1 Delic, Amer USA 65 2 Querrey, Sam (USA) 68 3 Kendrick, Robert USA 77 4 Karlovic, Ivo CRO 85 5 Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 90 6 Guccione, Chris AUS 100 7 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 104 8 Mahut, Nicolas FRA 107 9 Falla, Alejandro COL 116 10 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 118 11 Bozoljac, Ilia SRB 121 12 Giraldo, Santiago COL 126 13 Haase, Robin NED 136 14 Philippoussis, Mark AUS 138 15 Zverev, Mischa GER 141 16 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 150 17 Muller, Gilles LUX 151 18 Arthurs, Wayne AUS 166 19 Kuznetsov, Alex USA 173 20 Healey, Nathan AUS 175 21 Stakhovsky, Sergiy UKR 181 22 Bloomfield, Richard GBR 187 23 (SE) 24 (SE) 25 (WC) 26 (WC) 27 (WC) 28 (WC) 29 (Q) 30 (Q) 31 (Q) 32 (Q)
I have no idea about which section this should be in - here or the other one.
The field is incredibly strong this year with Delic, Querrey, Karlovic, Philippoussis, Guccione, Muller and Zverev, all capable of beating top 50 players on grass.
My wild cards would go to -
Josh Goodall Jamie Baker Jonathan Marray Miles Kasiri
Yeah, rankings wise it's always strong, but there's probably a lot more depth in this year's field than last year's one (or so I think).
Querrey will be top 10 someday plus Zverev and Haase will go up a lot, too. Plus there's Karlovic, who can beat everyone on grass barring (maybe) Federer.
Getting a seeding here or not doesn't count much for Boggo (unless he draws Karlovic or Querrey in round one), except perhaps a psychological boost . Too many good grass players out there!
ouch @ that field....agree about Kasiri he would be a good choice for a wc.
No easy draws but on grass, Boggo and Bloomers could beat a lot of those players. Giraldo is up and coming but likely to be a mug on grass....Kuznetsov, Healey, Stakhovsly and Bozoljac would also be decent draws....
1. Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 193 2. @ Gambill, Jan-Michael USA 195 3. Bastl, George SUI 203 4. Baccanello, Paul AUS 206 5. Jones, Alun AUS 209 6. Stadler, Simon GER 211 7. Goodall, Joshua GBR 218 8. Tourte, Nicolas FRA 226 9. Baker, Jamie GBR 235 10. Vemic, Dusan SRB 238 11. Marray, Jonathan GBR 247 12. Lugassy, Gary FRA 249 13. Ouahab, Lamine ALG 251 14. Stoppini, Andrea ITA 252 15. Burgsmuller, Lars GER 258 16. Niemeyer, Frederic CAN 260 17. Bopanna, Rohan IND 263 18. Vico, Uros ITA 265 19. Sabau, Razvan ROU 266 20. Smeets, Robert AUS 277
What did the qualies cut extend down to last year ?? Any thoughts on those wcs ?
Arks why do you think Karlovic would beat Federer on grass ? That just won't happen, even if Ivo gets it to tiebreaks, Federer's still so much better from the baseline he's gonna win them as long as he gets the ball back in play a few times...Ivo isn't gonna be able to hit aces every service pt. He's got a decent forehand now but the backhand is still pretty rubbish by top 100 standards ! Agree with what the Cabbage says. Boggo beat Ivo 6-7, 7-6, 7-6 at Surbiton in 2003, a few weeks before Ivo beat Hewitt at Wimby !
yeah can't really see karlovic troubling the fed on grass... this is a man who hasn't lost on grass for like 4 years. karlovic is a good player on the green stuff but would have prob won wimbledon by now if he culd realistically challenge the fed!