That's fascinating. Of course you'd expect average age to go up with ranking simply because if you don't get high-ranked, you're more likely to drop out early.

Woohoo!

He's made some money in the last few days, so hopefully he'll go to the Czech Republic and make his ranking good enough to get him directly into Futures next year.

Drew wrote:

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Ken Skupski won 6-2 6-2 and makes the QF !!!!!

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Surely this puts him into the SF. I make it 6 points added so far putting Ken up to around 790. If he wins his semi, which is possible looking at the opposition, that would put him with an extra 12 points and up to 710. A win with 18 extra ranking points puts him up to 640. I might be, and possibly am, wrong, but this is great showing from Ken.

gazzpash wrote:

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I make it 6 points added so far putting Ken up to around 790. If he wins his semi, which is possible looking at the opposition, that would put him with an extra 12 points and up to 710. A win with 18 extra ranking points puts him up to 640. I might be, and possibly am, wrong, but this is great showing from Ken.

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I've got some good news, you've forgotten to add the point Skupski won last week that hasnt' gone on yet.
In this week's rankings (so a general figure for where he'd end up) Skupski would be at:
lose in the semis: 774
lose in the final: 694
win the tournament: 630

And to answer my own question, this is his first semi. So s all round

I think not.

He can become the second, though. After Seator.

imoen wrote:

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Go Ken! Great result, am I right in thinking this is his first semi?

Do we know the opponent yet?

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'Twas indeed. His next opponent will be Karatchenia and seeing their rankings are around the same it should be a close match.  Although, Ken has made a point this week of seeing off those higher placed than he is.

Not quite the perfact day for young Ken:  he & Goody lost their doubles SF to Bamfs & Pedersen 6-7(5) 2-6!   The latter pair won't have it all their own way against our Belarussian friend, Karatchenia, & Vladimir Voltchkov in tomorrow's final, but here's hoping...