Chapter 627 Harsh Conditions

On October 13, 2014, the latest ATP world rankings contained a surprise.

The top four are still Djokovic, Federer, Nadal and Wawrinka. Federer surpassed Nadal with the Shanghai Masters championship and returned to the second place.

Starting from the fifth place, Ferrer, Berdych, Raonic, Dimitrov, Murray, Kei Nishikori are arranged in order until the tenth place. The only change is that Murray rose slightly by two places and returned to the top ten.

From 11th to 15th place, Cilic, Gawain, Tsonga, Gulbis, Isner, sat in a row, eating fruit, and there were some obvious changes in the rankings -

Gao Wen, after reaching the semi-finals of the Magic City Masters Tournament, obtained 360 points, which allowed him to rise again and continue to refresh his personal best ranking.

At present, Gao Wen is temporarily ranked twelfth in the world. As long as he works harder, he has a very good chance of ending the season in the top ten of the year-end ranking. Once he achieves this, he and Kei Nishikori will join hands to create a new history in Asia, which is another picture.

The world ranking is calculated based on the points accumulated over a fifty-two-week period with a one-year cycle, that is, the points accumulated from the second week of October last year to the second week of October this year.

Championship points are calculated based on the points within the natural year, that is, the ranking from the first week of January to the second week of October this year.

The former examines the best performance of the past entire year; the latter focuses on the best performance within the natural year, and the basis for the year-end finals is the latter.

Similarly, on October 13, 2014, the latest ATP Championship Points, also known as the "Direct to London" ranking, still contains surprises.

By the way, from 2005 to 2008, the ATP year-end finals were held in Shanghai and received rave reviews.

It was precisely because the Shanghai event organizing committee left a deep impression on people that in 2009, the year-end finals signed an agreement with London to be held in the foggy city; and the ATP Masters Series made adjustments, the Stockholm station was downgraded, and Shanghai was upgraded to a new Masters Tournament.

From 2005 to 2008, the Championship standings were called "Direct to London", but now, it's "Direct to London". In this list:

The top four remain Djokovic, Federer, Nadal and Wawrinka. Their championship points have all exceeded the 5,000-point mark and they are far ahead. These four players have already won tickets to the year-end finals.

Starting from the fifth place, the competition becomes fierce because the championship points are very close. The results of the next week's competition may lead to a reshuffle of the championship points table.

Fifth, Berdych, 3945.

Sixth, Raonic, 3750.

Seventh, Ferrer, 3715.

Eighth, Murray, 3655.

Points are a numbers game. We can clearly see that Murray only needs 300 points to overtake Berdych, which is equivalent to a semi-final point in the Masters.

Moreover, it is not just the fifth to eighth places. Behind them, there is a group of competitors who are eyeing them and the points gap is very small.

Ninth, Kei Nishikori, 3515.

Tenth, Dimitrov, 3450.

Eleventh, Cilic, 3145.

12th, Gao Wen, 2710.

Thirteenth, Tsonga, 2650.

Theoretically speaking, as of Tsonga, this is the last player qualified to compete for the year-end finals.

Of course, there is still a glimmer of hope for Gulbis, Agut and Isner behind Tsonga, but the prerequisite is that they all win the next three weeks of competition, and the main competitors ranked fifth to thirteenth all stop in the first round or second round of the three-week competition.

The difficulty can be imagined.

Therefore, the main focus is still on Tsonga.

After the Shanghai Masters, there are still three weeks of competitions to come.

In the first week, there are three tournaments to choose from: Moscow, Stockholm, and Vienna, all with 250 points.

In the second week, you have to choose between Valencia and Basel, both are 500-point competitions.

Week 3, Paris, Masters, which is a 1,000-point tournament.

In other words, theoretically speaking, if you win all three weeks, you will get 1,750 points, which will also determine the final berth in the year-end finals, and all places from fifth to thirteenth will be eligible to compete.

Among them, Gawain was prominently listed.

If someone questions it, isn't it outrageous that Gao Wen, the US Open champion, can't qualify for the year-end finals?

But it must be noted that Gao Wen only started to officially participate in competitions in July, and has only participated in six events so far.

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Looking at the entire championship points ranking, among the top 100, the one with the least number of participations is Kyrgios, who is ranked 47th, with only thirteen stations; followed by Djokovic with fifteen stations. Nadal, Federer and Wawrinka also have very few participations, all of which are sixteen stations.

In other words, the number of other players participating in the competition has all reached double digits, more than twice as many as Gawain, but Gawain still ranks 12th in the championship standings. Such performance is incredible.

After only participating in half a season of professional competitions, half of which were challenge competitions among the six events, Gao Wen has now entered the list of competitors for the year-end finals. This is Gao Wen's current momentum:

However , considering that Gao Wen has participated in too few competitions, there are only three regular ATP-level events, the US Open, Beijing and Shanghai, which means that if he wants to compete with other players, the difficulty will naturally increase exponentially.

Chinese media can't wait to start calculating various possibilities:

In fact, Gao Wen is only about a thousand points away from the top eight, which is not as exaggerated as imagined. Therefore, if Gao Wen wants to make history and enter the year-end finals, there are two paths.

One method is to participate in all three weeks, win all the relatively low-level events in the first two weeks, and then advance to the semi-finals in the Masters.

One is to choose one competition in the first two weeks, ensure excellent results, and then win the Masters.

Of course, Gawain needs to face a number of competitors. Even if he really wins the championship, the performance of direct competitors such as Kei Nishikori, Dimitrov, Cilic, Murray, Raonic, Ferrer, etc. is also very important. Once they can achieve good results in these three weeks of competition, Gawain will still not be able to rank in the top eight.

Simply put, the conditions are extremely harsh. Not only does Gao Wen need to work hard on his own, but he also needs to read the expressions of his opponents. He needs to read the expressions of eight other opponents at once, which is indeed a bit hectic.

This math addition and subtraction problem is not difficult, and the media can all calculate it clearly. They naturally understand the difficulty of Gao Wen's entry into the year-end finals.

However, we still have to have dreams, what if they really come true?

To put it another way, it doesn't matter if it cannot be realized, at least they once had hope, but this little bit of hope was an unattainable luxury just four months ago, and they dared not even think about it. Therefore, the media are very satisfied to be able to daydream now.

Hope is just such a thing. Even if it is just a "possibility", it is enough to make people feel excited.

(End of this chapter)