who the hell cares about the sony wta championsip? henin is so much better than everyone that serena cant even brag anymore. the only thing interesting is how big she will be when she shows up.

boring!

i cant wait to see it, who is showing the wta championships and will it be on TV live?

With the betting scandals, arent’ we delving into something deeper and more sensational? — That there is an underlying organized crime element that has infiltrated professional tennis and may be bullying our players (as is SOP for organized crime).

I feel fear for some of them…

Is it that everyone (players, coaches, etc. )knows who is calling the players with the “throw the match” pitch, but may be keeping quiet to keep themselves and their families safe????

What do you think?

Is it true that both Tennis & Versus Channels will carry the WTA Matches?? I know that Versus starts on Tues. & runs thru the day! I wish that WTA would post such showings!!

“I wish that WTA would post such showings!!”

I agree that it would be good if the people that are in charge of promoting tennis knew what they were doing. how come I dont see commercials for the year end championships like for other sports?

WTA YEC:

Versus will show the singles. The TC will show doubles. (Does anyone care about doubles? Ever since they introduced no-ad to doubles, I gave up, I don’t watch.) Non-US is Eurosport.

Versus “live” schedule is:

Noon-7pm, Tue-Fri, 11/6-11-9, 3 RR per day. 12 Total. Yellow plays Yellow, Red plays Red. Four players in each group. Each player plays the other 3. Yellow(JH,JJ,SW,AC) Red(SK,AI,MS,DH) Alternates(Marion Bartoli and Elena Dementieva). Colors are determined by the country, in this case Spain. Venus, who finished 7th, bailed out.

4pm-8pm, Sat, 11/10, SF, 4 players make SF, #1 plays other group’s #2.

5pm-7pm, Sun, 11/11, Final

Interesting note: There are two different rankings (Race to YE and last 52 weeks). The “race” determines who plays, but the 52 week ranking determines seed???!! For example: Maria Sharapova ended 9th in the “race” but is 6th in 52 week ranking.

Note: The above Versus times are Eastern Time.

Richard Vach said: “Nikolay Davydenko, already under investigation for involvement in potential match-fixing, getting fined repeatedly for apparently tanking (”not putting forth best effort”) in matches.”

Richard, I think the word “repeatedly” is misleading. I’m only aware of one fine (at the St. Petersburg Open against Marin Cilic). Are you aware of another fine? If so, I cannot find where this has been reported.

John.. is the same ranking.. so many people is confused with this… i dont know if i can explain it but im going to try.

YE is ranking for the year, in this ranking every player starts the ranking with 0 points at the beginning of the year.. Both rankings become the exact same one at the end of the year..!

Currently Sharapova is 9th on the race because the points she gain in Madrid last year doesnt count on this ranking but in the last 52 weeks she had those points…

I hope u can understand this better when Madrid ends and u can see that the rankings r the same

Edward said “Both rankings become the exact same one at the end of the year..!”

This is not true. The “race” rankings include every tournament. The 52 week rankings are the best of 17.

1) Davydenko won his appeal and his $2000 fine has been overturned.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22754752-3162,00.html

2) He also gave his view of the infamous Betfair match.

http://www.tennisnews.com/exclusive.php?pID=22804

thanks for the GREAT post! Very useful…

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