Here's this week's table, for Tokyo, Metz, Mons & Quito (c)GC77. It's issued before the final results from Tulsa are in. Please let me know if you spot any mistakes!
Running|-------Start of week-----------|Running So 18th Def1 19th Rank rank name points Points Far Result Result 105 102 Boris Pashanski 411 411 out 14 10 106 108 Danai Udomchoke 397 407 15T-out 5 5 5 107 109 Kristian Pless 396 396 15T-out 8 5 108 110 Lukas Dlouhy 393 393 1m-out 8 5 109 111 Nicolas Devilder 393 393 1m-out 1 1 1 110 113 Marcos Daniel 390 390 5T-out 5 5 111 114 Stefano Galvani 389 389 5T-out 5 5 112 115 Alejandro Falla 383 383 1m-out 1 1 113 116 Rik de Voest 382 382 5T-out 5 4 114 112 Denis Gremelmayer 390 381 out 4 10 1 115 107 Gilles Muller 400 380 1m-out 5 25 5 116 118 Carlos Berlocq 373 373 out 12 8 117 119 Ramon Delgado 370 370 5T-out 5 5 118 126 Alexander Waske 359 369 25T-out 15 15 15 119 146 Alex Bogdanovic 305 367 63m-out 1 1 120 121 Konstantinos Economidis 365 367 5T-out 3 3 121 130 Jiri Novak 341 365 25T-out 1 0 122 123 Igor Kunitsyn 364 364 out 9 8 123 122 Teimuraz Gabashvili 365 362 1m-out 8 9 6 124 125 Flavio Saretta 360 360 out 5 5 125 120 Albert Portas 365 358 out 5 12 5 126 124 Kenneth Carlsen 362 342 15T-out 5 25 5 127 128 Simone Bolelli 348 348 1m-out 4 4 128 129 Gorka Fraile 345 345 out 5 5 129 131 Ivan Navarro Pastor 338 338 out 5 5 130 117 Mark Philippoussis 376 336 out 0 40 0 131 132 Robert Kendrick 336 336 out 1 1 132 127 Lukasz Kubot 348 330 out 4 21 3 133 73 Wesley Moodie 550 325 25T-out 5 250 5 134 134 Amer Delic 324 324 out 5 5 135 135 Ilia Bozoljac 322 322 out 1 1 136 133 Michael Llodra 335 321 1m 5 15 1 137 136 Sam Querrey 319 319 out 5 5 138 147 Yen-Hsun Lu 304 319 20T-out 5 5 139 137 Ivo Minar 318 318 out 5 5 5 140 138 Michael Russell 317 317 out 5 3 141 139 Diego Hartfield 316 316 1q-out 1 1 142 140 Werner Eschauer 315 315 out 3 1 143 148 Yeu-Tzuoo Wang 304 313 15T-out 6 5 144 141 Alexander Peya 312 312 out 1 1 145 142 Greg Rusedski 310 310 out 10 5 146 143 Tomas Zib 310 310 1m-out 8 5 5 147 144 Ricardo Mello 308 308 out 5 5 5 148 145 Paul Capdeville 306 306 out 5 4 149 149 Andre Agassi 300 300 out 5 0 150 152 Federico Luzzi 298 298 out 5 4 151 153 George Bastl 296 296 out 5 3 152 150 Michael Berrer 299 295 5T-out 5 9 5 153 151 Andreas Vinciguerra 298 294 out 0 4 0 154 154 Oscar Hernandez 287 280 out 5 12 5 155 157 Bobby Reynolds 276 276 out 5 5 156 160 Frederico Gil 262 262 out 1 1 157 161 Tomas Cakl 261 261 out 1 1 158 156 Peter Luczak 279 260 out 3 20 1 159 188 Marco Chiudinelli 215 255 40m-out 0 0 160 162 Younes El Aynaoui 260 255 out 0 5 0
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Greg gains a place to 141 as the week begins. Boggo's at 146. Moodie drops a massive 72 points to sit behind Boggo as his Tokyo win from last year drops off. Lu qualifies for Tokyo, and overtakes alex, cancelling this out.
Llodra, Carlsen, Philipousis, Kubot, Berrer and Vinciguerra also lose places, meanwhile Montcourt, Marin and Hehnel drop off the table.
Edit: Llodra's victory in Grenoble, and Lu's qualification for Tokyo happened late on Sunday. Until they happened, both Greg & Alex had advanced 2: Llodra was behind them both and Lu was behind Boggo. I've changed this post accordingly.
Alex just needs to win his first round match to become Britain's new Number 3.
If Alex Wins in Mons, he could climb to WR 108, however there are plenty of other players who if they get just a few points would knock him out of the top 110.
If he reaches the Final, he could climb to 119, but again would probably end up somewhere in the top 130.
If he reaches the Semis, he could climb to 127, and is unlikely to be pushed out of the top 130.
If he reaches the Quarters, he could climb to 132, and is unlikely to be pushed much lower.
If he goes out in Round 2, he would climb to 140, and then probably be knocked back 3 or 4 places.
If he loses in the first round, there are a number who can overtake easily: Moodie, Lu and Wang would overtake with a win in R1 in Tokyo.
Pins into these three and Zib, who Alex would overtake if he won R1.
Edit: changed to reflect Llodra and Navarro Pastor's improved positions after Sunday's matches.
Hopefully Schuettler will win against Berrer. The last time they played, Berrer won in 3. Berrer will be coming from Mumbai so it'll be quite a change in surface. Unfortunately Schuettler's not in particularly good form, losing in Bangkok rd2 to Zverev last week while Berrer took a set off Robredo in Mumbai rd2.
Moodie's got a bye through to rd2 in Tokyo, he's seeded there, how has he dropped so low ? He was in the 70s last week ?
Who's Lu playing in rd1 of Tokyo ?
Zib should get knocked out tonight, he's playing 7th seeded Belgian giant Dick Norman who's virtually impossible to break indoors when he's in a rhythm on serve. He's also playing in front of his home crowd, one of the rare occasions he gets to do so, he'll be pumped up for that match
Moodie's got a bye through to rd2 in Tokyo, he's seeded there, how has he dropped so low ? He was in the 70s last week ?
Who's Lu playing in rd1 of Tokyo ?
Zib should get knocked out tonight, he's playing 7th seeded Belgian giant Dick Norman who's virtually impossible to break indoors when he's in a rhythm on serve. He's also playing in front of his home crowd, one of the rare occasions he gets to do so, he'll be pumped up for that match
Moodie is defending 250 points - he won Tokyo last year, believe it or not, and that makes up almost half of all his ranking points.
Lu's a qualifier, so he'll be up against Udomchoke, Waske, Vicente, Iwabuchi, Delgardo or another qualifier.
Edit: Looks like the draw's been made: Lu's up against Delgardo in tomorrow's OOP. The Berrer match was postponed until then as well.
UltimateBoggoFan wrote: If Alex loses to Falla, is he likely to slide several places ? Are the players ranked immediately above him, defending many points this week ?
He's already slid one, with Lu overtaking, and can go down another if Moodie wins. However, there's no- one else on the table below him still playing this week (they all have "out" in the "So Far" column), so the only threats are from players in the 160s & 170s, who need to do really well to overtake (>60 points).
As for the players immediately above him, the points defended have alrady been taken into account on the table (that's why Moodie's suddenly appeared here, and Philippousis). You'll see that there's a lot of players within 20 points of Alex (QF in Mons), and that most are not in action this week - just Lu, Wang, Hartfield & Llodra.