No, I did look at his playing activity this year though That is pretty impressive in that he qualifed for Chennai MD last week beating WRs 144 and 171.
Also, rankings being based on a whole year's play are often not the greatest of guides especially with younger players. If you looked at July onwards, the more recent 6 months, even without last week he's actually accumulated more ranking points than Dan.
Though, as you say, especially before last week, Dan had beaten quite a few more players in the top 250 / 400.
Definitely to my mind it would be a decent win for Dan, but I agree quite achievable.
-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 10th of January 2010 08:32:36 PM