in the top eight.
To put it simply, the conditions are very, very harsh. Not only does Gawain need to strive for success on his own, but he also needs to look at the looks of his opponents. He also needs to look at the looks of eight other opponents at once, which is really a bit busy.
This mathematical addition and subtraction problem is not difficult. The media can calculate it clearly. They naturally also understand the difficulty of Gao Wen's finalist at the year-end.
However, we still have to have dreams, what if they really come true?
To take a step back, it doesn't matter if it can't be realized. At least they once had hope, and this little bit of hope was an unattainable luxury just four months ago, and they couldn't even think about it. So,
Now that they can daydream, the media are very satisfied.
Hope is just such a thing, even just a "possibility" is enough to make people's hearts beat.
