How is tennis rankings calculated?

Question

Is there any calculations at all or is it just the tennis associations decision in who's 'better' then who?

Answer 1

Its on a points system

look at http://www.atptennis.com/en/players/info...

different tournaments have different points and each player wins points depending on how far they go in these tournament.

Basically there is a table of points:

http://www.atptennis.com/en/players/info...

Other tournaments include the Tennis Masters cup (win) = 650 points.

In the ATP Masters there are points like:

ATP Masters Series Cincinnati = 500

ATP Masters Series Hamburg = 350

ATP Masters Series Monte Carlo = 350

ATP Masters Series Madrid = 350

ATP Masters Series Canada = 350

ATP Masters Series Indian Wells = 225

ATP Masters Series Rome = 125

ATP Masters Series Miami = 125

ATP Masters Series Paris = 75

Others include:

Basel = 250

Halle = 225

Estoril = 175

Dubai

Barcelona = 300

Stuttgart = 250

London / Queen's Club = 225

Chennai

Vienna = 250

Marseille = 15

Umag = 15

Rotterdam = 25

Answer 2

Go to these sites. It will tell you all about it.

Answer 3

it is how well they have done over a certain amount of time.

so it could be all the competitions in the last 2 years and the results are turned into ranking points.

the length of time is continually rolling.