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38 • ITF Global Tennis Report 2019 Professional player ranking conversion to Top 100 CONVERSION RATE (%) The percentage of players achieving a professional ranking (between 1 January 2003 and 31 December 2012) who later earned a Top 100 ranking (by 31 December 2017). • A higher percentage of females achieved a professional Top 100 ranking (6.3%) compared to males (3.5%). • Professionally ranked players from Tier 3 and Tier 4 na ons were more likely to achieve a Top 100 ranking than players from other na ons. (See Appendix H page 561 for more detail about ITF Development Eligibility Tiers.) See Fig 45 and 46 • A higher percentage of players from North America converted to the Top 100 than players from other regions. See Fig 47 CONVERSION SPEED (WEEKS) The average me that it took for Top 100 ranked professionals in 2017 to break through to the Top 100 for the first me. This is measured in weeks, from first junior or professional ranking un l first entering the professional Top 100. • Males and females took a similar amount of me to reach the Top 100 a er earning their first ranking point - it took 259 weeks for females compared to 262 weeks for males. See Fig 48 • Professional male players from Central America & Caribbean were the least likely and slowest to transi on to the Top 100. See Fig 47 and 49 0 2 6 8 4 Fig 45. Professional conversion rate to professional Top 100 by gender (%) Female Male 6.3 3.5 Fig 46. Professional to professional Top 100 median er conversion rate by ITF Development Eligibility Tier (%) 0 2 4 6 10 8 Female Male 7.2 8.7 0.0 0.0 4.5 1.5 0.0 0.0 TIER 4 TIER 3 TIER 2 TIER 1 TIER 4 TIER 3 TIER 2 TIER 1

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