Players in italics have advanced their rankings position on Friday (and Saturday in Noumea). Underlined Players were knocked out on Friday(and Saturday in Noumea).
Note: Stakhovski drops places because he was defending points from Doha, week 52 2005.
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Masterful inactivity from Josh and Richard (and Greg too!): Josh reaches his highest ever ranking: rising four places to 203 as the week begins. Richard goes up three to 211.
Stakhovsky, Ascione, Montcourt, El Aynaoui and Nunez (off the bottom of the table) lose rankings places.
(Greg rises two to 189 as the week begins)
Eight players on the table behind them, plus at least another 12 more off the bottom can overtake from the main draws of Challengers. There's likely to be a few in ATP qualifying as well!
Table Updated: Josh and Behrend playing in Chennai qualies. Stakhovski, Vagnozzi and Troiki playing for the big points in Doha.
If Josh gets to the qualifying round, I'm going to have to extend the table upwards, as 5 points from qualifying would send him up into the top 200s.....
Table updated: Josh & Behrend are out of Chennai. Also, Bloomers is actually at 210, because Ascione should not have been on the table, and Dorsch isn't playing until next week....phew!
Table updated: The Wildcards have a field day in Adelaide eliminations: Pim Pim Johannsson overtakes Greg - knocking him back to 190th (still up on the week). Alun Jonesadvances to just 1 point behind him.
Clemens, Behrend and Andujar are knocked out as well as Josh
Updated for Doha: Troiki goes out behind Josh. Unfortunately, Stakhovsky and Vagnozzi can both overtake him if they win their final qualifiers tomorrow.
Updated for Adelaide and early results from Chennai & Doha:
Alun Jones overtakes Greg, winning his first Round- Robin (against Hajek ), and advancing into the 170s. Greg's back to where he started the week: 191.
Stakhovsky gets knocked out in the qualifying round in Doha. Pim-Pim loses his first RR match.
just Vagnozzi left to wory about today for Josh. He's playing/has played Luzzi in Doha.
Noumea and Sao Paolo start tonight: Cuevas in Sao Paolo, and Jeanpierre, Montcourt, Guez, Lacko and Cipolla in Noumea.
Vagnozzi and Jeanpierre will overtake Josh if they win. Montcourt will overtake Richard if he wins.
One new name to add to the list of threats is : Younes El Aynaoui, who's in as a wildcard and up against To-Jo tomorrow in Doha. He'll overtake all three of the Brits if he does win that one
One new name to add to the list of threats is : Younes El Aynaoui, who's in as a wildcard and up against To-Jo tomorrow in Doha. He'll overtake all three of the Brits if he does win that one
It's not looking good for the Brits: El Aynaoui is a set up on ToJo and is 3-0 up in the second set tiebreak
RobC wrote: Tonight in Sao Paolo, we have Garcia's first round finally taking place, to take him a point behind Bloomers.
In Noumea, Cipolla plays Mertl; Guez, Kuznetsov and Lacko are all playing.
Cipolla would overtake Greg; Mertl would overtake Richard
Guez would overtake Josh, Kuznetsov would overtake both Josh and Bloomers, Lacko would overtake Bloomers.
- could be a bad night! Pins in. Fingers crossed!
It was a bad night: Josh drops another place to 205 (still up 1 on the week); Richard drops two to 214 (where he started).
In Noumea:
Guez won, overtakes Josh, and will overtake Greg if he wins tonight.
Mertl won, overtakes Richard, and will overtake Josh if he wins tonight
Lacko won, overtakes Richard, and will overtake Greg and Josh if he wins tonight
Ascione won, to move up onto the table. He'll overtake both Richard and Josh if he wins tonight
Garcia won in Sao Paolo, to sit a point behind Richard.
The good news is that Cipolla and Kuznetsov both went out, So Greg didn't lose places last night.
Meanwhile, lower down the rankings, I think Jonny Marray's just been overtaken by Ferreiro and Dutra- Silva in Sao Paolo, to sit at 258 (no change on the week). Also, Alan Mackin's just had Meffert and Oudsema overtake him, to put him 1 down on the week at 271.