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Well, 14 different players can overtake this week. So pins into all of them please! Like last week, I'll look at who meet whom when and therefore the maximum number of places Tim can lose after the first round. The list is:
If Tim loses first round he won't gain any points or places.
If he loses second round he won't gain any points or places.
If he loses in the quarters, he will gain 15points and will definitely gain 2 places, and possibly another if Lee loses before the quarters.
If he loses in the semis, he will gain a further 35points and will definitely gain another 2 places, and possibly a third if Mayer loses before the quarters.
If he loses in the final, he will gain a further 45 points and will definitely gain a further 3 places, and possibly 3 more if Mathieu loses before the semis and Volandri before the quarters and Benneteau doesn't go beyond the first round.
If he wins in the final, he will gain an extra 55 points and will definitely gain another 3 places, and possibly a further 4 places if Srichaphan goes out before the semis, Almagro doesn't get to the quarters, Simon doesn't reach the semis and Ginepri can't get further than the second round.
So by winning, Tim would gain a maximum of 19 places and a minimum of 10. But he won't gain any at all unless he reaches the quarters.
-- Edited by imoen at 17:32, 2006-09-25
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Great work again, ty. I really fancy Tim getting to the Semis this week after his win against Andy. I'd love to see who he will face, but I feel this could be a good week for him.
I read or heard somewhere that Tim's ranking objective is to be seeded at the Aussie open. This is a tall order, buthough he has very few points to defend. To achieve his objective though, he will have to enter qualifying for Madrid and Paris as the cut for those tournaments is around 30. Is he really going to lower himself and qualify? When did Tim last enter Qualies for anything?