Why are the grand slams given their grand status and how are they superiro to other tournaments?
490620
Before the advent of the Masters Series of events, the Slams were noticably richer than other tour events. Also, they are of the very few events where men and women compete at the same venue at the same time. Additionally, all men's matches at the Slams are played to five sets (although the women still play to three).
698700
Because the great players set a standard. Once a standard, or high water mark is set, that is the goal to achieve. So therefore that is the cause for comparisons.\nThen the newer great players names will also be mentioned in the future along with the greats. One day players like Tom Brady, Kobe Bryant, etc will be on the list.
1171902
yes, you need to be a professional player first. play in many satellite tournaments all over the world to get points, and to get atp rank based on your collected points. up to a certain points you may enter the master series, again to get more points and higher atp ranking. after then you may have a chance to enter the grandslam.\n\npls don't forget, to enter any of each category (satellite, master, grandslam) you need to go thru the qualifying matches. life is hard, and tennis life is even harder.
880556
It's all about two things, money and politics of boxing, mostly money. If you can remember a few years back when Tyson fought Peter McNeely, McNeely went from a complete unknown to being rated number eight by the WBC thanks to Don Kings good friend and President of the WBC Jose' Suliman.\n\n    There is no single body that is protected from greed and influence of others, even when you have a Champion who unifies the titles among the three majoring bodies WBC, WBA, IBF the WBO and USBA will still recognize someone else as Champion in the very same weight class.\n\n   Complete and totally disgusting!
25532
There was an strategy to find the best world wide players in the world and put them together. Most of expert commentators relates the problem with the lack of group strategy behind the game and the lack of focus and discipline of some of the players due to the extra activities they need to preserve (advertising campaigns, events and so on)
1031673
The most recent tournaments played and last so-many games played.\nBut it is open to interpretation. Why else is USA 5th in the world.
454323
Because it allows the athletics from all over the world to compete with each other for the chance to win a medal. It also give the host city to what kind of culture it has to offer to spectators from all over the world.
736866
Here is the Davis Cup website\n\nhttp://www.daviscup.com/ \n\nBelow is a link that describes the structure of the countries that qualify\n\nhttp://www.daviscup.com/about/index.asp\n\nIn a nutshell, teams have to compete in zones to qualify to the main tournament.\n\n------------\n\nHope this helps
1186044
I have been around tennis professionals for quite some time.  I have worked with professionals, I have traveled with professionals, I have given advice to professionals.  At that level of tennis the players are unbelievably talented, I can say without question that it is as close to impossible as you can get.  The odds would be like winning the Super lottery on back to back draws.  That is considering you started with a world class athlete to begin with, and had a team of the best coaches in the world working with him or her 8 hours a day every day.  It would be the same as asking if someone could win a major PGA grandslam event after playing golf for only two years.  For all practical purposes it is impossible, and anyone that says otherwise does not understand the skill level at the professional level.  Anyone that has worked with professionals, i am sure will tell you exactly the same thing.
438535
It is held every 4 years cause these guys have day jobs. They play for teams all over the world that have their own competition. It takes a lot of time and effort to plan these things too. That is also why they olympics is held every 4 years. It is more exciting this way too.
474179
The draw is divided into two parts: seeded players, and the rest of the field.\n\nFor Grand Slam tournaments, the field is 128, and there are 32 seeded players.  The seeds are allocated by the ATP (men) or WTA (women) ranking released in the previous week -- except Wimbledon, which has subjective seedings.\n\nThe 1st seed is in slot 1.\nThe 2nd seed is in slot 128.\nSeeds 3-4 are drawn into slots 33 and 96.\nSeeds 5-8 are drawn into slots 32, 64, 65, and 97.\nSeeds 9-12 are drawn into slots 17, 49, 80, and 112.\nSeeds 13-16 are drawn into slots 16, 48, 81, and 113.\nSeeds 17-24 are drawn into slots 9, 24, 41, 56, 73, 88, 105, and 120.\nSeeds 25-32 are drawn into slots 8, 25, 40, 57, 72, 89, 104, and 121.\n\nThe rest of the field is then drawn to the remaining slots.\n\nFor tournaments with 64 players, there will be 16 seeds.  For 32 players, 8 seeds, with the same basic structure.\n\nThere are tournaments with 96 or 48 players (or other numbers), in which case the top seeds will receive a bye in the first round.
477025
history and tradition is oaky but keeping it to australkia and england is just like saying that the ashes is only for good OLD WHITE BOYS. I think you are right that 2 teams can be added to the tournament based on the top 2 rating points besides the 2 countries.
436073
Each player is ranked according to his total points from the four Grand Slams, the nine ATP Masters Series Tournaments and the Tennis Masters Cup of the calendar year, and his best five results from all International Series Tournaments played in the calendar year. For every Grand Slam and Tennis Masters Series Tournament for which a player is not in the Main Draw, and was not (and, in the case of a Grand Slam, would not have been, had he and all other players entered) a Main Draw Direct Acceptance on the original Acceptance List, and never became a Main Draw Direct Acceptance, the number of his results from all International Series Tournaments played in the calendar year, that count for his ranking, is increased by one. Once a player has been accepted in the Main Draw of one of these thirteen Tournaments, as a Direct Acceptance, a Qualifier, a Special Exempt or a Lucky Loser, or having accepted a Wild Card, his result in this tournament shall count for his ranking, whether or not he participates.
1152227
in 1954 they used a seeding system on the world rankings:\n\n1. the teams only played 2 matches in the group, with the highest ranking teams not playing eachother. Any teams finishing level on points had to play eachother in a decider.\n\n2. in the quarter final the pools A and B, and also C and D were 'crossed'. Of the group A pool winner and runner up, the team highest in the world rankings would play the team from pool B (group winner or 2nd placed team) that was not the highest of the 2 in the world rankings.\n\nThis meant that Brazil (pool A winner) would play Hungary (pool B winner) because Germany FR were higher in the world rankings than Hungary were. Because England were higher in the world rankings they didn't have to play Uruguay because Uruguay was higher in the world rankings than Austria was.
150173
Racketball is like tennis and it varies from countries.
383331
Ginepri is playing well and Sampras has not played a match in a long time. However don't ever underestimate the abilities of Sampras. I mean he has won 14 grand slams. Come on. It could be a good match if Sampras is in shape, otherwise Ginepri is able to win.
430399
I do not know if it is better, but certainly more competitive. Today, you do not find "one player" that completely dominates the sport, like Steffi Graf did during her heyday. It is good to see players from different countries exceed in tennis. Makes the game the more the fun to watch.