L16: Roman Safiullin (RUS) WR 158 (CH = 156 in June) vs (WC/5) Andy Murray WR 116
L16: (7) Grégoire Barrère (FRA) WR 148 (CH = 80 in October 2019) vs Liam Broady WR 145
Why wasnt Liam seeded ahead of Barrere?
Presumably because of their respective rankings at the time of entry.
It's the rankings from the *Monday of the week before tournaments that count towards seedings ( in this case Monday 30/08 with the 2 week gap caused by the US Open ) rather than the entry date rankings or the rankings from the Monday of the tournament week ( which will often not be out before the main draw is due out, especially on fhe WTA side lately! ).
On Monday 30/08 Liam was WR 147 and Barrere WR 136.
*Just the odd exceptions at times with late in the week starters such as Indian Wells and Miami.
-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 14th of September 2021 05:31:36 PM
L16: Roman Safiullin (RUS) WR 158 (CH = 156 in June) vs (WC/5) Andy Murray WR 116
L16: (7) Grégoire Barrère (FRA) WR 148 (CH = 80 in October 2019) vs Liam Broady WR 145
Why wasnt Liam seeded ahead of Barrere?
Presumably because of their respective rankings at the time of entry.
It's the rankings from the *Monday of the week before tournaments that count towards seedings ( in this case Monday 30/08 with the 2 week gap caused by the US Open ) rather than the entry date rankings or the rankings from the Monday of the tournament week ( which will often not be out before the main draw is due out, especially on fhe WTA side lately! ).
On Monday 30/08 Liam was WR 147 and Barrere WR 136.
*Just the odd exceptions at times with late in the week starters such as Indian Wells and Miami.
-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 14th of September 2021 05:31:36 PM
Of course, I did know but acted dumb to check if you knew also. Tick. Hahaha
'One of the goals between now and the end of the year is to make a big improvement in my ranking, and to do that I need to be competing often.
'I still feel like I can play at a very high level, but if all of the time when I go to the big tournaments I'm playing top players right at the beginning of the events, it is not so easy. So I need to try to improve my ranking to avoid situations like that.
'Right now I feel good. The few weeks I had over in America, I felt good each week, which this year I've not really at many points felt good for like three, four, five, six weeks in a row.
'So that's why I'm here to compete and I'm going to try to play as many tournaments as I can between now and the end of the year while my body feels good.'
Murray has also been given a wildcard into the ATP event in San Diego later this month.
So, it looks like Rennes, Metz, San Diego, Indian Wells (hopefully) and then a few of Moscow/Antwerp (probably not as straight after IW); St Petersburg/Vienna (probably Vienna if he can?); Paris (probably); Stockholm (not sure if he would play this?) and that is then the season done.
Unless he plays more Challengers, but it looks like to me we could have him trying to play 6 or 7 events before year end, including this week
L16: Roman Safiullin (RUS) WR 158 defeated (WC/5) Andy Murray WR 116 by 6-2 4-6 6-1
I think that it needs to be time for Andy to retire and I hate saying this because I know he wants to do this but what enjoyment can he be getting from this.