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Should we bring the Round Robin Format to TT in 2007?

Should we bring the Round Robin Format to TT in 2007?

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#1 · (Edited)
The ATP is planning to test three different Round Robin (where players are placed into groups or pools, and the top player in each group then moves on to the knockout phase of the tournament) formats at select circuit events in 2007. The 13 tournaments testing round robin in 2007, subject to final ATP and tournament agreement, will be (listed chronologically):

· Next Generation Adelaide International; Adelaide, Australia; 32-player round robin; hard court outdoors
· Movistar Open; Viña del Mar, Chile; 24-player round robin; clay court outdoors
· Delray Beach International Tennis Championships; Delray Beach, Florida; 32-player round robin; hard court outdoors
· Copa Telmex; Buenos Aires, Argentina; 32-player round robin; clay court outdoors
· Tennis Channel Open; Las Vegas, Nevada; 32-player round robin; hard court outdoors
· Estoril Open; Estoril, Portugal; 32-player round robin; clay court outdoors
· The Stella Artois Championships; London, United Kingdom; 48-player round robin; grass court outdoors
· Catella Swedish Open; Båstad, Sweden; 32-player round robin; clay court outdoors
· Campbell’s Hall of Fame Tennis Championships; Newport, Rhode Island; 24-player round robin; grass court outdoors
· RCA Championships; Indianapolis, Indiana; 32-player round robin; hard court outdoors
· ATP Studena Croatia Open, Umag, Croatia; 32-player round robin; clay court outdoors
· Legg Mason Tennis Classic; Washington, D.C.; 48-player round robin; hard court outdoors
· If Stockholm Open; Stockholm, Sweden; 32-player round robin; hard court indoors

read more about it here: http://www.atptennis.com/1/en/newsandscores/news/news5.asp

Would you like to bring these RR events to TT? Please vote and post comments if you feel like it. This poll is only for TT players and it will be open for 30 days.
 
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#2 ·
Thanks for opening this up to the people Ville.

Personally I say no to the RR format, but what will happen is that players won't committ to the RR event that week and you will have a qualifers list bigger than the main draw.

At the same time it would mean more work for the TT managers and they have enough of a workload as it is.
 
#3 ·
The Challengers for the weeks that there are RR events might get busy.
 
#18 ·
No way. I agree that people are going to be avoiding the RR tournaments. I know I would be definitely steering away from them coz the format is just wrong for the game of tennis so it would be wrong for the game of TT.
Björki;4353593 said:
Would it be only played at the tournaments who also have RR? If so I'd alway play another one.


I agree with the above posters. I voted no. RR makes me nauseous. It makes me ill just thinking about how it is ruining our sport and I am not entertaining the idea of it in TT either. I will never play a RR TT event. I would rather play challengers, qualifying, or if all those are full, I would rather not play at all. I will absolutely never sign up for one of the RR events. Just as a matter of principle. I am strongly against it in real tennis, and I certainly can't bring myself to support it here.

If you must, try it once, and hopefully no one will sign up for it so you lot will never have the idea to implement it again. So many of us are so upset about it being put into play in real life and now you're going to ruin TT with it too. :shrug: I don't know, I just hate the idea of it.
 
#4 ·
I don't agree with the RR system at all, but it may be worth a try for the first couple of tournaments just to see what the interest in it is like

Personally, i would play in a RR tournament, but only if it was the tournament that i planned to enter that week eg. Newport, but i wouldn't specifically avoid it, even though i dont like the idea

If we are going to rigidly stick to the ATP calender with draw sizes/entry lists etc, then maybe for the first couple of tournaments it should be trialled, but if say, nobody enters adelaide, then it can be viewed as a failure and we go back to the straight knock-out system
 
#7 ·
I am in agreement with A_Skywalker here as in the RR format should be given a try and if it is a failure then "bye bye RR". There are 66 ATP tournaments next year with just 13 being selected for RR format. I'm not saying RR format is the way to go but even if we disagree with it we need to give it a go. WE should be playing ATP & TT like for like, I mean that is what TT is trying to emulate.

Therefore I vote yes to give this a go even though I don't think it will work.
 
#8 ·
I have the same opinion as before, we don't have to follow ATP in everything if it doesn't make sense or it doesn't fit TT. Round Robin format would be hard to bring into TT and it would make the game more complicated for the players and the managers (a lot of extra work). That's why I voted against RR.

Therefore I vote yes to give this a go even though I don't think it will work.
I also don't understand this comment, why do you want to give it a go if you think it won't work? :shrug: We don't have to try it, if we don't like it. That's why this poll was created, to see what the majority of players want to do.
 
#9 ·
I also don't understand this comment, why do you want to give it a go if you think it won't work? :shrug: We don't have to try it, if we don't like it. That's why this poll was created, to see what the majority of players want to do.
What I am saying is in my opinion I don't think it will be that successful, but I am willing to give it a go to see it's outcome. Just because I don't agree with it doesn't mean I won't give it a go. It's like everything in life. You should try most things at least once in your lifetime :p
 
#11 ·
Personally i hate the idea of RR

But since the TT game is very much like the real atp tennis matches, we should have the RR format in the 13 tournaments that ATP is going to test on..
 
#19 ·
I disagree too. This RR idea is the worst idea that ATP has had for years.Maybe we should try it for 2 or 3 tournament (for weeks where 3 tournaments are played) but 13 seems too much imo (as most of TT players seem against this RR system, i guess that they all will want to play in Munich and Not Estoril, in Halle and not at the Queen's ...).
I don't think i will play one of them so i vote No.
But if a significant part of our community want it whe should try it (maybe in Adelaide :confused: ).
 
#22 ·
Until it came out in the press, I thought that this RR business wouldn't even get off the drawing board... and that is where it should stay. It's all well and good at the WTC and TMC, but I don't agree with its introduction at the regular tournaments.

As far as TT is concerned, I don't want to change to RR. And if most people are opposed to it, what point is there to try it? Unless the system is successful for the ATP and more people become supportive of the format, it just won't work in my opinion.
 
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#26 ·
we shouldn't be scared to try something new ATP is doing the same thing just to allowed us to watch more tennis, so I am to give it try in those tournaments where actually will be played RR:)

I know here is not place but have to ask is going commiting to change and how?
 
#28 ·
As a new-ish player to this game I value the knock-out element that it has (mainly because I have had lucky draws :)) and feel this could be lost with round robin. In principle I am against it. As long as a solution may be found to deal with the new Round Robin format (i.e. what matches are TT Round One, Round Two etc.) I would prefer the game remained a straight knock-out format.
 
#32 ·
NO NO NO ATP are ruining Tennis with Round Robin which means all those muppets at the top rankings will continue to win and go far at tournaments. Don't do the same to TT.
 
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