Entries Week 2: 11/01/2010

seagull · Hall of fame

RE: Entries Week 2: 11/01/2010

freerider · Futures level

daniel evans has turned up at auckland atp qualies, as the fifth seed.

top seed in his section is jan minar, wr 244

Count Zero · Tennis legend

show hows does this work? if he qualifies and loses 1st rd he can still play AOQ?

-- Edited by Count Zero on Friday 8th of January 2010 10:25:13 AM

seagull · Hall of fame

If he is out by Tuesday evening (Aus time) then he can play Aus qualifying

Count Zero · Tennis legend

so the men play 1st match on Wednesday?

seagull · Hall of fame

Yep - Should be an easy 6 points for Evans as Daniell has most of his points from Futures in Israel

Count Zero · Tennis legend

yeah i think boggo may have missed a trick here, its such a weak draw. i know he was thinking of going, but opted against it due to travel costs, but with a drew like thsi he'd have had a great chance of making the MD and easily covering the whole trip.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

If it's Marcus Daniell he did fairly well in British futures last year as well.

Evo should have too much but I think Daniell is all about serve - and if it's firing he could be a handful.

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

If my calculations are to be correct, then i think Bogdanovic is the 34th highest ranked player in the Austrlain Open Qualies, 2 places out of of a seeded place. So should 2 higher ranked players withdraw from either Qualifying or the Main Draw then Bogdanovic would be seeded.

Anyone know of any injury doubts? I know Simon is carrying an injury, but i'm not aware of any others

seagull · Hall of fame

Unfortunately Boggo will drop in the rankings tomorrow due to dropping points from Noumea last year so I don't think a seeding is a possibility

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

No i did it with the updated rankings, their on the ATP homepage just now (i think) as it has Andy Murray to No. 5. Really weak seedings with No.32 seed Zemjla at WR 168, Lots of people injured? Or just not bothering to turn up?

My List for seeds is:

1. Malisse 92
2. Robert 107
3. Darcis 108
4. Ventura 109
5. Kim 112
6. Levy 118
7. Beck 119
8. Phau 120
9. Marchencko 121
10. Machado 124
11. Dologpolov Jr. 125
12. Kavcic 126
13. Ouanna 129
14. Golubev 132
15. Guez 134
16. Koubek 135
17. Recoudrec 137
18. Kendrick 139
19. De Chaunac 141
20. Brown 143
21. Capdeville 144
22. Anderson 147
23. Cippolla 149
24. Ascione 151
25. Ilhan 153
26. Roger-Vasselin 156
27. Yani 158
28. Devvarman 161
29. Ramos-Vinolas 165
30. Udomchoke 166
31. Evans (Brendan) 167
32. Zemjla 168
33. Sweeting 169
34. Bogdanovic 171

-- Edited by The Magician Santoro on Sunday 10th of January 2010 09:51:47 PM

Count Zero · Tennis legend

will be great if he can scrap a seeding

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

i have a feeling that with a good draw he will qualify, he has been consistently competing with potential top seeds in recent months

indiana · Tennis legend

The Magician Santoro wrote:

No i did it with the updated rankings, their on the ATP homepage just now (i think) as it has Andy Murray to No. 5.

Yes, I noticed that the rankings "as of 11.01.2010" were up on the ATP ranking pages hours ago, so those should certainly be the seeding ones OK.

Would indeed be helpful if two folk ahead of Boggo would step out the way. I presume seeds 17 - 32 get any of 1 - 16 ( i.e. unlike the MD where there is a split ) ?

Yes, looks like a surprisng number of potential qualifying seeds are giving it a miss, since ignoring Malisse the next 33 folk on the list cover 65 ranking places ( 107 to 171 ), so basically just one in two.

If that continues lower down ( and I would have imagined lower participation if anything ) it would make the qualifying cut-off closer to 400 than 300 which is much higher than usual and Goddall and Baker would be well in if they'ed gone for it ( although certainly originally did look sensible not to go for it ). What's the cut-off looking like ?

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 10th of January 2010 10:44:18 PM

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Are you allowing for the two remaining main draw wild cards in that list? I think the ATF one automatically goes to their highest player in qualifying and the TA one could go anywhere.