Entries Week 33 - 11/8

seagull · Hall of fame

Entries Week 33 - 11/8

Count Zero · Tennis legend

will alex be seeded?

Salmon · Tennis legend

Nope, not anywhere near unless there are many withdrawals or he has a great time in Vancouver.

1. Karanusic, Roko CRO 103
2. Beck, Andreas GER 117
3. Capdeville, Paul CHI 127
4. Ascione, Thierry FRA 134
5. Stadler, Simon GER 146
6. Smeets, Robert AUS 149
7. Mayer, Leonardo ARG 157
8. Malisse, Xavier BEL 162
9. Bozoljac, Ilia SRB 168
10. Rosol, Lukas CZE 172
11. Ungur, Adrian ROU 174
12. Mannarino, Adrian FRA 182
13. Lacko, Lukas SVK 183
14. Kamke, Tobias GER 184
15. Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 189
16. Roger-Vasselin, Edouard FRA 190
17. Miranda, Ivan PER 196
18. Ball, Carsten AUS 199
19. Kudryavtsev, Alexandre RUS 203
20. Dlouhy, Lukas CZE 213
21. Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 217
22. Lugassy, Gary FRA 220

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

That list doesn't actually look that good at all, which quite a few of the players being at their best of a clay court, and there's only Malisse and Beck that I would be worried about drawig in round 1, as the rest of the field is beatable.

Haven't seen the Dehli list yet (not on MTF and haven't found it anywhere else), but if Ward is 2nd alternate then it's not going to be much stronger than the other week, so hopefully Goodall and Slabba will be seeded again for it.

Vandenburg · Futures level

il be honest with you panda, i see these 2 India challangers being the make or brake for the challanger boys, i think we need at leats on challanger win. With respect to bloomers if it had not been for that recent manchester final, i was forecasting him to retire in a seasons time.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

still strong lvl of players, look like the guys trying to get in the hard ct practice.
just hope alex is fully fit

-- Edited by Count Zero at 17:22, 2008-07-23

-- Edited by Count Zero at 17:25, 2008-07-23

Salmon · Tennis legend

Vandenburg wrote:

il be honest with you panda, i see these 2 India challangers being the make or brake for the challanger boys, i think we need at leats on challanger win.

With Goodall, yeah, the trip has to be a success for him.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Miranda is a dangerous floater in Bronx. Strange as it may seem for a Peruvian, he plays far better on hard than on clay. This year he has played three hard court Challengers and has reached the finals in two (winning one title)!

Vandenburg · Futures level

yeh both vancouver and bronx have some big names in there, i think alex would settle for a QF as they are massive points,20pts odd? interesting as i think if he hadnt injured himself against stoppini(who went to final) he would have won lexington
keep on going tho boggo.

seagull · Hall of fame

Updated with Futures - no Cox?

Salmon · Tennis legend

I'm hoping against hope that he'll be in Greece (list isn't out) or will do Istanbul qualies.

But it won't happen and the LTA will make him play Juniors. It's obvious to everyone that he's not good enough for the men's game, so it's a good move.

I feel like throwing something at my computer!

seagull · Hall of fame

Greece has been cancelled so he won't be there!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Terrible news.

The LTA love Turkey so hopefully he'll go there. Or else maybe there'll be a change of heart and he'll get to do qualies here/get a wild card. Or maybe he could lose first round (not tanking - just a normal loss) at the Nationals and use the time to train hard/relax.

Anyway, it's more or less time that he leaves the LTA setup (not necessarily the NTC) and gets a personal coach. Eventually, they'll end up ruining him, unintentionally or otherwise.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Maybe the LTA have promised the winner of the nationals a WC into one of the ATP events next year? Or maybe Cox wanted to defend his national title?

I agree, it's unlikely, but it is a possibility, and he'll probably get more exposure winning the national title than he will be reaching a futures QF, so maybe he's looking at it that way.

He'll probably end up playing US Open juniors as well, which I still think he should do, because it's a chance to play and get used to playing Grand Slams, and if he's going to be a top player, he should do well in it (and if he wins the event, he's got a qualies WC for the next year and probably others as well given he won the event, so that's something to aim for)

Salmon · Tennis legend

I think there's a very good chance that he'll get a direct entry into USO qualies next year.