If he can avoid AO qualies it would be great because play qualies for every tournaments must be laborious. I watched the calendar for the beginning of 2009 and I did a schedule for him
1 Qualies for Brisbane
2 Qualies For Sydney
3/4 Australian Open
5 Rest
6 St-Etienne Challenger
7 Qualies for Marseille
8 Besançon Challenger
9 Fly to USA for the two MS
http://www.atptennis.com/en/common/T...engers2009.pdf
But if he wants some changes he can go to Chennai for beginning of course lol I don't know if he can really improve his ranking because with the new ATP points it will be a big mess next year
but until may no big pression on him
