Henman out of Aussie Open

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Henman out of Aussie Open

Salmon · Tennis legend

Just can't believe this.

This will be terrible as he will have a zero pointer in his total.

Montana Doug · Futures qualifying

I am really disapointed as I know that he rested his knee at the end of last season and was hoping he would be fresh and ready to go this year. Hopefully this will give him a chance to rest up and heal anything else bothering him and give him a chance to play in Feb well rested. I would have hated for him to go only for him to do more damage or play while not fully fit only to exit in the first round.

I still think he will have a good year. The Aussie Open has never been too kind to him anyway.

RobC · All-time great

Hopefully it will make the difference between Boggo making the main draw & only the qualies....

Bladetiger · Pro player

He needs a good few more drop outs first doesnt he?

How close is he to getting a DA, and does anyone know what the cut off is and further drop outs will go to LL's.

Bladetiger · Pro player

Shocking news about Tim, btw,

but it's true that Aussie Open isnt a good event for him, so not a big problem, so long as it doesnt keep him out too long.

RobC · All-time great

Bladetiger wrote:

He needs a good few more drop outs first doesnt he?

How close is he to getting a DA, and does anyone know what the cut off is and further drop outs will go to LL's.

Unfortunately, with the steveg forums down, there's no (semi-) official news.

Alex was 15th ALT, and we've had (I think) 3 withdrawals so far: Gimelstob, Coria and Henman.

Then there's Philippoussis, who's knee's gone again, Tipsarevic, who withdrew injured from Adelaide, Kiefer, Hrbaty, Verkerk who are just doubts. Srichaphan was a doubt, but made it through R1 of Chennai with few problems....

Count Zero · Tennis legend

boggo is still a long way out, he would probably need abput 20 withdrwals, and there havnt been that many yet.

as for tim, its a shame but this is probably the best slam for him to miss, lets hope he can be fit for the feb atp's

Count Zero · Tennis legend

for ther AO al was further than 15 down, he wasnt even in the top 20. here is the inital list

Alternates
1. Vanek, Jiri CZE 102 IN

2. Korolev, Evgeny RUS 103 IN
3. Udomchoke, Danai THA 104
4. Muller, Gilles LUX 105
5. Alves, Thiago BRA 106
6. Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 107
7. Falla, Alejandro COL 108
8. Waske, Alexander GER 109
9. Galvani, Stefano ITA 110
10. Vicente, Fernando ESP 111
11. Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 112
12. Pavel, Andrei ROM 113
13. Philippoussis, Mark AUS 114 OUT
14. Marach, Oliver AUT 115
15. Coria, Guillermo ARG 116 OUT
16. Vik, Robin CZE 117
17. Saretta, Flavio BRA 118
18. Sluiter, Raemon NED 119
19. Economidis, Konstantinos GRE 120
20. Norman, Dick BEL 121

edited for known in's and out's

-- Edited by Count Zero at 11:26, 2007-01-04

RobC · All-time great

ah, right - I was looking at the qualies list.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Can't believe Tiger is out

When will this guy get a break from his recent injury woes? Once his back stopped playing up his knee has.

Probably out the top 50 again after AO.

RobC · All-time great

johnnylad wrote:

Probably out the top 50 again after AO.

Possibly not - remember he's only defending 5 points

johnnylad · Tennis legend

RobC wrote:

Srichaphan was a doubt, but made it through R1 of Chennai with few problems....

but 6-1 1-0 ( and broken) down to Koubek in second round. Must be something wrong

johnnylad · Tennis legend

RobC wrote:

johnnylad wrote:

Probably out the top 50 again after AO.

Possibly not - remember he's only defending 5 points

Even so he's only 10 places or so above it and theres a few new faces 75-50 isn't there?

RobC · All-time great

johnnylad wrote:

RobC wrote:

johnnylad wrote:

Probably out the top 50 again after AO.

Possibly not - remember he's only defending 5 points

Even so he's only 10 places or so above it and theres a few new faces 75-50 isn't there?

Yep, but also a lot of points being defended above him. At a guess 10-15 will overtake and 10- 15 will drop below

I can't see there being 50 players with more than 900 points.