In short, a player’s WTA Singles Ranking is determined by calculating her total ranking points from sixteen tournament results during a rolling, 52-week period, based on how far a player advances in a tournament. Every year, players defend points, so now that the professional tennis season has been suspended from March 9th, ahead of the BNP Paribas Open, and we will have no play until at least June 8th, the question arises: “How will we deal with the ranking points when the coronavirus pandemic is over?”
In the joint WTA and ATP statement released yesterday, the tours said that “rankings will be frozen”.