Week 43 - ATP 500 - Erste Bank Open - Vienna, Austria (indoor hard)

Aberdaberdonian · Club Coach

RE: Week 43 - ATP 500 - Erste Bank Open - Vienna, Austria (indoor hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

Great win! biggrin

To my mind, though some frustrating losses to some very good players, Andy had already been well proving that he belonged at this level. A few better draws and/or getting on the right side of some tight matches and his ranking would have been well on the up towards a more realistic level.

Hopefully this win will give him a real boost.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

And of course Andy beat Alcatraz in 3 sets and 3 hours in Indian Wells so a chance to consolidate that win and also demonstrate his trajectory is justified .

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Presumably a much faster court than IW for the rematch with the Spaniard

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

And the win puts Andy 99 in the live race. Sadly it means Liam drops to 101 in the race at the same time.

indiana · Tennis legend

Hurkakc went into this week occupying the final ATP finals race spot, a couple of places ahead of Cam.

Top 6 already qualified. Current main contenders for the final two spots :

7. Ruud : 3015 + ?
( 8. Nadal : 2985 - N/A )
9. Hurkacz : 2955 + 0 = 2955
10. Sinner : 2845 + ?
11. Norrie : 2840 + ?
12. Auger-A : 2330 + ?
13. Karatsev: 2280 + ?

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JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Hurkakc went into this week occupying the final ATP finals race spot, a couple of places ahead of Cam.

Top 6 already qualified. Current main contenders for the final two spots :

7. Ruud : 3015 + ?
( 8. Nadal : 2985 - N/A )
9. Hurkacz : 2955 + 0 = 2955
10. Sinner : 2845 + ?
11. Norrie : 2840 + ?
12. Auger-A : 2330 + ?
13. Karatesev: 2280 + ?

I forgot thats a big boost for Cam to take advantage of. Dans slim mathematical chances are over now I guess.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Indeed 10 players for 2 places now

7 Casper Ruud 22.8 NOR1 3015 Vienna R32 3060 3515

9 Hubert Hurkacz 24.6 POL1 2955 Lost in Vienna R32

10 Jannik Sinner 20.1 ITA2 2845 Vienna R32 2880 3335
11 Cameron Norrie 26.1 GBR1 2840 Vienna R32 2875 3330
12 Félix Auger-Aliassime 21.2 CAN1 2330 Vienna R32 2375 2830
13 Aslan Karatsev 28.1 RUS3 2280 St. Petersburg R16 2325 2530

15 Nikoloz Basilashvili 29.6 GEO1 1920 +35 Vienna R16 1965 2375
16 Diego Schwartzman 29.1 ARG1 1855 Vienna R32 1900 2355
17 Denis Shapovalov 22.5 CAN2 1835 St. Petersburg R16 1880 2085

19 Reilly Opelka 24.1 USA2 1505

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JonH comes home · Tennis legend

RBA and PCB cant make it

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

In doubles it is 11 left for 2 places, although not sure re Polasek and quite where he stands

7 Kevin Krawietz 29.7 GER1 3110
Horia Tecu 36.7 ROU1
8 Jamie Murray 35.6 GBR2 2665 St. Petersburg R16 2710 2915
Bruno Soares 39.6 BRA1
9 Simone Bolelli 36 ITA1 2385 Lost in Qual. Vienna R1
Máximo González 38.2 ARG

10 Filip Polasek 36.2 SVK1 1960 Vienna R16 2050 2460
John Peers 33.2 AUS1 (Polasek already on with Dodig?)
11 Ariel Behar 31.9 URU1 1940 St. Petersburg R16 1985 2190
Gonzalo Escobar 32.7 ECU1
12 Sander Gillé 30.7 BEL2 1750
Joran Vliegen 28.3 BEL1
13 Tomislav Brki 31.6 BIH1 1735 St. Petersburg R16 1780 1985
Nikola ai 30.8 SRB1
14 Raven Klaasen 39 RSA1 1715 Lost in St. Petersburg R16
Ben McLachlan 29.4 JPN1
15 Marcelo Arévalo 31 ESA1 1490 St. Petersburg R16 1535 1740
Matwé Middelkoop 38.1 NED2
16 Alexander Bublik 24.3 KAZ2 1470
Andrey Golubev 34.2 KAZ1
17 Daniel Evans 31.4 GBR7 1380 Vienna R16 1470 1880
Neal Skupski 31.8 GBR3

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JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Bolelli and Gonzalez are 9th in the Doubles race and had to play qualies in Vienna- where they lost .

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Andy played an absolute mental passing shot on the run in the second set. He did so well to dig in 2nd set. Life in the old dog yet.

Hes got little points to defend until Wimbledon so hes almost certain to be back in the top 70 or so if he stays fit. Knowing Andy he will be targeting a seeding spot for Wimbledon. Its got to a possibility if he keeps playing.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Dans season is a very mixed one - his highs have been winning a first title, back in January, reaching the latter stages of Monte Carlo and finding his inner clay court beast, and then a good run at the US Open to the last 16. Plus a career high ranking. But it seems that although he is playing well (based on comments here after matches it usually seems a good performance) he has had a generally poor run since the clay season ended. So for around 5 months now.

Hes not had a coach for a while now and cant recall when he moved to live in Dubai, but I wonder if hes missing a) some coaching input that would make a difference b) the change of lifestyle at home has impacted him in some way? Hes certainly committed and playing lots of events, just not getting the wins.

On balance, maybe a coaching input would help him?

emmsie69 · Top national player

JonH comes home wrote:
Dans season is a very mixed one - his highs have been winning a first title, back in January, reaching the latter stages of Monte Carlo and finding his inner clay court beast, and then a good run at the US Open to the last 16. Plus a career high ranking. But it seems that although he is playing well (based on comments here after matches it usually seems a good performance) he has had a generally poor run since the clay season ended. So for around 5 months now.

Hes not had a coach for a while now and cant recall when he moved to live in Dubai, but I wonder if hes missing a) some coaching input that would make a difference b) the change of lifestyle at home has impacted him in some way? Hes certainly committed and playing lots of events, just not getting the wins.

On balance, maybe a coaching input would help him?

These are my thoughts too, he needs a coach or to come back to the UK for the winter although that seems counterproductive given the differences in weather.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

But he had a 'coach/someone' sitting in his box - who was that? The guy he was talking to, sitting with his girlfriend?
I thought the commentator said 'coach' when he said Dan was talking a lot to his coach.
Who was that guy?