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A wooden-spoon list ranks all players in a tournament draw into a total order, based purely on who beats whom in the tournament. Wooden-spoon theory formalises the intuition that it's better to lose to a player who goes on to do well in the tournament than to lose to a player who gets beaten in the next round. These pages explain the theory, and give the wooden-spoon lists for actual Major tournaments.
Explanation of the Theory
Wooden-Spoon Yahoo! Group (receive wooden-spoon lists by email)
Hall of Shame
The wooden-spoonist of a tournament is the player at the bottom of the wooden-spoon list, i.e. the player at the end of the tournament's longest losing chain. Here are the wooden-spoon lists and wooden-spoonists for the women's singles Major tournaments of the third millennium:
Australian Open 2008: Laura Granville (full list coming soon)
US Open 2007: Yaroslava Shvedova (full list coming soon)
Wimbledon 2007: Anna-Lena Grönefeld
French Open 2007: Caroline Wozniacki
Australian Open 2007: Catalina Castaño
US Open 2006: Stéphanie Dubois
Wimbledon 2006: Camille Pin
French Open 2006: María Vento-Kabchi
Australian Open 2006: Jill Craybas
US Open 2005: Sandra Klösel
Wimbledon 2005: Emilie Loit
French Open 2005: Meghann Shaughnessy
Australian Open 2005: Tiffany Welford
US Open 2004: Stephanie Cohen-Aloro
Wimbledon 2004: Gala León García
French Open 2004: Mara Santangelo
Australian Open 2004: Arantxa Parra
US Open 2003: Eleni Daniilidou
Wimbledon 2003: Virginia Ruano Pascual
French Open 2003: Bahia Mouhtassine
Australian Open 2003: Libuse Prušová
US Open 2002: Shinobu Asagoe
Wimbledon 2002: Anna Smashnova (again!)
French Open 2002: Stéphanie Foretz
Australian Open 2002: Mary Pierce
US Open 2001: Tamarine Tanasugarn
Wimbledon 2001: Anne Keothavong
French Open 2001: Lisa Raymond
Australian Open 2001: Adriana Gersi
US Open 2000: Kristen Schlukebir
Wimbledon 2000: Rita Kuti Kis
French Open 2000: Barbara Schwartz
Australian Open 2000: Anna Smashnova
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