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The problem is it is different 128 in each major, and the overlap across all four majors in a year is significantly less than 100. People move up and down the r
by p1esk 2y ago
The problem is it is different 128 in each major, and the overlap across all four majors in a year is significantly less than 100. People move up and down the rankings a lot. To actually make a living you need to be consistently in the top 100, year after year. Your two examples are both very good players who spent most of the last 6 months well inside of top 100: in Feb, van Assche was #68 and Nishioka was #47. Of course they did well. Look at those who spent the last 12 months outside of top 100, and remember that total expenses of tour life can get as high as $20k/mo.
- TeaBrain 2y agoThe players that compete in each of the majors does not vary that widely. The most points come from the higher tiered tournaments and to get into the higher tiered tournaments, a player has to have a higher amount of points, which grants the player direct entry, which is how most players get into tournaments. The only alternatives to get into tournaments are entry by wildcard or qualification via a qualification tournament, each of which only grants entry to a small minority of players in any given tournament. For the US Open, the top 101 ATP ranking spots are given direct entry. As I mentioned, ranking spots are largely self-reinforcing, so the entries do not vary considerably. Also, players outside the top 100 are not spending $20k per month to tour. That is a wildly inaccurate even for most players inside the top 100.