Salmon wrote:

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Although to be fair, he is slightly overranked because he plays more tournaments than most players in this world.

But the inflation is probably no more than 5-10%.

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Dont really agree with this it seems to be the same thinking that Akhen was using, my thoughts are : he is fit enough and hungry enough to play as often as he does and as such deserves to be ranked where he is, that makes a better tennis pro (though not a better player) than someone slightly better who plays 20 events a year and his ranking would reflect that.

Also dont agree with CZ's assertion that draws make a big difference, of course they do in the short term but in the long term everyone gets a run of good ones and a run of bad ones, and we all believe our favourite's get all the bad ones and probably when you look at it they all get pretty much the same as the others.

Josh is at 4 all

and there goes the first set 6-4

Salmon wrote:

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The best possible indication of whether a player's tennis is of a certain level or not is looking at his record against players of that level.

The top 300 players that Slabba has played in the last year -

Richard Bloomfield - 7-6(5) 7-6(5)
Matwe Middelkoop - 5-7 3-6
Catalin Gard - 6-4 6-3
Andrea Stoppini - 5-7 6-7(4)
Frank Dancevic - 2-6 1-6
Gilles Muller - 7-6(1) 7-6(8)
Danai Udomchoke - 6-3 4-6 3-6
Vince Spadea - 1-6 5-7
Bjorn Rehnquist - 6-7(2) 4-6
Robert Smeets - 3-6 6-3 7-6(4)
Tomas Cakl - 3-6 7-5 7-6(1)


That's a record of 5-6, with three of the losses coming against Spadea, Udomchoke and Dancevic on grass. Plus he didn't get thumped in any of the matches barring the one where he played Dancevic - hardly shameful as Dancevic is top 50 on grass.


If that's the record of the 500 at best player, I don't know what to say!

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Thats completely right, i am aware of what slabba is capable of, i never said he was sh*te. We all know that a coin has two sides! so lets now flip it over and look at that shiny other side

This is his record against players outside the worlds top 450 since May (in other words 3 months)

KJ Hippensteel lost 4-6 3-6
Tsung-Hua Yang lost 6-2 5-7 6-3
Pierrick Ysern lost 6-7 3-6
Nathan Thompson lost 3-6 4-6

That reads.........

Played 4 lost 4

I really don't want it to sound as if im not a fan of Slabba but i feel i need to justify my earlier comments, if maybe abit harsh.

and Diego now stretches his lead over Josh to 5-1, yoshi now servin to stay in it!

I'm not saying that you can determine a player's "true" ranking that way, as you probably can't.

Hartfield MP.