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Longest time between ATP or WTA #1?
Longest time span between the First and Last time at #1 (ATP)
Roger Federer was first ranked at the top of the ATP Rankings on February 2nd, 2004. The last time he was promoted to the top of the ATP ...
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Has a ATP / WTA / Grand slam ever been rained out?
For questions of this type, it seems reasonable to create a CW answer where various users can contribute the instances they are aware of, add references, etc. (We will probably not create a complete ...
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US open scoring system
During the non-major tournaments (so all tournaments except the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open) - both the ATP and WTA plays best of 3 sets. During the majors, the men play best ...
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Do tennis players go off court for a break before the next set after an even number of games?
The USTA rule for Changeovers have the following:
90 sec changeover break between odd games
120 sec changeover break between sets (regardless if the set ended even)
A bathroom break can be taken at ...
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Last tennis players to win Grand Slam on home soil
As of end 2022 US Open this is the list of last tennis players who won grand slam championships on home soil:
Men's:
Australian Open: Mark Edmondson - 1976
French Open: Yannick Noah - 1983
Wimbledon: ...
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10 title at Montecarlo for Nadal is a record?
From the ATP World Tour website (emphasis mine):
Rafael Nadal captured an incredible 10th Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters crown on Sunday in beating fellow Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-1, 6-3 in the ...
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How many times all Grand slams of a calendar year were won by players 30 and older?
Men's side
Since the Open Era began in 1968, and until 2013, this only happened in 1969.
That year, Rod Laver (born 1938) won the Grand Slam, which means he won all of them: Wimbledon, Australian ...
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Tennis Statistics By Sets and Games
The most detailed publicly available professional tennis match dataset I'm aware of can be found on a website called tennisabstract run by Jeff Sackmann. For the information you are interested in I ...
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How is lucky loser decided in WTA tournaments?
As of 2015, lucky loser in the WTA tournaments is still determined as the highest ranked player. See 2015 WTA Official Rulebook (internet archive):
C. DRAWS / 1. Singles Main Draw / a. Composition
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Longest time between ATP or WTA #1?
I took data from the Tennis ATP and Tennis WTA repositories in GitHub. They do not have all the rankings, so it is not comprehensive and Logan's answer will be more accurate.
From there we see that:
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Has a "lucky loser" ever won an ATP or WTA tournament?
Those players have won an ATP tournament as a lucky loser:
Heinz Gunthardt (Springfield 1978)
Bill Scanlon (Maui 1978)
Francisco Clavet (Hilversum 1990)
Christian Miniussi (Sao Paulo 1991)
Sergiy ...
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How many times a tennis player became world number one ranking without ever winning a grand slam?
ATP:
Ivan Lendl was the only player in the list who has won singles
grand slams prior to Wozniacki winning her only slam in 2018. He's known as one of the greatest players ever, holding
the world #1 ...
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Ranking from which week are used to decide who qualifies for ATP/WTA finals?
The week before is considered. For both the WTA and ATP Tours, every tournament - down to the very final week/tournament of the season - and all rankings points earned, are taken into consideration to ...
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Why are there wildcards for players which could get direct entry into a tournament?
In the case of challenger tournaments, this might be related to the restrictions for players with Top 50 ranking, see here: Do high ranked players need wild card to play a Challenger tournament?
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How many times tennis majors champions played in the qualifiers round?
After winning 2021 US Open, Emma Raducanu has become the first person to win a Grand Slam tournament as a qualifier.
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When was the last time a single country had three players in Top 10 of WTA rankings?
I don't know whether this was the last time, but it was the last time I was able to find.
On 24 May 2010 there were three Russian players in Top 10 (Elena Dementieva, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Dinara ...
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Ranking points for a player who received bye
The 2015 ATP rulebook says in section 7.18 Byes - Assignment and Placement that:
Any player who received a “bye” and loses in the second round shall receive second round loser’s prize money but ...
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Why is there no ATP Masters series 1000 event on grass courts?
There are quite a few reasons for this.
The ATP season is already very long, starting from January and ending in November. So, players only get a month to recover which is very taxing on their body. ...
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Do players get points for matches in Davis Cup and Fed Cup in ATP/WTA rankings
As of 2016, no. The Davis Cup used to for world group matches, but not any more.
From the ATP world tour website → Rankings FAQ:
What are the rankings rules for players who compete in Davis Cup?
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How many tennis players have finished the year as Slam-less World No. 1?
There is an answer summarizing the situation at the time when the question was posted. Here is a CW answer which can be updated when there are more players with No. 1 position without Grand Slam title....
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Has a "lucky loser" ever won an ATP or WTA tournament?
Lucky losers that won WTA tournaments:1
Olga Danilović (Moscow 2018)
Sources
Wikipedia article Lucky loser
Danilovic claims first title in Moscow after all-teen tussle - WTA website (Wayback ...
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How many times tennis majors champions played in the qualifiers round?
No qualifier to one of the four major championships singles main draw has ever won that year's tournament. The farthest a qualifier has reached at a major is the semifinals with John McEnroe reaching ...
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How are the different events classified according to tiers on the Women's Tennis circuit?
In 2009 WTA has reformed categories for tournaments (source).
Since 2009 tournaments are splitted in:
4 Premier Mandatory (1000 points each)
5 Premier 5 (900 points)
12 Premier (470 points)
several ...
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Has a ATP / WTA / Grand slam ever been rained out?
ATP/WTA tournaments last one week, only Grand Slam ones last two weeks.
Tournaments schedule are planned to manage weather problems, sometimes it happened that a player has played two singles match ...
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Which tennis number one played the fewest tournaments in a year?
I am assuming OP means ending the year number one with the fewest tournaments played? As for that, the answer is a tie! In 1986, Ivan Lendl played in 15 tournaments, and in 2014, Novak Djokovic played ...
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What's the fastest grand slam tennis singles won
For male players (only champions that played 7 full matches (no retirements or walkovers) are considered). data is by Jeff Sackmann, but it's not entirely complete. Time (last column) is in minutes.
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Has any player beat both of the Williams sisters in singles games within a week?
2001 Australian Open
Martina Hingis defeated Serena in QF 6-2 3-6 8-6 and Venus in SF 6-1 6-1
Martina lost the final though to Jennifer Capriati.
2007 US Open
Justine Henin defeated Serena in QF 7-6 6-...
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What happens if Hawk Eye determines a call was wrong, but no player challenged the call?
They're not using lines judges at the 2021 Australian Open this year due to the pandemic, an effort to reduce the number of people involved in the matches and the tournament in general. We saw the ...
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How many times a tennis player became world number one ranking without ever winning a grand slam?
Yes. Caroline Wozniacki was number one on the WTA Tour for 67 weeks but has never won a Grand Slam title, her best results being runner-up at the US Open in 2009 and 2014.
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