The ATP and WTA ranking systems are more complicated than they look: rolling 52-week windows, best-of formulas, mandatory events, expiring points. These guides walk through how each one works.
Official rankings update once a week; points are decided the moment a match ends. Here’s what a live ranking is, how it’s computed, and why it shows a player’s true standing today.
Read the guide →The 52-week rolling window, the best-19 formula, the eight mandatory Masters 1000s, the ATP Finals bonus, and how the Race to Turin differs from the ranking.
Read the guide →The best-18 formula, WTA 1000 commitments, WTA 125s and ITF points, and how the Race to the WTA Finals is scored across the calendar year.
Read the guide →Why points expire after exactly 52 weeks, what “points to defend” means, and a worked example of when a dropping title moves your rank and when it doesn’t.
Read the guide →The exact points every tier awards at each round, from Grand Slam and Masters 1000 down to Challenger and ITF, straight from the tables our engine uses.
Read the guide →How the ATP Race to Turin and the WTA Race to the Finals are scored across the year, how the eight qualifiers and alternates are decided, and why the Race isn’t the ranking.
Read the guide →A side-by-side of the men’s and women’s systems: best-19 vs best-18, mandatory 1000s, the WTA 125 tier, the season finals, and the shared 52-week window.
Read the guide →How players returning from a long injury (or maternity leave on the WTA) use a frozen ranking to enter tournaments while their real ranking rebuilds from scratch.
Read the guide →Every term you’ll meet on a ranking table, from live points and the Race to byes, protected rankings and entry status, defined clearly.
Read the guide →Want to see the rules in action? Open the live ATP ranking or live WTA ranking, or read how we compute them.
