Tim's Competitors Week 44 - Paris Masters

RobC · All-time great

RE: Tim's Competitors Week 44 - Paris Masters

RobC · All-time great

Berdych has put paid to Ginepri

RobC · All-time great

Benneteau and Ancic are on court. It's 3-2 to Ancic with serve.

Remember, if Benneteau wins, Tim drops to 40th.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Ancic has taken the first set 63. Come on Super Mario!

RobC · All-time great

Double brek in the second for Ancic: 4-0. Hopefully Benneteau can't come back from this....

RobC · All-time great

RobC wrote:

Double brek in the second for Ancic: 4-0. Hopefully Benneteau can't come back from this....

He Couldn't

Ancic wins 6-3 6-1

. Tim's one remaining threat is Mathieu who needs to win the tournament to overtake. Well after all those players getting past him on Monday, Tim's looking likely to end up where he started the week - at 39th, albeit with Benneteau breathing heavily down his neck.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

How many tournaments before Ozzy Open to try and get a seeding?

RobC · All-time great

johnnylad wrote:

How many tournaments before Ozzy Open to try and get a seeding?

Just the one ATP, I think: the seedings will be decided based on the rankings the week before the AO (which is weeks 3 & 4). So there's only the tournaments in week 1 that will count towards the seeding: Doha, Adelaide and Chennai.

-- Edited by RobC at 16:01, 2006-11-02

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

It seems Mathieu saw us coming to get him before he won the tournament and decided to bow out gracefully with all limbs still intact. So Tim ends the week where he started at 39th.

RobC · All-time great

A good day all round! Tim's last remaining threat, Mathieu get's knocked out by Robredo, who climbs up to WR 6 past Blake & Nalbandian.

So that's Tim surviving the week with more points on the board, and no ranking places lost.

I'll do an interim update of the table.

Edit: Done. Just the Hrbaty result to come.

-- Edited by RobC at 17:47, 2006-11-02

johnnylad · Tennis legend

RobC wrote:

johnnylad wrote:

How many tournaments before Ozzy Open to try and get a seeding?

Just the one ATP, I think: the seedings will be decided based on the rankings the week before the AO (which is weeks 3 & 4). So there's only the tournaments in week 1 that will count towards the seeding: Doha, Adelaide and Chennai.

-- Edited by RobC at 16:01, 2006-11-02

Lets hope Tim is fit to play one of these and does well enough to scrape a seeding. That would really help him start the season with a few good points!

Drew · Nov 2, 2006

imoen wrote:

It seems Mathieu saw us coming to get him before he won the tournament and decided to bow out gracefully with all limbs still intact. So Tim ends the week where he started at 39th.

Thanks quite a feat.......tim must be reasonably pleased with 39 after the year he has had !

seagull · Hall of fame

RobC wrote:

johnnylad wrote:

How many tournaments before Ozzy Open to try and get a seeding?

Just the one ATP, I think: the seedings will be decided based on the rankings the week before the AO (which is weeks 3 & 4). So there's only the tournaments in week 1 that will count towards the seeding: Doha, Adelaide and Chennai.

-- Edited by RobC at 16:01, 2006-11-02

Been looking at the players defences for Week 1 and Malisse, Volandri and Vliegen will all go below Tim if they fail to defend their points which means Tim is going to be very near a seeding place!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Nice one seagull, I hadn't thought of that!

There's always a few withdrawals as well at the Ozzy Open, hopefully one or two will be ranked above Tim!

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

More importantly, Tim have to defend his Doha points (QF?)