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RobC


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Continuing the Josh Goodall dash for rankings places, here's his table for week 50 - the rankings that will be out on Monday 18th.



Unless there are wildcards in the futures this week, Josh is the only one in action, so has a clear run at the top 200.  Bloomers moves up 2 places as Klec and Andujar failed to defend points last week.


 



Running       Start of week       Running So     18th   Def1   19th
Rank   rank   name                 points Points Far    Result        Result
195    195    Victor Crivoi        202    202    out    1             1
196    196    Sergey Stakhovsky    201    201    out    1             1
197    197    Tobias Clemens       199    199    out    1             1
198    198    Rajeev Ram           198    198    out    1             1
199    199    Uros Vico            198    198    out    1             1
200    200    Denis Istomin        196    196    out    1             1
201    201    Alun Jones           194    194    out    1             1
202    202    Dudi Sela            194    194    out    1             1
203    203    Hugo Armando         192    192    out    1             1
204    204    Flavio Cipolla       191    191    out    1             1
205    205    Marc Lopez           191    191    out    1             1
206    206    Tomas Behrend        191    191    out    1             1
207    220    Joshua Goodall       180    190  12c-out  2             1
208    207    Eric Nunez           190    190    out    1             1
209    208    Julien Jeanpierre    190    190    out    1             1
210    209    Simone Vagnozzi      189    189    out    1             1
211    210    Viktor Troicki       188    188    out    1             1
212    211    Jerome Haehnel       186    186    out    1             1
213    212    Jo-Wilfried Tsonga   186    186    out    1             1
214    213    Richard Bloomfield   185    185    out    1             1
215    216    Pablo Andujar        185    185    out    1             1
216    215    Jeff Morrison        184    184    out    1             1
217    214    Ivo Klec             185    184    out    1      2      1
218    217    Edgardo Massa        182    182    out    0             0
219    218    Melle Van Gemerden   182    182    out    0             0
220    219    David Guez           181    181    out    1             1
221    221    Alex Bogomolov       179    179    out    1             1
222    222    Santiago Gonzalez    179    179    out    1             1
223    223    Alex Kuznetsov       178    178    out    1             1
224    224    Adrian Garcia        177    177    out    1             1
225    225    Dacian Craciun       177    177    out    2             1
226    226    Nicolas Tourte       177    177    out    1             1
227    227    Benedikt Dorsch      176    176    out    1             0
228    228    Julio Silva          175    175    out    1             1
229    229    Lukas Lacko          175    175    out    1             1
230    230    Pablo Cuevas         175    175    out    1             1


Players in Bold are still in action in week 49.


 


Underlined players were knocked out of their tournament on Sunday



Czech F5 (15k) 18 12 6 3 1 0 (0)



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So If Josh wins the event again this week he will finish at exactly 200?


Good incentive!!



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table is updated (no movement until the quarters)

-- Edited by RobC at 21:39, 2006-12-06

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seagull wrote:


So If Josh wins the event again this week he will finish at exactly 200?


Good incentive!!



he will also jump past rich, surely another big incentive.

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Is Josh likely to make the cut for the AO Qualififng. I would rather him not play it and get good results in big challengers at the start of the year and go for the 150 ASAP. Crucially he must win an easy future here. Is he defending much at the start of next year?

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josh will comfortably make the cut for aussie open qualies.


i disagree, and really think he should go for it - just look at his success at wimbledon and us open, shows he has the temperament to succeed at a higher level! and itf he can qualify for 2 in a row, why not a third, after further improvement!


he's in a good position with his rankings - defending very little until march (8pts from satellite), and even then, no serious points until the grass court season so would expect him to reach grass court season comfortably in top 200, hopefully pushing top 150! though of course that will again require a big step up!



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But make that long jurney to AO just for one qualifing event? if there are other tournies around the Southern hemisphere before and after then maybe yes but i think it will be a waste on a 2 weeks to gain potentially 15 points from qualifing if he does very well which could be bettered by winning a future let alone a challenger.

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After this week in the czech republic, I reckon we won't really be seeing Josh playing many, if any, more futures.  I imagine that he'll want to be testing himself at a higher level, which will mean playing challengers.  If and when he breaks the top 200, he really needs to be doing well in challengers to improve his ranking significantly.


Regarding the point about playing in other challengers, in fact there aren't any in europe until the 2nd week of the aussie open, when the wrexham one is on, and he could play in New Caledonia, which isn't too far from Aus, the week before qualies, which would seem the perfect build-up!


I also think that of all the slams, the aussie open is the best one to make an impression. Quite a few players don't bother making the journey over there, and others are quite rusty, so I always think its a bit of an opportunity!  At the higher end, just look at some of the players who have done surprisingly well - few would have expected baghdatis, schuettler, johannsen doing so well over the last 5 years, and i'm sure these "surprises" filter down!



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it si worth while making the trip i think. even a 1st round qualies loss will pay for the trip. and unless he is planning on doing something better with the time (like boggo did last year with intensive physical training) then its worth going. esp also going to NC  challenger 1st (which i have on good authority is an absoluty stunning place as well).


Of cousre he is finsishing the season very late, so may decide to work further into januray on his training.     



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The table's updated. Josh advances to 219th

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219th, you mean?

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219th, you mean?

Oops - that would have overtaken Boggo!

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I agree with goldenboy, I think it's best for Josh to go for the Aussie Open. With no European challengers till Wrexham, his only other option would be to play the two 15Ks in Britain. Ok, he'd be in the top two seeds but in 2007 he really needs to be playing mostly challengers, futures points can only take you so far. He's really upped his level in Wimbledon and US Open qualifying, the experience of competing in the slams really seems to help him produce his best tennis.

It'll be interesting to see which tournament he goes for in week 1 of the new year. Boggo, Mackin and Marray will be going for Chennai qualies. Doha traditionally has the strongest field so that one is usually avoided, quite a few Brits often go for Adelaide - Parmar qualified in 2003 but the Adelaide qualifying draw is stronger than the Chennai one which is always really weak. Bloomfield doesn't tend to go for ATP qualies so I reckon he'll play in New Caledonia. My prediction is that Josh will go for Chennai.

British performances in Aussie Open qualies are generally not very good, no one got past rd1 this year. Boggo has made rd2 a couple of times but no further. Parmar qualified in 2000 and should have made the final round at least twice more but he lost good leads in rd2 matches several times. The courts are pretty slow and bouncy which doesn't really suit our players, however the good news is that they're being made a lot faster for the 2007 tournament which should suit the Brits a lot more. The courts are all being relaid this month.




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Josh and Bloomers should get seedings at the qualies of Chennai if they decide to come.


However, let us not forget that Adelaide is round robin this year, so some players could avoid it and opt for Chennai qualies instead, making the draw stronger.


Since Josh has become some kind of a Grand Slam qualifying expert, I think that he will play AO.

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I didn't know they were relaying the courts...I do remember Leyton Hewitt whinging bitterly about how slow they were.  They are doing the sensible thing and helping out their own player, just a shame we couldn't do the same at Wimbledon...

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