Do the ATP ranking points ever reset to zero?
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No. The ATP uses a 52-week system of rankings and unless you were to never win a single match the entire year, you can't get back to zero.The primary ATP rankings, a.k.a. the entry system, will remove you from the "computer rankings" when you've played fewer than 3 tournaments in the last 52 weeks. The only way to go to 0 is not to have played any.
There is an alternate, also official, system called the Points Race, which starts at the beginning of the calendar year, everyone at zero and players accumulate points until the end of the year.
The race is simply to give casual fans a way to track players progress, but the history books, tournament seedings, etc. are all based on the entry system.
Ana Ivanovic beat world No.4 Svetlana Kuznetsova and won German Open! Did you watch it?
no they don't - the ATP has a rotating point system. every year when a player plays a tournament, they win a certain amount of points based on their performance.next year when the same tournament is played again, the player will lose the points he won last year. these points will then be replaced by the points he earns from his performance in current tournament.
for example - Roger Federer won the Australian Open this year, so he won 700 points ( i think). next year when the Australian Open is played again, he will lose these 700 points. he will then gain points based on his performance in the 2008 tournament.
if a tournament is discontinued, the points will drop off on the date it was played in the last year
No unless the player does not play for a whole year.
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