Dr. Andrew Broad
Tennis
Wooden-Spoon Lists


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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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