Billy is now the 10th highest ranked player not to have played an ATP tour event.

tennisabstract.com/reports/ATP_BestWhoHavent.html

Hopefully, he will get into a position to try and get into the odd ATP event in 2024

Madadman wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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Indeed - hes playing Bergamo, Helsinki and Danderyd (is that Scandinavia as well?)

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 Sweden, I think it is sort of a suburb of Stockholm.

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I completely misread your post.  I thought you were saying that Sweden was a suburb of Stockholm

I really need to get out more.

Madadman wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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Billy is now the 10th highest ranked player not to have played an ATP tour event.

tennisabstract.com/reports/ATP_BestWhoHavent.html

Hopefully, he will get into a position to try and get into the odd ATP event in 2024

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 Good job you got that stat in when you did! Billy has seen to that!

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 haha, great to see Billy knock that one into the stands!

Billy is now WR 203 in the live rankings and as I've mentioned before, he has very little to defend in the coming months. As things stand, he has only 3 points to defend until the beginning of April next year and even those won't matter because when his points from this week's ATP in Sofia go on officially, those 3 points will become a 'non-counter' anyway. So nothing at all to defend until April.

Surely he will now break into the Top 200 at some point and who knows where he can end up. I would think Billy's next goal would be to win a challenger. I know how much it hurt him missing out in the final he reached this year because it came up in conversation when he played in Murcia the following week. I told him then that there would be further opportunities and if he keeps going as he his, there has to be a chance sooner or later.

Even if his season finishes tomorrow, it will have been an amazing year, but knowing Billy, he will be looking for some far flung corner of the planet where he can carry on playing through the close season. He doesn't know the meaning of 'rest'.

Bob in Spain wrote:

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Even if his season finishes tomorrow, it will have been an amazing year, but knowing Billy, he will be looking for some far flung corner of the planet where he can carry on playing through the close season. He doesn't know the meaning of 'rest'.

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 Unfortunately if he reaches the top 200 he wont be able to play the ITFs to compete somewhere, although I guess there are money tournaments. I was thinking if he kept out of the top 200 this year he could play an ITF before a challenger going into the Aus Open Qualies to get some extra match practice.

Billy adjacent, the young lad that beat Billy in the FQR at Wimbledon is in the Semis of the Next Gen tournament. I'm actually surprised that he hasn't broken the top 100 yet. I wouldn't consider him a brilliant prospect but top 50 looks a reasonable target.