{"id":4050,"date":"2021-01-05T11:31:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T11:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=4050"},"modified":"2021-01-05T11:31:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T11:31:56","slug":"happy-new-year-by-which-of-course-i-mean-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/05\/happy-new-year-by-which-of-course-i-mean-1963\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year! (By Which, Of Course, I Mean 1963)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another week, another enormous tranche of new women&#8217;s tennis data on Tennis Abstract. Today I present an extensive view of the 1963 season, including about 250 events and almost 3,000 matches. <a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/seasons\/1963_Womens_Season.html\">The season page is here<\/a>, so jump in whenever you&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the fifth amateur-era season I&#8217;ve added. I hesitate to use the word &#8220;complete,&#8221; because there is no clear line separating &#8220;tour level&#8221; from the rest, and for many of the tournaments I have only partial results. Even for the top players, some early-round matches may be lost to history. But as an in-depth view of the era, we continue to break new ground. For comparison, there were about 3,100 WTA tour-level matches in 2019, and we now have almost the same number of results from 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve made a few more improvements to the season pages, which are now available from <a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/seasons\/1963_Womens_Season.html\">1963<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/seasons\/1986_Womens_Season.html\">1986<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/seasons\/1963_Womens_Season.html#elo-rankings-h\">The Elo rankings table<\/a> now includes columns for &#8220;iElo&#8221; &#8212; ratings specific to carpet (and wood and tiles and whatever artificial surfaces that organizers put on the floor of their indoor facilities). The &#8220;i&#8221; stands for &#8220;indoor,&#8221; although iElo does not include indoor hard or clay results. Those were rare at the time, and are included with the hard- and clay-specific ratings.<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/seasons\/1963_Womens_Season.html#elo-ones-h\">The list of number-one ranked players<\/a> now shows how long each woman held the top spot&#8211;including in other seasons. For 1963, the &#8220;list&#8221; is rather boring, as it consists solely of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/wplayer.cgi?p=MargaretCourt\">Margaret Court<\/a>, but it does show that Court owned the number one position from the end of 1961 through to her first layoff in 1967. The exact numbers and start\/end dates are very much subject to change as I add more data, correct errors, and improve the Elo algorithm, but all told, I have Court at #1 for a total of 536 weeks.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coincidentally, I recently charted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/charting\/19630708-W-Wimbledon-F-Billie_Jean_King-Margaret_Court.html\">1963 Wimbledon final<\/a> between Court and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/wplayer.cgi?p=BillieJeanKing\">Billie Jean King<\/a>. While it was their only meeting this season, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/wplayer-classic.cgi?p=MargaretCourt&amp;f=ACareerqqC2&amp;q=BillieJeanKing\">one of more than 30<\/a> in their careers between 1962 and 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As usual, the raw data is now available in my <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/JeffSackmann\/tennis_wta\">GitHub repo<\/a>, and I gratefully acknowledge the work done by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisforum.com\/threads\/1963-results.447991\/\">Blast From the Past contributors<\/a> at tennisforum.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another week, another enormous tranche of new women&#8217;s tennis data on Tennis Abstract. Today I present an extensive view of the 1963 season, including about 250 events and almost 3,000 matches. The season page is here, so jump in whenever you&#8217;d like. This is the fifth amateur-era season I&#8217;ve added. I hesitate to use the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/05\/happy-new-year-by-which-of-course-i-mean-1963\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy New Year! (By Which, Of Course, I Mean 1963)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,111,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-tennis-abstract","category-wta"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}