If Tsonga wins his SF match against Wawrinka, Nadal will fall out from Top 10. (But I think that Wawrinka will win.)
Nevertheless, #10 is unusually low ranking for Nadal. But he does not defend many points in the rest of the season. (He did not compete at US Open. He lost in the second round to Wimbledon to Rosol.)
So he will have plenty of opportunities to improve his ranking again.
For singles, the seeding in the tournaments is rather straightforward: We simply look at the rankings and the players with top 8 (or 16 or 32) rankings are seeded.
However, for doubles competition we cannot use such simple procedure. There are ATP rankings and WTA rankings (and, in the case of j...
Is it On-topic to ask for suggestions for books related to sports, like I am looking for a newer edition or book similar to The Oxford Companion to Sports and Games, (I have a 1976 edition of it)?
Just being careful since I'm new here!
@edmastermind29 I spend my time programming after I get off school at 4pm all the way till 8 when I get my meals; playing chess and chatting with people are the ways I "unwind" :)
otherwise I get dreams about having 900 bugs in my code and wake up at 3 for the horror
@edmastermind29 Alpha Centauri! I'm currently living on Earth.
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@Unihedron cognitive exercise. i cringe at the thought of any exercise...especially after working all day.
> Alpha Centauri is actually a binary star system (designated Alpha Centauri AB or α Cen AB) whose combined visual magnitude of −0.27 makes it the third brightest star (other than the Sun) seen from Earth after the −1.46 magnitude Sirius and the −0.72 magnitude Canopus.
Thanks, Wikipedia
@edmastermind29 Yeah, everyone has their fields of interest :D