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Top 500 update

Today's win lifts Miles to 53 points, the same number as Edward Seator and James Ward will have at the end of IW, and by my rough estimate they'll be 502nd (Edward), 503rd (Miles) and 504th (James) at the end of IW, despite having a points score that would have got them into the top 500 at any time during Jan or Feb! doh

53 points should once again be enough for a top 500 place at the end of Miami (as already explained on other threads), so James should be in the top 500 at that stage but Edward and Miles both have 1 point to defend during Miami, so probaly need another win each in the next couple of weeks to make it a case of "you wait two years for one (Slabba) to come along and then three more come along at once!" (well, we can but dream!)

Whether 1, 2 or 3 of them get there by the end of Miami (And of course, the one we've been talking about on this thread could avoid having to wait that long if things go his way tomorrow), Lee Childs will then drop out of the top 500 two weeks later, so the number of Brits in the top 500 may peak in early April then drop off, since nobody other than those mentioned is within 150 places of getting there.

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Miles did indeed beat Ball last week in two tiebreak sets, 7-4 & 12-10! However, Ball beat Bubka in straight sets this week to end his losing streak (see below) and Miles lost to Bubka two weeks ago. (are you keeping up! wink)

Ball, who is 20 and 1.91 m tall (6'3"-6'4") and clearly has a big serve - there have been 9 tiebreaks in his 8 matches so far this year, of which he has won just three. Indeed, his 12-10 loss to Miles isn't his longest tiebreak this year - he lost a final set tiebreak to Kravchuk in Croatia 16-14!

Ball had an excellent second half of 2007, winning two US Futures in the summer and then reaching three Futures Finals in a row in the autumn. He is now WR 359 as a result.

His first match of 2008 was a big success too - getting into AO qualifying with a WC, he beat Kristian Pless 6-3 7-6(8) in QR1, but then went on a losing run which Miles stretched to 5 matches last week, though they did include AO QR2 and two R1 losses in, as Akhenaten's ranking data (and the Brits' performances there) would have it, two 'Futures of death' in Croatia.

Another excuse for Josh

Josh seems to have picked the wrong week to play Burrieza-Lopez. The Spaniard thrashed Klymenko 1 & 3 today - that's the Klymenko who qualified, beat Ward and Bubka and eventually reached the semis two weeks ago.

-- Edited by steven at 22:52, 2008-03-13

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Steven, I have Miles at 52 , rather than 53 points, as he's defending 1 each from Canada F1 and F2 on 5th and 12th March last year

-- Edited by RobC at 23:08, 2008-03-13

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RobC wrote:

Steven, I have Miles at 52 , rather than 53 points, as he's defending 1 each from Canada F1 and F2 on 5th and 12th March last year

You're right about what he's defending, but only Canada F1 is due to come off at the end of IW, so I make it:

51 (on 10 Mar ranking list) + 1 (R2 in Lagos last week) + 2 (QFs in Albufeira this week) - 1 (Canada F1) = 53 at the end of IW

... then Canada F2 is the 1 point I mentioned him having to defend during Miami.

Does that help?

Even if you agree with that, do keep an eye on me! smile Given that there are two weeks of points going on and two weeks of points coming off on Monday week, combined with the temporary calendar timeshift, Futures points going on a week late and all three of these players having 17 or 18 counting scores, there's more scope than usual for making errors at the moment. evileye


-- Edited by steven at 01:39, 2008-03-14

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ah yes - the f2 points only hit the computer after miami last year. my bad.

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Come on the Mileage, rubbish week so far, you can salvage it!

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steven wrote:

Another excuse for Josh

Josh seems to have picked the wrong week to play Burrieza-Lopez. The Spaniard thrashed Klymenko 1 & 3 today - that's the Klymenko who qualified, beat Ward and Bubka and eventually reached the semis two weeks ago.



Burrieza has a career high ranking of 126... though it was 11 years ago (in 1997).

 



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lost 5-0 default w/e that is

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Sounds worrying, wonder what happened?

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Just noticed this result, crazy - and the perfect way to end a DIRE week. bleh

A default happens when either player doesn't turn up on time (possibly his brain didn't turn up on time in this case, but his body must have if they played 5 games) or if the umpire goes through all the penalties (warning, point penalty, etc) available or if the player does something deemed so terrible that he has to be chucked out of the tournament immediately, like when Tigger Henman smashed a ball in anger and it hit a ball girl during a doubles match years ago.

I wonder what he did. It certainly takes the edge of the top 500 'curse' to a new level. cry

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Cheer up, you lot!  We still have a 75% Brit doubles final to look forward to:  Bamfs & Goody, the top seeds, went through 4 & 2 against Abdukhalikov & Tarasevitch, while Chris Eaton & Amir Weintraub (2) saw off Coll Riudavets & Martín Adalla (3) 5 & 3! smile  clap.gif

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that mean bamfords retirement in fqr cant have been serious.

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Well, at least some good news there then!

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Stircrazy wrote:

Cheer up, you lot!  We still have a 75% Brit doubles final to look forward to:  Bamfs & Goody, the top seeds, went through 4 & 2 against Abdukhalikov & Tarasevitch, while Chris Eaton & Amir Weintraub (2) saw off Coll Riudavets & Martín Adalla (3) 5 & 3! smile  clap.gif


And 100% Brit win, since Bamfs & Goody won 3 & 4! winner.gif  Pity Goody can't quite apply himself in quite the same way any longer in singles! cry  frustrated.gif



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Given that they have both signed in for qualifying in Bath, they must have got a flight home pretty fast! smile.gif

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Continuing the 'excuses for Josh' theme (not sure why, but never mind!), the player who beat him this week (Burrieza-Lopez) today became only the second player to take a set off Rui Machado during the Portuguese player's now 22-match winning streak.

So taking the other 'excuses' from the last couple of weeks into account, either Josh has been terribly unlucky to draw unseeded players just as they were coming into great form or you can look at it as a bunch of changes for big points thrown away, in the sense that if he'd got past the matches he's lost in Portugal, he might well have reached a Final or two.

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