Entries Week 28 - 7/7

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Entries Week 28 - 7/7

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Greenleaf wrote:

They absolutely have to go for ATP Washington qualies! 48 player draw and it's in the Olympics week, so the cut will be low.

Not quite going to be as weak as we'd hoped now that the entry list is out.

It's been cut to a 32 player event, so the cut is at 86, and given that almost every player who isn't playing the Olympics is on the alternate list, the qualifying draw looks like it could be quite strong as well, so maybe the Bronx challenger is going to be a better bet for Boggo and Baker, as that doesn't look like it will have a strong list

Count Zero · Tennis legend

at least at bronx they can get settled in NY. assuming they will hsave been at binghapton the week b4.
although there are a few extra points (always a draw for boggo it seems) avalible in brazil in the binghamton week, but i have a suspicion the lads may prefer the relative safety of the big apple.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Oh, I didn't know that they would degrade it to a 32 player draw.

That's not good.

seagull · Hall of fame

Updated with all withdrawals

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Looks like Boggo will be seeded for Granby, as the 8th player on the list is ranked 256, and his ranking is now above that, and Baker is just 1 off a seeding at the moment (i think)

And one of the players above Boggo and Baker is Dlouhy, who's still playing Wimbledon doubles, so he may withdraw as well, so Baker would be seeded as well

Count Zero · Tennis legend

that would be nice.

have any of the others had big ranking jumps tho i wonder

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Boggo is 8th in the rankings so will be seeded.

Baker though won't be as he's dropped since the list came out and quite a few players have slipped above him

Count Zero · Tennis legend

well thats good, lessens the change of a horrid rd1 draw. i hope his decision to play aptos doesnt backfire as he will need to do well at granby to get a seeding there, whereas at moncton would be a high seed.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Cuts for the ATP events this week

128 - Gstaad
105 - Bastad
118 - Stuttgart
168 - Newport

Just a shame that in a poor quality weak like this (and next), only Andy Murray is ranked anywhere near high enough to even threaten the cut, when last year Boggo would have been a DE in 3 of the 4 events, and would have only just missed a seeding a Newport

The lack of clay court experience also shows this week and I'd imagine the 3 clay events won't have great qualifying draws (Stuttgart cut is 260ish and you get 5 points for winning Qr1 as it's an ISG event), and some of the players will be playing challengers, yet there's no-one who we have that would take advantage and qualify in a week like this (but there are more hard court events than clay events throughout the year)

steven · Tennis legend

Inactiveboard has just started to throw up errors on new topic creation, so I'll collect any new info here and farm it out to new topics once everything is working again.

Week 28 - Challenger ($50k) - Ramat Hasharon, Israel

QR1: (q1) James Ward WR 476 v Guy Goren (ISR) UNR

The only ranked player in James's section is (q5) Amit Inbar (ISR) WR 1598!

Slabba is a DA here.

Week 28 - Futures F11 ($10k) - Bucharest, Romania

QR1: Oscar Podlewski UNR v (q4) Vadim Alekseenko (UKR) WR 1022
QR1: Ned Boone UNR v (WC) Constantin Sturdza (SUI) UNR

James Feaver is a DA here and Matthew Illingworth will either be a DA or a SE.

Update: Now on their own threads

-- Edited by steven at 00:01, 2008-07-05

seagull · Hall of fame

Nice draw - shame he didn't get a DA tho

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

seagull wrote:

Nice draw - shame he didn't get a DA tho

Not at all - it's better for him to have missed out and have to play qualifying here, because he's basically guarenteed 2 points here as there is simply no way that he isn't going to qualify, having to beat 2 unranked Israeli's, and then another 1 with just 1 ranking point to his name.

If he doesn't qualify, then he wouldn't have stood a chance in the main draw, and will pick up 2 ranking points and a little bit more money for having to qualify.

And looking at the qualifying draw.... really hoping that Slabba gets a qualifier!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

ForeverDelayed wrote:

And looking at the qualifying draw.... really hoping that Slabba gets a qualifier!

cept ward of course!

steven · Tennis legend

Update: Activeboard is now allowing new topics to be created again so the Ramat Hasharon and Bucharest Q draw details have been transferred to their own threads.