Tim's Live Ranking Weeks 10 and 11 (Indian Wells

RobC · All-time great

Tim's Live Ranking Weeks 10 and 11 (Indian Wells

RobC · All-time great

The updated table is posted here (On BritishTennis.net)

Canas went out in the final qualifying round.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

but then Xavier Malisse pulled out and Canas got the lucky loser spot.

RobC · All-time great

Yep -just spotted that. Table updated again.

OK, rankings gurus: how many points does a lucky loser get for making and going out in the first round of a masters series event? Obviously he gets the 3 points for reaching the qualifying round, but is he treated like a Wildcard, and given no points for the first round loss, or treated like a qualifier, and given a further 5 points, making 8 in total?

I've gone for 3.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

3 i believe. It's like those with byes don't get any points until they've won a match - i think.

RobC · All-time great

Bad start. First result of the first round, and Mayer overtakes Tim

RobC · All-time great

Also playing tonight are:

Lee (vs Kohlschreiber) who'll overtake if he wins tonight.

Ginepri (vs Kendrick) who'll move out of reach of a Henman R1 win

Benneteau (vs Monfils), Vliegen (vs Gabashvili) and Massu (vs Garcia-Lopez), all of whom can advance to within a win of overtaking

Bethan, what d'you reckon? What- ifs after R2?

Edit: Benneteau couldn't overtake, Tim can't reach Bjorkman etc in R2.
-- Edited by RobC at 20:24, 2007-03-09

-- Edited by RobC at 13:03, 2007-03-10

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

RobC wrote:

Bethan, what d'you reckon? What- ifs after R2?

Yeah, that's the plan. If I try and do them before then it just gets ridiculous. Also, should then know who's playing in challengers next week.

RobC · All-time great

Benneteau wins, and moves to 13 points behind Tim (Edit, and doesn't overtake as I first thought)

The updated table is posted here (On BritishTennis.net)

-- Edited by RobC at 20:25, 2007-03-09

-- Edited by RobC at 13:05, 2007-03-10

-- Edited by RobC at 13:05, 2007-03-10

RobC · All-time great

The updated table is posted here (On BritishTennis.net)

Kohlschreiber beat Lee, so just 1 places down for Tim on Friday

Ginepri won and moves out of reach of a Henman R1 win.
Vliegen and Massu both lost, reducing the threats considerably

Gicquel lost; Bjorkman and Simon advance ahead.

OK, so it's Tim vs Hernych first up on Stadium.

Becker plays Falla in R1, Mayer plays JC Ferreiro. If Tim wins, and they lose he can overtake them and Gaudio.

Behind, Clement plays his R2 match against Nadal: he needs to win the 4th round to overtake Tim. Volandri plays Horna, Mirnyi plays ToJo. Both need to win R3 to overtake.

-- Edited by RobC at 13:07, 2007-03-10

-- Edited by RobC at 13:07, 2007-03-10

RobC · All-time great

Oops - Mad's pointed out that I'd got ahead of myself, and been allocating R1 winners 35 points rather than 20 points. That's been corrected. It means that Benneteau doesn't overtake after all

RobC · All-time great

The updated table is posted here (On BritishTennis.net)

With Tim out

, the table's been extended downwards to see more of the threats

Becker goes out.

Behind, Volandri is knocked out. Clement and Mirnyi play later.

RobC · All-time great

The updated table is posted here (On BritishTennis.net)

Clement and Mirnyi are both knocked out as well

Big threat Benneteau plays Melzer tonight, and overtakes if he wins. Canas plays the Fed, Kohlschreiber plays Nalby, Mathieu gets Fish and Serra plays Blake.

RobC · All-time great

The updated table is posted here (On BritishTennis.net)

Mathieu beats Fish

Later, big threat Benneteau plays Melzer tonight, and overtakes if he wins. Canas plays the Fed, Kohlschreiber plays Nalby and Serra plays Blake.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Canas wins.