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"Roddick moves up rankings despite not playing" - Idiotic article!

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#1 ·
Seriously, they pay people to write this crap?

Want to know when your rankings system needs to be revamped? When a guy that hasn't played a competitive match in six months moves up in the rankings despite not playing the game he's improving his number in.

A tweet from Tennis Stats pointed out that Andy Roddick, the man that stepped away after losing to Juan Martin del Potro in the 2012 US Open, remarkably moved from 42nd to 40th in the world despite spending most of his time this month at Pebble Beach playing golf, not tennis.

How in the world did this happen? Well, it's complicated in the sense that the ATP rankings are insane and make no sense. Basically the rankings are a review of the past 52 weeks of play, so Roddick, who won twice before Wimbledon last season, is riding that success in the rankings despite not playing anymore, and two guys ahead of him (Viktor Troicki and Nikolay Davydenko) dropped down due to poor play.

It's so ridiculous that even Roddick retweeted the line from Tennis Stats, and no doubt got a good chuckle out of it as he continued to not play competitive tennis, and with the drought that is men's American tennis, maybe Roddick is still their best hope to break into the top 10 if people continue to fall early in tournaments.
:stupid: :facepalm: :eek:

Link to original: http://eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/tramlines/roddick-moves-rankings-retiring-054040439.html
 
#57 ·
Heya has to be girl who Roddick skipped during autographs,
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#58 ·
Who would want to be near him?
Someone who tolerates stupid deranged boys?
A gold digger? Oh, wait. Never mind.
 
#62 ·
An attention seeker. Roddick made you famous here.
 
#60 ·
ATP should enforce a rule here. If a player retires from a Commitment position, he should be forced to notify the ATP and should be taken out of the rankings immediately. But ATP should also make this public so that everyone knows it before the next Monday's rankings are out.

Otherwise no, it's impossible to keep track of all retirements, even if a player was famous. For instance, Ferrero is still in the rankings, somewhere below #200. He is not entering any tournament and not occupying any mandatory place (for he has not announced injury, so he does not have a protected ranking), so he can stay there until naturally dropping out.
 
#61 ·
some players retire and then play mug tournaments after a few months or even suddenly have PR :lol: maybe that's why not all of them want to be removed

like this brezac challenger guy, there was a thread about his retirement, and *bam* guy comes and plays again few weeks later

or this marino girl from wta, retires due to twitter attacks, drops in the ranking, comes back, uses PR, plays some tournaments and retires again due to twitter attacks... i guess it's safer just to keep a player in :eek:
 
#63 ·
True legend this Roddick. :worship:

He got up in rankings when not playing, Nadal didn't.
 
#66 ·
disgusting. fake love &

charity robbing in retirement just wasn't enough

for this

fat faced, spoilt pudding, USTA sponsored Memphis fraud

at least his swiss beloved is busy crying on vacation while real champions win titles

that is one thing they still have in common :yeah:
 
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