Welcome to my blog about professional tennis. I have been playing, following, fascinated by, complaining about, and interested in tennis for the last 30 years. Now I have a forum to pontificate my views to all that are willing to click their mouse onto my blog.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Bring Back the Bonus Points!
This week Tommy Haas in the midst of another comeback from injury beat the #5 ranked player Jo-Winfried Tsonga at the BMW Open in Munich. This is a tremendous feat for a guy coming back from injury. Haas is currently ranked #134 in the world. In the old days Haas would not only would have been awarded the standard 20 points for winning the second round match he would have also been awarded 45 bonus points for beating the 5th ranked player. Instead his effort garners him the same ranking effect as Marcos Baghdatis got for beating the #138th ranked qualifier Dustin Brown. That makes no sense to me. Extraordinary effort should be awarded and reflected in the player's ranking. Bring back the bonus point system to men's tennis.
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