Retirement, and the battle for #1 in women's singles

[BrushedBigJJ]

It's that time for me. The masters in Cincinnati will be my last itst topspin 4 tournament in both the men's and women's. I've been tired of Topspin 4 gameplay for a while, it feels even less like real tennis than before. However I do plan to keep doing itst in the future, hopefully Topspin 5 is more like topspin 3 than topspin 4. The way itst runs these tournaments is really well done. And they do it without charging money which is the most impressive part.

After my loss in last years women's US Open final I for some reason decided that getting to #1 would avenge that loss. At the time I was 10000+ points behind the current #1. Skip forward 7 months, from Sept. 2012, to April 2013. I did an interview with itst about the women's tour and in the interview I did say I wanted to get to #1. A week or two later Swifty beat me in a 500 tournament final, and out of the blue, in the post match interview, he said he was after the #1 spot. What a coincidence? He clearly wanted to have a public battle, which I was fine with.

Now because the xbox 360 side of Topspin 4 is dieing quite quickly there has to be an ending point because small tournaments allow high ranked players to get byes and get a ton of points for not even winning a match, which can really warp the points. So I decided whoever is #1 between myself and Swifty at the end of the US Open would be the winner of our battle. I felt that was fair because between May 2013 and the end of the US Open there was 4000 points from masters events, 6000 points from slams, and a handful of other points from 250 and 500 tournaments. So there was plenty of points available for both of us.

Swifty was able to cut the points down to around 2000 after the clay and grass court season. If he had won both hard court masters events it would have been whoever did better at the US Open would come out on the other side as #1. However when the masters in Canada came, he was knocked out in his first match. He was given 180 points without winning a set because the tournament entry list was so small. I was lucky enough to win that tournament. That put the point gap back to around 4000 between us. I knew then all I needed to do was win my first match in Cincinnati and I was guaranteed the #1 spot after the US Open:
1. no matter what he does at Cincinnati or the US Open,
2. without me entering the US Open, and
3. even with me losing my 1200 points from my US Open finals appearance last year.

The next tour I'm apart of I plan to have nothing to do with point chasing. Been there done that. But when someone says they are going to take the #1 spot from you mainly in an attempt to embarrass you, it sure does feel good to come out on top!

Bold statement....you may get it but if i carry on playing ws you wont have it for long/at all

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[Burna747]

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[swifty512]

Retire with your 1 grand slam niiiiiiice. I stand by what i said, if i had taken it as seriously as i did earlier, i would of had my #1 ranking but to be honest id rather have the grand slams as they show who really is the best and seeing as i have more than you, i dont need to say any more.

See ya loser

[DennieFR1908]

Retire with your 1 grand slam niiiiiiice. I stand by what i said, if i had taken it as seriously as i did earlier, i would of had my #1 ranking but to be honest id rather have the grand slams as they show who really is the best and seeing as i have more than you, i dont need to say any more.

See ya loser

Pff what's up with the attitude swifty? You where nothing on ps3 tour so you retired lol... you have no right to talk like that with sh0case or fifa tee on tour you wouldn't win a tournament.

[BrushedBigJJ]

if i had taken it as seriously as i did earlier, i would of had my #1 ranking but to be honest id rather have the grand slams as they show who really is the best and seeing as i have more than you, i dont need to say any more.

Do you really expect anyone to believe you suddenly stopped taking it seriously? You were 3 tournament wins away from being able to rub it in my face that you took the #1 spot which you couldn't wait to do. You made it about being number 1, that's what I focused on, not slams. If you wanted to make it about slams you should have said that before the French open. How can you lose at challenging someone to something in the past?
......Hey swifty, I bet I'll announce my retirement from Xbox ts4 itst before you do...I win

Pff what's up with the attitude swifty? You where nothing on ps3 tour so you retired lol... you have no right to talk like that with sh0case or fifa tee on tour you wouldn't win a tournament.

Swifty was the only way to compare and contrast the ps3 vs the Xbox tour after fifa/shocase. But I will say I played ivolini on the Xbox world tour 3 to 5 times and won all of them. If it was someone pretending to be ivolini then never mind, but if it was him that needs to be part of the equation when comparing the 2 tours.

[DennieFR1908]

It wasn't my intention to argue about which tour is the better anyway, I just think Swifty overestimates himself big time and could show some more respect for great players as yourself.

[BrushedBigJJ]

Thanks for having my back. I know there was a comparison of the two tours on another post, I should have put it there instead of here, my bad. And when the Xbox tour dies and swifty is forced to go back to the ps3 tour...go easy on him this time

[swifty512]

It wasn't my intention to argue about which tour is the better anyway, I just think Swifty overestimates himself big time and could show some more respect for great players as yourself.

I dont overestimate myself, im better than brushed and you called him a great player, so therefore i must be better than great. And i didnt retire from ps3 i just dont have time to play both and i prefer the xbox so i play it. Besides ive won plenty of stuff on the ps3 including a grand slam, so just like yourself, your comments are irrelevant.

[swifty512]

And brushed i have told u many times its about grand slams but the #1 was just to back up that im better than you. I dont take top spin seriously any more hence why i have lost by walkovers, no matches etc because i wasnt fussed about it. You know im better than u, my results say im better than you but you cling on to your fake worlds best ranking and that lonely grand slam and retire.

[BrushedBigJJ]

I dont take top spin seriously any more hence why i have lost by walkovers, no matches etc because i wasnt fussed about it.

I knew you would say that which is why I made sure to say I had it locked up before you started your walkover/no match routine. Funny how you suddenly didn't take topspin 4 seriously after a first round ws loss and then 2 men's losses 6-2 6-2 and 6-3 6-3. What a coincidence.

[swifty512]

It was before hence the defeats, durrr. You have seen my results this year, so if i lose in the early rounds consecutively then clearly somethings wrong. Brushed you know if i was taking it seriously that #1 spot would be gone, you have pretty much said this before. So stop acting as if your retirement isnt because of the fact that you know this was your only chance to go out on 'top', when the person who really is the #1, isnt playing well/at all. Bravo to you

[BrushedBigJJ]

It was before hence the defeats, durrr. You have seen my results this year, so if i lose in the early rounds consecutively then clearly somethings wrong.

Ok Dennie I'm a believer, Swifty over estimates himself.

2 players gave you those losses, Matteo and Deathdouspart. Matt gave you one Death gave you 2. I have played these players before and have played them recently, you haven't gotten worse, they just got better, I've seen their improvement with my own 2 eyes across the net. Recently I played Matteo in a practice set and won in a close tiebreak. I barely beat Death in our recent itst 3 set match. I had 2 practice sets with Death before that match, I won the first practice, he won the second, both tiebreakers.

Basically all those sets could go either way, but if they had beat me I would have given them credit for improving their game and winning...period end of story.

[swifty512]

Yeah i played matteo yesterday beat him in straight sets comfortably so that proves your theory wrong

[swifty512]

And death do us part he hasnt got better he has a 100 serve! Players like that i switch off, its desperate on their part

[BrushedBigJJ]

I'm guessing ur talking about a practice match. What does that prove? And how do you know he wasn't experimenting? Beat those 2 in an official match, then boast.