Boggo's competitors week 42

RobC · All-time great

Boggo's competitors week 42

RobC · All-time great

Well, having reached his career high ranking of 114, Alex drops straight back down to 118th as his points from the Southampton Challenger last year drop off.

Roitman, Pless, Gremelmayer, Kunitsyn, Delgardo, Berlocq and Saretta also lose places.

Meanwhile Fraile and Navarro- Pastor qualify for Madrid and gain places as a result.

These two are the big immediate threats to Alex's position: if they win their R1 matches, that will take them past him.

More analysis later.

Sheddie · administrator

So Alex needs to reach the quarters this week in order to defend his points from Southampton.

Good news is that Fraile and Navarro-Pastor are unlikely to be threats to Alex's position. Fraile plays Srichaphan in rd1 and Navarro-Pastor plays Andy Murray

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

And Narravo Pastor is out already.

More analysis as soon as I have my table up and running sometime later today.

RobC · All-time great

imoen wrote:

And Narravo Pastor is out already.

......following hot on Gorka Fraille's heels to the exit

, so Boggo can concentrate on Challenger - level points from his competitors.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Firstly, I've not looked at any results so if I say something that is already wrong I apologise...

Optimists post:

If Boggo wins his first match, he will gain two places, providing that Kubot and Kendrick both lose first round.

If he wins in the second rounf, he will gain a further three places, two of which cannot be the lost. The third depends on Waske losing first round (which is especially wanted as he plays the Mackin).

A quarter final win would see Alex moving up three more, if Vicente and Pless lose before the third round.

A semi win moves him up four places, none of which can be lost.

A tournament win moves him up and beyond the top of the table, with a gain of 6 places, if Alves goes out before the third round, and Pashanski loses first round.

Join me again tomorrow when we'll be looking at it all from a pessimists veiwpoint.

RobC · All-time great

The table's updated for the Madrid & Kolding results.

Navarro-Pastor and Fraile go out in Madrid. Kubot wins in Kolding, so Alex won't overtake with just the first round win.

RobC · All-time great

The table's updated for the overnight results from the Americas.

Berlocq and de Voest go out . Hartfield wins in Bogota.

That's four out of nine threats on the table gone already!

RobC · All-time great

Boggo's win takes him past Kendrick, on level points with Novak (but behind on points from mandatory tournaments).

Kendrick can take the place back again if he wins in California tonight.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Threats that Boggo faces this week are:

Kendrick, Carlsen, Philippoussis, Llodra, Hartfield, Delic, Querrey, Bozoljac, Mello, Guccione, Capdeville.

And then my table finishes, I'm pretty sure no one else will trouble him but I'll double check later in the week.

Presuming Alex goes out in the second round the above can overtake by reaching the second round, semis, final, final, final, win, win, win, win, win, win, win respectively.

So worst case would be a loss of about 8 places (I haven't looked at all the draws but only one person can win each tournament). Taking him to 125 in the rankings as the absolute lowest he can go.

If Alex wins his second round match I will post again to show what each threat must now do.

Bladetiger · Pro player

Just wondered if it was possible to leave those still in events (and therefore possible threats) in Bold so that they could be more easily viewed, what does everyone else think, does it make it easier to read?

RobC wrote:

Here's the table for the week of the 16th October (c)GC77. Do 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   106   Rainer Schuettler       399   399   out   5         5
106   107   Andrei Pavel            393   393   out   5     5    5
107   101   Sergio Roitman          412   391   out   7     27    6
108   109   Lukas Dlouhy            390   390   1-out 8           5
109   110   Stefano Galvani         389   382   out   5     12    5
110   112   Gilles Muller           380   380   out   5           5
111   113   Fernando Vicente       378   378   1b    8           8
112   104   Kristian Pless          403   376   1k   10    35    8
113   115   Konstantinos Economidis 367   367   out   4           3
114   117   Alexander Waske         364   364   1k   15          15
115   122   Lukasz Kubot            362   364   6k    4           3
116   116   Jiri Novak             365   361   out   5     5     1
117   114   Alex Bogdanovic         367   361   6k    4     12    1
118   118   Robert Kendrick         362   358   1c    1     5     1
119   126   Simone Bolelli          356   355   out   4      5    4
120   119   Teimuraz Gabashvili     362   354   1-out 6     14    6
121   125   Kenneth Carlsen         352   352   1k    5           5
122   130   Gorka Fraile            336   351 20M-out 5           5
123   111   Denis Gremelmayr       385   349   out   4     37    1
124   123   Igor Kunitsyn           354   348   out   9     14    8
125   127   Rik de Voest            346   346 1c-out 5     5    5
126   124   Ramon Delgado           353   344   out   5     14    5
127   121   Carlos Berlocq          359   338 1b-out 8     27    6
128   129   Mark Philippoussis      337   338   1c    0           0
129   135   Ivan Navarro-Pastor     321   336 20M-out 5           1
130   128   Flavio Saretta          343   332   out   5     12    1
131   131   Michael Llodra          331   331   1k    1           1
132   132   Albert Portas           328   328   out   5           1
133   133   Amer Delic             325   325   1c    5      5    5
134   134   Wesley Moodie           325   325   out   5           5
135   136   Diego Hartfield         320   324   7b    3         1

Madrid (M) 500 350 225 125 75 35 5 (15 8 1)

Bogota CH (b)           70 49 31 16 7 1 (3)
Kolding CH(k)           60 42 27 14 6 1 (3)
Calabasas CH(c)   50 35 22 12 5 1(2)

Players in italics have gained places on Monday.
Underlined players were knocked out on Monday.

-- Edited by RobC at 21:30, 2006-10-16
-- Edited by RobC at 07:55, 2006-10-17

-- Edited by RobC at 13:52, 2006-10-17

Bladetiger · Pro player

imoen wrote:

Threats that Boggo faces this week are:

Kendrick, Carlsen, Philippoussis, Llodra, Hartfield, Delic, Querrey, Bozoljac, Mello, Guccione, Capdeville.

And then my table finishes, I'm pretty sure no one else will trouble him but I'll double check later in the week.

Presuming Alex goes out in the second round the above can overtake by reaching the second round, semis, final, final, final, win, win, win, win, win, win, win respectively.

So worst case would be a loss of about 8 places (I haven't looked at all the draws but only one person can win each tournament). Taking him to 125 in the rankings as the absolute lowest he can go.

If Alex wins his second round match I will post again to show what each threat must now do.

Above Boggo there were wins for Pless, Waske

and Kubot. Although Pless needs to make Quarters and Waske need semi's to even count it!

RobC · All-time great

Bladetiger wrote:

Just wondered if it was possible to leave those still in events (and therefore possible threats) in Bold so that they could be more easily viewed, what does everyone else think, does it make it easier to read?

Ideally, we'd be able to grey out those who're no longer playing, or use colour to indicate who's just been knocked out or who's just climbed. I agree, it's better being able to see at a glance who's still playing. The worry about using bold for all those still in is that it then becomes more difficult to see where Boggo is (currently bold + underline) and who's just moved up the rankings (currently bold+italics). However I'm happy to give it a try if people think it would be helpful.

What do others think?

Bladetiger · Pro player

RobC wrote:

Bladetiger wrote:

Just wondered if it was possible to leave those still in events (and therefore possible threats) in Bold so that they could be more easily viewed, what does everyone else think, does it make it easier to read?

Ideally, we'd be able to grey out those who're no longer playing, or use colour to indicate who's just been knocked out or who's just climbed. I agree, it's better being able to see at a glance who's still playing. The worry about using bold for all those still in is that it then becomes more difficult to see where Boggo is (currently bold + underline) and who's just moved up the rankings (currently bold+italics). However I'm happy to give it a try if people think it would be helpful.

What do others think?

Boggo still stands out because he's underlined, and I'm guessing that most of us are only interested in Boggo so it doesnt really matter whether they've moved up or not, only whether they are still a threat, so i say go for it.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I too don't think it is necessary to embolden the ones who have moved up or down; if anybody is really interested, they can see the movement on the week by looking at the first two columns.

I think it would be useful to have the ones still in tournaments in bold.

Rob, do you not use Firefox? You can get colour on that - see my entry list postings.