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Here are all the players who could overtake Tim by reaching at least the QF of the Aussie Open. Table (c)GC77.
 

Running     Start of week                Running  So   18th    Def1  Def2  19th
Rank  rank  name                  points Points   Far  Result              Result
31    30    Xavier Malisse         965    935     5A-out    90      35          40
32    31    Nicolas Almagro        932     928   5A-out  12       5    12     8
33    40    Stanislas Wawrinka     885     925  75A-out  10      35           5
34    35    Fernando Verdasco      910     910  35A-out  25      35          25
35    39    Olivier Rochus         895     895  35A-out  60      35          55
36    38    Tim Henman             900     895     out   25       5          25
37    42    Carlos Moya            870     870   5A-out  40       5          40
38    44    Arnaud Clement         820     850  35A-out  15       5          10
39    34    Gaston Gaudio          915     845   5A-out  15      75          15
40    33    Juan Ignacio Chela     920     845  75A-out  40     150          40
41    37    Kristof Vliegen        900     830   5A-out  40      75          15
42    43    Nicolas Massu          825     825   5A-out  50       5          40
43    36    Julien Benneteau       902     817   5A-out  15      90          15
44    45    Filippo Volandri       809     809   5A-out   9       5           8
45    29    Sebastien Grosjean     965     790  75A-out   5     250           5
46    50    Jonas Bjorkman         743     773  35A-out   5       5           5
47    53    Robby Ginepri          725     765    75A    20      35          15
48    54    Marc Gicquel           715     742  35A-out   5       8           5
49    49    Hyung-Taik Lee         747     730   5A-out  10       5    27    10
50    58    Florian Mayer          680     720  75A-out  20      35          19
51    59    Gael Monfils           645     715  75A-out  15       5           5
52    56    Paradorn Srichaphan    705     705   5A-out  20       5          20
53    55    Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo  710     693   5A-out   8      22           5
54    57    Benjamin Becker        695     692   5A-out   8                   6
55    52    Max Mirnyi             725     685  35A-out  15      75          15

Australian Open(A): 1000 700 450 250 150 75 35 0 (15 8 4 0)



Players in bold are still in action in weeks 3 & 4.

Players in italics advanced their ranking on Sunday

Underlined players  were knocked out on Sunday

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Tim starts the week by surging six places up to WR 32 As he's only defending 5 points from last year, while Gaudio, Vliegen, Benneteau, Chela, Grosjean and Verdasco had a good Australian Open in 2006, they all drop behind him.


However, Tim could in theory be overtaken by anyone down to WR695, Victor Hanescu (including Alan Mackin!!), as the 1,000 points on offer mean that his 895 points are vulnerable to anyone at the tournament.


I've shown all those who could overtake Tim by reaching the QF.


Verdasco and Moya can overtake by just reaching R2.  So they're the coven's first targets for Tim.


 



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Tim's closest threats are playing in the bottom half of the draw- Monday night.


So the matches to watch out for are: Fish vs Ljubicic; Massu vs Djokovic and Volandri vs Gasquet.


Well hopefully Ljuby can do the business for Tim. Otherwise, I think Andy's needs outweigh Tim's and I can't seeing us hoping that volandri and Massu go out this round.



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The morning update:


Melzer(off the top) and Gicquel advance. Volandri, Srichaphan, Ram- Ham and Simon go out


Massu and  Becker yet to play.



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RobC wrote:


Massu and  Becker yet to play.

Massu  went out nice and esy to Djokovic, Becker  took five sets and into the middle of the night.


 


Tonight,  three players can overtake if they win their R1 matches:


Verdasco vs Mathieu
Moya vs Blake
Rochus vs Guccione


Luckily, Blake, Mathieu and Guccione are on form!


also playing are Wawrinka, Gaudio, Vliegen, Clement, Benneteau, Lee, Grosjean, Ginepri and Mayer.  All of whom could overtake if they reached the quarters.



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Rochus overtakes, by beating Guccione and having more mandatory points than Tim.


Benneteau, Lee and Almagro do the decent thing and go out.


Grosjean and Ginepri advance.


Moya's lost the first set in a tiebreak to Blake.


Not sure if Verdasco, Gaudio, Vliegen etc will get to play...


 



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Updated the table for the Moya result.  One less place to drop for Tim

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Gaudio and Vliegen are heading home!


Verdasco's 2 sets down to Mathieu now


Clement's trading blows with Malisse.


Mirnyi and Mayer are both trailing by 2 sets to 1....


......So not looking at all bad for Tim's ranking.



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Mathieu retires, so Verdasco's through and knocks Tim down another place to WR34 (still up 4 on the week)


Clement won the third set, and is 2 sets to 1 up, 4-3 with serve against Malisse in the fourth.


Mirnyi and Horna have just gone into their fifth set. Mirnyi's broken. He's 2-0 up.



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Clement beat Malisse. Horna's pulled back 2 games on Mirnyi.  it's 2 sets all, 2 games all, 15 all there..... maybe they're trying to play through until breakfast time?


 



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Finally it ends. at 5 past 2 in the morning, after 218 minutes. Mirnyi pulls through


 


to summarise


2 players overtake Tim: Olly Rochus and Verdasco


5 players are knocked out behind Tim: Moya, Gaudio, Vliegen, Benneteau and Lee, and two ahead of him: Almagro and Malisse.


6 players advance: Wawrinka, Clement, Grosjean, Ginepri, Mirnyi and Mayer


Tim ends the day down 2 at 34 (up 4 on the week)


 


The biggest threats  are Wawrinka and Fish, both of whom only need to win their next match to overtake. then comes Clement and Chela who need  to reach the fourth round.


 


Tonight sees Fish, Bjorkman, Gicquel and Monfils in action. All pins in Mardy, please, ladies!


 



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Tonight sees Fish, Bjorkman, Gicquel and Monfils in action. All pins in Mardy, please, ladies!





Hmmm.  Fish won, and overtakes. Tim down to WR35 (up 3 on the week).


On the plus side, Gicquel and Bjorkman are knocked out


Monfils on later:  send negative vibes his way!



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Ah well. Monfils won: Tim taking one for Andy, I guess.


 


Playing tomorrow are:


Wawrinka vs Capdeville. If Wawrinka wins, he overtakes Tim. If Capdeville wins he overtakes Boggo


Clement vs Santoro. Clement would go to 5 points behid Tim if he won.


Chela vs Niminen; Grosjean vs Rochus; Ginepri vs Zverev; Mirnyi vs Tursunov; Mayer vs Seppi. Oh, and Verdasco vs Murray.


Sharp Pins to Clement and Verdasco for sure!


 



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Boggo's needs are greater than Tim's.....so pims in Capdeville please ladies

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ultimateshedman wrote:

pims in Capdeville please ladies

Is that how he got his blisters?

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