Andy's competitors week 25

RobC · All-time great

RE: Andy's competitors week 25

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

RobC wrote:

Serra and Ferrero are even stevens in the third

Serra just broke to lead 5-3 serving for the match

RobC · All-time great

Serra wins. Andy drops to WR 42 . Greg drops to WR 40

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Andy can solve that by beating Seppi. Nothing can be done for Greg, not this week.

RobC · All-time great

and Soderling beats Tipsy.

Andy drops to WR43. Greg drops out of the top 40 to 41.

the pins really haven't been working too well this week. Maybe they've all been trained on Andy's opponents.

Santoro's now on court against Ancic. Come on Super Mario!!

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

If Andy does win, how many places will there be between Soderling and Murray? Cuz they're on course to meet in the semis, with a place near the top 30 up for grabs, am i right?

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Presuming Andy wins (by no means definite) he will be at 36 and Soderling at 38 (I think). The winner in the semis would be at 36, the loser at 37 but neither of them can gain anymore places without winning the final.

However, for any of that to happen Andy has to win his quarter final and he's just lost the first set.

RobC · All-time great

VSandhi20 wrote:

If Andy does win, how many places will there be between Soderling and Murray? Cuz they're on course to meet in the semis, with a place near the top 30 up for grabs, am i right?

They're just 8 points apart. A place in the final is still just worth WR36 - there's a massive 75 point gap between 35th & 36th. But Andy does, of course have to do better than Soderling to keep that 36th ranking.

RobC · All-time great

Santoro lost the first set 6-4.

At last a pin that's starting to stick! (that and a top 15 opponent!)

RobC · All-time great

Ancic beats Santoro in straight sets 6-4,6-0, and climbs into the top 10!

So that's 2 out, two through and one to go. All pins into Feliciano Lopez please!

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

RobC wrote:

All pins into Feliciano Lopez please!

Please leave a couple in Andreas Seppi until the match is over.

RobC · All-time great

Grrrr, Now that Andy's out, all eyes are on Lopez v. Bjorkman. If Lopez wins, then Andy's back down to 44th, having started the day at 41st. Greg's down to 42nd.

After Lopez, there's no- one left in the draws that can catch Andy.

Seppi, though, as well as Bjorkman (who's playing Lopez) can go above Tim if they reach the final. Seppi & the winner of that match play tomorrow. So if Lopez loses, Tim will drop a place tomorrow. If he wins, Andy and Greg will drop one today.

RobC · All-time great

Lopez lost. so Andy's safe on WR 43

, but Tim's now defintely going to lose a place when Bjorkman or Seppi go through tomorrow.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

It might turn out to be 44. Andy is on equal points with Xavier Malisse - I have never been able to work out how the ATP decide the order of players on level points. They hardly ever show them on equal ranking.

RobC · All-time great

Table updated.

Andy is on 43, or as Madeline rightly points out 44. On my table, firts name alphabetical order wins, so we're good until Andy's level with Andre!

Over to Imoen, for tomorrow's pin strategies, especially for fiendish ways of having neither Bjorkman, nor Seppi advance, and so knock Tim back a position.

-- Edited by RobC at 20:51, 2006-06-22