Just realised Ginepri and Tursunov are playing each other - one will lose but unfortunately the other will win! (Never seen a tied match yet...)

Ginepri has 40 more points than Tursunov, so I suppose we root for Dima on that one.

Monfils is out to Baghdatis - he probably wasn't a massive threat but it's one less to worry about.

Realistically Andy will lose today, but Federer will win in the third round too. That means that Tursunov/Ginepri will eliminate one of each other then Federer will take the remaining one.

A potentially crucial match is taking place on Centre with Ferrero upsetting Blake at the time of writing by taking the first set 6-2. Hypothetically, Blake could do a lot of damage to Andy's competitors, but only if he beats Ferrero first! He can take out Ferrero and Soderling in the next two rounds.

Elsewhere, I expect Novak to progress sufficiently to overtake AM. A-Rod has the chance to get rid of Vliegen and then Chela, but I don't think Chela presents much of a danger to Andy's US Open seeding anyway.

So, if Blake can pull this back, Andy should be 21 or thereabouts - brilliant news for avoiding the big boys at the US Open.

Of course, he can put it out of his competitors reach by beating Federer tonight!

-- Edited by bellamy11 at 18:42, 2006-08-16

And he did!

It seems most unfair that he beats Fedex and doesn't even move up a place! The cliff gets very steep from now on.

Closest threat Djokovic is out; now, if Andy can take out the winner of Tursunov/Ginepri tomorrow, there will only be Hrbaty and Ferrero anywhere near him! (Hrbaty has won the first set, drat him.)

Edit - the first remark was in reply to the remark about him beating Fed two posts above, I didn't think anybody would sneak inbetween!

-- Edited by Madeline at 21:41, 2006-08-16

I've updated the table for the rest of the round2 results.

If Ginepri wins today and Hrbaty follows suit then Andy will drop back down to 21, where he started the week. (Hrbaty will be on equal points with him).

If Ginepri wins and Hrbaty loses Andy will only drop back to 20th.

If Andy wins, he will gain 1 place to 18th. He would then need to reach the final to gain any more places.

If he reaches the final and Roddick goes out before the semis he would gain another 2 places to 16th.

If he wins the tournament and Roddick goes out before the final, Haas before the final. He would gain a further 3 places to 13th.

If Ginepri wins then I'll say more about the people below but (and this is the really great part) there aren't that many who can overtake him now!

It wouldn't make a difference because Roddick is already ahead and Andy can't catch him until the final. So if Andy M went out to Roddick in the qfs AM would stay at 18 (unless people overtake).

I realise this would be more appropriate in the US Open thread, but it looks a bit dead at the moment, so my question is: Any word of people dropping out of the US Open?

IF Andy wins today (big IF, he's knackered) and two of the top 16 drop out...

Depends on other results and all that, just wondered if anyone had up to date injury news?