That's an odd result and a slightly worrying one for Dan.
Wonder if the conditions had a bearing on the result?

Hmm, yes bit of a strange one.

The Korean diid lose "just"  6 - 4  6 - 4  to Heliovaara ( FIN )  WR 278  last week in China F3 in the 2nd round as he picked up his 2nd ever ranking point.  So he now has 3 !

He is an 18yo who hasn't played that many tournaments and did actually compete without much success in a couple of challengers towards the end of last year and was at least competitive with some much higher ranked players in some Futures.

But his highest ranking in the ITF Junior World rankings was 107 so all in all I'm generally struggling really to make very much of a case other than the Korean is no doubt a bit underranked.

As a one-off result I wouldn't be getting worried about it.  Just wonder how it came about.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 19th of April 2011 03:05:42 PM

Wang beat Fucsovics in straight sets

R2: (8) Josh Milton WR 370 def. (q) Chuhan Wang (CHN) WR 1026 6-2, 6-4

QF: (8) Josh Milton WR 370 v (q) Noh Sang-Woo (KOR) WR 1728

Josh avenged Evo's loss, but the scoreline provides more evidence that Noh is under-ranked:

QF: (8) Josh Milton WR 370 beat (Q) Noh Sang-Woo (KOR) WR 1728 by 3-6 6-4 6-3

SF: (8) Josh Milton WR 370 v Im Kyu-tae (KOR) WR 623

Im definitely is under-ranked - he reached a career high of 160 in Nov 2009, a few months after upsetting Boggo at the Tallahassee Challenger. He then suffered a big setback this time last year, when he got injured in the semis of the Manta Challenger (which accounts for most of his remaining points) - he only came back playing Futures about a month ago and this is the first week he has won back to back matches.

Josh has beaten him in their one previous meeting though, 3 & 2 on grass in Nottingham Challenger qualifying in 2009, a month after Im's win against the Bogster and 6 months before Im hit his career high.