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**Peretool** · 10-29-2009, 09:18 PM

What's faux about the outrage when Safina has more weeks at #1 than a 4 time Slam champion?

I don't see how that is Safina's fault. Perhaps if the 4 time Slam champion strung together a more consistent year or had not played in the Graf/Seles era, things could be different. Again, not the fault of Safina.

As Thomas Muster once famously said, "I did not buy my points at the supermarket".

Any merit system will have faults if stretched to the edges, and that is simply what we had this year. Serena didn't do anything outside the slams and Safina made two slam finals and won a few WTA tournaments.

The ranking system isn't nearly as broken as some would believe, we just had a year of a lot of anomalies. That's all. Hardly reason to be outraged.

10-29-2009, 09:18 PM	#20
Peretool Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 516 Senior Member	What's faux about the outrage when Safina has more weeks at #1 than a 4 time Slam champion? I don't see how that is Safina's fault. Perhaps if the 4 time Slam champion strung together a more consistent year or had not played in the Graf/Seles era, things could be different. Again, not the fault of Safina. As Thomas Muster once famously said, "I did not buy my points at the supermarket". Any merit system will have faults if stretched to the edges, and that is simply what we had this year. Serena didn't do anything outside the slams and Safina made two slam finals and won a few WTA tournaments. The ranking system isn't nearly as broken as some would believe, we just had a year of a lot of anomalies. That's all. Hardly reason to be outraged.
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