2025 Rankings Game!

[El Dude]

I forgot to get this going, but I'll take submissions up until the first day of the Australian Open (January 13).

I tired to simplify things from last year, but on review I like the rules I came up - as I said in that thread, they allow for different strategies.

2025 RULES​

ONE POINT FOR:	TWO POINTS FOR:	THREE POINTS FOR:
Player is in top 10	Exact spot is correct	#1 is correct
Player has never been in top 10	Player has never been in top 20	Player has never been in top 50
#1 hasn't been YE #1 before	#1 hasn't been #1 before	#1 hasn't been top 5 before
Player ends season 30+ years old*	Player ends season as a teenager*	You correctly pick all 10, in whatever order

*The season technically ends at the end of the Tour Finals, but I'll simplify this as end of November.

NOTE - the first three rows are not cumulative (for each player) - you get the best one of the three columns.

You can also pick three "wildcards" - players you get points for except for the first row.

To take an extreme example, let's say you pick Learner Tien to be #1. You get 3 points in the first row, 3 points from the second row, 3 points from the third row, and 2 points from third row (he turns 20 on December 2, after the YE rankings are finalized) = 11 points just for Tien. In contrast, if you pick Jannik Sinner to be #1 again, you get 3 points for him (just "#1 is correct").

You can adjust your list up until the first match of R128 of the 2025 Australian Open.

 

[El Dude]

My preliminary picks (subject to change):

1. Carlos Alcaraz
2. Jannik Sinner
3. Alexander Zverev
4. Taylor Fritz
5. Novak Djokovic
6. Andrey Rublev
7. Holger Rune
8. Daniil Medvedev
9. Jack Draper
10. Casper Ruud

Wildcards: De Minaur, Tsitsipas, Fils

The end of that (about 7-10, plus wildcards) was really hard to pick as I had to whittle a list of about 15 down to 7. Will probably fiddle with it a bit more.

 

[El Dude]

I'm going to pester y'all:

@Moxie @MargaretMcAleer @mrzz @Fiero425 @Kieran @britbox @atttomole @shawnbm @Shivashish Sarkar @kskate2 @Front242 @tented @Nadalfan2013 @PhiEaglesfan712 @the AntiPusher @Federberg

And others, of course!

 

[mrzz]

My preliminary picks (subject to change):

1. Carlos Alcaraz
2. Jannik Sinner
3. Alexander Zverev
4. Taylor Fritz
5. Novak Djokovic
6. Andrey Rublev
7. Holger Rune
8. Daniil Medvedev
9. Jack Draper
10. Casper Ruud

Wildcards: De Minaur, Tsitsipas, Fils

The end of that (about 7-10, plus wildcards) was really hard to pick as I had to whittle a list of about 15 down to 7. Will probably fiddle with it a bit more.

1 Sinner
2 Zverev
3 Alcaraz
4 Fritz
5 Tommy Paul
6 Jack Draper (by cheating)
7 Francis Tiafoe
8 Rublev
9 Djokovic
10 Medvedev

 

[El Dude]

1 Sinner
2 Zverev
3 Alcaraz
4 Fritz
5 Tommy Paul
6 Jack Draper (by cheating)
7 Francis Tiafoe
8 Rublev
9 Djokovic
10 Medvedev

Who are your three wildcards?

 

[mrzz]

Who are your three wildcards?

de Minaur
Lehecka
Fonseca

 

[Kieran]

1. Alcaraz
2. Sinner
3. Medvedev
4. Rune
5. Zverev
6. Draper
7. Fils
8. Rublev
9. Fritz
10. Tiafoe

Wildcards: Tsitsipas, Djokovic, Fonseca

 

[PhiEaglesfan712]

1. Jannik Sinner
2. Carlos Alcaraz
3. Novak Djokovic (he wins Wimbledon)
4. Alex Zverev
5. Taylor Fritz
6. Alex de Minaur
7. Casper Ruud
8. Tommy Paul
9. Daniil Medvedev
10. Andrey Rublev

Wildcards: Grigor Dimitrov, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Frances Tiafoe

 

[Moxie]

I'm not good at these guessing rankings things, but I'll give it a go. I was trying not to copy off of anyone, but I'm definitely having a lack-of-imagination crisis ATM.

1. Alcaraz
2. Sinner
3. Zverev
4. Rune
5. Fritz
6. Draper
7. Medvedev
8. Rublev
9. Fils
10. Ruud

WCs: Djokovic, Tsitsipas, de Minaur

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Guessing games is not my forte either Moxie,
I will give it a go also

1. Alcaraz
2. Sinner ( btw his scheduled hearing will be the 16th and 17th of April, could miss out on RG and Wimbledon depending on/or if he gets suspended, I will leave him at No 2 for present)
3. Zverev
4. Fritz
5. Rublev
6. Du Minaur
7. Draper
8. Medvedev
9 Rune
10. Djokovic

WCs Tsitsipas Fils Dimitrov

 

[Moxie]

Guessing games is not my forte either Moxie,
I will give it a go also

1. Alcaraz
2. Sinner ( btw his scheduled hearing will be the 16th and 17th of April, could miss out on RG and Wimbledon depending on/or if he gets suspended, I will leave him at No 2 for present)
3. Zverev
4. Fritz
5. Rublev
6. Du Minaur
7. Draper
8. Medvedev
9 Rune
10. Djokovic

WCs Tsitsipas Fils

You get one more wild card.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

You get one more wild card.

Oh thanks I will put my thinking cap back on