Thought I'd open up this thread. RobC will you post up the table this week as I'm going away until Thursday and won't be able to update it.
Having had a quick look at the draw for New Haven, Andy is threatened from behind by only two people, Jose Acasuso and Fernando Verdasco both of whom must win to overtake, so the worst case for Andy is a drop of one place to 20th!!
So, for spare pins turn your attention to those above him in the rankings so that they don't get any further ahead, Nieminen and Ferrer are both playing and above them, Baghdatis, Davydenko and Blake but they are out of reach unless Andy wins the US open so don't worry too much about them (or, do depends on how optimistic your feeling!)
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-------Start of week-------|Running So 18th Def 19th Rank rank name points Points Far Result Result 10 10 Andy Roddick 1890 1890 out 40 40 11 11 Fernando Gonzalez 1850 1850 out 55 50 12 12 Mario Ancic 1835 1835 out 20 15 13 13 David Ferrer 1745 1675 20H-out 25 90 15 14 14 Tomas Berdych 1660 1660 out 25 15 15 15 Jarkko Nieminen 1610 1610 20H-out 75 45 16 16 Tommy Haas 1525 1525 out 100 75 17 17 Lleyton Hewitt 1515 1515 out 40 40 18 18 Juan Carlos Ferrero1330 1330 out 40 40 19 19 Andy Murray 1300 1300 out 40 21 20 20 Nicolas Kiefer 1275 1275 out 0 0 21 21 Robby Ginepri 1205 1205 out 20 5 22 22 Dominik Hrbaty 1200 1200 out 75 63 23 23 Novak Djokovic 1183 1183 out 5 1 24 24 Gaston Gaudio 1175 1175 out 20 20 25 26 Dmitry Tursunov 1125 1125 out 60 60 26 25 Fernando Verdasco 1140 1115 20H-out 25 50 25 27 27 Jose Acasuso 1105 1110 20H-out 15 15 28 32 Agustin Calleri 960 1085 140H-out 15 8 29 28 Richard Gasquet 1060 1060 out 15 15 30 30 Olivier Rochus 1010 1010 50H-out 60 55 31 31 Gael Monfils 1000 1005 20H-out 15 5 32 29 Igor Andreev 1030 985 out 5 50 5 33 39 Xavier Malisse 918 983 90H-out 25 20 34 41 Robin Soderling 893 968 90H-out 15 5 35 33 Jonas Bjorkman 953 953 out 5 5 36 34 Sebastien Grosjean 950 950 out 5 5 37 35 Juan Ignacio Chela 940 940 50H-out 40 50 15 38 36 Kristof Vliegen 940 940 out 5 5 39 37 Andre Agassi 925 925 out 0 0 40 38 Thomas Johansson 925 925 out 5 5 41 40 Nicolas Massu 900 910 50H-out 40 40
Players in italics increased their ranking on Friday
New Haven (H) 200 140 90 50 20 10 5 (q:5)
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As Imoen has said, we have until Sunday to get rid of Verdasco & Acasuso. Further, as this is a 48 -strong field, and all of Andy's competitors have first round byes, we probably won't see any in action until Tuesday at the earliest.
VSandhi20 wrote: In the 19th result, andy's got 21 points. are these for the US Open qualies points frm last year?
Nope - they're from the Mons Challenger! USO gave Andy 50 points - 35 for R2 and 15 for qualifying. Obviously these are defended next week. I think you only defend the USO qualies points this week if you didn't progress to the main draw.