Tim's ranking week 34.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Tim's ranking week 34.

RobC · All-time great

Here's the table (c) GC77. As for Andy's table, please let me know if I need to change anything.

Running|--------Start of week---------|Running  So  18th  Def   19th
Rank  rank      name             points Points Far Result      Result
50    50    Alberto Martin         779   779  5H-out 40          25
51    51    Julien Benneteau       773   778 10H-out  5           5
52    52    Gilles Simon           756   756 10H-out 10           9
53    53    Filippo Volandri       750   750  5H-out 25        15
54    54    Mikhail Youzhny        745   745   out   60          40
55    55    Max Mirnyi             740   740 10H-out 15           5
56    57    Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo  682   695 20H-out  7           6
57    56    Davide Sanguinetti     690   690  5H-out 15          14
58    58    Florian Mayer          675   675   out   19          16
59    59    Paul-Henri Mathieu     660   660  5H-out 15          15
60    60    Mardy Fish             646   646 10H-out  5           5
61    61    Luis Horna             642   642  5H-out 15           5
62    62    Tim Henman             640   640   out   25          25
63    63    Philipp Kohlschreiber  634   619   out   12    20     5
64    65    Daniele Bracciali      617   617  5H-out 15          10
65    67    Christophe Rochus      605   605  5H-out 15          15
66    66    Bjorn Phau             605   605  5H-out 14           5
67    68    Nicolas Mahut(q)       605   605 10H-out 15          12
68    73    Jurgen Melzer          560   595 50H-out 15          15
69    69    Ivo Karlovic           586   586  5H-out  5           5
70    70    Hyung-Taik Lee         576   576   out    6           5
71    71    Andreas Seppi(q)       565   565 10H-out 36          27
72    72    Juan Monaco            564   564   out    5           5
73    74    Justin Gimelstob       528   528  5H-out 15          15
74    75    Albert Montanes        519   519   out    8           8
75    76    Andrei Pavel           514   514   out   15          15
76    77    Simon Greul            509   509   out    7           5
77    64    Feliciano Lopez        625   505 10H-out 25   140    20
80    83    Marc Gicquel(q)        494   504 15H-out  5           1
78    79    Rainer Schuettler      504   504   out    5           5
79    78    Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 505   500   out    8    10     5

Players in italics improved their ranking on Thursday

New Haven (H) 200 140 90 50 20 10 5 (q:5)

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RobC · All-time great

Well, in Tim's half of the top hundred, Bracciali and Phau (and Melzer in qualies) have already obliged by being knocked out in the first round at New Haven. However, Mahutand Seppi won their R1s and Gicquel and Hajek got through qualifying today, to continue breathing down his neck.

Monday's action includes: number 1 threat Christophe Rochus (needs QF to overtake), Karlovic (semi), Gimelstob(final) and Lopez, Vik, Hajek, Gicquel and Pashanski (win)

plus Matthieu, Fish &Horna from directly above him.

RobC · All-time great

Worst case for Tim now is a drop of four places. A total of 10 players can overtake, but most of them require finals places or to win the tournament to do so, and as a result will knock each other out before they do so.

Apart from those mentioned above, Mahut needs to reach the semis and Seppi needs to reach the final.

Remember to watch out for Rochus & Karlovic today!

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Greg obligingly knocked out Karlovic, and Christophe Rochus lost too. Giquel and Hajek played each other, Hajek lost.

It looks like Tim could come off quite lightly this week

RobC · All-time great

Table updated. As you say, Mad - a good day for Tim. Gimelstob's also obliged, and Mathieu and Horna dropped out above him.

Worst case is now a drop of just 2 places (from 4 yesterday).

The new number 1 threat is Mahut (Semis), then Seppi (Finals), then Lopez, Gicquel and Vik (win)

Mahut takes on Andy threat Acasuso, Seppi takes on Chela. Both are first up at 10am Eastern time (3pm UK).

Any one of Chela, Malisse or Blake could take out both of them and Acasuso too for us.

RobC · All-time great

It's all going rather well for Tim

Mahut & Seppi are both out, so Tim can only drop one place, and then only if one of his competitors wins in New Haven.

In fact the only cloud on the horizon is that Mahut went out to Acasuso, who could knock Andy back a place if he were to win the tournament.

Sheddie · administrator

I can't see Acasuso winning the tournament though, don't think his game is big enough to beat the likes of Blake or Baghdatis

RobC · All-time great

Heyyy......no fair !!

Melzer's sneaked in as a lucky loser with Bjorkman withdrawing. He's beaten Lopez, but more importantly can overtake Tim if he gets to the final. Tim's worst case is back to a drop of 2

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

That's just sneaky! I'll have to alter my spreadsheet now

RobC · All-time great

Well by the end of Tuesday, Tim was down to just two competitors: one who might overtake, and one to keep in his sights.

Melzer as we've said pulled a very late LL out of the bag, and can now overtake if he reaches the final. He's the only threat left who can do so, so worst case is now a drop of one place. He needs to get past Verdasco, Soderling, Baghdatis, Rochus, Monfils, Srichapan and Davydenko.

Ramirez-Hidalgo beat Blake late yesterday() and will now face Malisse in the third round.

Apart from that, though, all seven competitors behind Tim were knocked out, and all four above him in the table were too.

Remarkably, Blake is the only seed to get knocked out of the tournament, so there's a lot of firepower left to tackle the two that made it

Melzer plays Andy Competitor Verdasco in the third round today.

RobC · All-time great

Wooohooo!

I've made it to County Player!

Bring on Adam Lownsborough!

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

RobC wrote:

Melzer as we've said pulled a very late LL out of the bag, and can now overtake if he reaches the final. He's the only threat left who can do so, so worst case is now a drop of one place. He needs to get past Verdasco, Soderling, Baghdatis, Rochus, Monfils, Srichapan and Davydenko.

Well, no problem for him there then!

I think Tim might just be safe not to drop. . .

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

RobC wrote:

Wooohooo!

I've made it to County Player!

Bring on Adam Lownsborough!

Sheddie · administrator

RobC wrote:

Wooohooo!

I've made it to County Player!

Bring on Adam Lownsborough!

Lol !

I've no idea what happened to Blake last night, after Washington his game seems to have gone off the boil. Maybe he's been over-playing. He missed 5 match points overall across both tiebreaks and said afterwards that it was inexcusable especially given that some of the mps were on his serve.

I think Tim's ranking will be safe for another week unless Melzer produces some of the performances of his life. Can't see him overcoming the power of Verdasco but if he does, Baghdatis will definately put an end to his chances in the quarters.