Andy's Competitors week 1

RobC · All-time great

RE: Andy's Competitors week 1

RobC · All-time great

Mixed news from Adelaide so far: Gasquet won, and is through to the quarters

. Spadea won, and knocks Stepanek out

. Hewitt's on next against Kunytsin.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Hewitt just won the first set 64.

As an aside, player who go straight to the round robin stage (ie don't have to play the 'elimination round') but don't then win a match, do they get 0 points or 20 points? It doesn't really seem fair either way!!

RobC · All-time great

imoen wrote:

As an aside, player who go straight to the round robin stage (ie don't have to play the 'elimination round') but don't then win a match, do they get 0 points or 20 points? It doesn't really seem fair either way!!

0 points. If you don't win a match, you don't get any points unless it's a mandatory event.

- it'll be interesting to see how many of the players who could win Challengers, but regularly get knocked out of ATPs carry on with the ATP tournaments....

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

RobC wrote:

imoen wrote:

As an aside, player who go straight to the round robin stage (ie don't have to play the 'elimination round') but don't then win a match, do they get 0 points or 20 points? It doesn't really seem fair either way!!

0 points. If you don't win a match, you don't get any points unless it's a mandatory event.

- it'll be interesting to see how many of the players who could win Challengers, but regularly get knocked out of ATPs carry on with the ATP tournaments....

Thanks Rob, that's what I'd assumed but i wondered if I was right or not. It just seems a bit mean really that the player who only just gets into the round robin stage (on ranking) can go away with nothing when the guy just below him in the list could win 10 points just by beating a wildcard or qualifier. I know it's not that simple in reality but on paper it looks like it's rewarding the lower ranked guys a bit more

Hopefully the ATP realises that no one likes the round robin system and scraps it before too long, even the Pim Pim doing the ATPplayer blog hasn't been behind it!

RobC · All-time great

imoen wrote:

Hopefully the ATP realises that no one likes the round robin system and scraps it before too long, even the Pim Pim doing the ATPplayer blog hasn't been behind it!

It's been wonderfully ironic, that despite the comments he's been making, he's the main (only?) player to benefit from the RR system by going through despite losing his first RR game.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

RobC wrote:

imoen wrote:

Hopefully the ATP realises that no one likes the round robin system and scraps it before too long, even the Pim Pim doing the ATPplayer blog hasn't been behind it!

It's been wonderfully ironic, that despite the comments he's been making, he's the main (only?) player to benefit from the RR system by going through despite losing his first RR game.

Wonderfully ironic indeed!

I was a little confused by the luckly loser thing though. Tipsy retired in his first match so Vassallo Arguello got in, with absolutely no chance of going through? The only way he could've gotten through was by winning his match against Kunitsyn and Hewitt then losing to Kunitsyn and V-A's stats being better, I think. All very confusing!

RobC · All-time great

imoen wrote:

I was a little confused by the luckly loser thing though. Tipsy retired in his first match so Vassallo Arguello got in, with absolutely no chance of going through? The only way he could've gotten through was by winning his match against Kunitsyn and Hewitt then losing to Kunitsyn and V-A's stats being better, I think. All very confusing!

I didn't spot that - excellent fun!! Well, Vas- Arg still got a chance of getting at least the 20 points, and it's not impossible for Kunytsin to beat Hewitt in 3 sets - in fact he's just taken him at 5-4* to deuce in the second set

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

well it's tiebreak time in that match. We want Kunitsyn to win and knock Hewitt out but he's 3-0 down at the moment (i think that's two minibreaks). Curiously the scoreboard has the last point down as '5th ace for I.K' and yet awarded the point to Hewitt

oh well, Come on Igor!

RobC · All-time great

7-6(4) to Igor Never mess with Bethan's pins, Mr Hewitt!

(although Lleyton's just gone 2-0 up in the third )

RobC · All-time great

Igor wins the next two games

: It's back at 2-2. HEwitt to serve.

RobC · All-time great

*4-3 Kunitsyn

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Hewitt gets broken from 40-0 up,

Kunitsyn now 40-0 on his own serve...40-15...game

Hewitt serving at 3-5 down in the third set.

-- Edited by imoen at 11:35, 2007-01-04

RobC · All-time great

5-3* Kunitsyn

RobC · All-time great

3 match points at 0-40 on Hewitt's serve...... 15-40....30-40

come on Igor!..Deuce

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