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indiana


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Ha, ha thought you might raise a hand, Salmon but that was quick  smile

If Dan steps up earlier, intermittently or more continually, with consequently less points in the bag.  I fail to see particularly much more reason why he is going to win relatively many more Challenger points.

And if he doesn't win matches, he is falling from a less firm base so will logically fall to a lower point.  As I also said the higher base point gives him more chance of main draw entries (  OK, arguably good to play challenger qualifying but only if he wins ).

To me, it is not the choice you put.  You make assumptions in your 2 choices about subsequent possible rankings positions, and yes staying around WR 300 is clearly better than falling to WR 350.  But I just simply fail to see how one can predict that would be the consequences of the two separate approaches.  In fact I think it would be very unlikely.



-- Edited by indiana on Monday 11th of April 2011 12:19:30 PM

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I think it's more likely that he'll be Challenger level by losing to to IVDM than by beating Constantin Belot. It's impossible to say, really, but it seems way more likely.

 

 

 

 

Go on, someone call me a broken record. smile.gif



But you know what I hate about Coxy's scheduling? The total lack of foresight. If the plan was to get him a rankings boost, why did he play Challenger qualies at the end of last year? confused.gif Wouldn't it make more sense to shoot up and be able to enter AO qualies? Why do it now when there are no obvious targets to meet (I think Rolland Garros is a step too far this year and he should get a Wimbly QWC as it is)?

It's been the same for 4 years, but at least he's not wasting time playing Trofeo Bonfiglio anymore.

 

 





-- Edited by Salmon on Monday 11th of April 2011 12:34:14 PM

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Chris and Molchanov lost 1 and 3, so a bit of a trouncing. Was always going to be hard one being a scratch pair against a team who have played with each other before and on their home turf.

Chris's singles tomorrow, get the win!!

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At least Dan should be able to take some positives from the defeat - A tight game against a player who is 125 places above him and up near his Career High

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Chris won 7-6(4) 6-3 :)

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spud wrote:

Chris won 7-6(4) 6-3 :)

And therefore plays Izak van der Merwe (4) in Round 2!  Come on, Chris.  Think of those 20 points at stake - & avenge Dan C's defeat! pray.gif

 



-- Edited by Stircrazy on Tuesday 12th of April 2011 02:18:57 PM

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Cox's final score was 5-7, 6-7 so very tight

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Also that was Eaton's 9th win in a row, is there a thread for longest win streaks?

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   Wardy's T100 KO's 

09: Crivoi 87  

10: Ram 93 , F.Lopez 30 , Schuettler 72, Kamke 85, Russell 80

11:  Wawrinka 14, Querrey 26, Mannarino 54 

12: Andujar 36

13: Tursunov 67

 

 
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and he's only dropped 1 set in those 9 games (which was a tie-break), very impressive.

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   Wardy's T100 KO's 

09: Crivoi 87  

10: Ram 93 , F.Lopez 30 , Schuettler 72, Kamke 85, Russell 80

11:  Wawrinka 14, Querrey 26, Mannarino 54 

12: Andujar 36

13: Tursunov 67

 

 
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yh there is a thread, not sure where thou, evo is near the top with around 16 if my memory serves me correctly

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Tennis36 wrote:

yh there is a thread, not sure where thou, evo is near the top with around 16 if my memory serves me correctly

There is a list of the double figure winning streaks we know about at http://britishtennis.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=61841&topicID=15797495&p=3

Evo leads the list with 19 when he qualified and won back to back Futures in 2008 then reached the semis in Brussels.

 

 



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Chris currently 4-6 0-1

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5-5 in the 2nd

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Van der Merwe apparently won, but there's no sign of the actual score at the moment on the Facebook wall. cry



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Van der Merwe apparently won, but there's no sign of the actual score at the moment on the Facebook wall. cry

6-4 7-6(?). hmm

 



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