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* '''Player articles'''
* '''Player articles'''
: e.g. [[Juan Martín del Potro]], [[Leander Paes]], [[Roger Federer]], [[Laura Robson]]. These are collected in [[:Category:Tennis players]].
: e.g. [[Juan Martín del Potro]], [[Leander Paes]], [[Roger Federer]], [[Laura Robson]]. These are collected in [[:Category:Tennis players]].
:*<small>Use '''bolding''' on the player's name only once: in the introduction. Do not apply it on any world rankings (even if it's world number one), opponent's name, scores, generally on nothing. Update world rankings only beginning from Mondays the day the weekly ATP rankings are published (do not pre-calculate)</small>
:*<small>Use '''bolding''' on the player's name only once: in the introduction. Do not apply it on any world rankings (even if it's world number one), opponent's name, scores, generally on nothing. Update world rankings only beginning from Mondays the day the weekly ATP rankings are published (do not pre-calculate). Use common English spelling as found on ATP and WTA websites. Otherwise use press releases, grand slam websites, other tournament sites, books, etc..</small>
* '''Coach Articles'''
* '''Coach Articles'''
: e.g. [[Richard Williams (tennis)]], [[:Category:Tennis_coaches]], [[:Category:American_tennis_coaches]]
: e.g. [[Richard Williams (tennis)]], [[:Category:Tennis_coaches]], [[:Category:American_tennis_coaches]]

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While there are many articles within the scope of this WikiProject, they fall into a relatively small number of classes:

  • Tournament articles
e.g. Australian Open, Brisbane International. These are listed at List of tennis tournaments and in Category:Tennis tournaments.
  • Player articles
e.g. Juan Martín del Potro, Leander Paes, Roger Federer, Laura Robson. These are collected in Category:Tennis players.
  • Use bolding on the player's name only once: in the introduction. Do not apply it on any world rankings (even if it's world number one), opponent's name, scores, generally on nothing. Update world rankings only beginning from Mondays the day the weekly ATP rankings are published (do not pre-calculate). Use common English spelling as found on ATP and WTA websites. Otherwise use press releases, grand slam websites, other tournament sites, books, etc..
  • Coach Articles
e.g. Richard Williams (tennis), Category:Tennis_coaches, Category:American_tennis_coaches
  • Single-year tournament articles
e.g. 2008 Wimbledon Championships or 2008 French Open. Many of these fall under the Grand Slam Project, though there are also non-Slam pages, like 2009 Sony Ericsson Open.
  • When updating entry list and seeds do not rely on gossip, Facebook accounts / fan pages of players, commentary/news editor speculations. Generally wait for the official card to be announced.
  • Draws
e.g. 2008 US Open – Men's Singles, 2007 Brasil Open – Singles.
  • Only update these pages when the match is finished. When doing so use bolding on the won set gamescore and the winner's name. For tie-break rules see below.
  • Davis/Fed Cup articles
e.g. Yugoslavia Davis Cup team, 2008 Fed Cup. These are similar to single-year tournament articles, but probably require different standards.
  • Tennis by year
e.g. 2008 in tennis, 1995 in tennis

This list may not be exhaustive, so feel free to add to it. It's well within the scope of this WikiProject to produce guidelines and best practices for each of these article classes.

Notability

Before creating a new article please check its notability.

  • If it's a player :
Tennis figures are presumed to be notable if

This guideline applies equally to singles and doubles players. Junior players are presumed to be notable if they have won at least a junior Grand slam title, have been in the top 3 of the junior ITF world rankings or can be shown to meet the wider requirements of WP:GNG.

  • If it's a coach :

Since these are very rare article types, the most common case is when a player chose coaching after retirement. In all other cases reveal the coach's background to see if he/she notable. It is important as it could easily happen that a child player is coached by a non-proffessional or non-tennis-affiliated relative and cotton to him during his career (see Toni Nadal). The minimum requirement that can obviously qualify without doubt for coaches of players are:

    1. The player has reached the final of or won one of the Grand Slam professional tournaments.
    2. The player has entered to ATP top 10 for a week at least.
    3. The player was member of a champion team competing in a Davis Cup, Fed Cup, Hopman Cup (reserve players and team captains don't count).
    4. The player won and reached the final of another ATP Masters 1000 event/WTA Premier

These also ensure that the notability of one-hit wonders' coaches doesn't automatically granted with his/her coachee's success. (See Roberto Carretero for example) This guideline applies equally to singles and doubles players. Junior players' coaches are to be omitted otherwise it has to be shown to meet the wider requirements of WP:GNG.

  • If it's a tournament :
    Any tournament is notable that is part of the ATP World Tour (including qualifications) or the ATP Challenger Tour (excluding qualifications). The Futures and and all lower ranked tournaments should be avoided. Exhibition tournaments should also establish their notability on other grounds (several top 10 players present, notability in history...etc). When naming the new tournament page try to avoid the indication of sponsorship in the title and focus on commonly accepted/known name of the tournament (which is generally refers to the place, where it's held or a famous countryman that it is named after, though sometimes it is inevitable).
  • If it's a match :
    Only a few matches deserve their own article on Wikipedia. Please consult WP:TENNIS before creating such an article. To this day only 6 of them exist. See Category:Tennis matches
  • If it's a Davis Cup team :
    Every nation is notable.
  • If it's an equipment :
    Focus on its significance, usage, development and evolution, historical background and avoid advertisment and commercial purposes.
  • For rules, court types, stadiums ...etc :
    Though all of the possible articles exist, feel free to improve them. For a complete list see {{tennis box}}

Format

General format considerations

#1:Infobox

A full list can be found at Category:Tennis infobox templates

Scores

Tennis scores should be given in the following format, observing the use of the ndash separating the set scores, followed by a comma. Both winning and losing tie break scores should be added enclosed in <sup>( )</sup> tags, again using an ndash;.

  • format: 7–5, 6–7(6–8), 7–6(7–5), 3–6, 16–14
  • note the using of an ndash instead of a hyphen. Ndashes should always be used, preferably with the ndash symbol "–" rather than the ndash script "&ndash,".
  • 2009 Men's Singles final, Wimbledon
  1. Scores should not be added to prose unless strictly necessary, in such cases the tiebreak score is omitted. Just report the round and whether the player won or lost the match, and whom they played.
  2. In wikitables and infoboxes, the above format is to be used.
  3. In tournament draw/bracket-type articles (2009 Wimbledon Championships), both winning and losing tiebreak scores are required in superscript.

Sections

What items, headers, infoboxes, navboxes, etc. should exist in certain articles?

#2:The Lead

The Lead should be a brief summary of WHO the person is, WHY they are here (accomplishments), potentially WHAT they are doing now.

#3:History

  • History - Childhood, where grew up, college.
  • Early years - amateur playing career.

#4:Career

  • When they turned pro
  • Grand Slam tournament and other important wins
  • High point
  • Later years - sometimes players are known more for what they did AFTER tennis.
  • Results - If the scoreboard is more than {twenty?}; split out into a seperate article named "{personName} career statistics". Such as Novak Djokovic career statistics.

Otherwise the following wikitable is institutionalized (this one is for singles the doubles is the same format completed with an extra Partnering row before the Opponent in final row). Subsections containing this table should be named Titles / Career Finals / ATP Tour and Grand Slam finals or any other that refers to the content. Any other categorization is possible (Tour tpye, court type) only if this general table is also present.

Legend (pre/post 2009)
Grand Slam tournaments (1/0)
Tennis Masters Cup /
ATP World Tour Finals (0/1)
ATP Masters Series /
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0/1)
ATP International Series Gold /
ATP World Tour 500 Series (3/1)
ATP International Series /
ATP World Tour 250 Series (3/0)
Titles by surface
Hard (5/3)
Clay (2/0)
Grass (0/0)
Carpet (0/0)
Outcome Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final
Winner July 13, 2008 Stuttgart, Germany Clay France Richard Gasquet 6–4, 7–5
Winner July 20, 2008 Kitzbühel, Austria Clay Austria Jürgen Melzer 6–2, 6–1
Winner August 10, 2008 Los Angeles, United States Hard United States Andy Roddick 6–1, 7–6(7–2)
Winner August 17, 2008 Washington, D.C., United States (1) Hard Serbia Viktor Troicki 6–3, 6–3
Runner-up October 5, 2008 Tokyo, Japan Hard Czech Republic Tomáš Berdych 1–6, 4–6
Winner January 17, 2009 Auckland, New Zealand Hard United States Sam Querrey 6–4, 6–4
Winner August 9, 2009 Washington, D.C., United States (2) Hard United States Andy Roddick 3–6, 7–5, 7–6(8–6)
Runner-up August 16, 2009 Montreal, Canada Hard United Kingdom Andy Murray 7–6(7–4), 6–7(3–7), 1–6
Winner September 14, 2009 US Open, New York, United States Hard Switzerland Roger Federer 3–6, 7–6(7–5), 4–6, 7–6(7–4), 6–2
Runner-up November 29, 2009 ATP World Tour Finals, London, United Kingdom Hard (i) Russia Nikolay Davydenko 3–6, 4–6

Player Performance Timelines

For singles performance timelines, the following tables should be used for both ATP Players and WTA Players.

ATP Players' Performance Timeline

Tournament 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Career SR Career W-L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A 1R 1R 4R W QF QF W 2 / 7 25–5
French Open A 2R QF SF SF 3R QF 0 / 6 21–6
Wimbledon A 3R 4R SF 2R QF SF 0 / 6 20–6
US Open A 3R 3R F SF SF F 0 / 6 26–6
Win–Loss 0–0 5–4 9–4 19–4 18–3 15–4 19–4 7–0 2 / 25 92–23
ATP World Tour Finals
Tour Finals A A A RR W RR SF 1 / 4 8–7
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics A Not Held SF-B Not Held 0 / 1 5–1
Davis Cup
Davis Cup Singles Z1 Z1 PO PO 1R 1R W 1 / 7 19–6
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells A A 1R F W QF 4R W 2 / 6 22–4
Miami A A 2R W 2R F 2R W 2 / 6 18–4
Monte Carlo A A 1R 3R SF F SF A 0 / 5 11–5
Madrid A Q1 QF SF 3R SF A W 1 / 5 14–4
Rome A A Q2 QF W F QF W 2 / 5 18–3
Canada A Q2 A W QF QF SF 1 / 4 12–3
Cincinnati A 1R 2R 2R F F QF 0 / 6 11–6
Shanghai NH Not Masters Series SF SF 0 / 2 6–2
Paris A 3R 2R 2R 3R W 3R 1 / 6 9–5
Hamburg A A 2R QF SF NMS 0 / 3 6–3
Win–Loss 0–0 2–2 5–7 24–7 25–7 33–8 16–8 22–0 9 / 48 127–39
Career statistics
Tournaments Played 3 9 19 22 19 22 19 7 Career total: 120
Titles 0 0 2 5 4 5 2 7 Career total: 25
Finals Reached 0 0 3 7 7 10 4 7 Career total: 38
Hardcourt Win–Loss 0–1 2–3 17–9 43–12 43–12 53–11 43–12 24–0 18 / 72 225–60
Grass Win–Loss 0–0 2–1 4–2 6–2 5–2 8–2 6–2 0–0 0 / 11 31–11
Carpet Win–Loss 1–0 3–2 5–2 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0 / 4 10–4
Clay Win–Loss 1–2 4–5 14–5 18–5 16–3 17–6 12–4 13–0 7 / 33 95–30
Overall Win–Loss 2–3 11–11 40–18 68–19 64–17 78–19 61–18 37–0 25 / 120 361–105
Win % 40% 50% 69% 78% 79% 80% 77% 100% Career total: 77%
Year End Ranking 186 78 16 3 3 3 3

WTA Players' Performance Timeline

Tournament 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Career SR Career W-L Win %
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open A A 1R1 3R SF SF F W A 1R 4R 1 / 8 31–7 82%
French Open A A 1R1 QF QF 4R SF 4R QF 3R 0 / 8 26–7 79%
Wimbledon A A 4R W SF SF 4R 2R 2R 4R 1 / 8 28–7 80%
US Open A A 2R 3R SF W 3R A 3R 4R 1 / 7 25–7 79%
Win–Loss 0–0 0–0 10–4 15–3 19–4 20–3 16–4 11–2 7–3 8–4 3–1 3 / 31 109–28 80%
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics Not Held Not Held Not Held 0 / 0 0–0 0%
Year-End Championship
WTA Tour Championships A A A W SF SF F A A A 1 / 4 13–5 72%
WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
Indian Wells A 2R 1R 4R SF W 4R SF A 3R SF 1 / 8 24–8 75%
Key Biscayne A A 1R 4R F F 4R A A A F 0 / 6 19–6 76%
Madrid Not Held A 1R 3R 0 / 2 2–2 50%
Beijing Not Held Not Tier I 3R 2R 0 / 1 1–1 50%
WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
Dubai Not Tier I A A A 0 / 0 0–0 0%
Rome A A A 3R SF A A SF A A W 1 / 4 13–3 81%
Cincinnati Not Held Not Tier I A F 0 / 1 5–1 83%
Montréal / Toronto A A 1R 3R A A A 3R F A 0 / 5 7–3 70%
Tokyo A A A 2R W SF SF A W 1R 2 / 7 15–4 83%
Former WTA Tier I Tournaments (currently neither Premier Mandatory nor Premier 5 events)
Doha Not Tier I W Not Held 1 / 1 5–0 100%
Charleston A A 1R2 A A A A QF NM5 0 / 2 4–2 67%
Berlin A A A 3R QF A A A 0 / 2 4–2 67%
Moscow A A A A QF QF 2R A 0 / 3 2–2 50%
Zurich A A A F A W A NT1 Not Held 1 / 2 7–1 88%
San Diego Not Tier I QF A W W Not Held NM5 2 / 3 12–1 92%
Career Statistics
Tournaments played 1 8 16 20 15 15 13 9 10 13 6 Career total: 126
Titles 0 0 2 5 3 5 1 3 1 2 1 Career total: 23
Finals Reached 0 0 2 6 4 7 4 3 2 5 2 Career total: 35
Hardcourt W–L 0–0 23–5 20–9 34–11 29–7 45–5 24–5 19–1 20–5 19–7 14–5 16 / 76 247–60 80.5%
Clay W–L 0–1 5–0 9–2 8–3 9–3 3–1 7–2 12–2 6–2 7–2 7–1 3 / 22 73–19 79.3%
Grass W–L 0–0 0–0 9–2 12–0 10–1 8–2 7–2 1–1 5–2 7–2 0–0 3 / 15 59–12 83.1%
Carpet W–L 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 5–1 3–1 2–2 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 1 / 6 11–5 68.8%
Overall W–L 0–1 28–5 38–13 55–15 53–12 59–9 40–11 32–4 31–9 33–11 21–6 23 / 126 390–96 80.25%
Win % 0% 85% 75% 79% 82% 87% 78% 89% 78% 75% 78% Career total: 80.25%
Year End Ranking N/A 186 32 4 4 2 5 9 14 18 Career money: $14,738,611

For Davis Cup matches of a player please use:

American Group I
Round Date Opponents Final match score Venue Surface Match Opponent Rubber score
QF 9–11 February 1996  Chile 3-2 Santiago Clay Doubles (with Jaime Oncins) Rebolledo/Ríos 7–5, 6–3, 4–6, 6–2 (W)
SF 5–7 April 1996  Venezuela 4-1 Santos Clay Singles 2 Nicolas Pereira 6–2, 6–7(7–2), 6–1, 6–2 (W)
Singles 5 (dead) Jimy Szymanski 6–2, 6–7((8–6), 6–0 (W)
World Group
Round Date Opponents Final match score Venue Surface Match Opponent Rubber score
QR 20–22 September 1996  Austria 4-1 São Paulo Carpet Singles 2 Markus Hipfl 4–6, 3–6, 7–6(7–0)

, 7–6(7–5), 6–1 (W)

Doubles (with Jaime Oncins) Muster/Plamberger 7–6(7–2),

4–6, 6–3, 3–6, 2–0 (def.)*

Remember to link all of the opponents even if the link turns red since every player chosen to play in the Davis Cup is notable and add {{Performance key}} to the bottom of the table.

  • Awards or Records - Just a summary with links to the awarding organization or a list of records. (The reference should be on the "LINKED TO" article; not the "Person" article).

Such as List of career achievements by Rafael Nadal.

  • Retirement - Notable achievements outside of playing; often not related to tennis.

#5:See also

The "See also" section should/could include:

  1. {{Portal|Tennis}}
  2. Lists (Top Men, or Top Women)
  3. [Country] Davis Cup team (if a member of it)
  4. Rivalries (if any)
  5. Olimpics-related links (if participated)

#6:References

  • No standard: either <references/> or {{reflist|2}} (2 for two columns).

Please include the following parameters (usage description is at the template page)

and consider using {{Commons category}} (if any)

Footers

Also called "navboxes". These are located after "External References", but before any category section.

#8:Grand Slam "succession" box

Say you are on an "Australian Open" article...This sequence:

  • {{start box}}
  • {{succession box|title=[[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam Tournament]]|before=[[US Open (tennis)|]]|after=[[French Open]]|years='''January'''|}}
  • {{end box}}

Produces:

Preceded by Grand Slam Tournament
January
Succeeded by
    • previous = US Open (Notice the Help:Pipe trick)
      • Main article is year IN-specific
    • next = French Open (in May/June)
    • Use the "Years" field for the Month the tournament is played: "January"

Year Article

  • Year article shows THIS tournament from one year to another: {{succession box | before=[[2008 US Open (tennis)|]]| title=[[US Open (tennis)|]] | years= | after=[[2010 US Open (tennis)|]] }}
  • Year article showing one Grand Slam to the next: {{succession box | before=[[2009 Wimbledon Championships|2009 Wimbledon]]| title=[[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam Tournaments]] | years= | after=[[2010 Australian Open]] }} * Year article showing ''tennis'' sequence: <nowiki>{{succession box | before=[[2009 Pilot Pen Tennis|New Haven]]| title=[[2009 US Open Series]] | years= | after=None}}

#9:Bottom Navboxes

If we stay with the Australian Open...

#10:Categories

  • Watch for templates (especially within the footers) that may have already included a category.
  • If people constantly add things they should not; place a comment at that spot

<!-- Category:Tennis is within {{TennisPortal}} -->

Davis Cup / Fed Cup

Teams

#1: Introduction

Small presentation of the team: when they first played in the cup, how many titles they've won, the group/zone they compete in, their national governing body and the current coach.

#2: Current team

List of current squad (it should not be limited to the squad of their last match but the biggest extent of players who are frequently invited to play and available for the coach to draft)

#3: History

It could be a longer chronological description of major breaktrhoughs, titles, finals, big achievements, highest world ranking (of nations).

#4: Players

All the players who played for the team during the years.

#5: Results

Tables could be implemented:

Year Competition Date Location Opponent Score Result
2010 World Group, 1st Round 5–7 March Bree (BEL)  Czech Republic 1–4 Lost
World Group Play-offs 17–20 September Cairns (AUS)  Australia 3-2 Won

#6: See also

Use {{davisfedseealso}} (see template documentation for usage information)

Make sure the following are listed and categories present:

Draws

See 2010 Davis Cup for sections, links, arrangement; ordering of draws, matches, teams.

Linking

It is obvious that we need some Tennis specific guidelines with regard to wiki-linking. Please see this page's discussion thread. When consensus is reached, they should be placed here.

General Linking

Guidelines for linking general text.

  • the word tennis should only be linked the FIRST time it is used and only when reference to the Tennis article would enhance the reader's understanding.

Dates

  • Do not link dates unless linked in a tennis context, as in: [[yyyy in tennis]].
  • Only link dates as above once on an article.

People

  • Players - should not be referenced every single time they are mentioned, but it is usually appropriate to link them the FIRST time they are referenced with a specific context.
  • Tournaments - Only if the player was in the Final, it was their highest achievement, or it was recently played (within the current year).

Lists

When links to lists are appropriate, which lists are appropriate.

  • Current Top Players - Navbox, Category
  • Player records
  • Current Top tournaments

Categories

What categories should be linked and where.

  • Add the most specific category possible.

Categories that are in templates and should NOT be added directly:

  • Born in 'year'
  • Died in 'year'
  • Retired Tennis players

Photos

When adding photos to the articles the easiest way to have a clear copyright status is uploading photos that you made yourself. Otherwise you can upload free pictures but in most of the cases pictures found on internet are not free. Try to use Flickr but be careful and follow the steps written here and don't forget to make it reviewed. Also try to browse Tennis on Commons for possibly free images. The basic concepts of uploading and further reading can be found here: