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Old 03-29-2016, 05:59 PM   #299
Brian Swartz
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Join Date: May 2006
Sri Lanka Rankings Update


Anil Mehul -- 2nd singles(unchanged). A couple of 250 titles, but Mehul has been unable to replicate last year's success except at Wimbledon. The clay season was particularly underwhelming, but he's still more than good enough to be Iglar's best competition.


Girish Girsh -- 6th to 4th singles. Girsh still has a couple hundred points less than he had at the start of the year, but moves up due to a significant crash on the part of Marcek. The battle for fourth, and the vital right to avoid the Big 3 until the semifinals that comes with it, is far from over though. He has only a 120-point cushion and will be skipping Washington, where he was a semifinalist last year. It is very possible, perhaps even probable, that Marcek could regain the spot after Canada, where he lost in the third round last season. Maybe even sooner, if he picks up some points in the interim. There is a lot of work left if Girsh is to secure the #4 ranking, which is his primary goal heading into the US Open and the end of the year. A lot of jostling and yo-yoing is likely to happen between now and then, and he really needs to avoid any more big upset losses.


Prakash Mooljee --- 162nd to 114th singles, 2011th to 755th doubles. One good run moved him up to a nearly-respectable doubles ranking but he's still losing in qualifying almost every time out. The recent title in Marburg got him back on the right track in singles though. Mooljee will continue playing Tier 2's at best for a little while though; there's no point in trying to move up to Tier-1's until he's well inside the Top 100, and he's probably still six months away from having a real chance to take on the top challenger players.


Manager Ranking -- 3rd(unchanged), 30.9k points to 32.6k. How's this for close: Hayato still holds the second spot after Wimbledon by twenty-seven points. He's got 32,589, to my 32,562. That's just over eight hundredths of a percent. I've been stuck just behind for something close to a calendar year now, but I'm finally almost there.


Coming Up ...

Everybody is off for the next month, until the Canada and Cincinatti Masters. Since we're still in the World Team Cup, Girsh and Mehul will play five tournament weeks out of six at that point, so they'll need the rest and hopefully will be ready to play at a high level coming out of the training weeks.

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