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Only points accumulated in the last 52 weeks are included in the rankings, however, which means that for each yearly tournament the points earned by their players from last year are erased and replaced with their newest results. This means that a low-ranked player can shoot up several ranking spots with a single exceptional performance at a major tournament, but also that the same player can crash back down the ranking list if s/he fails to \
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Only points accumulated in the last 52 weeks are included in the rankings, however, which means that for each yearly tournament the points earned by their players from last year are erased and replaced with their newest results. This means that a low-ranked player can shoot up several ranking spots with a single exceptional performance at a major tournament, but also that the same player can crash back down the ranking list if s/he fails to \\\"defend\\\" their points at the same tournament next year (assuming that their performances at all other tournaments are the same as last year\\\'s).
[Insert your explanations about seeded/unseeded/wildcards/qualifiers here]
Of course, the official rankings aren\\\'t the whole story and it\\\'s important to keep in mind that Grand Slams aren\\\'t the only events that matter points-wise (in spite of what news coverage of them might imply), which means that it\\\'s perfectly possible for a player to not win a single Slam and still finish the year as No. 1 if the Slam points were really spread out among other players and the player performed exceptionally well in all other tournaments. Or for a player to win two Grand Slams and still not be ranked No. 1 if they didn\\\'t make it very far in the other Slams and skipped a lot of smaller tournaments. The ITF World Champion awards given out at the end of the year are usually more indicative of the actual stand-out players in cases like these.
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As for the Courts section, I\\\'ve begun recently thinking that more casual fans/readers might be more interested in a basic overview of the year-long tennis schedule and the biggest events in it than details of how fast or slow courts are. The Courts section could be changed into an \\\"Events\\\" one with the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open, and \\\"Other Tournaments\\\" as the main bullet points, and some of the more interesting details of how clay and grass courts work could be merged with more general info about the French Open and Wimbledon. Plus, I haven\\\'t seen a single mention of the year-end championships in this article and I think it\\\'s an event that deserves at least a bullet point for its unique format.
[Insert your explanations about seeded/unseeded/wildcards/qualifiers here]
Of course, the official rankings aren\\\'t the whole story and it\\\'s important to keep in mind that Grand Slams aren\\\'t the only events that matter points-wise (in spite of what news coverage of them might imply), which means that it\\\'s perfectly possible for a player to not win a single Slam and still finish the year as No. 1 if the Slam points were really spread out among other players and the player performed exceptionally well in all other tournaments. Or for a player to win two Grand Slams and still not be ranked No. 1 if they didn\\\'t make it very far in the other Slams and skipped a lot of smaller tournaments. The ITF World Champion awards given out at the end of the year are usually more indicative of the actual stand-out players in cases like these.
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As for the Courts section, I\\\'ve begun recently thinking that more casual fans/readers might be more interested in a basic overview of the year-long tennis schedule and the biggest events in it than details of how fast or slow courts are. The Courts section could be changed into an \\\"Events\\\" one with the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open, and \\\"Other Tournaments\\\" as the main bullet points, and some of the more interesting details of how clay and grass courts work could be merged with more general info about the French Open and Wimbledon. Plus, I haven\\\'t seen a single mention of the year-end championships in this article and I think it\\\'s an event that deserves at least a bullet point for its unique format.
