Here's the "GC77" table for week 24 for Tim's competitors. It's now post - Tennisfacts, with 18th, 19th results corrected and points defended added.
Please let me know if you spot any errors.
Running |-------- Start of week-------| Running So 18th Def 19th Rank rank name points Points Far Result Result 50 52 Alberto Martin 734 734 out 25 15 51 53 Luis Horna 732 732 out 25 15 52 46 Max Mirnyi 800 700 20Q-out 5 120 5 53 54 Daniele Bracciali 699 699 10Q-out 15 12 54 56 Filippo Volandri 676 676 out 36 25 55 55 Julien Benneteau 682 672 5Q-out 6 15 5 56 59 Arnaud Clement 650 662 20H-out 8 5 57 58 Agustin Calleri 652 652 out 5 5 58 57 Ivo Karlovic 656 631 out 20 40 15 59 61 Bjorn Phau 629 629 5H-out 14 14 60 62 Ruben Rodriguez-Hidalgo 625 625 out 6 6 61 69 Florian Mayer 578 618 55H-out 15 15 62 76 Tim Henman 520 615 100Q 5 5 63 63 Paul Goldstein 611 611 5Q-out 15 14 64 65 Gilles Muller 603 603 5Q-out 8 5 65 66 Stanislas Wawrinka 598 598 5H-out 5 5 66 51 Richard Gasquet 745 590 20H-out 5 175 5 67 67 Christophe Rochus 585 585 5H-out 15 15 68 64 Davide Sanguinetti 610 585 5H-out 15 40 15 69 68 Boris Pashanski 582 582 5H-out 35 35 70 60 Taylor Dent 635 565 out 5 75 5 71 70 Wesley Moodie 561 561 5Q-out 5 5 72 72 Andreas Seppi 555 555 20H-out 40 36 73 73 Robin Vik 553 553 5Q-out 8 5 74 75 Vince Spadea 540 540 out 20 15 75 74 Potito Starace 546 539 8l-out 15 21 14 76 78 Nicolas Mahut 515 527 20Q-out 8 6 77 71 Jonas Bjorkman 558 523 5Q-out 5 40 5 78 79 Jurgen Melzer 505 505 5Q-out 15 5 79 80 Andrei Pavel 494 499 20H-out 15 9 80 83 Marcos Daniel 479 493 19l-out 5 5
Queens (Q) 225 155 100 55 20 10 5 (q:5)
Halle (H) 225 155 100 55 20 5 (q:5)
Lugano(l) 80 56 36 19 8 1 (q: 3)
Players in Italics improved their ranking on Friday
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Contrary to what was previously posted here, Tim does gain points as soon as he wins a match (against Agassi ), as his high 18th score became his 17th after last week at Roland Garros.
Also, Schuetler, who was his closest competitor drops back 40 points with his semi- final points from the Braunschweig Challenger last year coming off. So we don't need to stick pins in Rainer just yet after all.
Closest competitors are:
Mahut, who needs to reach R3 at Queens to overtake if Tim Loses to Agassi Pavel and Schuettler, who need to reach R3 (QF) at Halle, but meet in R2. Daniel, who needs to reach the final at Lugano Dlouhy and Greul, who need to reach R4(QF) at Queens.
Note Marat Safin has gained a few positions today, just by being in the main draw (his 18th result was 0)
Pins for Dlouhy and Greul at Queens, and Pavel and Schuettler at Halle tomorrow!
My previous post is just updated. Tim's 18th score has dropped to 5, which means he (just) has to beat Andre to increase his points now! He still has nothing to defend from last year.
Tim's the only one of his competitors who's ranking improved today
He's overtaken Jonas Bjorkman, who doesn't play until tomorrow. Schuettler, Dlouhy and Greul are all out of the equation. This leaves just Pavel, Bjorkman & Mahut as threats in the next couple of days.
Threats from behind tomorrow:
Bjorkman plays Wang at Queens, and will regain his place if he wins Mahut plays Benneteau at Queens. He needs to reach R3 to overtake
Lots of movement at the top and the bottom of the table, but not much near to Tim.
Richard Gasquet jumps seven places in his effort to defend the 175 points he gained in Nottingham last year. Marat Safin is also climbing back up from his recent low point.
Near to Tim, only Mahut ended up playing between the rain showers at Queens, and won , although getting rid of an Andy challenger, Benneteau.
Threats for Wednesday: Bjorkman finally gets to play his first round match at Queens, which will take him past Tim again. Mahut may play his second round match, which would also take him past Tim (Unfortunately the Queens order of play for tomorrow is not yet out) So it's a critical Pin- wielding day.
There's no- one ahead of Tim that he can catch in R2, tomorrow, but if he gets a quarter- final place, there's six places within his reach, especially if Starace loses in Lugano and Moodie at Queens tomorrow.
Things are starting well today. Bjorkman's out, so's Moodie. Just Mahut and Mayer left to play today. Mahut's the big worry. Fingers crossed that Stepanek can do the business there!
I'd rather Mahut beat Stepanek and then Henman can take care of him his self. I would rather Henman play Mahut than Stepanek. That is if Henman is in the third round...although as I type he is up a set and a break in the second set. 2-1 Henman in the second set.
Good point - I'd not looked ahead in the draw. That's the problem with this thread, you kind of end up assuming your guy is going to lose, and then hoping that the top seeds win everything, while no- one in the 30- 100 range wins anything. A recipe for an ATP circuit with no depth!