Is it possible that the numbers crunchers at the WTA – or Bob Larson - can’t, well, crunch? Larson has been on a Geek Crusade about the way the WTA has changed its ranking system (eliminating Quality Points, see my earlier post), and he filed this puzzling report this morning in his (subscription only) Daily Tennis newsgram:
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The plodders win over the sprinters. The tortoise beats the hare. Welcome to real life.
P.S. A moment ago, I received an email from Wendy Grossman, one of the laborers in tennis media kingpin Bob Larson's vineyard. She notes that the resident mathematician is Robert Waltz, not Larson.