Thursday 20 November 2014

The 2015 Tennis Calendar

Have you ever felt the need to integrate the tennis calendar with your own? Well, now you can! Just like in 2013 and 2014, the importable ATP and WTA calendars for the 2015 season are here.

Both tours are still working out some of the information, so new events will be added as they're announced (like the ATP's recent addition of the Geneva 250 instead of the tournament in Dusseldorf). Additionally, the start/end days of the ATP tournaments weren't published yet, so I'm basing this version on the 2014 calendar - info about Sunday starts and Saturday finals might still change.

The calendar you see below has all the ATP and WTA tournaments for 2015, including information about tournament category (250/500/M1000/GS for the men, International/Premier/P5/PM/GS for the women), surface, and dates (including Sunday starts or Saturday finals).

If you're using Google Calendar, you can add these calendars (ATP and WTA separately, for those who only want one of them) to your schedule with a couple of clicks (in fact, if you've already added the 2013/14 version to your Google Calendar, the 2015 events are already there!).
If you're using a different calendar, you can import the calendars separately in XML or iCal format for the ATP, and the same for WTA (XML, iCal). Or, you can just use the calendar in this post, if you wish!
If, for some reason, you want to get only the 2015 events (the current calendars include all events from 2013 to this day), you can download the 2015-only calendars from here.

Enjoy, and let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see here.




Wednesday 12 November 2014

World Tour Finals 2014 - Qualification Scenarios (Group A)

After 4 days of incredibly one-sided results, Group A looks very similar to Group B in terms of possible scenarios. In fact, the scenarios are exactly the same.

Friday's matches are Djokovic-Berdych and Wawrinka-Cilic. Here are the qualification scenarios for every possible outcome of those matches (winner + number of sets). Where it says "GR", it means we're going to have to calculate the game ratios (games won out of total played games) of all players to know who qualifies (Cilic can only qualify if he wins in 2).


Wawrinka in 2 Wawrinka in 3 Cilic in 3 Cilic in 2
Djokovic in 2
1. Djokovic
2. Wawrinka
1. Djokovic
2. Wawrinka
1. Djokovic
2. Wawrinka
1. Djokovic
2. GR
Djokovic in 3
1. Djokovic
2. Wawrinka
1. Djokovic
2. Wawrinka
1. Djokovic
2. Wawrinka
1. Djokovic
2. Berdych
Berdych in 3
1. Djokovic
2. Wawrinka
1. Djokovic
2. Wawrinka
1. Berdych
2. Djokovic
1. Berdych
2. Djokovic
Berdych in 2 GR (see below)
1. Berdych
2. Djokovic
1. Berdych
2. Djokovic
1. Berdych
2. Djokovic

Game ratios for Wawrinka in 2/Berdych in 2:


Djokovic needs to win 2 games to qualify (and he'll be the first in his group if he does that).

World Tour Finals 2014 - Qualification Scenarios (Group B)

It's that time of the season again! Maths and scenarios and calculations galore.

Group B of the 2014 World Tour Finals ended its second day of matches, and we can already calculate most of the possibilities for the semifinal qualifications. (Also check out the similar scenarios for Group A)

Thursday's matches are Federer-Murray and Nishikori-Raonic. Here are the qualification scenarios for every possible outcome of those matches (winner + number of sets). Where it says "GR", it means we're going to have to calculate the game ratios (games won out of total played games) of all players to know who qualifies (Raonic can only qualify if he wins in 2).

ETA: Of course, Raonic's withdrawal changed everything, as Ferrer can't qualify no matter what he does. I'm writing this as the Nishikori-Ferrer match is at 6-4 4-6, so whoever wins, does it in 3 sets. This leaves us with the following scenarios:

Ferrer in 3 Nishikori in 3
Federer wins
1. Federer
2. Nishikori
1. Federer
2. Nishikori
Murray in 21. Murray
2. Federer
1. Murray
2. Federer
Murray in 3 1. Murray
2. Federer
1. Federer
2. Nishikori


The old scenarios, for those curious:

Nishikori in 2 Nishikori in 3 Raonic in 3 Raonic in 2
Federer in 2
1. Federer
2. Nishikori
1. Federer
2. Nishikori
1. Federer
2. Nishikori
1. Federer
2. GR
Federer in 3
1. Federer
2. Nishikori
1. Federer
2. Nishikori
1. Federer
2. Nishikori
1. Federer
2. Murray
Murray in 3
1. Federer
2. Nishikori
1. Federer
2. Nishikori
1. Murray
2. Federer
1. Murray
2. Federer
Murray in 2 GR (see below)
1. Murray
2. Federer
1. Murray
2. Federer
1. Murray
2. Federer

Game ratio scenarios: