ATP San Jose 2007.

Drew · Feb 11, 2007

RE: ATP San Jose 2007.

Michael · Pro player

Its a good thing if you ask me.

steven · Tennis legend

Arka wrote:

steven wrote:

Next doubles points to defend for Aucks and Muz are:

Aucks: 40 from San Jose QFs next week

Muz: 39 from GB Satellite in 2 weeks time

After that, Aucks has nothing to defend until the end of March and Muz has nothing to defend until the end of April.

Jamie drops them in three weeks time. As in, week of Indian Wells.

-- Edited by Arka at 12:21, 2007-02-11

No, definitely in two weeks, i.e. for the Monday 26 February rankings, with Indian Wells starting the Monday after that.

Or at least, that's what I worked out, and I just checked on steveg and he agrees.

Satellite points don't go on a week late like Futures do, in case that's what's causing the confusion.

-- Edited by steven at 14:21, 2007-02-11

Salmon · Tennis legend

But the ATP says that the Sat points were added on 6th March 2006.

http://www.atptennis.com/5/en/players/playerprofiles/rankhistory.asp?playernumber=MC81&selyear=2006

steven · Tennis legend

Hmmm that's a bit of a mystery - if you look at Ian Flanagan's playing record, it's clear that week 4 of that Satellite was 20-24 Feb 2006, so the points should have gone on the rankings the following Monday. I've checked Flan's ranking history (just in case Satellite doubles points go on a week later than singles points, not that this would have made any sense either) and Flan's ranking seems to have changed in March too.

I'll get back to you on this one!

steven · Tennis legend

Now I remember! The Satellite points went on the published rankings a week too late last year, and it had some of us worried at the time - see http://simserver.dyndns.org/btz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1044 - someone eventually asked steveg about it - see http://www.stevegtennis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=12838#p=12838 - and as far as he was concerned, it was an ATP mistake. Someone then suggested that this does happen sometimes and when it does, they usually issue an interim list to tournament organisers to ensure that players entering tournaments based on their ranking that week end up in the right place on the acceptance list.

So, it's now anyone's guess when the points will actually come off!

Salmon · Tennis legend

How very strange!!

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

i just read on the supporting site that the court in San Jose is 50% faster than last year! why cant they stick to the same surface when in fact they trying to be bias in aiming for an American winner out of Blake/Roddick!

I hope Murray prove the organisers wrong by defending his title!

eblunt · Club Coach

Blake out to Karlovic .. Hmmmmm

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

eblunt wrote:

Blake out to Karlovic .. Hmmmmm

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

VSandhi20 wrote:

i just read on the supporting site that the court in San Jose is 50% faster than last year! ....aiming for an American winner out of Blake/Roddick!

looks like that one backfired, perfect courts for Karlovic and his game. oops!

Sorry any Blake fans, I'm not laughing at him, just the tournament organisers. Plus i like Karlovic, he's the real life BFG.

scoobsuk · Club Coach

Still, it seems like they've taken steps to ensure that the Roddick-Murray semi goes the other way, this year.

A bit annoying, but I hope Andy can find a way through - the last two meetings, one in competition, one in exhibition, Roddick has seemed to cope much better with what Murray has thrown at him, and Murray hasn't taken a set in either of those two meetings.

Admittedly the competition match was Cincy 2006 when Murray was clearly exhausted after getting by Federer and then somehow squeaking past Ginepri.

And exhibition is only exhibition, never wise to read too much into that.

Still, I hope Murray can bring his big match temperament with him should he make the date with Roddick - he can win it.

aria81 · Club Coach

Andy has the perfect game to beat Roddick - he just needs to be careful not to get lured into playing Roddick's game like he did in Cincy where Roddick basically goaded him into playing a way that suited him. I think with the way the courts are this year though that it would take something pretty drastic to happen to Roddick's serve for Andy to beat him here though. We could have a Roddick/Karlovic final - how exciting.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

It probably would be exciting watching it on a scoreboard - the points should pass quickly!

scoobsuk · Club Coach

Madeline wrote:

It probably would be exciting watching it on a scoreboard - the points should pass quickly!

Probably the best way to watch that match