didine17 wrote:Thierry , i have not understood all u wrote but , for example , i have played 18 doubles tournaments ; i have lost all my matchs ( i won one by walkover ) and with my points i have participated to doubles masters : something is wrong , isnt it?
Didine, you cant really take Doubles Tour as an example simply because throughout the whole season there was merely a 16 active players who participated in Doubles Tour and that number even decreased as we were closing the season and during the last tournaments there was barely a 8 signs up, so saying that its weird you participated in Doubles WTF is not really weird, it only shows that there was not enough signed players who were ranked higher than you. So it is only the problem of low participation of players in a given Doubles Tour, nothing more, nothing less, thus giving it as an example is plainly wrong.
This however, applies same for Singles Tour. I noticed you opened multiple threads about ranking points and draw issues. You cant really expect it will reflect real ATP Tour simply because we dont have 1500+ active players, but merely 70 at best who plays more than 2 tournaments a year. So if you wondering you can still participate at 250's category tournaments or that you are Seeded in challengers and futures, even though your W/L is deeply negative, is only because there is not enough players who would stand higher than you. You have to realize that even if you wont win a match in a given tournament, you still get 5 points from 1st round loss, but because at challengers and futures tend to have more W/O, many times you end up getting into the 2nd round without even playing and thus you gained 15 points for that tournament. Now if you play 30 tournaments a year, with average 10/tournament, you will end up having 300 points in ranking which is high enough to be seeded in lower tournaments. And honestly, you cant do nothing with this because this issue is only related to amount of active players.
Hopefully you got what i wanted to say and until TE ITST has at least 200+ active players, this problem will be there. So again, this more the problem of PLAYER BASE than system problem.