by Ibarrategui » 01 Sep 2008, 14:48
For Venus and Serena... their year-end rankings are too low. Because of their injuries, they don't play as often as Lindsay Davenport. The game runs with year-end rankings : except in 2001-2002, the Williams never finish a year in top 3...
But, that is the consequence of
1/ the system of WTA rankings
2/ the injuries of the sisters
I have already say that, for me, year-end ranking is an inaccurate method to put a level for women.
I have made some changes for the years 2000 -> 2007
For the game : Davenport and Hingis, then Davenport only are always on the top... but in 00's they never win slams!!
My year-end rankings :
2000 : 1.02/ V.Williams (W, US, Olympics), 2/ Hingis (Masters, Australian final, TIer I), 3/ Davenport (Australian), 4/ Serena, Pierce, Seles
2001 : 1/ V.Williams (W, US), Capriati (AO, FO), 3/ S.Williams, 4/ Hingis, Davenport, 6/Clijsters, 7/Henin
2002 : 1.05 (TEM bonus)/ S.Williams (FO, W, US), 2/ V.Williams (finals in serena slam), 3/ Capriati (Australian), Clijsters (Masters) 5/Henin, 6/Mauresmo
2003 : 1/ Henin (FO, US), 2/S.Williams (AO, W), 3/ Clijsters, 4/ Mauresmo, 5/ V.Williams, Davenport, 6/Myskina, Capriati
2004 : 1/Henin (AO, Olympics), Myskina (FO, a lot of good results), Sharapova (W, Masters), then 2/ Kuznetsova, S.Williams, Dementieva and Mauresmo, 3/Henin, 4/V.Williams, 5/Capriati, 6/Davenport
2004 is a season withour clear leadership : I put all the best players of this year at the same level, it's more realistic
2005 : 1/Clijsters (US, Summer), 2/ Mauresmo (Masters), 3/ S.Williams (AO), V.Williams (W), Henin (FO), 4/ Pierce (FO, US, Masters Finals), 5/ Davenport, 6/ SHarapova
2006 : 1/ Henin, 1/ Mauresmo, 3/ Sharapova, 4/ Kuznetsova, 5/CLijsters
2007 : 1.03/Henin, 2/ Ivanovic, Sharapova, Kuznetsova, 3/ Jankovic, 4/V.Williams, S.Williams, 6/Chakvetadze
It's my personnal feeling to a improvement af the ranking system, not a definitive point of view.
(we can put 1.03 to the Graf 93, 95 and 96 seasons, 1.05 to the 92 Seles season and 1.03 for 91, 1.05 to 987 Hingis season).
and I put Sanchez 94 number one (ex aequo with GRaf)
For men rankins, there are few improvements to make...